Inadvertent Porn Names

[SkyBubble]

The first head of the World Anti-Doping Agency was Dick Pound. He probably should have gone by his middle name.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Pound

For a long time, the Cardinal of Manila was Jaime Sin. Cardinal Sin.

 

[SkyBubble]

I don't know how journalists reporting on the misdeeds of former American politician Anthony Weiner - who had a particular liking of sending sexually explicit pictures of himself to women - managed to keep a straight face while doing so.

The New York Post had great fun with him when he was going through all his sexting problems. My favorite headline, after he said he wasn't resigning, was WEINER: I'M STICKING IT OUT

 

[Kelliezgirl]

For a long time, the Cardinal of Manila was Jaime Sin. Cardinal Sin.

I saw that when they were picking the new pope. He was apparently pretty important in getting John Paul 2 named Pope.

My brother served in the Army with a Sgt Rambo (his first name wasn't John, fortunately.)

 

[Kelliezgirl]

For a long time, the Cardinal of Manila was Jaime Sin. Cardinal Sin.

I found out about Mr Pound from watching a documentary on steroids and I walked away thinking he really was a Dick.

 

[SkyBubble]

My dad worked as an accountant before the computer era, when everything was on index cards. in the course of looking for clients he would come across some real doozy names, like the Bath sisters, Wanda and Needa.

In Westchester County, NY, there's a family with the unfortunate last name Outhouse. They run Outhouse Orchards. The late patriarch of the family was listed in the Westchester County phone book until the day he died as A. Purdy Outhouse.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

My dad worked as an accountant before the computer era, when everything was on index cards. in the course of looking for clients he would come across some real doozy names, like the Bath sisters, Wanda and Needa.

In Westchester County, NY, there's a family with the unfortunate last name Outhouse. They run Outhouse Orchards. The late patriarch of the family was listed in the Westchester County phone book until the day he died as A. Purdy Outhouse.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ima_Hogg

If my name was Ima I wouldn't have married him.

 

[SkyBubble]

Then there was Bill Lear of Learjet. He named his daughter Shanda.

 

[SkyBubble]

Dad's favorite was Carrie Freshwater.

 

[SkyBubble]

The first head of the World Anti-Doping Agency was Dick Pound. He probably should have gone by his middle name.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Pound

Then there is the now-retired race car driver Dick Trickle.

 

[RetroFan]

There's been some interesting names in the Australian Football League (AFL) over the years.

Back in 1992, the Essendon Bombers had a player named Willie Dick, while in the very early 1900s the Collingwood Magpies had a player named Dick Condon.

There's been a few 'Cock' surnames for players in addition to Cox, like Graeme Johncock, Jayson Laycock and Herb Woodcock and some 'Dick' ones too. Two more memorable ones are Danny Dickfoss and Donald Dickie from the late 1990s when they played for Brisbane and Port Adelaide respectively. I think their alliterative names with the two D's make them more memorable, had they been called Mark Dickfoss and Paul Dickie for example it might not have sounded so amusing.

Then there's other players whose names while not having any phallic associations are amusing regardless. Ronald McDonald, a player from Richmond Tigers in the late 1950s and early 1960s was no doubt thankful he wasn't born a few decades later and played in the late 1980s and early 1990s, while clearly Mr and Mrs McIvor weren't thinking when they named their infant son and future Essendon player Ivor. I'm seriously not making this up, there really was a player named Ivor McIvor. Downright unfortunate was an umpire from pre World War I whose name was Ivo Crapp.

Away from the football field and back in the 1980s, Miss Australia beauty queen winner Leanne Dick was being introduced at an event one time only the MC messed up and introduced her as 'Leanne Cock'.

 

[SkyBubble]

The male lead in the opera La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) is named Dick Johnson.

 

[RetroFan]

Actors adopt stage names for a variety of reasons, but for British starlet Diana Dors this was essential when she came to fame in the late 1940s/early 1950s.

The name 'Dors' was chosen as it was the maiden name of one of her grandmothers and alliterated well with Diana, but her legal name and the one she had grown up with in Swindon was Diana Fluck.

 

[Belegon]

My real first name is Richard and that has resulted in multiple games played with my name, with the "nickname" Dick taking it's place. It becomes boring after a while, but it did result in my long term nickname of Tricky that was used by many of my college friends. I didn't like being called Tricky Dick, buit i never minded just Tricky by itself. It's even tattoo'd on me, as One of the traditions of my frat is getting a tattoo with the frat's geeks symbols and/or your frat nickname.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Had a friend in my previous life(Before Shelby) whose father was named Richard and went by dick. In the phone book it was listed as Franks, Dick. Right underneath was a second listing for, Children of Franks, Dick

 

[MelissaBaby]

There was a race car driver named Dick Trickle and a congressman from New Hampshire named Dick Swett.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Not on reading, but on TV. I'm talking about infamous producers Dick Wolf and Speed Weed. The latter isn't pornstariffic, sure, but it always gets me.

I should point out that autocorrect switched "producers" with "please."

 

[Tio_Narratore]

The surname of the star of my Catholic high school track team was Trojan. The principal was never happy with the school newspaper's headlines whenever he won: "Trojan Rips!" was the most common choice of the editors.

 

[yowser]

Headmaster of my high school was Mr. George Beatty.

Of course to us scholastic sophisticates back then, he was just 'Master Beatty.'