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Names for Pranks (Page them at the airport
etc.)
- Dick Hertz
- Hugh Janis
- Jack Meauf
- Mike Hawk
- Mike Hunt
Funny Abbreviations
- A friend of mine was taking an applied statistics course at NC State.
It appeared in the university course listing as "STS: Applied Multi Anal."
- ECU course listing, Fall, 2000: ITEC 6112 Anal Stud
Names that correlate amusingly with their
occupation or field of study
- Baker, Robin. (1984). Bird navigation: the solution of a
mystery? Meier. ISBN 0-8418-0846-6.
- David Cheatem, Sales Representative, Scott, Foresman, and Company
- Dininny, D. H. (Ohio U.). A psychoacoustic study of difference
limens for white noise stimuli. Diss. abstr. intn, 1970 3(3-B) 1584.
- Dr. Dick Seed -- Driving home late last night I was hoping I'd
get a reply, as I realized I forgot the best one. A discussion
list I'm on had a thread about a doctor (physicist, I believe) that had claimed
he could clone humans. Fellow by the name of Richard Seed. Yep,
Dr. Dick Seed,
cloning folks :) From: "A.j. Effin ReznoR" <spork@exo.com>
- Dr. Kevin DeCock -- Associated Press report (Feb 1, 1999) about
identifying the cause of human AIDS as spread from chimps. The chief AIDS
expert at the US Centres for Disease
Control and Prevention was named... Dr. Kevin DeCock
- Dr. Robert L. Capps, dentist (ad in Greenville, NC, Daily Reflector)
- Dr. Stephen Stream -- Several years ago the bulletin put out by our local HMO announcing the new
Urologist on staff.: Dr. Stephen Stream
From: Jack Shea
<jshumor@BERK.COM> -- Perhaps NASCAR driver
Dick Trickle should visit
this urologist.
- Edward Fugger -- It's described in a article in Time, September 21,
1998 (and published in _Human Reproduction_, although I don't have the
reference.) It doesn't use centrifugation. Instead, each sperm is labeled with a
fluorescent dye (blue for boy sperm, pink for girl sperm?). Because X's have
more genetic material (just a bit!) they glow more under laser light. That's
enough for an automatic sorting machine, which sends the boy sperm to one
test-tube and the girl sperm to the other. The researcher, Edward Fugger, claims
85% success for girls, 65% for boys. (Is it just my imagination, or is "fug" a
euphemism for you-know-what?).
From: Stephen Black <sblack@ubishops.ca>
- Harry Faggart -- Defense attorney for a reverend accused of touching
an undercover vice officer's genitals: (East Carolinian, 10. Sept. 87).
- "Hyman's comparative vertebrate anatomy."
- Johnson, O. W. Chapter on "Urinary Organs" in A. S. King & J.
McLelland, "Form and function in birds," 1980, ISBN 0-12-407501-0.
- Kurt Busse -- studied how the posterior of female baboons swells and
turns bright colors when they go into heat. In colloquial German the vulgar word
for vagina is "Buesi" (literally, a little cat), which sounds quite similar to "Busse."
I must confess that when I told him this years ago his face turned the same
color as the posterior of the baboons he studied.
- Linda Weiner & Billie Wright Dzeich -- Women cited in article on
sexual harassment on campus (article appeared in ECU student newspaper, just
below a picture with the caption "Pee Dee Gets Down")
- Linwood OUTLAW -- Grifton, NC, Police Chief (Daily Reflector)
- Lust and Bartholow (2009) used a visual oddball task in which pictures
of condoms and alcoholic beverages from the IAPS were infrequently occurring
stimuli among neutral, positive, and negative context images.
- Packer and Pusey -- Authors of article on reproductive behavior in
lions (Animal Behavior, vol 31).
- P. E. Lake Chapter on "Male Genital Organs" in the second volume
of the "Form and function in birds" set.
- Pound, N -- studied sperm competition in humans. One response of
men to suspected sperm competition is to "thrust the penis more deeply and
quickly ..."
- Virginia Satir, conducted workshop on "Practical Application of
Intimate Relationship Skills." (ad in APA Monitor).
- William G. Eberhard (souns like "ever hard") -- had an article in
American Scientist about the evolution of penises as "internal courtship
devices." In German, 'Eber' is a boar, 'hart' is hard or tough, "Eberhart" might
be a wild boar?
- There was actually a paper published in 1975 by Casler called "Put the blame
on name". Some of his examples were :
- Zipper (researching into contraception)
-
Cockburn (researching into infectious diseases)
- Mumpower (researching into parental pressure on school performance)
-
Albino (researching into rats)
- Fish (researching......fish!)
