BS: Amazing Names

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 02:21 PM

Apparently He's never become very famous; I just tried googleing the name, and all I got was a reference to a game between two schools, Fairchild and Dubois. Which means that I, who actually come up a few times if you google enough pages, am MORE FAMOUS THAN FAIRCHILD DUBOIS !

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 02:10 PM

Dang, now I wish I had learned his middle name, to know if it was something like "Lippencot" or "Worthington", or if it was "Herman", "Ralph" or "Bob".

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 01:49 PM

"Fairchild Dubois the Third"

If he has a middle name like 'Lippencot', he can be a college president. Ever notice how many of them have 3 names that can be rearranged in any order?

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 12:36 PM

I once sold shoes to a young man named Fairchild Dubois the Third. I still think of that as the "Yuppiest" name I've ever heard.

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 12:08 PM

And my sister had students named MerciDieu [ThankGod] Sukfuk, and N'du Ifudu..

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 12:07 PM

I have a cousin Mather Lippincott, I rather like that.

Also a student named Bjorn Wei Gomez - how many cultures is that from?

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: Wesley S
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 11:33 AM

I met a Harry Dyke one time.

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 11:13 AM

The local coroner is Kim Quick. Besides the obvious pun, he deals with the dead -- yes, it's the Quick and the Dead.

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 11:00 AM

Sir Ridgedale King Corndyke Artus II


oh....wait, you mean human names. That was a prize bull my mother told me about... *grin*

well... there was Penelope Klutchenbach, whom I never met, but who was advertised in a local paper in my hometown as "a 300 lb. GO-GO Mama"!.

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: Will Fly
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 10:05 AM

Well, many years ago, we had a student from the Far East whose name was - and I'm being absolutely truthful here - Suk Mai Dik. He survived three years in the UK completely oblivious to what the pronunciation of his name meant in English.

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: olddude
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 09:47 AM

An insurance agent in my town had the first name John and the last name Assalone His company was called Assalone insurance
He had a daughter that he named Leema

True store

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 09:38 AM

These are real names collected in my days in telemarketing. I used to have a notebook full but it has long since disappeared.
Dewey Chambers
Harry Burroughs
Peter Gozinia
Tachawan Wang

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 08:13 AM

Ewen Douzami was a name I came across years ago... and laughed my socks off.... when we were kids.. if someone said "I'll smash your face in"!!! or words to that effect... the reply was always "You and whose army"?

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: Mr Red
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 07:41 AM

In last week's issue (or the week before now) of the New Scientist. They told of the head of a facility looking into the stability of structures under 'quake conditions - Mr I Buckle (they call these connections "nominative determinisms"). In the same issue was reference (no funny connection though) to a researcher by the name of Wayne Kerswell.
And in the Westonbirt Aboretum magazine a retiring trustee is Peregrine Pollen (atchoo).

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: Bobert
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 07:29 AM

The drummer in a band I was associated with in the 60's: Latham Leonodos Thigpen III...

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 06:29 AM

The head of Music at Avery Hill College in the 60's ws Dr. Fiddler.

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 06:19 AM

I once went into a golf pro-shop and noticed, on a board, that the pro. was due to give a lesson to Percy Power.

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: Will Fly
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 04:18 AM

I've got some good'uns in my family tree - Jabez Eke (Norfolk) was one - and Abel Mangnall (Lancashire) was another.

Subject: RE: BS: Amazing Names
From: open mike
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 04:12 AM

Frank Zappa had a daughter named Moon Unit
Grace Slick had a kid named God, if i remember correctly.

Subject: BS: Amazing Names
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 03:01 AM

On the bus yesterday, we stopped beside the village war memorial in Newton Poppleford...and I looked down at the name of some of the men who gave their lives for us in WWI.

And that's when I discoverd Kingsley Mozart Cody...wondered about him a lot on that journey.

Anyway, it made me think about this thread...so here it is, as I'm sure there must be a whole host of wondrous names out there...