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09-06-2007, 11:09 AM | #16 |
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My brother (who is in the US Air Force) met a girl in the Turkish Air Force named Shithead.
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09-06-2007, 11:38 AM | #17 |
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I have to work very hard to surpress giggles when I encounter anyone with the family name Lipschitz.
I always thought it was just a joke, then I met several.
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09-06-2007, 11:51 AM | #18 |
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Endlicher. How would you pronounce that? I stumbled over it, and got chewed out. Hey, it's not my fault your name is end-licker.
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09-06-2007, 11:57 AM | #19 |
Looking forward to open mic night.
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Dr. Looney. Was really a psychiatrist...... Looney is not a bad name in and of itself. But when you go to med. school with it...I'd seriously think of changing it.
Of course, Cicero means dung.....so I really shouldn't put my 2 cents in here. (Someone else that refused to change their name after entering politics)
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09-06-2007, 12:23 PM | #20 |
dar512 is now Pete Zicato
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One of my Mom's doctors is Richard Head.
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09-06-2007, 12:27 PM | #21 |
Tool. Not the band - you are one.
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I once had to serve a Dr. Harold Weiner with a subpoena... it would only have been more funny if he was a urologist.
There's a Dr. Dick Weiner around the corner from my office. He's a dentist. Rinse & spit!
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09-06-2007, 12:35 PM | #22 |
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My plastic surgeon when I was burned was Dr. Burner.
One of my all-time favorite horrible names is Butkus. As in Dick Butkus the football player. Football players seem to have a high percentage of horrible names. My theory is they get toughened up by all the teasing they have to endure so they end up as big bruisers--i.e., football players.
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09-06-2007, 12:55 PM | #23 |
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We're having a good time with Carl Dick at present. Rost....have you seen my dick..........
.......... .....deal? IT WAS RIGHT HERE. stop touching my Dick. deal.
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09-06-2007, 01:24 PM | #24 |
Come on, cat.
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I'm partial to Dick Trickle myself....
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09-06-2007, 01:29 PM | #25 |
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I tried to persuade a beautiful young Russian woman to change her first name when she moved to the States. She was adamant she wouldn't - but I expect she did in the end.
Her name was Assol.
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09-06-2007, 01:46 PM | #26 |
We have to go back, Kate!
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One of my favourites was a guy who presented children's television programmes in the late 70s...Christopher Lillycrap. With Lillycrap for a surname obviously he wanted to work with children :P
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09-06-2007, 01:47 PM | #27 |
We have to go back, Kate!
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Another good one is Cockburn (apparently pronounced Cohburn)
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09-06-2007, 01:57 PM | #28 |
LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz
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I found this on the web YEARS ago , read the name , ha ha , then I looked at the address , ,,, Uh , I live in Paragould , so I grabbed a phone book , and well there he was , I give you ,,,,,,
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09-06-2007, 02:10 PM | #29 |
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Here in the states the "ck" is never silent. I have always been aware of the oddities of English pronunciation, what with the "gh" controversy and all, but "ck"? That "Coh-burn" shit has got to be made up, like Hyacinth "Booh-keh" rather than Bucket on Keeping Up Appearances.
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09-06-2007, 02:11 PM | #30 |
We have to go back, Kate!
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That's exactly my thinking Wolf.
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