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PeonForHer -> Stupid Names (2/4/2011 11:10:00 AM)
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In the 'Corny Jokes' thread, RapierFugue observed, I think correctly, that a certain joke works better with one name rather than another.
It was this joke:
"A white horse walked into a bar and the barman said, "Hey, we've got a whisky named after you!' The horse said, 'What, Eric?'
"That joke's funnier if the name is "Colin", for some reason", RapierFugue commented, with that sprightly pompousness that all of us at CM have all come to know and love.
What is the silliest name that you've heard? I mean, everyone will probably agree that Maurice Micklewhite had to take the name 'Michael Caine' in order to get anywhere at all in the acting world. George Orwell, similarly, had to lose his birth-name of Eric Blair - and I need hardly mention poor John Wayne's given name at birth.
It may also be of interest to people to know that in the UK, there's something of a tradition to cite the works of a particular thinker in one's academic thesis, not because he/she said something useful, but just because of his/her stupid name. Hence, in one of my dissertations, I cited Ferdinand Pumpian-Mindlin (whose name still has me sniggering) and Barbara Holland-Cunz. (No umlaut. Pronounced the way it's spelt. Jesus, what a cross to bear.)
What's the silliest and most embarrassing name you've come across? No points for mentioning Ed Balls, who has a chance of being a future Prime Minister here in the UK.
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