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04-23-2003, 04:55 PM
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So I was sitting at the dinner table the other night, my wife and I listening to an interesting classical composition on a North Carolina radio station I used to do some grantwriting and announcing work for. (It's amazing how many radio stations now broadcast live on the Internet.) The work ends, and the announcer mumbles something about "Crouch." I'd never heard of him before, so we go to the radio station's website, and see what was playing.
It wasn't Crouch. It was some equally obscure guy, buried in annals of English history, by the name of William Crotch.
Crotch. What a terrible name to go through life possessing. I suspect that was the blight that killed his budding career as a fine composer. Who could give an award to such a man, and name him without laughing? What kind of person would show up at a concert featuring the music, in big, bold, black letters, of CROTCH? You guessed it: men in raincoats with nothing on beneath. Men like Waverly, Grunt and the infamous Weasel. It's sad, really sad.
This got me thinking, or what passes for thinking at my point in life, about other, similarly embarassing names. I don't mean fictional names, because those are easy to create. I'm sure many Victorian readers blushed with the knowledge of what Dic!ens was obviously aiming at with the name of his child abuser, Mr. Murdstone, in David Copperfield. But can anybody else come up with some reallife examples of names that make you wonder why on this glorious earth anybody would keep them, rather than feigning suicide and starting all over?
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04-23-2003, 05:08 PM
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| | Chirac - no offense intended but the way it said like a person trying to clearing lump out of his/her throat. 
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04-23-2003, 05:23 PM
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| | | Bad names, eh?
How about once-NASCAR driver: D!ck Trickle?
That is his name and he uses it all the time. I think you know what the interpretation can be.
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04-23-2003, 05:40 PM
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| | Midfield player for Manchester United: Nicky BUTT 
He must have had a helluva time growing up.
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04-23-2003, 05:50 PM
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| | | My old boss used to have a secretary whose name was Alice Cox. But in reality Alice was her second name because her parents namded her...
Rhoda.
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04-23-2003, 06:32 PM
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| | I once went to school with an unfortunate young man who had the sir name of Head.....
His parents felt the need to bestow upon him the first name of Richard...
Given one of two possible short forms associated with that name.. well no doubt you can all figure out what the poor lad was dubbed 
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04-23-2003, 09:19 PM
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| | Thoughtless parents!!
I have also known a Richard Head and also a Michael Hunt (and we always called him Michael Hunt, never Mike)  |
04-23-2003, 09:41 PM
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| | | Last summer I met a guy named Richard Little. Everyone called him Little D!ck. I really don't understand why parents would do that. Although this isn't nearly as bad as Richard Head.
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04-23-2003, 09:52 PM
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| | I know a guy named Harry Cox He is kinda scarred
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04-24-2003, 12:32 AM
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| | Well theres the famous plumber Thomas Crapper, the jury is still out on whether he invented the toilet or not but he was an actual plumber. http://www.theplumber.com/images/crapper2.jpg
I actually found all of this from plumber.com
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04-24-2003, 06:27 AM
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| | | I used to work for a medical agency booking locum work for doctors and some of our overseas doctors had some very funny names.
We had a Dr Dikko, Dr Dikki, Dr Butt, Dr Shaggs, Dr Pain, etc on our books, however, the funniest name I ever heard was Dr Wankya. Dr Boniface Wankya!
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04-24-2003, 09:52 AM
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| | | My old youth director said he went to school with a guy named Cl!t.
Makes me glad to have a name like Dave.
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04-24-2003, 10:10 AM
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| | | There was an NFL player by the name of Harry Colon.
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04-24-2003, 10:21 AM
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| | Not a person's name... but there is a town in south-eastern US (New Mexico, I believe) called Elephant Butte.
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04-24-2003, 10:36 AM
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| | Quote: Originally posted by Tamerlane
Well theres the famous plumber Thomas Crapper, the jury is still out on whether he invented the toilet or not but he was an actual plumber.
| I think in this case, the name came before the slang - Crapper developed a relatively cheap and popular flushing toilet which led to phrases such as "going to the crapper" "taking a crap" etc.
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