Weird names
Mar 21, 2005 | 10:58 AM
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From: Central PA
I knew a poor fellow named Seymour Pecker!
Mar 21, 2005 | 11:17 AM
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From: The hills of No. Calif.
My last name is a common name, but it's one that gets made fun of a lot by making a very minor change. All my life I've been referred to as a furry portion of the anatomy, which fits anyway as I'm quite furry! -TD
Mar 21, 2005 | 09:01 PM
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From: North Central Rural Sask.
We had a girl in school whos name was Anita Dyke.
Mar 21, 2005 | 09:34 PM
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From: Elkton, MD
I used to work with a guy named richard bender, he hated his nick name, also a richard little. don't know what some parents were thinking. A guy at the junkyard was mr. brown, he was a nice old black man.
Mar 22, 2005 | 05:59 AM
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From: SouthWest Ohio
I went to school with a Dick Tracey, and had a neighbor named Vike Eng...and yes he was Norwiegen. My wife worked with a Justin Tyme.
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Mar 28, 2005 | 09:12 PM
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From: Newton America :-P
I forgot about the Cramp family in my home town Hillery, Henery, Harold, and the guy I went to school with... "Harry Cramp"....
Mar 28, 2005 | 09:52 PM
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From: Leon, KS
My last name is Harder...so people are always saying stuff to me...lol.
Some of the kids that used to go to school where I live were named Stormy, Lighting, Thunder and Wendy.
One of the weirdest names I've seen was Pirate Howmon Davis (the kid of Korns lead singer)
Mar 28, 2005 | 11:12 PM
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From: San Francisco, Ca.
Saw a name in the ole phone book some years ago with the name of CHUCK U. FARLEY.
Also worked with a friend whose name was Albert Albert.
I won't even mention the late Frank Zappa's kids names-Moon and Dweezil
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Mar 28, 2005 | 11:33 PM
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From: The hills of No. Calif.
Umm...I think you just did! -TD
Mar 28, 2005 | 11:39 PM
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From: Georgia
I once sold a bull to a guy named Woody Ryder and sold another to a guy named Moe Mayo.
Mar 28, 2005 | 11:50 PM
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From: Monterey bay area
Once worked with a John Moorehead lol
and went to high school with a Russian exchange student named Anita Pokin
no kidding either!!!
Mar 29, 2005 | 07:12 AM
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From: Reisterstown,MD
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Originally Posted by mjwhip2
The only one that stands out in my mind was a girl I went to elementary school with-Carrie Hunt.
That reminds me Mike Hunt ----Porkeys "Is Mike Hunt here" Say this fast three times.
Mar 29, 2005 | 09:24 AM
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From: N. Mississippi
There is a family in Water Valley MS called the 'Vanwinkles'. They named their oldest son Rip and their daughter Twinkle. Poor kids.
Mar 29, 2005 | 10:09 AM
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From: Reisterstown,MD
Here's a couple more - Richard Hurtz, Robert Dick . Geez this could go on for ever!!
Mar 29, 2005 | 08:25 PM
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From: West Chester PA
A buddy of mine's last name is Moss. Everybody calls him Skinny. Skinny calls his brother Pete.