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― PM, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

This always comes up, and Gene Poole is always the best one I know.

― Ronan, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

people! the thread title said BEST names, not worst or funniest.
but then yeah the thread-starter immediately went down the latter track. NAME YOUR THREADS MORE ACCURATELY, OR I WILL GET ANGRY WITH YOU.
don't tell me off if i spelt 'accurately' wrong or for being too lazy to even see if i spelt it wrong, or for telling you what to do, or for being the biggest lazoriest thread-killer.

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My real name is Julius and my best friend's name is Aurelius. We are not pimps as of yet. All this is trew.

― Bob Zemko, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

re: old fashioned names, check out my grandmother's family (and imagine these names on little kids. doesnt work) Vina, Nova, Norma, Irwin, Corwin, Noma

― Ron, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

liz, different people might have different criteria for 'best' including, yes, funniness!! :-) i am going to try to remember to scan that willie wanker card

― Ron, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

my great-grandfather's name = Royal Egbert

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

my auld mate maria higginbottom [ pron. mariah ] - she dresses like 1940s though is only 30 - she puts her entire filosopie ov life down to hvin an old name - if she married she would not change her name.

i have met a myrtle manville

― a-33, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

One of my student workers a few years back, Pilipina in background, had a really great name: Rhia Rose Magbitang. Most cool.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Neptune Frost was, I believe, the first black American killed in the Revolutionary War.

Was that the name Crispus Attucks used when he was on the D-L?

― Dan Perry, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

One of my work colleagues is called Nicholas Crotch, which sounds like a porn star name. There's a comic artist rather unfortunately called Dick Ayers. The father of Gary and Phil Neville (England football internationals, for the non-Brits here) is Neville Neville.

The loveliest I've come across was an applicant to a university where I was working: Pritti Mistry.

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My great-grandmother was called Myrtle, and my grandfather (other side of the family) was called Virgil.

So how come I got Mark, eh?

― Mark C, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

http://home.earthlink.net/~rjameshudson/wanker_WEB.jpg

hee

― Ron, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My great grandmother was Effie Maddams Tutt.

― Kim, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I should have also mentioned that she was from Leighton Buzzard - another name that has always struck me as quite a tremendous one.

― Kim, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I am from Leighton Buzzard too! How exciting! Well, not Da Buzz itself but a small village nearby. But I went to school there for 5 years.

― Emma, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I received a business letter the other day from a Vivian Frimpong.

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That is quite exciting Emma! I've never been there myself (as am peskily stuck over here on another continent) so I only know it from some very old family photographs. One day I'll have to make the pilgrimage.

― Kim, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I really wouldn't bother, Kim, it's kind of a shithole. Though it does boast a Gossard bra factory / factory shop.

― Emma, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

four months pass...

Tinkerbell MacDillingfitty - from that movie nate recommended on this thread

― ron (ron), Saturday, 7 September 2002 23:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

I played tennis against someone named Tenche Coxe.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Sunday, 8 September 2002 00:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

phoebe is good. can't remember the band name at the moment but there was a female drummer for some indie band from america (oh, Small Factory) called 'Phoebe Summersquash'. which is nice.

http://www.drummergirl.com/interviews/summersquash.html

and then there's 'Romeo Challenger' from Showaddywaddy, obviously where the beckhams got the idea.

andy

― koogs, Monday, 9 September 2002 07:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

swindon town's aussie winger danny invincible.

― michael w., Monday, 9 September 2002 08:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bart Takewell.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 9 September 2002 09:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Miette - like that little girl in The City of Lost Children or whatever it was called. The French one with the mist.

― toraneko (toraneko), Monday, 9 September 2002 10:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

didier. (i don't know anyone called that.)

― youn, Wednesday, 11 September 2002 03:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

I played tennis against someone named Tenche Coxe.

Not America's first Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, surely? Was this quite a long time ago?

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 04:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

I know someone named Tarzan! He's named after a mountain in China, though, & not Lord Greystone.

― Miss Laura, Wednesday, 11 September 2002 06:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

poo pye mcgoochie, beaux j. poo boo

― ron (ron), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 00:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

my neighbors next door are "the Dicks"
my neighbors directly across the street are "the Morecocks"
i'm not joking. coincidences like that almost make me believe that god exists, and has an amazing sense of humor.

― freejeremy.diaryland.com, Wednesday, 18 September 2002 01:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

There's a used car lot back east that I was fascinated by called "Mimi Dragone's". I found out that Mimi was a man, too.

― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 02:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

not the tenche coxe from bedhead?!

― Josh (Josh), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 02:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

a friend of mine went to high school with a woman called Galaxy Craze

― H (Heruy), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 12:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

galaxy craze is in crimes and misdemeanors!!

― simon trife (simon_tr), Thursday, 19 September 2002 00:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

miles, i like miles. the variant with 'y' is not so nice. yeah, phoebe is good. so is oliver and laurence, but not as nice with 'w'.

― youn, Thursday, 19 September 2002 01:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

Miles is my confirmation name.

There's a film critic for the LA Weekly whose name i really like: Hazel Dawn Dumpert. And ever since I saw "Christiane F." I've loved the name Detlev.

― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 19 September 2002 02:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

do you get to pick your confirmation name?

― youn, Thursday, 19 September 2002 02:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

Frank DiSleazo. A pity it's not real.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 September 2002 04:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

do you get to pick your confirmation name?

Yeah. Well, at least I got to. I was told later on that I should have picked the name of a saint, not just any old name I liked. But they didn't make me change it.

― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 19 September 2002 05:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

greg kitten's pretty cool. right, kids?

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 19 September 2002 12:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

I want to name something Lafcadio, but I suppose I would have to get another cat or other wee creature in order to do that.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 19 September 2002 13:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Napoleon Murphy Brock

― James Larcombe, Thursday, 19 September 2002 14:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Real World: Las Vegas contains people named Trishelle, Brynn, Irulan, Arissa and Alton. This makes me very very happy.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 September 2002 14:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Member of the English 66 World Cup winners the brilliantly named Nobby Stiles.

― gazza, Thursday, 19 September 2002 15:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

ZELDA!

― di smith (lucylurex), Friday, 20 September 2002 01:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Marilyn Monore used to use the psuedonym ...Zelda Zonk....God Bless Her.............

― gazza, Friday, 20 September 2002 12:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

All those dirty ones are great and I just couldn't compete. But my favourite real name of today not relating to penises would still have to be Mimsy Farmer. There was a girl at my school called Buffy Pussell which my granny used to find hilarious too. Pseudonyms don't count because you don't have to live with them, I reckon...

― alex, Friday, 20 September 2002 13:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

Excellent corporate name culled from today's data entry:

Weston Benshoof Rochefor Rubalcava MacCuish LLP

Stunning. Even better if you try shouting it out loud.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 9 January 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago) link

at work we got a letter from...
The Law Offices of Filarsky and Watt

sounds like a comedy team to me...

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 10 January 2004 08:24 (twenty years ago) link

Watt?

― not aja (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 10 January 2004 12:34 (twenty years ago) link

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Hmmmm...

Swedish couple fight for right to name their baby 'Metallica'

Ahhh!

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I worked in IT recruitment years ago and once had an applicant from India called Anus Aiken.

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

Preci0us Marf0ri.

― Drooone, Friday, 18 May 2007 01:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Jermsak Techadech.

― jim, Friday, 18 May 2007 01:48 (seventeen years ago) link

― Andi Mags, Friday, 18 May 2007 02:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, there is a wonderful bluegrass performer whose actual name ("god-given" as I overheard another concert attendant say) is Langhorne Slim.

― Andi Mags, Friday, 18 May 2007 02:28 (seventeen years ago) link

An old math teacher of mine told me that she once taught a set of identical twins who were named Lenmonjello and Orangello (with a j sound, not a hard G) respectively. Unfortunately I was not privy to the last name.

-- Andi Mags, Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:27 PM (41 minutes ago)

i heard that second hand... miami?

― lfam, Friday, 18 May 2007 03:10 (seventeen years ago) link

lol nvm

― lfam, Friday, 18 May 2007 03:25 (seventeen years ago) link

To change your name by Deed Poll in the UK costs just £34. Including VAT. You can do it instantly online here. Exercise your democratic right and change your name today! Or do it for a friend! I suggest either 'Bumptious Skimpster' or 'Piss Pot'.

― Huey in Melbourne, Friday, 18 May 2007 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.317x.com/albums/h/dickhyman/enlargement.jpg

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 03:42 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

Farrah is the only name I like

― Bright Future (sunny successor), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Lyndon Borrow

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 27 October 2008 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link

my friend was doing research a few years ago, and stumbled upon this author of an article on HIV vaccines:

Ashri Kamedaputi. As in, "I Shriek, I Made a Pootie."

― the table is the table, Monday, 27 October 2008 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link

that said, I am a fan of:
- Levon (one of my good friends!)
- Nayeem (another friend)
- Lyndon (or Linden, a good friend's cousin)

― the table is the table, Monday, 27 October 2008 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link

I am totally looking forward to the name "Barack" becoming relatively common within the next generation or so.

― i fuck mathematics, Monday, 27 October 2008 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Jem Stone

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 27 November 2008 14:12 (fifteen years ago) link

seriously

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 27 November 2008 14:12 (fifteen years ago) link

two months pass...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7897258.stm?lss

Bob Sleigh, deputy leader of Solihull Council, lives on the same street and said the couple and their children were "just an ordinary family".

― Shallow Gravy (Billy Dods), Thursday, 19 February 2009 09:09 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Col. Many-Bears Grinder

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 16 January 2011 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

Lindsay (equally good for m or f - or "the third sex" - or "the nth sex"),
-elizabeth anne marjorie, Monday, April 22, 2002 1:00 AM

funny that since i know a female to male transgender called that who's changed their name to something else. Maybe she should rethink since she had a gender neutral name to begin with?

― Stevolende, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link

Four year old refutation, but for the record:

Also, there is a wonderful bluegrass performer whose actual name ("god-given" as I overheard another concert attendant say) is Langhorne Slim.
― Andi Mags, Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:28 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Langhorne Slim is an American singer-songwriter, (born Sean Scolnick on August 20, 1980 in Langhorne, Pennsylvania.

― Blue Doggie Sweater (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link

one year passes...

met this dude named Rich Guido the other day. LULZ!

― Poliopolice, Saturday, 22 December 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

I met a guy whose middle name was "Danger" something like Jason Danger Patterson. Then I found this:

From the UK Deed Poll Office Online :

" One of the most popular middle names added is Danger, inspiration for which comes from the film Austin Powers, International Man Of Mystery where the character Austin Powers, upon being being released from custody, tells a guard "Danger is my middle name." Every week, there is at least one Deed Poll to someone who makes Danger their middle name. " - http://www.ukdeedpolloffice.org/

Makes sense now haha

― JaniseH, Friday, 12 September 2014 11:45 (nine years ago) link

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