[From: MGRIFFITHS <M.Griffiths@plymouth.ac.uk>]
Other Funny Names
- Anema, John -- In the Greenville (NC) phone book. I also found a
urologist in Grand Rapids (MI) with the same name.
- Dick Bush -- Statistical consultant who once worked here at ECU
- Dick Hymen -- Friend of a friend,
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=799055137
- Dick RubRight --
real estate
broker in Texas
- Harder, P., and C. Kock (1976). The theory of presupposition failure.
Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag.
- Ivana Mandic
-- Female basketball player for the Charlotte 49'ers
- Marilyn vos Savant is a rather appropriate name for someone who is
supposed to have the highest IQ in the world, according to the Guinness Book of
Records.
Stephen Black <sblack@ubishops.ca>
- Millicent Ficken edits the TITS hardcopy newsletter. "Ficken" is a
vulgar German word for "copulate."
- Peedin, John -- My daughter Lotus showed me this name.
- Richard Hardick -- My daughter, Lotus, found this one for me, while
doing research for a paper on Mike Tyson (for her forensic psychology class):
Richard Hardick: person who filed assault charges against Mike Tyson, alleging
that Tyson kicked him in the groin after an auto accident. Source: web page of
the Las Vegas Sun.
- Shit Fun Chew -- a professor at Nanyang Technological University in
Singapore -- my brother pointed me to her web page, which is no longer up.
- Strangia-Hale -- My graduate student, Michelle Hale, told me
that she had discussed with her husband the possibility of giving their children
a hyphenated last name. Michelle's maiden name is Strangia. She said she just
stopped the discussion when her hubby pointed out that their children would be
"strange as hell."
- Titnet, "the electronic mail organ of The International Tit Society"
(TITS), discussed in the ABSnet Email Newsletter, Oct. 26, 1993.
- Urethra Jones -- graduate of
St. Francis High School, Mountain View, CA, 1988.
- Karl Wuensch ("Wuensch" being German for "wish" or "desire") --
Doesn't seem to provide any amusement regarding my research, but has caused my
spouse some grief back home (she is Swiss-German), where the men have been known
to tease by asking, " And just what do you desire, Mrs. Desire?"
- Copied from Ann Lander's Column: DEAR Ann Landers: I'm a cemetery buff
and spend many hours every week trudging through the cemeteries of Los Angeles
County in search of odd names. During my many treks, I have run across
scores of offbeat names, including: Early Byrd, Watts D. Matter,
Skinny Lasagna, Elda Berry and Anna Lovely Day. With
all due respect to the deceased, I smile when I run across amusing names on
grave markers and wonder if the people who had to live with those names enjoyed
them or felt cursed. It's often said that a person is never dead till he or she
is forgotten, so a lot of these folks with strange names are destined to live
forever. -- R.H. in Los Angeles --
Dear R.H.: Your letter reminded me of a well-known family in Houston whose name
was Hogg. They named their daughter Ima. This is no joke. It
actually happened. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction. And funnier, too.
From: "Ken Brousseau Sr." <kenbruso@IO.COM>
- Ana's default userid, anal, reminds me of the abbreviation the
university used for one of my courses. The course was titled Design and
Analysis, but they abbreviated it "Design Anal." Another department had
a course which was abbreviated something like "Group Orgasm."
- In the <state agency's> files are a "Western Bunns" and the other day,
when I was file-searching I came across a "Heavenly Ray."
Funny German Names
Germans Stick With Unflattering Surnames
BONN, Germany (Reuter) -- Thousands of Germans are keeping unfortunate surnames
such as Kotz (Vomit), Moerder (Murder), Brathuhn (Roast chicken) and even
Hitler, even though they could legally change them, a magazine reported Sunday.
The German phonebook lists hundreds of people with the surname Faul (Lazy), Fett
(Fat), Dreckmann (Filth-man), Dumm (Stupid) and Schwein (Pig), the weekly Focus
magazine said in an advance release ahead of publication Monday.
Unflatteringly named Germans said that they mainly had problems with their names
as children and that later in life they had decided not to bow to social
pressure to change them.
"Why should I have a different name from my father and grandfather?" said one
Herr Schwein.
Copyright 1997 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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*" But Alice is not a German name." he said.
"Well there were twelve in the family and when my father saw me , he said: 'Das
ist Alles.'" she replied. *
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Funny Userids
Here at ECU we used to have mainframe userids that were a two letter prefix
(indicating the user's department) followed by e's last name, often truncated.
Sometimes these came out funny also. Here are some actual userids here:
ASSTRICK, ARSExaue, GRAYCOCK, MUTAIT, POBLACKS,
UGLEE.
Funny Email Addresses
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