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24 May 10 - 11:21 PM (#2913638) Subject: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Little Hawk I don't think we've really covered this subject yet. We'll just go with English language ones, okay? Here are my nominations: 1. Snodgrass 2. Lilywhite If, for example, Pruella Snodgrass were to marry Desmond Lilywhite, they could have a daughter named Hermione Snodgrass-Lilywhite. Wouldn't that be marvelous? Hyphenated names sound so upper class and prestigious, don't you think? |
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24 May 10 - 11:34 PM (#2913647) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Shanghaiceltic Riddle With a son called James (JImmy)..... Cocks....at a public school there would be Cocks Major and Cocks Minor In the Navy anyone with a surname of May was always called Daisy Parker..Nosey Adams...Fanny Marsh...Swampy |
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24 May 10 - 11:39 PM (#2913651) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Little Hawk Those are humorous indeed. But are they wimpy? Well, I suppose some of them are. Isn't "Cocks" normally spelled "Cox"? I always thought the surname Ramsbottom sounded pretty odd...I'm glad I wasn't born with it. I'd have changed "me" name right quick. ;-) |
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24 May 10 - 11:42 PM (#2913653) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Ebbie What do you mean by 'wimpy'? So far I don't see anything particularly wimpy about any of the names. Fact I'm not even sure I know what a wimpy name would be. What is your definition of wimpy? |
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24 May 10 - 11:52 PM (#2913656) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Shanghaiceltic Had a teacher called Bumphries at my school...his name was a source of constant amusement. |
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25 May 10 - 12:03 AM (#2913658) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Little Hawk My definition? Well...the word "wimp", in present usage, means a weak, cowardly, ineffectual person. A wimpy-sounding name can summon up mental images of that sort of thing in many peope's minds, although it is quite plain that the name itself in no way necessitates that the person BE weak, cowardly or ineffectual. Who would you be inclined to hire as a bodyguard, for example, based on the feeling you got from his name alone: Jim Corrigan? Or Casper Milquetoast? ;-) |
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25 May 10 - 12:16 AM (#2913665) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Art Thieme Thieme! Art |
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25 May 10 - 12:24 AM (#2913669) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Rapparee I'd rather not hire a bodyguard. They can be bribed. I've always liked some of the names that were changed during Victoria's time. Good old names like Jeremy Ballocks or Henry Fartfire. (Please note that my own surname means "Keeper of the Sacred" or, in modern Dutch, "Goalie.") |
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25 May 10 - 12:28 AM (#2913671) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Little Hawk Hell, man...with a body like yours, who needs a guard? |
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25 May 10 - 12:31 AM (#2913675) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Rapparee To keep off the groupies. I'm a married man! |
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25 May 10 - 12:34 AM (#2913676) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Little Hawk You could hire Shane, I suppose. He would work almost for free if he could run interference on those groupies you mention. |
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25 May 10 - 12:39 AM (#2913677) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Ebbie Casper Milquetoast? That's not fair- until Webster came up with that name for his character, Milquetoast was a perfectly acceptable item. When I'm feeling poorly I still sometimes heat up some milk, toast some bread and drop a poached egg in the bowl. Hmmmm. It is when I'm feeling like a weak, ineffectual or bland person. So, she says grudgingly, I'll grant you that one. |
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25 May 10 - 01:03 AM (#2913687) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Liz the Squeak There was a presenter on childrens TV in the UK (round about 1980s') called Christopher Lillicrap. Honest, it says so here! I often wonder if he lost work because of it, or if he changed it.... LTS |
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25 May 10 - 01:04 AM (#2913688) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Little Hawk If your surname is Bumphries...don't name your son Humphrey. |
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25 May 10 - 01:06 AM (#2913689) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Little Hawk Christoper LILLICRAP????????? Ah-ha! Ha! Ha! Omigod. That has to be the ultimate. The poor, poor man. |
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25 May 10 - 01:12 AM (#2913692) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Liz the Squeak The killer is the attached link for the Noel Gay organisation! Can't get wimpier than that can you? LTS |
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25 May 10 - 02:03 AM (#2913708) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Little Hawk Not easily. |
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25 May 10 - 02:11 AM (#2913711) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: catspaw49 Humbert Gaylord Farquad III Spaw |
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25 May 10 - 02:15 AM (#2913714) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: JennieG There was a family by the name of Lillicrap when I was growing up. Cheers JennieG |
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25 May 10 - 02:18 AM (#2913716) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: catspaw49 Irving Smedley Dinkidich Spaw |
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25 May 10 - 05:40 AM (#2913794) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: GUEST,muppett If you're after a whimpy name, how about Whimpole? |
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25 May 10 - 05:46 AM (#2913801) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: gnomad Fey (or occasionally LeFay) and Hissing sound fairly weak to me, as do Heyhoe, Loveless and Petty. In fact there's a whole set of surnames starting Pet... that have a bit of that connotation about them. |
