Outstanding Names

[Statto]

4 hours ago, Gus Mears said:

.Dont'a Hightower is another particular favourite of mine from that area.

One of my favourite Bama players ever. Always liked Ha-Ha Clinton-Dix, too. (Ha-Ha is a nickname, though - real given name is Ha’sean).

Several of the college football sites out there do annual ‘all-name’ teams. Recent favourites have been Illinois State OL Kobe Buffalomeat, New Mexico State WR Q’ Drennan, Maryland Safety Qwuantrezz Knight and best of all, this fella:

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/lion-king-1.html

Edit: wonderous lists like this, with only incoming freshmen as a sample -

 

Edited August 24, 2018 by Statto
Lots of funny names.

[ReturnOfTheMack]

My other half had a teach called Mr Shaw-Twilly.

 

Staff Sgt Max Fightmaster is just amazing.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/reservists-called-up-or-on-notice/

 

[HarmonicGenerator]

I came across loads of excellent names trawling through records at work once. One of my favourites was Nathaniel Puncheon.

[Astro Hollywood]

There's a vicar round here called Reverend Spanners.

[Sonny Mustang]

Bought my car off a salesman called Duke Bigelow. So naturally, my car was named Duke in his honor.

[eugenespeed]

Names I've came across during my working career

Ramjam Delilah Funkyboogaloo-Smythe

Anna Key

and a Mr and Mrs Priest, who called their new born baby Jude. 

[wordsfromlee]

Can't forget the classic Tokyo Sexwale.

[HarmonicGenerator]

Came across another one at work yesterday that sounds like a swear-word-replacement from the 40s: Hilary Christmas!

[Surf Digby]

On 8/24/2018 at 3:54 PM, Sergio Mendacious said:

2 — My wife's friend's cousin had the first name Porntips.

Is she Thai? I used to work with a Thai girl called Porntip Muangkitti.

[Onyx2]

I was in a shop earlier and the name of a girl from the year above at school just sledded into me: Jolly Rumble. 

[Stunner]

Two footballing favourites of mine: Mustafa Tiryaki who bounces between the lower English and Turkish leagues, and Rameer Outlaw who used to pop up playing for Welsh sides.

I've also never forgotten an old Japanese player from the old CM01/02 days called Yoshiteru Yamashita.

[PJ Power]

A few spring to mind for me. A lad in the year above me at secondary school was called Noel Gallagher and given that this was the mid 1990s he became cool at the time wherever he liked it or not. At university the was another guy on my course called Michael Hunt who insisted that we just call him Michael, which was fair enough. Another one was when I was looking at a team sheet for a Hurling match and noticed that one of the midfield players was called Christopher Cross. For him & Mr. Hunt their parents must have either a twisted sense of humour, or were drunk when they got the birth registered.

Further afield, there is a Seychelles sprinter called Gaylord Silly who's represented them at world cross country and indoor track events. Then you have German downhill skier Fanny Chmelar (the same one that made Bradley Walsh lose himself for several minutes on The Chase a few years back), also retired Nigeria soccer player Nwankwo Kanu who had a spell in England where everyone just referred to him by his surname.

If you extend this from people's names to place names I can squeeze out a few more from Ireland at least, Bastardstown being one and perhaps the most well known being Muff, just outside Derry city into the Republic. I doubt anything will beat Fucking in Austria tho.

[Kaz Hayashi]

Someone I know works in certification.

Best name so far, Eric Forskin

 

[Devon Malcolm]

Apologies if she's already been mentioned but one of the candidates to be the next New York attorney general is called Zephyr Teachout.

[CleetusVanDamme]

This thread is Brent Rambo approved.