In high school I had not one, but two teachers with the last name Fear.

One didn't spell it that way, but they were pronounced identically. A Mr. and a Ms.

As I was typing this, I just remembered that Mr. Fear used to wear a button everyday that said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."

Two of my absolute best, I can't actually post.

There's this guy, see, and while he's actually a McHeronUser, his last name is kinda like McCrazyGuy, so we always just refer to him as "The McCrazyGuy."

The other fellow has a last name that is very similar to that of his drug of choice ...

I always thought that William Wordsworth was an apt name for a poet.

My cousin married a man whose surname was Hyman. She became Anita Hyman. Funny enough in itself when you say it out loud, but then she went and applied for job with a company called Clive Peters whose company jingle was, 'Clive Peters, it's so easy'.

Dunno if it's an aptonym but I've once read that in Canada there's a doctor couple with both have same surname: Doctor. So the lady is always introduced as Dr.Doctor-Doctor.

And btw, I know a guy called Buster Hymen.

Margaret Spellings, U.S. Secretary of Education.

Everywhere, I tell you. :)

footfootfoot: meds?

I know a Richard Bever... we do call him Dicky Beaver. (he is in HS)

I heard of a guy who's last name is Benson and his parents named him Benson and he joined the navy so he was ensign Benson Benson. I was told this was true.

Not especially an aptonym, as I know nothing about them, except their comic namesakes, but it gave me a chuckle... :)

I know a Dr. Doctor.

There's a hockey player in Montreal with last name Bonk.

I went to high school with a boy named Peter Raper. Why do people stick a name like that on an innocent child? Even in North Carolina, which has more than its share of strange names? :(

My old hairdresser's name was Debbie Blows, I wish she would get married, she is a good hairdresser, but I had to stop going there.....the possibilities were endless.

Ask the boy named Sue.

But then such names don't challenge the named as much as names challenge others. They are really a challenge for you. Do you take an emotional or 'thereby hateful' impression? Or do you take the person as a person? IOW people with such unusual names are how you discover whether you either are a racist (someone who makes decisions based upon first impressions), or are a superior person. Yes, the name is amusing. But if it anything more than amusing, then you met the criteria also called racist - judging others only based upon emotional (first) impression.

'Sue' simply demonstrates how many somehow know only because they feel. We call that racism. We also have other names for what is really hate.

I once worked with a guy whose surname was 'Didlick'