List of Names You Would Change . . . if they were yours
I seem to come across these names quite a lot. Maybe because they're all lawyers. D: Like people with the surnames:
Hitler
Butt
and, just today I found this one: Acock. Swear to fucking god. Acock. I think I'd be running to my attorney for a name change the minute I turned 18.
Acock, very common in the UK. and Hiscock. also TFF
Don't think I'd change them though. I changed mine because it was my dad's name and beest and I wanted to have the same name. We tried to find a new one we both liked (he wasn't desperate to keep his either) but it got boring, so I took his name when we married because it is/was the cheapest option in the UK :lol:
Laycock also a Brit surname.
Anas Burton
Paul Potts
Mr. Gaylord, the middle school teacher
Oh man, so many.
There's a Turkish first name: Ufuk (pronounced i-fik) and a last name Dogdu. The g in Dogdu has a smile over it making it a soft G so it's actually pronounced "Do'h-di"
okay, those are pretty bad. And putting them together? LOL!
Ufuk is the name of Terry Bozzio track from Drawing The Circle.
There was a Chinese post-doc at uni who decided to use "Randy" as his Western name. Unfortunately his last name was Dong. Those of us without the maturity to get over it sniggered at someone choosing to name themselves Randy Dong.
I know a family with the last name "Assmann".
I know an "Oswald Capone".
My friend had a HS science teacher named Harry Dickey.
I had a Ceramics professor named Dick Luster.
My brother (who is in the US Air Force) met a girl in the Turkish Air Force named Shithead.
It's pronounced "Shi-THEED." Or so she said.
I have to work very hard to surpress giggles when I encounter anyone with the family name Lipschitz.
I always thought it was just a joke, then I met several.
Endlicher. How would you pronounce that? I stumbled over it, and got chewed out. Hey, it's not my fault your name is end-licker.
Dr. Looney. Was really a psychiatrist...... Looney is not a bad name in and of itself. But when you go to med. school with it...I'd seriously think of changing it.
Of course, Cicero means dung.....so I really shouldn't put my 2 cents in here.
(Someone else that refused to change their name after entering politics)
One of my Mom's doctors is Richard Head.
I once had to serve a
Dr. Harold Weiner with a subpoena... it would only have been more funny if he was a urologist.
There's a
Dr. Dick Weiner around the corner from my office. He's a dentist. Rinse & spit!
My plastic surgeon when I was burned was Dr. Burner.
One of my all-time favorite horrible names is Butkus. As in Dick Butkus the football player. Football players seem to have a high percentage of horrible names. My theory is they get toughened up by all the teasing they have to endure so they end up as big bruisers--i.e., football players.
We're having a good time with Carl Dick at present. Rost....have you seen my dick..........
..........
.....deal? IT WAS RIGHT HERE. stop touching my Dick.
deal.
One of my all-time favorite horrible names is Butkus.
I'm partial to Dick Trickle myself.... :D
I tried to persuade a beautiful young Russian woman to change her first name when she moved to the States. She was adamant she wouldn't - but I expect she did in the end.
Her name was Assol.
One of my favourites was a guy who presented children's television programmes in the late 70s...Christopher Lillycrap. With Lillycrap for a surname obviously he wanted to work with children :P
Another good one is Cockburn (apparently pronounced Cohburn)
I found this on the web YEARS ago , read the name , ha ha , then I looked at the address , ,,, Uh , I live in Paragould , so I grabbed a phone book , and well there he was , I give you ,,,,,,
Another good one is Cockburn (apparently pronounced Cohburn)
Here in the states the "ck" is never silent. I have always been aware of the oddities of English pronunciation, what with the "gh" controversy and all, but "ck"? That "Coh-burn" shit has got to be made up, like Hyacinth "Booh-keh" rather than Bucket on Keeping Up Appearances.
That's exactly my thinking Wolf.
Dick Headley (politician)
Hugh Johnson (common)
My wife's gynecologist was named Doctor Fingerhut...we thought it was quite funny at the time.
Ha!Ha!
I know a guy named Mike Hunt.
Just came across a Professor Richley Crapo. Struck me as pretty funny.
Hugh G Rection says, "My Dixie wrecked!"
Here in the states the "ck" is never silent. I have always been aware of the oddities of English pronunciation, what with the "gh" controversy and all, but "ck"? That "Coh-burn" shit has got to be made up, like Hyacinth "Booh-keh" rather than Bucket on Keeping Up Appearances.
Hence the actor James Coburn spelling it like it is :eyebrow: ?
When I was in junior high, my school had a teacher named Ms. Schitty.