The name game...

[pac201]

What could his parents possibly have been thinking...


Harry Baals served four terms as mayor in the 1930s and 1950s in Fort Wayne, about 120 miles northeast of Indianapolis. The issue now, decades later is the pronunciation of his name. The former mayor pronounced his last name "balls...

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[benseventeen]

Yeah I read that story too... He really needed to change his last name to Bales. Lol.

[mcsap]

Not much better than " Moon unit "

We have a local whose first name is " Cowhick ".

[FoodStampz]

When i was a kid we used to prank call this dude named harry sakrider.
I also know a guy named Harry Savage :P

[marinepilot]

Harry Baals ... pronounced his last name "balls...

My grandfather, who would be 97 this year, always told me he knew a guy named this, and he pronounced it that way too.

When i was a kid we used to prank call this dude named harry sakrider.
I also know a guy named Harry Savage :P

I know there's a "Sgt. Slaughter" on the board here, and I believe there was a wrestler by that name also? But I actually knew a Marine Sergeant when I was a Drill Instructor named "Slaughter"!! Imagine how his recruits loved that!!

[SANE-A30]

What could his parents possibly have been thinking...


Harry Baals served four terms as mayor in the 1930s and 1950s in Fort Wayne, about 120 miles northeast of Indianapolis. The issue now, decades later is the pronunciation of his name. The former mayor pronounced his last name "balls...

can't seem to get the link to work

OOh my .... I bet he displayed it proudly too I would request a name change STAT!...... my name is a common name but it is often mispelled b/c it is spelled different then all

[Curt581]

There's a woman that was featured in the local paper a couple years ago named "Marijuana Pepsi Sawyer". Even MSNBC picked it up. There's a bunch of good names in that article:

Marijuana Pepsi will see you now - TODAY People - TODAYshow.com

The clerks in the local DA's office made a list of odd-ball, but legal, given names of people they dealt with. Last I heard, it was three legal size pages, double column. Included:

Rotation Slim Sr.
Rotation Slim Jr.
Almighty God Jehovah
"Female" (pronounced Fah-Molly)
Snoopy Smith
Supreme Solar Allah and his brothers, Self Wise Allah and Universal Knowledge Allah.
(Supreme Solar worked as an operative for the John Kerry political campaign, and was busted a few years ago slashing tires of GOP vehicles)

[kazz]

Wife's got a 2nd cousin ~ Rose Lamb (Lamb being her married name)

I played sport with several boys of the Ennis family, one was Peter. The sport sheet listed him as P. Ennis.

I booked an Asian bloke called Ah Suk Cok who lived in Camp Rd . . . It was a great chuckle doing a licence check on him and hearing the operator reading it out then having 5-10 seconds silence when they twigged what just happened.

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[mcsap]

My Training Instructor in the USAF basic was Sgt Steele. 5 ft 8 in , 160 lbs , a voice that could cut through cinder block walls and she could make a dead carcass look beautiful.

[greg72982]

I booked an Asian bloke called Ah Suk Cok who lived in Camp Rd . . . It was a great chuckle doing a licence check on him and hearing the operator reading it out then having 5-10 seconds silence when they twigged what just happened.

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LMAO. These names are great.