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
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!”
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.
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?
Is that JKR
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.”
“Van De Neuker” which translates as “from the fucker”. In ye olden days “De Neuker” was the man who went around with his male pig to impregnate the female pigs of other people.
As a prank or as a paid service? I’m looking for a new line of work.
As a side gig, paid, but not enough to live from it. And you really have to love your hog, treat it like a champ, compete in competitions with it, … If successful enough, people will be calling you to come fuck their pigs.
Gotta make my parents proud somehow.
Do ya?
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”.
Laurens Nothdurft (AfD) (Notdurft is german for the urge to pee)
Had a teacher called Mr. Dick.
Professor Cox, will you please join Mr. Dick tonight at the Brown Hall?
Some of these make me think of Mr. Smoke-too-much
You’d better cut down a little then
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.
