If you want some inside dope for next year’s Name Of The Year contest, you could do worse than to have a look at this list of very amusing names over at Futility Closet.
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You May Remember Her Brother, Fahrt Chmelar
Fanny Chmelar is a German Alpine skier who competed in the 2010 Winter Olympics and is a World Cup competitor. Watch this British game show host lose his shit when he says her name out loud:
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Is There A Mr. Pididdiot Here? A Mr. Stu Pididdiot?
NYT writer and blogger John Tierney recently staged a contest for people to submit the Worst Bad Name, and today he announced the “winner”: a lady from Cleveland named Iona Knipl.
(Well, the actual winner is the reader who sent in the winning submission, but you get the idea)
The real amusement comes from the comments, where people felt obliged to chime in with dozens of punny names. Though people sometimes claim to know people with these names, more often than not these are the sort of “FOAF” urban legend things that the folks at Snopes spend a great deal of time debunking. Among the so-called “real, I *SWEAR*” names are such classics as Lemonjello and Orangello, “Anna Rexik”, “Dick Hurtz” and so on. At this point it’s hard to believe that anyone really thinks someone named their kid “Dick Hurtz”, but, then, most Americans still believe Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11, so what do I know?
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My NEW New Favorite Name
Not too long ago I posted about discovering a new favorite name: Happyton Bonyongwe.
But Happyton has been supplanted as my favorite by this doozy of a monicker: Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov
Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, or “Gurby” as I like to call him, is the new president of Turkmenistan and the successor of Turkmenbashi himself, Saparmurat Niyazov. Gurby has already restored the glory of opera to the long-suffering Turkmen people, which puts him head and shoulders above the cruel and vicious Happyton Bonyongwe in my book. No word if he’s changed the calendars back, though.
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But It’s Pronounced “Throat Warbler-Mangrove”
A staple of humor magazines everywhere has always been the weddings and engagements postings in local newspapers. In fact, I think Jay Leno does this bit at least once a month on “The Tonight Show”. Here are some recent examples from a blog usually devoted to Linux.