Strange surnames.

[Carl East]

My brother and I were chating earlier on today, when he brought up the subject of funny surnames. It reminded me of someone I knew at school, whose name was Teresa Green. You cannot imagine the stick she got over that name, (pun intended) but my wife topped it. She told us that she knew someone whose second name was Hammerslag, where in god's name do these names originate.

Do you know anyone whose second name is funny, or at least strange, (East being an obvious one) haha.

Carl.

 

[Adoratrice]

I don't get it?....my cousins name is Teresa Green...It never struck me as funny...maybe if I say it over and over again.Teresa Green...TEResa green..teresa GREEN tereSA GREen..nope still don't get it.

I know a guy named F.D. Franklin...Franklin Delenor Franklin...how mean is that???

My husband went to school with Bill Fold.

 

[Bobtoad777]

With the Last name forgrave it was often contorted to Forskin so that all the kids in school would say:

Look here comes Todd's Forskin

 

[Ezzy]

surnames with forenames

I had a friend who was engaged to be married,her name was Green also but her boyfriends name was Head.

She refused to ever marry him just because of her and his name.

Not a problem you say but her name was Sonya and her married name would have been Sonya Head, (It's on your Head).

EZ http://smilecwm.tripod.com/cwm2/sleep.gif

 

[Earthmuffin]

I went to highschool with a guy named Rusty Sparks. His brother's name was Dustin Sparks. Everyone thought those were hysterical, I never knew why....My mother went to college with a woman whose last name was pronounced: fewks. Spelled: Fucks. The prof's just called her Sherry.

 

[Juliangel]

When my parents lived in Virgina they had neighbors with the last name Silver. They named their daughter Sterling.

I also have a friend with the last name Boozer.

 

[Isabella Thorne]

If a tree falls in the forest ..

I once dated Forrest Green ... honest ... i promise .. now that's a funny Green name ... what's up with Teresa?
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Good point, Sir Carl!

 

[Silverlily]

C'mon guys.

When said with a Britsh accent (and I'm going out on a limb here) Teresa Green...

Trees 'a Green

 

[April]

It's still not funny.

 

[Silverlily]

I never said it was.

Believe me, if I could post my maiden name without making really easy for some nutcase to track me down, you'd understand why I don't think last name jokes are ever funny.

 

[R Nitelight]

Try it with a French accent. German? Greek?
Sorry. No.

 

[Nicole]

My Dad once worked with a Richard Head.

Get it, Dickhead ... well I thought it was funny.

AND it is the Gods honest truth too Poor guy wanted to change his name but, it was a family name.

 

[Silverlily]

Auugghhh! I didn't say it was funny! It's not my joke.

Fuck, this is the last time I try to explain anything.

 

[April]

Poor thing. Want a hug? Nicole will verify that I rarely give them, so I'm not very good at it.

 

[Silverlily]

Yes, I do. <sniff>I'm not feeling well (bronchitis) and all I was trying to do <sniff> was help.

 

[April]

Aww, poor baby. Here, {{{{{Kitten Eyes}}}}}
It's okay, it was a bad joke in the first place.

 

[Bobtoad777]

{{{{{{{{{{Kitten Eyes}}}}}}}}}}

 

[CreamyLady]

Okay -- how about this one? And I'm NOT making it up:

Lobelia Ruggtwitt Hildebiddle.

 

[Silverlily]

Thanks guys.

CL, how do you even pronounce the middle name?

 

[CreamyLady]

Exactly how it looks: Rug Twit.

 

[Silverlily]

Oh that poor thing.

 

[Bobtoad777]

There was a guy where I used to live who was of Foriegn Decent whose name was Sheap Foulker, who a lot of the adults, I was 8-9 at the time, called the Sheep Fucker. But I never meet the guy so I don't know the truth to the story wheter it was fact or fiction.

 

[Weird Harold]

I went through Technical traing with a Samuel B. Hymen. Everybody called him by his middle name -- Buster

I served with an Eric Kuntz in Germany, and dozens of other people over 21 years that had names that displayed their parents total lack of sensitivity.

There were at least half a dozen 'Rhodes' with either Dusty or Rocky as a nickname.

Why do parents do things like this to their children? Some names like Sterling Silver are 'cute' and easy to remember. Names like "Buster Hymen" are downright cruel.

 

[Dudley]

My all-time fave: a lady from Georgia named Dimple E. Wrinkle.

I once met a businessman from China who over-Americanized his name to Ben Frank Lin.

 

[Carl East]

I don't get it?....my cousins name is Teresa Green...It never struck me as funny...maybe if I say it over and over again.Teresa Green...TEResa green..teresa GREEN tereSA GREen..nope still don't get it.

I think in hind sight I used a bad example there Adoratrice, the name it's self wasn't funny, the comments Teresa got were. Kitten got it right almost, because instead of people saying Teresa, they used to say Tree's are green. People can be so cruel at times, can't they.

Carl.