<p>Speaking of Longest, Dick, a great restaurant in DC’s Chinatown is Big Wong.</p>
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<p>Wait a minute, isn’t this the name of a character in High School Musical!?</p>
<p>James C. Toothacher.</p>
<p>He was my orthodontist.</p>
<p>No kidding.</p>
<p>S went to elementary school with a girl named Rainbow and a boy named Tomorra. </p>
<p>When I worked in the hopsital, a woman named her newborn son Brain (on the birth certificate) but called him Brian.</p>
<p>I had a classmate in college who swore her mother’s name was Immaculate Conception.</p>
<p>One of my former students was named Summer Flowers. I guess her parents thought they were being cute! </p>
<p>My mother had a student named Placenta. The girl’s parents - who were native speakers of English, by the way - did not know what the word means.</p>
<p>There’s a funeral home in my area named Swindler. I have to wonder if their business has ever suffered for the name.</p>
<p>I’ve run across several imaginative names such as William Williams and John Johns. Can’t these parents think of a name that’s different from their surname?</p>
<p>How could I have forgotten my junior high classmate Madonna LaDonna?</p>
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She didn’t come across it while, say, giving birth? :eek:</p>
<p>Have had lots of students with interesting names, but my favorite from about twenty years ago still is “Venuslily”. She looked like a Venuslily, too.</p>
<p>Recently met a girl named “Endless.”</p>
<p>D has a classmate named Cricket. She’s incredibly tiny too.</p>
<p>Brother has good friend named Richard Long. Goes by Dick, of course, and when he introduces himself (at least to my bro he did), he says the name and adds, “and it is!”</p>
<p>D had a dr at one time whose name was Harold Dick.</p>
<p>I went to college with a guy named Happy Dong. He eventually changed his name!</p>
<p>Corranged, too funny! I posted on another thread that my mom had a patient named Urethra. This was back in the 50’s. The nurses asked her mom how she happened to choose that name for her daughter & she told them she had heard it while she was in the hospital and liked the sound of it. So maybe that IS where Placenta’s parents came up with the name! :)</p>
<p>Yup. I saw your post and was going to comment on that one, too. I don’t think I did because I didn’t want the only “name” posts I commented on to be for STD names, Placenta, AND Urethra. I guess it’s clear which types of names I find the most amusing!</p>
<p>I had a patient about 10 years ago named Harry Ball. The nurse giving me report said that his mother must not have liked him very much and I gave her a “huh” look. That’s when she told me his name.</p>
<p>Heh. I like that one, too, Stowmom.</p>
<p>Didn’t William Williams sign the Declaration of Independence?</p>
<p>Oh, and my friend’s mom used to tell the story of a nurse friend of hers who knew of an “African American” woman who named her daughter Placenta. Supposedly while giving birth she heard the term used and liked it. Actually, she was a raving racist and thought the story was HILARIOUS and told it to everyone who would listen. I put the “AA” in quotes because I don’t and never did believe it was true. Just another racist trying to promulgate their swill…</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp[/url]”>http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp</a></p>
<p>These are absolutely hilarious. </p>
<p>I used to work with someone named Richard Shaw. He went by “Rick Shaw”</p>
<p>Also a colleague had a sister named Crystal. Last name Clear.</p>
<p>I knew a high school aged girl named LaPrincess</p>
<p>A friend of mine once knew a doctor named Priti Prittikitti.</p>
<p>My dentist when i was growing up was the unfortunately-named Dr. Boozer.</p>
<p>any one else watch Romper Room and hope week after week Miss Whomever would say your name through the mirror???</p>
<p>sigh, I never heard my name…made me sad…</p>
<p>oh yeah, I have 8 names…don’t ask</p>
<p>Another name for the “truth is stranger than fiction” list, my wife’s high school class mate: Akin Crapps</p>