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Working Title: Hugh Jass: From YKTTW
Indigo: I put all the ones the tropers themselves know from personal experience under Real Life, and the ones that are corroborated via links as Truth in Television.
- Oi — aren't we supposed to indicate here in the discussion page why big chunks of pages get deleted? Several lines have gotten yoinked without explanation. Saved below:
- This troper has known of several Mr. Heads, whose parents either hated them or lacked the forsight to avoid making their first name Richard.
tells us that both are more common than you'd hope expect.
- In secondary school one of my teachers claimed to have met a Lee King who worked on a canal lock.
- This troper once had a textbook written by a guy named Norman Conquest. Unfortunately, it was a chemistry book rather than a medieval history one.
- This troper works in a call center and encounters names like this on a regular basis:
- Sayonara.
- We have had a customer whose real name is Clark Kent.
- One whose name is Bobby Drake.
- One whose name is James Gordon.
- One whose name is Katie Power.
- This troper used to have a regular customer (well into his 90s, ten years ago) whose name was Ronald Macdonald. (I suggested that he could probably get a lot of money doing commercials for Burger King or Wendy's).
- Jack in the Box did several such ads during The Nineties, featuring ordinary people named "Ronald Mc Donald", "Jared", and "Wendy".
- In school, this troper actually has a kid in one of his classes named "Jack Dawe". (For those not in the know, a jackdaw is a type of bird.)
- This troper once met a girl at university called Rosanna Macleod, who had the misfortune to live in Watsonia. If you were to look at the Melbourne rail map, you would soon discover that Rosanna, Macleod and Watsonia are consecutive stations.
- This troper used to hang out with a Minh Tu Long, seriously.
- This troper's kid sister's first name is Kristal. My mother wanted to give her the middle name Claire. She's lucky I refused to let that stand.
- A woman this troper's mother worked with was named Venus Valentine, and was frequently mistaken for someone who worked in the Adult Film industry.
- This troper once knew a girl who's real name was Molly Polly Jolly. Her parents had let her older sisters name her.
- This troper knew a girl in high school who named her sons Starsky And Hutch.
- This troper knows of gynecologists named Dr. Koontz, Hyman Pleasure, and Seymour Weiner (that one should have been a urologist.)
- This troper knew a woman with the last name of Gardner. When she got married, she decided to hyphenate her last name. The man she married had the last name Hoose. Gardner-Hoose. "Garden hose." Oh boy...
- This troper's mother used to work with a woman who, when expecting, couldn't decide whether to name her offspring Wayne or Dwane. Her surname was Swane. Mercifully she remarried in the intervening time and new hubby persuaded her to name the child something less cringeworthy.
Ninjacrat: See Troper Tales. Indigo: O I C. Thanks for pointing that out :)
CodeMan38: In answer to this:
- The eponymous teacher from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei counts. Who names their kid "Despair"?
That's not actually his name; it's an unfortunate misreading of the kanji when written left-to-right.
fleb: Cutting this, because You Should Know This Already, but Yahoo News always deletes their articles after a month, so this thing is already useless.
- * A judge took a child from her parents and waived the need for her to be 18 to change her name because the parents had named her Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii.
Whitewings: Moon Unit One Zappa's name isn't Moon Unit. Her name is Moon. "Unit One" is a descriptor, referring to her being the first child.
Natter:
- Um... hello? Albus Severus?
- I took the "Severus" part to be the kid's middle name...doesn't entirely explain the old-style name, though.
- This troper is annoyed by people who insist on calling Albus Potter Albus Severus, despite the fact that he's only called that once (the other times just Albus or Al). Fortunately, I don't read much fanfic. I'd probably have apoplexy.
- Is it worse than Hermione or Ginerva?
- I'm pretty sure it's Ginevra, not Ginerva. As in,
weirdItalian version ofGenevaGuinevere. Given that her father's name is Arthur, this leads to some truly disturbing incest fanfic.
- I'm pretty sure it's Ginevra, not Ginerva. As in,
- No Harry Potter name is worse than Scorpius Malfoy. It sounds like something from an awful fan fic.
- I took the "Severus" part to be the kid's middle name...doesn't entirely explain the old-style name, though.
At least half of the examples on this page seem to be a case of In My Language, That Sounds Like.... Is this supposed to count? In that case it should be mentioned in the article.
A question on the page quote: How is 'Chester Snapdragon Mc Fisticuff' a bad name?
