People with ill-considered names

San Antonio Express-News ^ | 01/29/2010 | Source: “Bad Baby Names,” by Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback; http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/2363

[Responsibility2nd]

• Fever Bender (born 1856)

• Leper Priest (1929)

• Cholera Priest (1830)

• Rubella Graves (1814)

• Typhus Black (1897)

• Hysteria Johnson (1881)

• Emma Royd (1850)

• Kathryn E. Coli (1894)

• Mumps Sykes (1891)

[driftdiver]

Actual listing in the phone book for a guy with last name Long and first name Richard.

[Madame Dufarge]

There used to be a prolific crackpot letters-to-the-editor writer (besides me) on Cape Cod names Pickles Hargreaves, Jr.

He was listed in the phone book, so this wasn't just a nom de crackpot.

[ronniesgal]

Taffy and Kandy Kiss.

[aruanan]

Heywood Jablome
Amanda Hugginkiss
Anita Koch
Emerson Bignutz
Craven Morecock

Are these from the ebolamonkeyman site?

[mkmensinger]

I worked with a girl named Hope, who had an older sister named Faith. Unfortunately, the third child was a boy, so they named him Charlie.

[Yardstick]

Funny, my dad was talking about a kid he knew in school named Jack Frost just the other day. You wouldn’t happen to be a Louisiana native would you?

[God luvs America]

Ben Dover?

Mike Hunt??

[EternalVigilance]

I know of one community that has two surgeons, one named Slaughter and the other named Cutter.

[ronniesgal]

Arthurine! I will have to let my daughter know about this(she’s going to marry an Art)

[Fresh Wind]

Went to school with a kid named “Coke”.

[MNJohnnie]

Could be worse, how would you like going thru life named Richard Short?

[11Bush]

Dick Trickle.

Over 2200 races. Estimated at over 1 million laps. Racing Great. Bad name, but one you will never forget.

[mc5cents]

Here in Buffalo we have a funeral home named Bury. And a group of funeral homes named Amigone(pronounced Am I gone).

[Lakeshark]

Nope. This was Pennsylvania in college, I don’t know for sure, but he didn’t sound like a native of Louisiana.

[Lockbar]

How about Rudy Toot & Melody Toot.

[Fresh Wind]

I know of an undertaker named “Crater”.

[r9etb]

Former RI Congressman Dick Swett.

[driftdiver]

Had a ex girl friend with a first name of B... ah never mind

[ErnBatavia]

Had a tech out Wednesday to work on the heat pump....his name is LaTate.

Meanwhile, will continue scrolling for the inevitable Orangelo/Lemongelo sightings....

[r9etb]

I knew once knew a pastor named Max Sinn.