Names that make you blink

ray a · September 2003

Today, we are interviewing a young lady by the name of Naivette Hooker. Is her name really a contradiction in terms? How many of you guys could look her in the eye and greet her with a straight face? Fortunately, I will not be doing the interview.

System · September 2003

We had a cashier who's name was Princess. Sometimes when we called out to her around customers we would get a complaint about belittling our employees. Then when we hired somebody who wanted to be called Tootsie (not her real name)and we refused she quit.

annie1992 · September 2003

We have had a Chanda Lear, and my all time favorite, Meta Head. Really. (Do their parents hate them at birth?)

Annie

sandra_d · September 2003

At a former employer I worked with someone named Peregrine Falcon. She was an interesting one ... she had a different name and legally changed it as an adult.

scottorr · September 2003

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 09-17-03 AT 03:53PM (CST)[/font][p]I had a friend in high school whos name was Dung until his senior year when he discovered what dung was, he then insisted that we call him Steve.

SMace · September 2003

That is funny. The exact opposite happened to me in high school.

Sincerely,
Dung (aka Steve)

Paige · September 2003

Can't....stop.....laughing..... (where's the laughing emotion icon?)

These are too funny!! Dung?

All I can come up with is we currently have a worker whose first name is Orange--I still feel funny calling out her name. And where I used to work, we had a guy whose first and middle names were Woody Guy--and he was only about 5'2"!

Nrdgrrl · September 2003

We have an associate named Sandy Beech. Also, in a local election here was a Dr. Love. He's an OB/GYN by trade and wanted to get involved in local politics. I promise, it's true. Ick.

Rockie · September 2003

Okay...we have an employee named Wing Wang. Swear to God!

Our local newspaper used to publish births of babies and some of them were a hoot!
I remember one set of twins named O'rangejello and L'emonjello. Again, I AM not making this up!

A friend of mine grew up in a small town with a set of twins named Horace Earl and Doris Pearl. (Don't know why, but I think of Hooterville when I hear that one).

My husband goes through the sports page every day and makes a list of weird names of people who play sports. I can't even remember all of them now, but some are very strange. Wonder where in the world their parents find these names?

rad · September 2003

I don't want to get blasted so I'll try to be as obtuse as possible. My aunt worked in a clinic and a little asian boy was named - rhymes with the most common four letter word but instead of an F, his name started with Ph... it is apparently very common in his native country. When I was student teaching I had a little girl named Huor, rhymes with another dirty word. We called her Huor Te, her full name, at all times.

Whatever · September 2003

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 09-18-03 AT 01:43PM (CST)[/font][p]I was once at an award ceremony for a boy scout troop. The person giving out the award would ask for Master.... (Jones, Johnson etc.) to come up and get his reward. One of the winner's last names was Bates.

rad · September 2003

That's hilarious, it sounds like a name Bart Simpson would use when he crank called Moe's Tavern.

SMace · September 2003

Whenever ESPN would show Nascar results, they would always show how he finished. I love ESPN.

Rockie · September 2003

How the heck did I get to be Rockie MA when I am really Rockie SC. I guess that hurricane was stronger than we thought!

rad · September 2003

that happened because you responded to my post and I'm in MA... the same thing happened to me when I reponded to someone in a different state but when you look at the string, you're in the right place x:-)

Rockie · September 2003

Thanks for the info. I feel much better now!

rad · September 2003

What? You don't want to be in Massachusetts for our nice long winters? I was thinking about checking out SC as a place to live, we could trade!

gillian2 · September 2003

There is a column in the LA Times which often has strange names included. One from a few days ago was a picture of a street name called Grumpy Men Ave. I am sure that the picture was taken by a tourist in Mississippi.

Parabeagle · September 2003

Street's probably filled with bottle trees and Harleys.

gillian2 · September 2003

Fried turkey leftovers as well!

Parabeagle · September 2003

Your guy Milo Parsley must be related to a woman I used to work with - Dorcas Parsley. Another great one was Rufus Biffle.

AnneLa · September 2003

LOL..................... this is too much to take in on a Thursday afternoon.......

ray a · September 2003

Our servers have been down all afternoon due to the hurricane. So, I missed all the fun until I got home. Who started this thread?

Don D · September 2003

And don't worry about Bevis and Butthead commenting. They did, at post number 32 and 33.

You ladies ought to be ashamed. There's already no hope for the rest of you!x:-8

ray a · September 2003

And Don to think ritaanz elsewhere compared the quality of our posts and implied yours were of a higher calibre. I guess I need to use more asterisks and act confused.

Parabeagle · September 2003

Actually yours are of a higher calibre, Ray. Forum tip of the day: Use sophisticated multi-syllabic words, superior British spelling of words like "calibre," "colour," "endeavour," and "zed" and your post-quality automatically increases 5-10 sophistication points. x;-)

ray a · September 2003

Being an Anglophile, I can use those spellings. Will it make me sound more erudite, too? I know lots of big words - I'll start using them.

Whirlwind · September 2003

Ray, despite the humor in this thread that appeals to my immature side, your original post takes the cake. I had lunch with a group of coworkers today and got a huge laugh with the Naivette Hooker story.

Don D · September 2003

You're the same one who offered to marry Scott, right?

marc · September 2003

I have in laws with the last name Beach. Named their kids Rocky and Sunny. OF course they live in Florida......on the beach.

mmscott · September 2003

Ive got one for you.

A local restuarant was marketing business for thier after work happy hour events. A fax was send to me with her name signed Honey Dewitt. I had to call her to make sure it wasn't a hoax. This was indeed her name I told her she was in the wrong profession. She then told me they have a bus boy there who's name was Vingh Now. So the joke is they would get married and her name would be Honey Dewitt Now. That was too funny. x:o

Names that make you blink

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