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25 May 10 - 06:08 AM (#2913812) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: bubblyrat I don't know about the wimpiest ( aside from J Wellington Wimpy), although I recall an English Ambassador to the USA , called Sir Crispin Tickell, which certainly tickelled me. A senior officer I encountered in my Navy days was one Commander Robotham ---he insisted that it should be pronounced " Row Bottom", and thus became known to officers and ratings (enlisted men) alike as " Paddle Arse". Our very own Sir Ranulph Twistleton - Wickham-Fiennes is,I feel, possessed of a somewhat whimsical ,if not actually wimpish, handle ; the longest conjoined surname known to English heraldry is the magnificent ( IMHO) Temple-Nugent- Brydges- Chandos- Grenville . -----not bad, eh ??? |
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25 May 10 - 07:04 AM (#2913830) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: GUEST,Elfcall As any fule kno Fotherington-Thomas. A weed and a sissy! Elfcall |
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25 May 10 - 08:46 AM (#2913886) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: GUEST,kendall There is a local car dealer who changed his name from Lipshitz to Lee. |
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25 May 10 - 09:04 AM (#2913895) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: GUEST,Neil D Retired Nascar driver, Dick Trickle. |
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25 May 10 - 09:08 AM (#2913898) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: SINSULL Hieronomous Merkin. |
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25 May 10 - 09:11 AM (#2913900) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: SINSULL Hieronymous or Heironymous not Hieronomous. |
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25 May 10 - 09:13 AM (#2913903) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: SINSULL I knew a guy named Lipschitz. One of the most corrupt people i have ever encountered. No moral compass. |
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25 May 10 - 09:27 AM (#2913908) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: TheSnail I used to know a chap called Dick Small. What WERE his parents thinking? |
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25 May 10 - 10:20 AM (#2913927) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Dave MacKenzie There's a retired Welsh clergyman and local historian known as Bill Pritchard. His initials are T W. "Twp" yngh Nghymraeg means stupid. What were his parents thinking? (or not) |
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25 May 10 - 10:55 AM (#2913944) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Rapparee Joseph L. Meek. |
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25 May 10 - 01:18 PM (#2914044) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: John MacKenzie We can't criticise people on the grounds of their colour, religion, or sexual preferences, among other things. So let's take the piss out of their surnames instead eh. They can't touch you for that can they? |
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25 May 10 - 01:20 PM (#2914046) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: The Sandman I know a fellow called Dick Miles http://www.dickmiles.com |
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25 May 10 - 01:32 PM (#2914055) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Little Hawk They can if you're within reach, John. ;-) |
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25 May 10 - 01:46 PM (#2914065) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Georgiansilver We had two brothers at our school... surnames 'Harston' One was in his final year, the other a newbie..... but the question was sometimes asked.. Are you talking about the little Harston or the big Harston! |
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25 May 10 - 02:57 PM (#2914126) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Q (Frank Staplin) All those simplified names used by immigrants whose real surnames were difficult to understand. |
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25 May 10 - 02:59 PM (#2914129) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: VirginiaTam Tarquin Wiggins Alistair Twitchett |
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25 May 10 - 03:08 PM (#2914136) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Rapparee How about Robert Leroy Parker? Or Clyde Barrow? Or Charles A. Floyd? Or John H. Holliday? Or Henry Plummer? Or Reggie Kray? Or Tom Horn? Or Peter Kürten? Or Albert Fish? |
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25 May 10 - 05:26 PM (#2914221) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Ebbie I used to know a Sidebottom. And we had a Sizemore family in town. |
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25 May 10 - 07:55 PM (#2914330) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: GUEST,kendall When I was on the Maine Warden force we had a warden whose last name was Coffin. He married a woman whose first name was Iona. |
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25 May 10 - 07:56 PM (#2914331) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Dave MacKenzie How about "Marion Morrison"? |
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25 May 10 - 08:19 PM (#2914339) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Bob the Postman Stubbs? There was a chimpanzee called Mr. Stubbs in the movie "Pollyanna". What IS Chongo's surname anyway? |
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25 May 10 - 08:31 PM (#2914343) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Rapparee Stubby, but it refers to a physical attribute, not his family. |
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25 May 10 - 09:20 PM (#2914364) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Bat Goddess Up around the corner from us is a mailbox with the surname Szucks on it. Unfortunate name. Not necessarily wimpy...just unfortunate. Turnipseed is wimpy. And maybe Popcorn. (Boy, that one's probably an immigration screw-up mis-Anglization.) Linn |
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25 May 10 - 09:53 PM (#2914374) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Riginslinger There was a guy in one of my math lectures at Oregon State name Chickenchit. The class went absolutely wild everytime the instructor called the role. |
