In the Navy, there was this woman with the last name Guzzler and she was a nuclear electronics technician, which meant that before hitting the rank of E-4 that she was a Seaman. She was Seaman Guzzler. The military is pretty misogynistic, and so even her superiors took joy in taking jabs at her as is the name Guzzler wasn’t bad enough by itself for a woman in the military.
I still feel bad for her to this day.
NASCAR racing legend, Dick Trickle.
He was a badass, though. Legend has it that he had a hole drilled in the face shield of his helmet so he could still light up a smoke while driving.
That story makes no sense. He always used half face helmets. Even when he had a full face, he smoked through the window of the helmet. Sounds like a story a tobacco sponsor would promote.
Trickle killed himself after suffering years of chest pain definitively not due to his smoking.
Barry Sheene had a hole in his Motorcycle helmet for smoking.
He died of eosophageal cancer. Cool.
That’s why I referred to the story as a “legend” (and it is a story that had been passed around for decades), not a fact that I can provide documentary proof of for a humorous internet comment.
They said UNfortuante
Kerr. Not unfortunate at all unless paired with his first name, which was Wang. Not even joking. It wasn’t a nickname, it was his actual name.
I knew a guy in highschool whose last name was Butt. Even more unfortunate that his first name was Harry.
Is that JKR
Had a guy I worked with named Butts, I was like, oh, its probably got some other pronunciation, so I said “Mr. Boots?”
He got VERY angry and shouted “ITS PRONOUNCED BUTTS” loud enough that other people in the office turned to look at us.
“Okay, buddy. Don’t lose your shit!”
Worked with a lady with the last name Hoare. (Not sure on the spelling, it’s been some time.) She was a very nice older woman from Australia, was always the first to make the joke.
Knew a guy whose last name was Crone and he was dating someone with the last name Hague.
Cox. Not so bad, unless your name is Richard. Dick Cox.
Yeah, so, why does Richard get abbreviated to Dick?
Some of these make me think of Mr. Smoke-too-much
You’d better cut down a little then
Butts. Had a plumbing company ironically. Butts Plumbing.
The classic ones are Dong. Grocery store I saw once had a the bulbs burn out partially. So when I passed it at night, it read Dong A 2 M (the arket lights where out). So nightly specials of dong, ass to mouth? Thought about writing a review but forgot where it was. “Great deals on food and groceries, but the nightly specials are something else.”
I once knew a guy called Wayne Triest, which translates to “cry sad” in Dutch
Funny, isnt tristesse french for sadness? Probably both derived from Latin or something
Ye, same root, quite some overlap between the languages
I know a guy with the surname of “Bator”.
He’s of course in my phone as “Master Bator”. He’s a good sport about all the jokes, luckily :)
In some countries, the young version of “Mister” is “Master”, and you even have to fill that out on your visa forms. So like… this guy’s visa could literally say “Master Bator Jim”.
I once met a guy by the name of Paul Sack. We were teenagers, and he was fortunately at peace with it.
There’s a politician named Richard Swett and he goes by Dick.
Laurens Nothdurft (AfD) (Notdurft is german for the urge to pee)
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.
