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What’s in a name?

See, there’s this race car driver. His name is Dick Trickle.

Is there anybody who has/had a name that generates more uncomfortability? Discuss.

January 4th, 2008 9 comments
Posted by The Mascot Filed under Uncomfortability

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  1. chessloser posted the following on 4 January 2008 at 10:00 pm.

    i always thought dick butkus (butt kiss) had a weird name. i knew a guy named richard liss. everyone called him dick. this is NOT a joke, he was a real human who had to live with that name. his parents were polish from the old country, they didn’t know. i also knew a girl whose gynecologist’s name was Harry Beaver. and, you know that joke about Dick Hurtz? i KNEW the guy, had his business card and everything. he was not a fun, nice, happy kinda guy.

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  2. gorckat posted the following on 5 January 2008 at 4:24 pm.

    I was once talking to a guy whose last name was Fike and I accidentally called him Mr. Kike.

    Awkward silence followed.

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  3. annie posted the following on 5 January 2008 at 5:34 pm.

    I have several vietnamese clients… long dong.. phuc tran… you get the idea.

    Then there are the Dumas’s…

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  4. Donnie posted the following on 5 January 2008 at 8:19 pm.

    Thank you all for making me feel I’m not the only one who immaturely laughs at people’s unfortunate names.

    @chessloser: I wouldn’t imagine Dick Hurtz would have much reason to be happy. You have to feel for all the Dicks out there (who are almost all 60+); all of a sudden in the middle of their lives, their name became slang for penis.

    @Gorckat: Hopefully he wasn’t Jewish (you probably would have mentioned it if he was).

    @Annie: I don’t get it…more examples please… ;)

    It took me a second to get the Dumas.

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  5. Francis W. Porretto posted the following on 5 January 2008 at 9:38 pm.

    A friend once told me of a Manhattan psychiatrist whose original name was Hyman Schitz. I believe he changed it when he went into practice.

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  6. chessloser posted the following on 6 January 2008 at 12:39 am.

    Francis – lipschitz was a name people had when i was growing up, leading to the jokes “well, if your lipschitz, does your ass whistle?…

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  7. Donnie posted the following on 6 January 2008 at 9:26 am.

    @Francis and chessloser: Those two I’ve not heard before. The variety of awkward names is even longer than I thought. I’ll just name my kids “A”, “B”, etc. just to be on the safe side.

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  8. Blunderprone posted the following on 7 January 2008 at 1:14 am.

    We have online meetings with our asian counterparts at work… one guy… Super Dong, I am so glad the mute button was working that day.

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  9. Shazgood posted the following on 8 January 2008 at 12:19 pm.

    There’s always the English…lots of Ramsbottoms and Fanny Hill’s etc. One current minister is called Alastair Darling. Sweet.

    On a sporting topic, golf always produces great player names. Don’t know quite why. There’s Heath Slocum, Brian Gay, Fred Funk, Dicky Pride. Yes, Dicky Pride!! All playing in the current PGA tour.

    Other golfers just have names that look suspiciously like the game they play: Nathan Green, Sandy Lyle, Chip Beck…

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