Posted on 12/09/2018 5:54:40 PM PST by conservative98
I did some phone polling for a local candidate and one of the names on my list was Butts. I needed to talk to the wife. The husband answered the phone. I said, "Hello, I would like to talk to Mrs. Butts." He says, "This is Mr. Butts, she is not in right now." By that point I almost lost it.
I do academic research and in a German journal from the 1890s I saw a man with the last name F*ck. Yes, that word. And he had a PhD. I hope that that last name was changed forever in that family.
A guy worked for me named Sir. His first name was Sir. He said his mother named him that so he’d always have respect.
RB Jones was drafted into the Army in WWII. On his enlistment papers, he gave his name a R(only) B(only) Jones.
So, naturally, his dog tags came issued to Ronly Bonly Jones.
It goes the other way, too. I worked with a lady whose married name was Coontz. One mispronounced it at one’s peril. So imagine the merriment when a newly hired receptionist announced over the company-wide PA that there was a phone call for Mrs. you-know-who.
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