What's in a name?- Page 2

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 3/13/04 at 11:44pm

I worked with someone named Peter Weiner...known affectionately as Double Dick.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 3/14/04 at 3:40am

The former (?) chief curator of Arms & Armour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is called Helmut Nickel.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 3/14/04 at 9:59am

let's not forget nascar hero and favorite among urologists, the man, the myth...

dick trickle

http://www.dicktricklefanclub.com/

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 3/14/04 at 10:11am

On a talk show I saw awhile ago, they had people who had names like this. The funniest one was:

Dick Hertz

[Dollypop]

Posted: 3/14/04 at 3:59pm

In my undergraduate days we'd pass around an attendance sheet when the professor was more than 15 minutes late for class. Then we'd leave and get credit for being there. In addition to our own names, we'd write in such luminaries as Bunny Easter, Forrest Greene, Nipon Tucker, U.R. Absent, Yellow Snow, and (in those days), Ed Sullivan.

However, the name I enjoyed most was "Sam Orez". In my first years of teaching I had a group os students that were sharp and witty. For each exam or quiz, SOMEONE would claim he or she didn't get a copy of the material and would take the quiz under the name of "Sam Orez"--who always got a failing grade. There wasn't a student by this name on my roster, still Sam took every test and quiz. On the short answer quizzes, Sam gave the most bizarre answers. (Example: Who wrote HEART OF DARKNESS? Answer: Lola Falana)

It wasn't until mid-terms that I realized HOW the class was managing this, and it wasn't until year's end that I was told "Orez" is actually "Zero" spelled backwards.

[racerchiquita76m]

Posted: 3/14/04 at 4:06pm

How about two twins: one named Sharon, the other: Not Sharon. That poor, poor child!

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 3/14/04 at 4:10pm

In my daughter's school system, the chorus teacher interacts with hundreds of different kids every year. After the holiday concert, the teacher was handing out videos to kids who had ordered them. Someone signed up for one under the name of Mike Hunt (there is no such student in any of her classes)...which isn't that funny until you picture the teacher standing in front of the class, increasingly frustrated, asking "Does anyone know Mike Hunt? Has anyone seen Mike Hunt?" She was SO set up, and is still pissed off about it. She was complaining to me about it recently...over a year later...and I started laughing. She snapped, "It's not funny." Sorry. It IS a *little bit* funny...lol.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 3/15/04 at 10:31am

I've been repeating the last posting to my friends. They all howl with laughter over it!

Updated On: 3/15/04 at 10:31 AM

[joeyjoe]

Posted: 3/15/04 at 10:47am

when i worked in San Francisco, our Gift Registry had a couple registered as Truly Gold and Cary Boring... This also made the Herb Caen column... now that she's married, is she Truly Boring?

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 3/15/04 at 3:40pm

TRULY BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God, that is fantastic!

[Dollypop]

Posted: 3/15/04 at 8:21pm

You do realize that when Mary Tyler Moore was married to Grant Tinker, her name was actually Mary Tyler Tinker.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/15/04 at 8:26pm

What about Karema Wheat ?

Not to forget the ever popular Richard Cranium a/k/a as Dick Head

These are the jokes folks

Smile

[eponine88]

Posted: 3/15/04 at 8:31pm

I know a woman named Kelly who married a guy whose last name was Kelly. Now she's Kelly Kelly and her lisence plate is KellyX2

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 3/15/04 at 8:55pm

I knew a Carol Carroll. And she didn't have a sense of humor about it. She should've kept her own last name....she've been a lot happier.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 3/16/04 at 2:48pm

And does anyone remember these famous books and their authors?

THE RUSTY BED SPRINGS by I.P. Knightly
UROLOGY 101 by I.P. Standing
THE CHINESE RUPTURED MAN by Wun Hung Lo
A SALE OF TWO TITTIES by Charles Dickins
SILLYASS MARNER by George Idiot

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 3/16/04 at 3:49pm

In my previous jobs, I came across the following names:

Dr. Doctor
Browne Rice, III
Fanny Pipes (I Love that One!)
Harry Bowels

[brdwaybaby17]

Posted: 3/16/04 at 6:53pm

There was this kid in my school system who had a terrible name. You said it like SH*Tade, but it was spelled exactly like another curse word. Just say it out loud and figure it out. Poor substitute teachers....
Then there is the kid name Female cause the mom saw it on the birth-certificate. But you don't say it like female it is Femali, you know like Mohammad Ali?? Crazy stuff....