mauimoods
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posted on January 23, 2001 06:38:04 PM
I had a friend who was once married to a guy whose last name was Hole. I teased her to name her kid Harry.....(**snicker**)...but she didnt (gee, I wonder why ). Then, there was the gal that was named (by her parents) Ima, and her last name was Hogg. Know of any others?
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Meya
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posted on January 23, 2001 06:40:30 PM
This is no joke...we have a doctor in our town. He is an Ear, Nose, and Throat doctor. His name is Pickett, I'm totally serious.
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mauimoods
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posted on January 23, 2001 06:46:08 PM
LOL!!!
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nobs
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posted on January 23, 2001 06:46:28 PM
Maui
There was a famous collector of fine antiques named Ima Hogg. She dies within the last decade at a ripe old age and she loved her name. She said she wouldn't dream of changing it.
now, let's not forget our old friend Ben Dover. 
I used to have an eye Dr. named Dr. Speck and I filled my glasses precription at the Specs Shop on Broadway in NYC.
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mauimoods
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posted on January 23, 2001 06:50:01 PM
Nobs, I guess I better not mention our other friend, Mr K'noff. Last time I did, joicey got really mad at me
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december3
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posted on January 23, 2001 06:53:22 PM
I knew a family named Knight, they had a daughter named Dayann. Strange people.
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snowyegret
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posted on January 23, 2001 06:55:56 PM
When I was little, my doctor was Dr. Fink.
And Ima Hogg was the daughter of a Tx governor.
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barrybarris
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posted on January 23, 2001 06:58:30 PM
About the woman who was married to Mr Hole. Did she ever use the old ad slogan "I can't believe I ate the....." I'll stop there...
Barry (being BAAAAD) Barris
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mauimoods
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posted on January 23, 2001 07:00:31 PM
Just dont mention your friend Dicky, Barry. You got in trouble, too. Both of us were BAD. Heck, alot of us were ornery that night, werent we? heh
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even59
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posted on January 23, 2001 07:02:31 PM
OK
Here are some of my all time favorites:
there was a liquor store owner here in Santa Fe named Peter Handler.
There is the actor named Peter Boyle.
We had a news guy name Dick Knipping pronounced of course without the K.
My dad's partners fathers name was Harry Peters. His son's name is Soren Peters. Hunt Cole....re-arrange the letters...he was a friend of my Dads, but he changed his first name becauseof tesing as a little kid. Then there's the roll call in the military.... Fonda, Peter!
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barrybarris
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posted on January 23, 2001 07:04:47 PM
LOL @ Maui...
Barry (Yep, we were ornery that night......) Barris
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even59
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posted on January 23, 2001 07:05:01 PM
My brother just gave me this one...if you say the name Michael Torres really fast...
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brie49
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posted on January 23, 2001 07:07:37 PM
My internist's name is Dr. Doktor (give me the news...), and my daughter had a female high school friend named Robin Hood.
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mauimoods
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posted on January 23, 2001 07:07:52 PM
Now dont I look silly, sitting in front of my monitor, saying that name fast, eve. Finally...it came out fast enough and my husband says "what the HELL are you talking about on that place???"
ROTF
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Shoshanah
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posted on January 23, 2001 07:09:10 PM
Maui...Very in-appropriate....Ima in Hebrew means Mother....Tough being a Jewish Mother Hogg....
A Jewish couple's last name is [b ]Silver[/b] (probably shortened from Zilberman). They named their son....getting sick here...Sterling...
Can you imagine going through life with a name likle Sterling Silver???? Borders on cruelty...child abuse...
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even59
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posted on January 23, 2001 07:10:06 PM
Mike Hunt...sorry! but my brother told me that one too...what were these mens mothers THINKING when they named their sons????
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hellcat
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posted on January 23, 2001 07:15:21 PM
I have a friend, Rusty, who married a fella whose last name is "Buckett". So she is now, Rusty Buckett. And he is called my his initials..."M.T." So he is M.T. Buckett. I swear.
Beth
Madness takes a toll. Please use exact change.
