When I saw the YouTube link, I thought it was going to be a link to this one:
When I saw the YouTube link, I thought it was going to be a link to this one:
My 6th grade assistant band teacher's name was Chet Estes. Awful name. They found child pornography on his computer a year or two later. Truth.
My mom was a librarian and used to have a customer whose last name was Willfart. I doubt that's how it was spelled, but that's how it was pronounced.
My elementary school principal's name was Harold Bunz, or Harry Bunz.
No shit.
I do not normally draw anime wrote:
Phleps wrote:Lipschitz.
I understand having pride in your ethnic background but if you live in an English-speaking country and your name is Lipschitz then why not change your name to Liebowitz or something to maintain your ethnic identity but avoid having a name that sounds like Lipschitz. There's a reason the brand isn't "Polo by Ralph Lipschitz".
Same goes for Pujols. Why not be Puente or Portillo or Polanco instead?
Yes people should erase their ethnic identity to appease uptight white chodes like yourself.
I know a kid named Choade
I had a customer at my old job whose name was Abdul Aswad. The first time I saw it I couldn't stop laughing. It was pronounced like "Uh swad"..or so he claims.
He was a really good customer and person..Friendly, very soft spoken, mentored under privileged kids, soccer coach, etc.
The head men's and women's soccer coach at Coe College (Iowa) is Homer Screws. An unfortunate name, but a very good coach.
Knew a guy: Michael Hunt and Harry Weiner
A few I've heard of:
Ufuk Uras...Turkish Politician
Dick Assman...Gas station owner in Canada
Hoerr - pronounced Hair, everyone says whore.
Puhse - pronounced Pee-zee... not what most assume at first.
Had a Vietnamese student in class years ago - no lie - his name was Phuk Hu. The other students would never refer to him by his last or first name, it was always by both names. "Can I work with Phuk Hu ?" They just loved being able to say Phuk Hu. Great kid though.
A kid at my high school had the name Ow Wang. Ow was pronounced like the first part of the word "ouch".
He created a class election party running for secretary, VP, and president with two other kids. Their last names were Craven and Moore. They were the Craven-Moore-Wang party. The teachers made them take down all their signs.
Military rank can add a whole new fun dimension to last names. I was on an exercise once on Okinawa and there was an officer with the last name Woody. If that wasn't bad enough, I was in attendance when he was promoted to, yes I kid you not, Major
Maj Woody.
Not a bad movie wrote:
Mr. Woodcock.
There was a Mr. Woodcock at my high school. Only teacher I had before college who went by his first name.
There was also a girl named Anita Lawver.
I had a teacher with the last name 'Inman' and first name 'Richard'. His friends called him Dick for short - Dick Inman.
I also had a neighbor with the last name Seamans, first name 'Richard'...do the math
During my childhood, my mother occasionally told the story of the Texas couple, last name Hogg, who named their two girls Ima and Ura.
Ima Hogg and Ura Hogg.
The sister did indeed exist, but the second sister's name may be an urban myth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ima_Hogg
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/kennett-mo/TQT4OI07E9UK8TH78
I kid you not, I had a guy on my college track team whose name was/is Rod Dyck. And to top it off, he was a long/triple jumper. So whenever the officials would read off the jumping order they would say something like....Jones up, Smith on deck, Dyck in the hole. There was always a long pause before they said the last part of the order.
There is a prominent urologist in town who specializes in vasectomies. He's named Dr. Dick Tapper.
He's getting up in years and has a new assistant named Dr. Wang.
I am not making this up.
I knew an Asian girl whose last name was Ho.
Dr. Goosenburg was called Dr. Goosie by his nurses. He does colonoscopies.
There is an OB/Gyn named Dr. Dickman. Not joking.