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Post by Splattercat on Aug 1, 2006 23:55:22 GMT -5
Like the lunch scene in Reservoir Dogs:
EDIT: ....
Okay, if I left that as is, I'd have likely been banned...Try it out, just make sure you preview it.... ;D
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Post by Talison on Aug 2, 2006 0:59:34 GMT -5
My friend had a professor named Peter Parker. He never understood why everyone laughed when he introduced himself. Finally the class told him and he had next to zero knowledge as to who or what Spider-Man was. And this was like a year after the first movie (on top of the guy living long enough to become a professor).
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Post by Chris Ingersoll on Aug 2, 2006 8:19:30 GMT -5
My friend had a professor named Peter Parker. He never understood why everyone laughed when he introduced himself. Finally the class told him and he had next to zero knowledge as to who or what Spider-Man was. And this was like a year after the first movie (on top of the guy living long enough to become a professor). Those are the people I really have sympathy for. A perfectly fine name essentially tainted by a random decision completely outside their (parents') control. There's also the "accidently famous" factor. My wife's (maiden) name was exactly the same as that of an author of a popular niche book ( Geek Love, if anyone's heard of it), which caused her some confusion for a while. Googling your own name often yields interesting results. Give it a try if you haven't.  |
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Post by offspring515 on Aug 2, 2006 9:42:07 GMT -5
My real name belongs to both a karate black belt who sells lessons, and a real estate agent.
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Post by Trent Lawless on Aug 2, 2006 9:59:15 GMT -5
I have a friend named Mike Jones (who was there on the aforementioned "Richard Ball" night), who was called by numerous creditors while in college because another guy with his very common name at our school had written some bad checks. Fortunately nothing bad ever happened to his credit score.
Same basic deal with my wife before we got married, although Jennifer Dean might be slightly less common.
So maybe the people with the weird names do have some advantage, after all. I know Mike would agree.
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Post by Talison on Aug 2, 2006 18:58:09 GMT -5
I wasn't even thinking about this one. I have a buddy named Steve Jackson. We just went to Origins Con. Every place we stopped some gamer would go, "Are you thee Steve Jackson? I love GURPS, man."
So of course the rest of us encourage this since it drives him nuts. Sitting on the bus with some munchkin players and we were like, "Yeah, that Steve Jackson's one cool guy. Don't you think so, Steve?"
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Post by Darth Turkish on Aug 2, 2006 19:12:29 GMT -5
[quote author=admin board=suggestions thread=1154239456 post=1154524770 Googling your own name often yields interesting results. Give it a try if you haven't. [/quote] Google my name just bring up me and and the CotG board!  |
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Post by gwffantrav on Aug 2, 2006 21:05:13 GMT -5
My friend had a professor named Peter Parker. He never understood why everyone laughed when he introduced himself. Finally the class told him and he had next to zero knowledge as to who or what Spider-Man was. And this was like a year after the first movie (on top of the guy living long enough to become a professor). Sigh, that's why college is the biggest scam in the world. Those professor's live in the own little shell of a world with nothing on the outside allowed in |
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Post by Chris Ingersoll on Aug 3, 2006 8:30:54 GMT -5
I wasn't even thinking about this one. I have a buddy named Steve Jackson. We just went to Origins Con. Every place we stopped some gamer would go, "Are you thee Steve Jackson? I love GURPS, man." So of course the rest of us encourage this since it drives him nuts. Sitting on the bus with some munchkin players and we were like, "Yeah, that Steve Jackson's one cool guy. Don't you think so, Steve?" I actually played Munchkin for the first time last night. Although my all-time favorite SJG has to be the Toon! RPG. That's just messed up stuff. |
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Post by Werner Mueck on Aug 4, 2006 20:33:52 GMT -5
Had a friend in junior high named Steven Rogers. I can't remember if he knew what I meant when I asked about his mighty shield.
