A Wee Joke...

[timn8er]

Years ago as a teen I worked construction. I had a foreman that was not the nicest guy around, named Richard. He, for some reason, insisted on being called Dick. I have to admit I took a perverse pleasure in leaning out of an upper story window & shouting his name when I needed to ask him something. It was fun to watch all the people spin around to see who was being called!

 

[Kensterfly]

There was a Judge Hogg in Texas who named his daughter Ima. The rumor that there was another daughter named Ura is not true. Miss Hogg went on to become a very well known socialite and contributror to many cultural causes.

(My personal feeling is that Judge Hogg should have been horsewhipped).

James Stephen Hogg was Governor of Texas in the 1890s. Miss Ima is revered in Texas and especially in Houston, for her philanthropy. A very unfortunate name for a great lady.

 

[mike from st pete]

I went to school with Theodore 'Teddy' and Panda Bear.

 

[durango]

My aunt taught inner-city school in Riverside, CA for thirty years. Among the many misnomered youths she encountered, the most memorable were the twin children she had one year, a boy who's name was pronounced "Mah-le" and his sister's, "Fa-mah-le"...


spelled, Male and Female, respectively.

 

[Odinkar]

I worked for a security company with a guy named John Dillinger and worked at a police department with a guy nameded Batman. My daughter is named Remington and tells everyone "Dad named me after a gun!"