Sthitch Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 HARRY PETERS, why hello there. This brought back memories of Dr. Harry C. Beaver, OB/GYN - really with that name you have no other career choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMike Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 So... I was raised as "Mike" but when I got to college I decided to go by "Sean" since all the correspondence, etc., had that name on it. Then I kept running into people from high school and before who knew me as Mike, so I started signing my emails "Sean Mike". Which got me the nickname of SnM in college, and is different enough I tend to use it IRL, as the kids wouldn't say. My family and my brother's JMU friends tend to call me Mike, still, while at work I'm just Sean. My Twitter handle is HighwayStar, which came from the days at UVA where we'd change our "real names" on the RS/6000s regularly. GWAR's spin-off band X-Cops did a cover of the song Highway Star, and it just stuck with me. I think I even had some stories with a character related to that song back on my days on alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo on USENET... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoramargolis Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 This brought back memories of Dr. Harry C. Beaver, OB/GYN - really with that name you have no other career choices. There was an ob/gyn in Hawthorne, CA who had a big sign over his office: Jose De Cunto, MD. For reals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sthitch Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share Posted June 14, 2013 There was an ob/gyn in Hawthorne, CA who had a big sign over his office: Jose De Cunto, MD. For reals. By the way, I was not joking he practices in Fairfax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waitman Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 I'm more literate and Frankophilic than that. I prefer Harry Balzac. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rieux Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 By the way, I was not joking he practices in Fairfax. My mom used to go to a Dr. Hyman Hunter. And I also have heard of a Dr. Hands. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 My mom used to go to a Dr. Hyman Hunter. And I also have heard of a Dr. Hands. There's a Rhoda Dendron in Greenville, SC, and for those who grew up near Fairland and E. Randolph Road (Colesville) in the 1980s, a dentist had a wooden sign (in the shape of a molar) in the corner of his yard that said Tooth Acre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 There's a Rhoda Dendron in Greenville, SC, and for those who grew up near Fairland and E. Randolph Road (Colesville) in the 1980s, a dentist had a wooden sign (in the shape of a molar) in the corner of his yard that said Tooth Acre. There was an ophthalmologist and optometrist in the New Jersey of my youth named Seymour Bien. Looks like he might still be there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sthitch Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share Posted June 14, 2013 My mom used to go to a Dr. Hyman Hunter. And I also have heard of a Dr. Hands. My doctor's last name is LeFevre - great guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weezy Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 There was a group of orthopedists in this area, Grimm, Eakin & Hurt, but they changed the corporate name to something bland along the lines of Fairfax Orthopedics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Despite his failings (???) I tend to think ex Congressman Wiener, now running for Mayor in NYC had to be the toughest hombre or hombress in Congress or elsewhere. How did that guy ever survive elementary school, middle school and high school with that name? Assuming his next campaign goes nowhere he should probably get a job at the sausage place in Clarendon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waitman Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Despite his failings (???) I tend to think ex Congressman Wiener, now running for Mayor in NYC had to be the toughest hombre or hombres in Congress or elsewhere. Apparently you are unaware of the former New Hampshire Congressman Richard Nelson "Dick" Swett. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Apparently you are unaware of the former New Hampshire Congressman Richard Nelson "Dick" Swett. yeah.... Its curious: of the many Richard's in this world, how many become Ricks and how many become Dicks???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 yeah.... Its curious: of the many Richard's in this world, how many become Ricks and how many become Dicks???? And then there are the intelligent few who go by their middle name. My mom said she sometimes called me Dickie Don when I was a baby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbara Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 yeah.... Its curious: of the many Richard's in this world, how many become Ricks and how many become Dicks???? My dad was always "Dick" but his namesake is Richie (or, Rich, as he now prefers). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tujague Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 My dad's oldest sister was Rhoda Hooter. Which may or may not be an improvement on her maiden name of Rhoda Lott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deangold Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 I'm more literate and Frankophilic than that. I prefer Harry Balzac. I Don't Understand Job by Garfunkel and Oates1:47. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stEXPIh9Qi0 NSFW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deangold Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 There was a wine seller in southern California whose first name was Velvet. She married a Mr. Satin. And took his last name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sthitch Posted June 15, 2013 Author Share Posted June 15, 2013 yeah.... Its curious: of the many Richard's in this world, how many become Ricks and how many become Dicks???? My wife was telling me the unfortunate story of a young man she went to high school with, his father, a famous Jazz pianist/arranger/jingle writer in Chicago, was always called "Big Dick" and so when people referred to his son Richard they called him "Little Dick" - the eldest went by Dick Marx until he died, his son stuck with Richard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rieux Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 I just remembered two more: a friend of mine in Ireland, Enda Story; and, a friend of my ex in Mexico. She was a lovely Swedish with the first name of Viva. She married a guy with the last name Zapata, in Mexico. She became Viva Zapata! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Pressley Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Many years ago, I was a cook at a dinner theater in Manassas and we had hired a guy named Wyatt Webb to be a dishwasher. We teased him on his first day... Me: "What's your dad's name? Spider?!" (chuckle, chuckle) Wyatt: "Yep." http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/spyder-webb.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoramargolis Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 By the way, I was not joking he practices in Fairfax. If you were joking, his name would have been C. Harry Beavers. How about the ones that don't translate well. My cousin Esta Margolis married an airline pilot named Richard Mona. They traveled a lot, and whenever they were going into a Spanish-speaking country, the officials examining her passport would fall all over themselves laughing about her name--in Spanish, Esta Mona means "this monkey." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovehockey Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 I remember reading a brief story in the Edmonton Sun, probably back in the late 80s, about a couple about to marry. If I recall correctly he took her last name. His name: Robin Thursday. Her name: Tuesday Hood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 I remember reading a brief story in the Edmonton Sun, probably back in the late 80s, about a couple about to marry. If I recall correctly he took her last name. His name: Robin Thursday. Her name: Tuesday Hood. Too bad they didn't take each other's names! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillvalley Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 At my friend's first wedding which was held in a swanky hotel, the sign directed guests to the Long Weiner Wedding. At the second wedding they used only their first names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoramargolis Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 I remember reading a brief story in the Edmonton Sun, probably back in the late 80s, about a couple about to marry. If I recall correctly he took her last name. His name: Robin Thursday. Her name: Tuesday Hood. That's funny. A coincidence, as well. My (late) cousin Esta grew up in Edmonton, which is my father's home town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weezy Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Ozzy Osbourne's wife's maiden name was Sharon Needles. I wonder if that sparked the initial attraction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMike Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 My dentist when I had braces was Dr. O.W. Clifton. He hated me calling him Dr. "OW!" Clifton. Good dentist, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcandohio Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 My wife was telling me the unfortunate story of a young man she went to high school with, his father, a famous Jazz pianist/arranger/jingle writer in Chicago, was always called "Big Dick" and so when people referred to his son Richard they called him "Little Dick" - the eldest went by Dick Marx until he died, his son stuck with Richard. I saw Richard Marx performing at our Picnic with the Pops last night! He referred to his three sons as "The Marx Brothers." He also talked about his Dad, who scored some of "littlle Dick's" songs for orchestra before he died. Nice, laid-back show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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