SILLY NAMES.

January 30, 2004 by 10 Comments

All right, this isn’t exactly Nobel Prize material here, but what can I say, I’m a sucker for this brand of dumb humor: Beautiful Stuff has posted a Ridiculously Large List of Silly Names, with links to still more silly names at the bottom of the page. (I search in vain, however, for Claude Balls, author of The Tiger’s Revenge.)

Comments

  1. commonbeauty says
    January 30, 2004 at 6:59 pm

    Walter Walcarpet…
    heh heh.

  2. zizka says
    January 31, 2004 at 12:10 am

    Oral Vest, here in Portland.

  3. Marco says
    January 31, 2004 at 12:38 am

    Lived quite close to a certain C. Wright, Optician.

  4. Blinger says
    January 31, 2004 at 5:33 am

    One of my Korean students chose her English name as Easy. To top it off, she is really hot! When I finally got around to telling her the connotations of her name, she turned every shade of red under the book.
    Can’t have your students travelling to Canada with an English name of Easy.

  5. Amanda says
    February 1, 2004 at 12:51 am

    Hee. I always wanted to change my last name to “Reckonwith.”

  6. language hat says
    February 1, 2004 at 8:58 am

    Ha!

  7. Going Dotty in Kansas says
    February 2, 2004 at 4:56 pm

    I got a laugh this past holiday season when my sister opened the local phone book (Cape Cod) and discovered both “Al Cohol” and “C. Breeze”.

  8. JayJ says
    February 4, 2004 at 2:09 am

    i went to a performance of “la gran scena opera company” here in DC a few years ago and now remember the “great hungarian tenor” in the cast: fyodor szedan! hahaha!

  9. Marco says
    February 4, 2004 at 2:20 am

    Laze ‘n gem, we has a winnaugh.
    *Snork!*

  10. languagehat says
    November 9, 2024 at 10:20 am

    fyodor szedan! hahaha!

    A couple of decades later: so that no one else will have to waste brain cells figuring this out (as I did), it’s “four-door sedan.”

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