[The Dumpster]

Over on the main page, we have thoroughly derailed GGG's story, "To Sleep, Perchance To Drain," with a discussion of funny-sounding names. I contributed the name of a guy I went to college with named Henry McGroin, but everybody called him "Phil."

I also knew a guy named "Harry Peters." Really. We used to ask him what he would do if he ever met a girl named Ophelia.

Other funny sounding names of real people:

Dick Butkus (pro football player)
Potter Stewart (Supreme Court Justice)
Ford Philpot (traveling evangelist)

Can anybody think of some others?

[Double Flush]

Dick Trickle (NASCAR Winston Cup, dunno if he still drives)

[wonderpance]

looking through the company's contacts database:

Richard Wiener

a lady with the last name Finger

last name Beaver

last name Stupar (i like to think it sounds like stupor)

last name Dicks

last name Ragsac (not sure why i find that one funny)

David Davidian (clever)

Robert Johnson (didn't he sell his soul to the devil? i hope i'm not the only one who gets that.)

first name Selmer

that's all i got for now. i can't find the directory where i found Buttrick, among many other funny names. lame.

[The Dumpster]

Joey Buttafucco

[Double Flush]

I remember something in a newspaper clipping on TV about a Long/Wiwi wedding... hehe

[Lahey's_shit_hawk]

In Abbotsford there is a bus bench with the name of a Remax Realtor....this guy's name is Randy Dyck.

[The Dumpster]

Dick van Dyke

[The Shit Volcano]

Some of the stupidest fucking names in history are listed in the hurricane name lists over the years:

Gert
Chantal
Humberto
Georges
Hortense

What the hell were these guys drinking when they put this list together? Sometimes I think the hurricanes try to get these names permanently retired so no poor sap has to get stuck with them again in six years.

[The Dumpster]

Some of the stupidest fucking names in history are listed in the hurricane name lists over the years:

Gert
Chantal
Humberto
Georges
Hortense

What the hell were these guys drinking when they put this list together? Sometimes I think the hurricanes try to get these names permanently retired so no poor sap has to get stuck with them again in six years.

Yeah, but the most off-color name I can remember for a hurricane is "Felix."

Derailing my own thread here, but did you know that the lady for whom Hurricane Camille was named is the wife of Georgia Congressman Jim Marshall? She (Camille) is the daughter of the noted meteorolgist John Hope, who was responsible for making up the lists of names back then, and, on a whim, put in his own daughter's name for the "C" selection for 1969.

There is more to this story, but to tell it would risk blowing Dumpster's cover.

[Ryan Williams]

I'm very good friends (;)) with a girl named Carys Teh Mong, although it's not just windows she licks

[The Shit Volcano]

Dumpster,
Is that where my... er, her, name came from! Damn, you learn something new every day!

"Blowing" your cover? Am I the only one who laughed at this statement concerning a hurricane name?

Dumpster, you're gonna have to e-mail me this. Now I'm going nuts... Oh, wait, I already AM nuts! Never mind.

[daphne]

There was a girl I knew when I was a kid, and her name was Jenny Carlson.

Her dad's name was Carl, and they lived on Carly Avenue. It looked really funny in the phone book!

[The Dumpster]

At the seminar I just got back from, one of the instructors was a lady named Edith Seamands.

I am SO not making this up!

[GottaGoGirl]

I helped a bridal couple register tonight. Her last name is Stecki, but it sure sounded like she pronounced it "sticky". That's not that big a deal, but she's going to hyphenate her name after the wedding.

Her married name will be Stecki-Cumpster.

I kid you not.

It was all I could do to not beg her to reconsider.

[The Dumpster]

I know we've had this discussion somewhere else, but think about the names of some Presidents:

Polk
Pierce
Fillmore
Harding
Coolidge
Johnson
Bush