My sister dated (and I worked with) Michael Hunt. Who did go by the name Mike.
I never considered the impact of both names together until I heard it as a joke later. Well I was 14-15 at the time.

And I knew a Richard Head through work - he was my contact in a local council. As far as I know, no-one knew him as Dick though.

I am quite happy to accept that there are plenty of parents like Mike's and Richard's who don't realise the combination of names might be amusing or ribald, especially where abbreviations are concerned.

We used to pay a dollar each time to have them page Mike Hunt at the Strawberry Festival each summer. We yukked it up! The paging fee was, I'm sure, to discourage such shenanigans. Good times.

We need a support group!

i really did go to school with Sherman and his sister Septa. And yes, their last name really was Tank. No Joke.

I also went to school with James Bond, Raquel Welch, John Carson, and Gerry Ford.

There was obviously something in the water the year we were born.

oh don't be silly. I particularly like the medical terms ones. I really personally did see an obit in the Ann Arbor News a few months back where the bereaved mother (of a young child :( ) was called Felony.

And there was a research fellow called Randy Dong in the Psych dept when I was doing my PhD. In the UK no-one uses the name Randy and it means only one thing....

But I'd still read their resumes. ;)

yep! In fact, if a resume crossed my desk for Randy Dong . . . well, let's just say I'd give it a thorough perusal.

eff that. they'd totally be disruptive and stuff.

yeah, and people would laugh at you for hiring them!

"Randy" is a pretty common name in the States, though. It's not automatically associated with randy meaning horny. Now, if there was someone named "Horny Dong" . . . (rolls eyes)

:)

There was a local band (a good band I liked to go see) named Who's Randy? Some locals didn't get it, and really wanted to guess which band member was named Randy. None of them were.

I do run across some fun ones on our insureds policies... Gay Shoemaker was one of my favorites. And today I saw someone with the last name Assmann.

He was Chinese, and they usually take "English" names when they come to study/research in the UK, but The Chinese Official List of English Names appears actually to be an American English list. Many of them pick Chuck, which is also not used much in the UK. Especially for girls ;)

I see some great names come across my computer/desk. However, I am forbidden by FERPA law to tell you them. :tinfoil:

I had a lot of engineering students called "Sukdeep". Beautiful intelligent, quiet young ladies. Common Indian name, apparently. Shame about the juvenile humor moments that overcame me when grading their papers. But I still graded them ;)

and then there are place names. Like Phucket, which gets me every time.

Actually it got a lot of people a couple Christmaseseses's ago. My sister was there when the Tsunami hit.