Knew a kid in elementary school who had the last name Gaylord, teased mercilessly. He would tell the teacher on the first day of class to just call him by his first name but they never did
My surname is Mucous
I worked with someone at an international company whose surname meant “shit” (verb) in my native language.
I wonder how names like that came to be in countries where the dominant language and the language of the name its in are the same
Who just names themself shit?
In this case the colleague was not from my country and not aware of the meaning his surname had here, but now that you mention it…
There have been cases of forced surname registration for cultures and populations that historically did not have them or who did not want to identify themselves, so these people chose silly names, either not realizing or not caring that they would become permanent.
I remember someone was on Forensic Files pretty often, they either had the last name “Dickgardender” or their name was “Dick Gardener”.
I know a man with the last name “Raper”
—Ya fuck ONE dog…then—
Had a classmate who had the surname Fucke. He took his wife’s name when he got married, as he was sick of the dumb jokes about his name.
I had asome soolmates with the last name Fuchs. Same kinda deal.
to segue, Asian company names can be great when they romanise them, “Pondscum Realty” in Cambodia. I have no idea what it was supposed to be in the original Khmer (Green Lakes or something like that perhaps ? ) but it always made me smile when i went past, this was a decade ago and I assume they used some shitty literal google translation.
Zahomo
I believe their first name was Clayton
Butt.
He was a customer and I was instructed to greet customers by last, not first, name.
I barely held in the laughter when **** Butt popped up on the screen.
Hiscock…pronounces hizzuck
There’s someone making TV shows (producer or director) with that name, so on some pretty famous shows like Parks n Rec the opening credits have Norm Hiscock.
Actually Olivia Wilde’s real last name is pronounced Coburn but spelled Cockburn.
Had a teacher called Mr. Dick.
Professor Cox, will you please join Mr. Dick tonight at the Brown Hall?
Adcock.
His first name was Daniel, and his email (typical company first initial last name @ company) was indeed unfortunate.
I used to work with a guy called Frank Yu.
Our company emails were first initial, last name…
A classic.
I worked with a guy named Paul Nessel whose email became PNESSE@company.com
“Van De Neuker” which translates as “from the fucker”. In ye olden days “De Neuker” was the man who went around with his male pig to impregnate the female pigs of other people.
As a prank or as a paid service? I’m looking for a new line of work.
As a side gig, paid, but not enough to live from it. And you really have to love your hog, treat it like a champ, compete in competitions with it, … If successful enough, people will be calling you to come fuck their pigs.
Gotta make my parents proud somehow.
Do ya?
Cockfield