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26 May 10 - 12:45 AM (#2914406) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Little Hawk Good lord, Rig! That is tragic. Chongo's surname is Chimp. He adopted that surname for legal reasons upon entering the USA. He had just been called "Chongo" before that when he lived in Africa. Bush chimps don't have surnames, just given names. Most American primates really prefer to go simply by a given name, but the human bureaucracy won't provide them with papers unless they adopt a surname, so Chongo went for the obvious and took the surname "Chimp". |
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26 May 10 - 01:01 AM (#2914410) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Peter Kasin My college roommate had a statistics textbook authored by a man with the last name "Boring." |
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26 May 10 - 01:10 AM (#2914412) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Little Hawk I had a book by a naval historian about the war with Japan. His name was "Paul S. Dull". Despite the unfortunate name, his book was not dull, it was a fine piece of writing. |
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26 May 10 - 01:32 AM (#2914415) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity A great bass player, and guitarist in New Jersey name Richard (Dick) Shafter ...also Oliver Klozov GfS |
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26 May 10 - 02:15 AM (#2914424) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Georgiansilver Some of Chongos relatives? I had tea with these chimps many years ago and would suggest they might be related to Chongo! Their real surname is Chimp! |
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26 May 10 - 02:49 AM (#2914434) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) Any of those weird double barreled American 'elite family' names that have "the third" appended to them.. They make all those conspiricy theories about secret organisations performing faux baby sacrifices to Moloch or whatever, suddenly seem very obviously true. |
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26 May 10 - 03:59 AM (#2914456) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Gweltas Chivers Plant Littlechild Ham Gosling Bottomly Polkinghorn Cross Winterbotham Shattock Kneebone Hiscox Averiss Prigg Fassbender Smele Fawcetta Bassett Dungey Pidcock Lamb Pilkington Peacock Hand Baldwin.... are all surnames of people I have encountered in my career and which made me profoundly grateful to my father for having a normal surname! Had I been born with any of the above listed, I suspect the result would have been a lifetime of teasing and a dash to change it for something more conventional as soon as I was old enough to do so. My thanks to all previous posters in this thread for giving me a few good giggles and my sincere sympathies to those who bear such unfortunate surnames and have to endure our amused reactions. |
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26 May 10 - 06:55 AM (#2914514) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: bubblyrat As I said before (I think!), I found some distant (very) relations from the Isle of Wight, off southern England, who rejoiced in the name of Fuck, but the name died out (luckily) by the 16th century ( thank Fuck !). |
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26 May 10 - 07:08 AM (#2914518) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: GUEST,Essex girl Don't no about wimpiest but my daughter has just employed someone called Russel Crussel! |
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26 May 10 - 08:18 AM (#2914547) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: alanabit There was a British NCO called John Coward in WWII. He was captured by the Germans at Dunkirk. He could hardly have had a less appropriate surname as he proceeded to wreak havoc upon his captors. A not uncommon surname in Germany is Titz, which is a village south of Bonn, I believe. It is pronounced "teats", but would no doubt cause considerable amusement among adolescent Englishmen. |
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26 May 10 - 09:24 AM (#2914574) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine Among the less fortunate surnames at my school were Hardern (you can guess what he called him) and Shatwell (enough said) |
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26 May 10 - 10:00 AM (#2914592) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Bat Goddess In New Hampshire we have a politician named Dick Swett, also, I think, an unfortunate name. When I was a kid, the offices of Dr. Boozer was in the same building as the local Rexall pharmacy. Linn |
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26 May 10 - 12:22 PM (#2914690) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Rapparee How about Idaho's Senator Mike Crapo? I know a guy whose surname is Twadell -- fine guy. And let me not forget to mention Butch Lykes, another good guy. |
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26 May 10 - 12:33 PM (#2914694) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: bubblyrat As I've mentioned before ---A jet fighter "Ace" in the Korean War was Everret J Raspberry,Junior. |
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26 May 10 - 12:38 PM (#2914699) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: bubblyrat And let us never forget the West Indian shipping clerk who was called Euclides Von Pussberger DeJesus Maisonette. Really. |
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26 May 10 - 12:40 PM (#2914702) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Becca72 "Hyphenated names sound so upper class and prestigious, don't you think?" I do think so. That's why I'm waiting to marry until I find a gentleman with the surname "Code" (wink wink) There was a Dick Small who lived down the street from me when I was growing up. I went to school with Iva Head and April Beaver... |
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26 May 10 - 04:44 PM (#2914872) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Paul Burke I suppose you can't get wimpier than to be called after a lady's naughty bits. Bush? But then, who am I to talk... |
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26 May 10 - 05:11 PM (#2914888) Subject: RE: BS: Wimpiest surnames in the world... From: Ebbie When I was a kid, we had a neighbor called Fruck- the next generation legally changed their name to Foster. Carlos Boozer of the NBA (Basketball) is from Juneau. A local prison official's surname is Buttcane. It seems particularly unfortunate considering his line of work. |