The Cellar » Unfortunate names

monster · 10/20/2020 9:08 am

In my local news this morning, a teeny tiny park is being renamed after Mr. Krapohl. I cringed as much as I used to seeing all the signs at election time until I read on. Fortunately it seems the bureaucracy wasn't blind and they will be using his first name.

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2020/10/he-exemplified-service-ann-arbor-renames-park-in-honor-of-graydon-krapohl.html

lumberjim · 10/20/2020 9:32 am

we have a repeat customer named Luce Colon. yup .. she goes by Maria. nice lady

monster · 10/20/2020 9:46 am

you keep selling her lemons?

lumberjim · 10/20/2020 11:31 am

nah, she leases ... so every 3 years or so

DanaC · 10/20/2020 1:38 pm

I have recently been dealing with an escape of water claim for a policyholder by the name of Flood.

* I have never come across this surname but in the time I have been in this job Ihave encountered it several times.

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monster · 1/03/2022 10:38 pm

Facebook just suggested a friend for me.... I do know her (vaguely) but only by her married name. This expansion (or not) is.... unfortunate?...

Flint · 1/04/2022 5:39 pm

Julia Gulia

monster · 1/14/2022 12:03 am

Kila Peeples Read the story -it makes it better/worse/more unfortunate

Flint · 1/14/2022 4:34 pm

I'm in ur base Kila'ing ur Peeples

"im in ur base killin ur d00dz"

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Carruthers · 1/18/2022 5:19 am

A Royal Navy sailor has been locked up after stealing specialist diver watches used by elite SBS commandos and selling them for hundreds of pounds on eBay.

Able Seaman Joshua Cheetham stole a series of the high specification gadgets, which operate at underwater depths of 300 metres, while working as a storeman on warship HMS Kent.

Nominative determinism at its best.

LINK

griff · 1/18/2022 7:10 am

Learned Hand is a favorite for Nominative Determinism. He used to summer in the town we're moving to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_Hand

xoxoxoBruce · 1/18/2022 7:11 pm

When his mother became pregnant with him I guess his father had a hand in it.

I see myself out.

monster · 5/05/2022 9:44 pm

Oh dear.

When my niece was born and named Orla, beest (among others) pointed out that might be a tough name to take through high school. It only took a couple of years before I accidentally transposed the last two letters when chatting with my sister online. I was sharply corrected.

this week I may have encountered a real person called Oral. Fortunately not face to face. Also, their middle name could have been Dee. More unfortunately, I am now in a more professional setting where I can't enjoy such things so openly. I've heard you can bust vertebrae holding in sneezes and such. I was a little worried for my safety, but all seems well, although my lower back is more crunchy than normal.

griff · 5/06/2022 6:32 am

I feel your pain.

glatt · 5/06/2022 2:19 pm

I know an Oral. Decent enough guy, but he got fired for using a company credit card incorrectly.

TheNeverWas · 5/06/2022 7:18 pm

I know a chick that knows Oral.

monster · 5/06/2022 10:17 pm

TheNeverWas wrote:
I know a chick that knows Oral.

:D lolled f'real

TheNeverWas · 5/15/2022 7:30 pm

In today's Notable Deaths over at Wikipedia there two unfortunate names:

Claude Peter & Bernard Bigot

And yesterday I came across the name Dick Bong.

Major Dick Bong was America's top flying ace of WWII. He shot down 40 Japanese aircraft with the P-38 Lightning.

...has several commemorative monuments named in his honor around the world, including an airport, two bridges, a theater, a veterans historical center, a recreation area, a neighborhood terrace, and several avenues and streets, including the street leading to the National Museum of the United States Air Force in [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton,_Ohio]Dayton, Ohio[/url].

Apparently WWII Japanese fighter pilots didn't know how hit a Bong.

TheNeverWas · 5/24/2022 11:49 am

In a small town in Tennessee, Greenbrier, I think, there is a realtor with the somewhat enviable (maybe not) name of Herb Lord.

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monster · 5/24/2022 9:16 pm

Herb Lord of Greenbrier.

a house is not what I'd be looking to buy from you, sir.

monster · 6/08/2022 10:30 pm

Odbert. A first name. sorry, dude...

monster · 7/21/2022 10:22 pm

Fannie Pate