wangdaning
Tele-Meister
There was a doctor head in my hometown and his name was Richard
What’s in a name?
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We had a Dr Dick at the hospital, a gynecologist and deliverer of babies...
he named his daughter Ophelia..... true..
I wonder how she liked her name?
he named his daughter Ophelia..... true..
I wonder how she liked her name?
Billy3
Tele-Holic
Imagine being a patient getting ready for an examination, birth, or whatever and in comes a Dr named..... Pretty awkward.
Billy3
Tele-Holic
^^^"Paging Dr. Dick". Sounds like a porno movie.
MisterZ
Tele-Afflicted
There is a (possibly apocryphal story ) of the dentist in Buffalo named I. M. Paine, DDS.
My dad was going to name all his kids and all his dogs "Luke", so he could go out on the porch and holler out, "Luke!" and we'd all come running. I didn't like my name when I was growing up; it was hard for me to say and nobody else was named Luke. Now there are lots of Lukes, and I don't mind so much.
When I was in college, there were lots of people who didn't know my name was not Otis Fudpucker. I liked that name better than my real one.
Can you imagine that you're Charley Postlethwaite filling out the forms at the HMV to get your horse registered, and you're having to write out your name on all of the forms? Must be a drag, especially if you have to take the "I'm not a robot" test.
Warren Pederson
Friend of Leo's
I hate my name more than anyone could imagine
Why? Warren is a cool name methinks. Some of these names parents give their kids nowadays, basically made up names, are gonna stick with those poor kids for a lifetime. One lady some years back wanted to name her daughter Placenta because she heard the word while in the delivery room. Can you imagine? The staff cautioned her against that for the child’s sake.
Oh, my middle name is Radford. Wanna trade, Warren?
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Nifty keen!
Charlie Bernstein
Poster Extraordinaire
There are clinics that specialize in name reassignment.
Charlie Bernstein
Poster Extraordinaire
Yeah, when I was in high school, there were too many Charlies.
So a lot of us underwent name reassignment. I became Rosco. Charlie Pizzarelli became (inevitably) Pizzaface. Charlie Green of the big, shiny braces became Flash. Charlie Strang became Joe Rat.
Charlie Eddings stayed Charlie. He was a Golden Gloves, and no one messed with him.
oregomike
Tele-Afflicted
Jupiter is a really cool name. Want to trade? Mike is so meh.
I've got a first name that's way too common, and thus of limited use.
I was so enthralled when my first Music Teacher in second grade told me what a wonderful singing voice I had. And I really took it to heart. But thinking back, she called me by maybe 6 different, fairly similar sounding names to my own name. At different times - never got my name right once, that I can recall.
I didn't dawn on me until decades later - if the woman couldn't distinguish my name from these other names, how valid was her appreciation of my voice? No matter; too late for me to start disliking my singing voice.
Paine was a very prestigious last name, in Western New York as I recall. There's a Paine Avenue in North Tonawanda and probably a few more things named for this family.
My high school German teacher was "Frau Tietz."
I always wondered if she had a daughter named "Ophelia."
I always wondered if she had a daughter named "Ophelia."
Charlie Bernstein
Poster Extraordinaire
Worse: I knew a Richard Junior. When he was a kid, his dad was always Big Dick and he was always Little Dick.
As a grownup, he just called himself Dick. A few of us tried calling him Richard, but it never really took to it.
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