Discussion Topic |
|
This thread has been locked |
paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
|
|
Almost named my daughter Ginger.
|
|
hossjulia
Trad climber
Carson City, NV
|
|
Had a client call to place an order, "Can I get your name please? Kent. Can I get your last name? That is my last name. OK, what is your first name. Clark." We paused, he had to be waiting for it. Finally, all I could think of was, "Your parents sure had a sense of humor." "Ah hum" was all I got as a reply. oops. Proceed with order, do not mention name again, do not snicker, guffaw or snort. Make sale. Hung up, rushed into the shop to tell everyone and had a good laugh.
This person might be a climber, he was a backcountry skier.
|
|
Flip Flop
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
|
|
The first time I had sex was on the beach with a girl named Sandy Both.Was it Sandy, you ask? Yes. Which one? Both.
A good friend is Richard Little. Formerly Little,Dick in school days.
The Vietnamese restaurant in Seaside is called Pho King.
|
|
TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO
|
|
While hitchhiking this winter for a day of skiing at Taos Ski Valley, I got picked up by a black man. Turned out to be the urologist at the local hospital. His name? Alden Cockburn.
I kid you not. You can google him: "Taos urologist."
He told me that he decided to become a urologist - in part - to take advantage of his name! We both laughed about that. Also told me he's been the butt of a few jokes that made prime time. Like Jay Leno and the Tonight Show.
|
|
Fletcher
Gym climber
A very quiet place
|
|
My brothers knew a Harley Davidson in junior high school.
And then there was the Tak Kee Hat Shop at the ferry terminal on Lantau Island (part of Hong Kong). But that's just a funny transliteration of another language.
The Chinese in Hong Kong often have two first names, one Cantonese, one English. There are some pretty funny ones. My wife used to work with a guy named Winky. This was in a pretty corporate setting.
A humorous columnist from my days there, Nuri Vittachi, wrote a funny article about such names. His were made up, but not that far off. My favorite he came up with was Anthrax Chang.
Eric
|
|
DanaB
climber
CT
|
|
I worked with a gastroenterologist, his name was Richard Grunt - Dick Grunt.
|
|
Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
|
|
Well, some actors take stage names for several reasons, if there is already an actor that was registered with SAG, for example Micheal Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas but that name is already taken, or they change their names to make them more "star-able"
or Boris Karloff was really William Henry Pratt,
but Hal Linden (you know, Barney Miller TV series) was born Harold Lipschitz. I think I'd change my name too.
|
|
GrahamJ
climber
In the rain
|
|
There is someone who works for my company in a different branch named Richard Tiddie... I have to laugh every time I see him
|
|
gazela
Boulder climber
Albuquerque, NM
|
|
Growing up, I knew a girl named Charlotte Webb.
When I worked in a university bookstore, I used to "check in" the Schaum's outlines, a couple of which were written by a guy named Seymour Lipschutz.
|
|
Larry Nelson
Social climber
|
|
BITD, the old "Halfway Inn", on the road between Fairbanks and Nenana, was bought by this skinny guy named Dick.
(Now goes by the name Skinny Dick's Halfway Inn)
|
|
tooth
Trad climber
B.C.
|
|
My last name is Visscher. I considered naming my daughter Helen Irene. But my wife didn't like the initials.
My nephew almost ended up Festus Arbutus Grant. I was the only one in the family who caught it.
|
|
|
SuperTopo on the Web
|
Let us know!