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gravid
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posted on January 23, 2001 07:18:37 PM
I do think that giving a child a strange name is cruel. Not only will they be picked on by the children but will stand out to the teachers. I have a given name that sounds like a surname. At the dept. of motor vehicles the woman Said "First name?" When I replied She just repeated "First Name?" a little loader. I am not kidding - we did this 6 times!!! Finally my wife said "My God this woman will never say anything else why don't you explain?"
I was sort of curious how many times I could get her to repeat it but my wife ruined it.
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DWest
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posted on January 23, 2001 07:20:39 PM
The gynecologist I used to go to had a partner named Dr. Beaver. I'm not positive, but I think his first name was Harry.
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even59
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posted on January 23, 2001 07:25:07 PM
Well, I was called every possible thing that rhymed with Eve
Christmas
New Years
Good Eve-ning
Eve the Beav
Peeve
Ni-Eve
Where's Adam?...for the 40 billionth time and they always think they are the first ones to ever say that to me!!!!!
and the there's my LAST name...lets just say it rhymes with snortin'...
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Shoshanah
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posted on January 23, 2001 07:39:42 PM
Hey! What happened to the "edit" button? I have all kinds of UBB messes to clean up
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Shoshanah
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posted on January 23, 2001 07:42:02 PM
hmmmmmm.....strange...It came back....
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kiheicat
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posted on January 23, 2001 07:46:30 PM
My mom had a girl in her 3rd grade class once when she was teaching named Lemonjello. They pronounced it with the accent on the second syllable.
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mauimoods
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posted on January 23, 2001 07:55:59 PM
Dr Beaver?? OMG...ROTFLMAO!!! Wee weeing in sarong....HAHAHAHA
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even59
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posted on January 23, 2001 08:03:16 PM
Lemon jello...? Are we hurting for names???
Speaking of the DMV, I took my Mom in there to get a pedestrian ID and the woman at the counter asked her her age she said "Thirty six,"...(my mom was 63 at the time and having a bit of a dyslexic episode or something) and the woman behind the counter just says "age" again and my Mom says a little louder THIRTY SIX" and the woman just turned red, waited awhile and just said age again and my Mom who has NO patience was just about to scream out THIRTY SIX when I sort of said MA!!! you're Sixty THREE! then she started giggling uncontrolably!!!!
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Kaffro
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posted on January 23, 2001 08:07:02 PM
I graduated with a guy named Robert Robb (Rob Robb)...we just called him Rob "squared"!
Kaffro 
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december3
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posted on January 23, 2001 08:13:32 PM
The Mike Hunt thing is an old bar gag. You call and ask the (female) bartender to page Bill Hunt. When he doesn't answer you ask her to page his brother Mike. I know this because several of my bartenders fell for it. Not pretty coming over the speaker system. Is Mike Hunt here? Has anyone seen Mike Hunt?
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bunnicula
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posted on January 23, 2001 08:27:20 PM
As a Children's Librarian, I meet a *lot* of kids (needless to say)--and some of them have had doozies for names.
Sweetums (actual, legal name on birth certificate)
Maybelline (I never knew if she'd been named for the song or the cosmetics)
Phuk Eu (Vietnamese, IIRC--parents were new immigrants & fortunately changed the child's name after being informed...)
Isabel (this is a boy. Maybe centuries ago it was a name fo both boys & girls, but in this day & age? Poor kid--he must get in fights on a daily basis)
Lecher (Hispanic kid. I've often wondered if his parents *know*. I get strange look when I call out his name when it's his turn to use a computer...)
And then there are the parents who take a normal name and twist & torture the spelling. When they're not making a phonetic spelling nightmare, they are adding letters that have nothing to do with the name at all (honest--while working at the Glendale Library years ago a mother signed her kid up for storytime: "his name is Richard, we spell it with an 's' " I am *not* joking).
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jamesoblivion
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posted on January 23, 2001 08:29:13 PM
Gennifer with a "G".
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mauimoods
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posted on January 23, 2001 08:35:10 PM
OMG! Thats the name I use to tell people who tick me off, is the name of my attorney (I lied..just was being obnoxious). Mr Phuk Eu! LOL!
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