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Names of the People You Meet

Edgy DC Feb 09 2010 12:10 PM

I just called a sales rep named Jingle.

Benjamin Grimm Feb 09 2010 12:12 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

Jingo must have been a dog or a cat. Or maybe it was a chimp.

RealityChuck Feb 09 2010 01:35 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

My boss at one job was named James Joyce. His wife's first name was Joyce. She must have really loved him.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 09 2010 01:40 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

I went to school with a Jerry Lewis and a Michael Jordan. The latter was a fat white guy with a mullet.

Valadius Feb 09 2010 01:41 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

I once went to summer camp with a fellow named Mike Rauch. True story.

Frayed Knot Feb 09 2010 01:43 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

I knew a Jimmy Carter during the Jimmy Carter administration. Haven't met any Barack Obamas though.

themetfairy Feb 09 2010 01:45 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

My daughter's second grade teacher was Janet Jackson. My high school geometry teacher was J. Clifford Ruby. The J was for Jack.

Willets Point Feb 09 2010 01:50 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

When I had surgery 15 years ago, the anesthesiologist was named Dr. Hurt.

metirish Feb 09 2010 01:55 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

[quote="Willets Point":1hhqewcx]When I had surgery 15 years ago, the anesthesiologist was named Dr. Hurt.[/quote:1hhqewcx] Fuuny , Lorcan's anesthesiologist yesterday was a Dr. Hook.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 09 2010 01:57 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

My ex wrote for the Philly Daily News during college, during which I traded rounds of shots a few times after work at the Pen and Pencil Club with her colleague Mister Mann Frisby. Went to middle school with Erik D. Redd.

Swan Swan H Feb 09 2010 02:19 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

I used to play basketball with a Bill Bradley. He was way better than I was, but not that good.

Fman99 Feb 09 2010 02:24 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

I once had a supervisor named Dick Wood. My brother had a coworker named Dick Pounding.

metirish Feb 09 2010 02:27 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

[quote="Fman99":wl18et9y]I once had a supervisor named Dick Wood. My brother had a coworker named Dick Pounding.[/quote:wl18et9y] LOL.....not sure I believe you

soupcan Feb 09 2010 02:31 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

Fman will like this one - The gynecological practice my wife used to go to was Dr. Poke & Dr. Cherry. The sign out front said 'Poke & Cherry'.

G-Fafif Feb 09 2010 03:24 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

Covering a College Republicans rally for Reagan in 1984, I interviewed a student who shared the same name as one of Reagan's opponents from 1980, John Anderson. Like his namesake four years earlier, this Anderson was an independent. Also, I once came across a press release in which a guy from Sweden had a semi-colon in his last name. Subsequent checking proved this wasn't a typo.

Valadius Feb 09 2010 03:41 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

I went to high school with a girl named Julia Roberts. She was not amused by the annual jokes from teachers reading her name from the attendance sheet for the first time.

RealityChuck Feb 09 2010 04:16 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

[quote="metirish":2ibzi2ib][quote="Fman99":2ibzi2ib]I once had a supervisor named Dick Wood. My brother had a coworker named Dick Pounding.[/quote:2ibzi2ib] LOL.....not sure I believe you[/quote:2ibzi2ib]Why not? That was the name of a local news anchor in the 70s-90s.

Fman99 Feb 09 2010 04:29 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

It's really a nickname that has gone by the wayside. It's a generational thing... every Dick I ever met was born in the 1950s or 1960s (or earlier). I taught with a few Dicks back when I was teaching high school in the late 1990s. You just don't run into that many Dicks anymore. (Unless you're Lady Ga Ga OH SNAP!)

Frayed Knot Feb 09 2010 04:55 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

[quote="Valadius":2nto9874]I went to high school with a girl named Julia Roberts. She was not amused by the annual jokes from teachers reading her name from the attendance sheet for the first time.[/quote:2nto9874] If parents are doing stuff like this to kids after the fact they should be horse-whipped -- but there's not much you can do if you're going through life with a perfectly normal name until some athlete, actor, or politician with the same handle suddenly turns it into a punch-line. I mean - geez, me or one of my relatives could have innocently been named Jerry a bunch of years ago and SHIT!! what a pain in the ass THAT would have become.

Edgy DC Feb 09 2010 06:33 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

Yabbut, Jingle.

Valadius Feb 09 2010 07:03 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

Was it a first or last name, Edgy?

Rockin' Doc Feb 09 2010 08:30 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

Some of the names that I see during a week at work are unbelievable. I honestly don't know where people come up with them. I'll try to an take inventory of the unusaul ones I encounter this week and post them this weekend.

Chad Ochoseis Feb 09 2010 08:57 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

I knew Michael Hunt when I lived in St. Louis in the late 1980's. Nice guy. Don't call him Mike.

Edgy DC Feb 09 2010 08:58 PM Re: Names of the People You Meet

That's what I'm talking about. We've all had our pasts. But I thought it more fun to post some of these while they're happenin'.