Surnames That You Would Rather Not Have.

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27 Aug 2016, 1:24 am

Crappy last names
Slaughter, Hogg, Pigg, Pigman (an insurance salesman in town), Lipschitz, Hooker, Schlitz, Trayler.


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27 Aug 2016, 1:28 am

naturalplastic wrote:
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I’m sure there are a few people with surnames like those in this village:

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Was gonna ask you what country that is. But I can see that it says "Austria" right in that string of data that ID's the thumbnail inside the quote bubble of this post.

Our F-word is supposed to be of ancient Germanic origin. So its interesting that the word crops in a place name of a German speaking country.

Nice people there. But they hate it when people keep stealing their sign. It's been replaced like 3times. It's named after Focke. Was extra funny when it had a speed caution placard that showed a boy and girl and it said "please, not so fast!" People would be flying on the Highway and this little back road led off the highway, so nobody would slow down.


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27 Aug 2016, 11:18 am

The_Dark_Citadel wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Spiderpig wrote:
I’m sure there are a few people with surnames like those in this village:

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Was gonna ask you what country that is. But I can see that it says "Austria" right in that string of data that ID's the thumbnail inside the quote bubble of this post.

Our F-word is supposed to be of ancient Germanic origin. So its interesting that the word crops in a place name of a German speaking country.

Nice people there. But they hate it when people keep stealing their sign. It's been replaced like 3times. It's named after Focke. Was extra funny when it had a speed caution placard that showed a boy and girl and it said "please, not so fast!" People would be flying on the Highway and this little back road led off the highway, so nobody would slow down.


Mustang Sally...better slow your mustang down... :lol:

Those poor villagers unintensionally independently invented the same kind of double entendre used by American blues and rocknroll artists.



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27 Aug 2016, 11:35 pm

i don't consider "flapdoodle" a particularly nice name.



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28 Aug 2016, 8:43 am

Hanzo. This is a historical and real name. I want that surname that I want because I am interested in counter terrorism



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25 Dec 2016, 5:17 am

While reading the credits for the SNES Bram Stoker's Dracula game, the Angry Video Game Nerd saw the name Fred Fuchs.



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25 Dec 2016, 7:52 am

auntblabby wrote:
i don't consider "flapdoodle" a particularly nice name.


You know of a "Mr. Flapdoodle"??????

If so he should join the "Organization of Americans of Humorous Descent" ( a fictional group of folks with funny surnames mentioned in a Firesign Theater sketch).



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25 Dec 2016, 11:20 am

I like my name, but it frustrates me to no end having to pronounce and spell it over and over to the same idiots who can't pronounce any name beyond "Smith" and "Jones."

Names I'd absolutely not want:

I go with the list of dictator names someone else posted. If I were Uzbekistani, I would get rid of the name Karimov in a hurry.

Names pronounced radically differently from the way they're spelled would also be names I'd change in a hurry. I wouldn't want a name as mundane as "Smith," but I would want one with a more sensible pronunciation. Spanish names are the most straightforward.



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25 Dec 2016, 12:54 pm

^ spanish names are indeed straightforward, as are italian, finnish, most names in languages that are orthographically transparent such as those.

the only exception i could think of is any name starting with "gui" like guille or guillermo, it's pronounced [gi] ("gee-yeh", "gee-yer-mo")

maybe one could say it as "gwi", and that would be understandable.

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While reading the credits for the SNES Bram Stoker's Dracula game, the Angry Video Game Nerd saw the name Fred Fuchs.


"Fuchs" are an interesting bunch.

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25 Dec 2016, 4:39 pm

Went to school with a kid with the last name "Dickman". It was pronounced "Dick-mun" but everyone quickly got to calling him "Dick-man"...

I've always found the name of Wang Computers funny and, credit to them, they're not afraid to play on it.


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25 Dec 2016, 4:50 pm

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Went to school with a kid with the last name "Dickman". It was pronounced "Dick-mun" but everyone quickly got to calling him "Dick-man"...
In the Underground Comedy Movie there is a superhero skit called the Adventures of Dickman :lol:


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25 Dec 2016, 5:50 pm

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25 Dec 2016, 5:54 pm

the student president for the high school graduating class right after mine had the last name of "babcock".


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25 Dec 2016, 6:00 pm

EclecticWarrior wrote:
Went to school with a kid with the last name "Dickman". It was pronounced "Dick-mun" but everyone quickly got to calling him "Dick-man"...

I've always found the name of Wang Computers funny and, credit to them, they're not afraid to play on it.


English (particularly American English) is so chock full of slang that its worse than a minefield. You cant take a step in any direction with setting off an explosion.

Some enterprising east Asian immigrant runs a car repair place in my town under his name: "Poon Auto".



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26 Dec 2016, 11:43 am

Any name pronounced radically differently from the way it's spelled. The weirdest name I've seen is an English one: Cholmondelay (pronounced "Chumley.")



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26 Dec 2016, 11:47 am

Actor Tim Allen's full name was Timothy Allen Dick.

Another unfortunate name from the political arena: Wiener!