True story:
My wife is a Therapist and works with developmentally disabled children. She was working with a mildly severe young boy whose real name is "Einstein". One day while working with a new colleague they were treating this boy (the new person had not heard his name), my wife exclaimed:
"Good job.......... Einstein!"
The look on the new person's face was one of utter disdain, as she thought my wife was being sarcastic to the boy.
That’s a very funny story.
I was an associate in a large NY law firm, and we were dealing with a difficult client in western Canada. As is the style in Vancouver, the executives of the firm would put their nicknames in quotes in the middle of their addresses, so I was writing a letter to (let’s say) S.H. “Dick” Smith.
I copied the partner in my firm on the letter, and I got it back in interoffice mail, with the “Dick” circled in red and his query, “Is this his real name?”