Life in plastic, it's fantastic.

[EricKei]

I can't really match any of those -- the closest I have is that my mom (original last name: Martini) was introduced to my dad by a lady whose last name was Champagne.

so the nickname would be Hammy.

That's just asking for the kid to get picked on/beat up at school. Did this person not remember what school kids are like?!?

[Teefies2]

The woman who did the flowers at my wedding was named Tonie (last name). A year later, she got married, to a man who was named (first name) Tony. So she became Tonie Tony. I kid you not!

It's one thing if you're stuck with the name your parents gave you, but to deliberately do something like that? I would've kept my maiden name

[pitmonkey]

I know some one named Kraut and his son's name is Kermit.

[Racket_Man]

I have another cousin who would have been named Hamish if she had been a boy, .

And he would have won the 50th Annual Hunger Games

[wolfie]

One day one of the contract transcriptionists called me up and told me, "I don't understand this. I keep hearing 'Colonel Klink' in this report." Actually, it was correct. Colonel Klink at our hospital was a plastic surgeon.

Did his assistant know nothing, Nothing, NOTHING?

My doctor at that time was Doctor Richard (Dick) Turpin.

If he had been in the U.S. rather than a country with publcly-funded healthcare, would his fees have been considered highway robbery?

[HotelMinion]

Urgh curse you for getting that ear worm in my ear. -_-
we have to see ID and I've seen Bruce Wayne, Peter Parker, Harry Osborn, Micheal Jackson, Brad Pitt, they were all just customers with well known names. I remember I even saw a Barb Bee. Some names just have only one letter, like T. No it wasn't an initial.
But I was most surprised by someone with my own name! My real name is very uncommon (all thru school I never met anyone with it) , so to have both first and last names the same...wow.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Years ago, there was a candidate for local elected office named Paul Nus.

Wisely, he went by his first name, not his first initial.

[gerund]

SC: Ken D-A-H-L

Riiiiight. If this is a legit name, I feel sorry for Ken.

It is. Wikipedia.

[Mr Hero]

No one's doubting the legitimacy of the last name. But when you have two non-guests walk into the lobby saying they're visiting a friend (heard this a million times) and you start to doubt the legitimacy of the name of their friend. Not surprisingly, most of these non-guests don't even know the name of their friend. But in this case, it seemed like they were pulling the name out of their ass, and not even trying to sound believable.

[Sliceanddice]

Erickai they were really big baby blues fans. My biggest thing is this was my uncle Hyrum's kids. They were really close to going full dugger on us.

[protege]

It could always be worse. I know a guy named Richard Small...who for some reason...prefers to be called Dick. Let that sink in for a bit

[csquared]

Ken Dahl is the main character in Air Force Blues http://farvatoons.com/

[Javarod]

My mom had a friend years ago, who gave birth to a boy. When asked what name she'd chosen for him, she said Jesse. The problem? Her last name was James.

[EricKei]

AFB is back? Sweet! I could have sworn he had gone on indefinite hiatus shore leave. Seems I have some binging to do.

[LesserSouthernFroglet]

In Cairns, North Queensland there were two doctors in the one building. One was a urologist called "Doctor Splatt" and the other a gynecologist called "Doctor Curette"

I wonder if that Dr Splatt is related to the old Dr Splatt that was also a urologist in Brisbane a few years back. He shared rooms with a Dr Spork...

The big northside hospital also had a Dr Death (pronounced Dee-ath) and a Sister Slaughter. We also had a Dr Hack, a general surgeon, who lived up to that name fairly well.

One of the ol' gals that I worked with there remembered a family she knew. The Downes family. Eileen, Ben and Stan. You see, we often had patients with really odd names, and she mentioned them after we had some particularly egregious names coming through.