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Post by Matt on Aug 4, 2006 20:50:37 GMT -5
I used to work with a guy named Richard Simmons. ;D
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Post by gwffantrav on Aug 5, 2006 1:36:41 GMT -5
I used to work with a guy named Richard Simmons. ;D ewwwwwwww...poor guy!!! ;D |
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Post by Shon Maxx on Aug 5, 2006 8:31:53 GMT -5
Someone in one of my classes mentioned a family called the "Pickups." They named their daughter, "Chevy." Even my teacher had tears in her eyes.
Googled my name and came up with a bunch of English and Irish people (strange because I did some research and I'm supposed to be Sandinavian/Italian).
I worked with a Bob who was such a complete idiot, Bill Engval wouldn't even giving him a sign. After a while, we started calling the Tordica De Moron Cookies in my bakery, "Bob Cookies." I still do.
Take care,
Jay
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Post by Chewey on Aug 5, 2006 16:56:41 GMT -5
to add to the list of bad names... there's the somewhat common Vietnamese name for guys, Phuc. I believe it's pronounced "Puck," but that doesn't stop people from giggling every time they see it.
A couple of my friends in college had this girl who lived down the hall from them whose name was Anita Ho. Talk about parents who didn't love their children...
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Post by Darth Turkish on Aug 5, 2006 18:11:06 GMT -5
My brother had a teacher named Willian Ding
Kids used to call him Bill.
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Post by Werner Mueck on Aug 6, 2006 2:41:40 GMT -5
Speaking of an asian name (not sure whereabouts he was from), there was a kid in my junior high called Yung Cow, we'd call him "Calf" behind his back. He wasn't around long enough for any of us to get to know him though. For the little time he was there his name made neough of an impression on me for me to remember it now.
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Post by Splattercat on Aug 6, 2006 11:55:35 GMT -5
Kelly Hu (Scorpion King hottie, and also Lady Deathstrike in X-Men 2) once said in a interview that she was in a class in school with two other students named Wat and Wen...They were all friends and their teacher collectively called them "Hu Wat and Wen"... Okay, speaking of Kelly Hu, this is rather funny... In a 1999 interview with Stuff magazine, Hu reminisced about filming the movie Surf Ninjas:
"The very first time I ever did any stunt work was in Thailand on this wild movie — Surf Ninjas," 'Martial Law' star Kelly Hu recalled. "I was supposed to beat up this one guy by kicking him in the groin. I told him he should wear a cup, but he said, 'No! I tough! I stuntman.' Of course, I nailed him in the nuts. Everybody in the crew went, 'Ohhh!' He didn't get up." |
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Post by Pete Beck on Aug 6, 2006 13:20:14 GMT -5
okay...i was stationed with a guy once whose name was Ryan D!(k...so, since we call everyone by their rank and them name...this guy was known as Airman D!(k.
A great story about him...one night he challenged one of my friends to a drinking contest...well he lost and passed out in the hallway trying to get back into his dorm room. The standing rule of the dorm, at least among the Airmen was "Don't pass out in the hallway or you are fair game for whatever our twisted minds could think of!" We'll the next morning Airman D!(k was minus one eyebrow and our refrigerates were a whole lot more empty as everything that was going bad, well he was wearing it somewhere! You wouldn't believe how much trouble we got into for doing that. He was still legally drunk at 10:00a.m. the next day he had drank so much. My friend was drinking water pretty much all night in shot glasses while Airman D!(k was drinking vodka...he was young and learned a hard lesson from his peers, I don't ever remember him boasting about drinking ever again!
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Post by Darth Turkish on Aug 6, 2006 16:35:42 GMT -5
Oh, My!  I cannot believe I forgot I went to school with a Vincent Do. Kids especially, some of my friends, were pretty mean to him. |
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Post by Pete on Aug 7, 2006 0:42:17 GMT -5
Didn't go to school with him, but a few years ahead of me in high school there was a fellow by the name of Pat McRauch. His friends(?) called him "Spanky."
A dorm-mate in college was named Dustin Hoffman, in an apparent coincidence. A fellow bandmate there had the more unfortunately coincidental name of Timothy McVeigh (possibly McVay...either way I think I'd have started going by my middle name.)
Also once worked with a Michael Bolton, who now unfortunately has a double whammy of not only sharing his name with the singer but with people running up and wanting to throw Office Space quotes at him.
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IPPON!!
