Life in plastic, it's fantastic.

[Mr Hero]

About 10 minutes ago, a couple of people walk into the lobby and say they're here to pick up a friend.

Me: What's your friend's name?
SC: Ken D-A-H-L

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

[Monterey Jack]

Never heard of Roald, I take it...?

[Mr Hero]

I don't doubt Dahl is a legitimate last name. I doubt the legitimacy of the full name.

[NecessaryCatharsis]

Or the foresight of the parents choosing it.

[Sliceanddice]

I don't doubt Dahl is a legitimate last name. I doubt the legitimacy of the full name.

Ahhh Mr.hero, you have little experience with pregnant women or family tradition. I have a cousin named Logan Berry, because my aunt thought it would be cute to have a little loganberry. And his brother and sisters are lucky she didn't think of naming a child blue, goose, lingan, straw or cran. I have another cousin who would have been named Hamish if she had been a boy, so the nickname would be Hammy. She wound up a girl and since they couldn't find a H name they liked that wasn't taken (they liked holly but it's meimei's name so they didn't use it) so they named her Laycey. He older sister and brother's names are Hayley and Hayden. Parents do this stuff.

[taxguykarl]

Back in my university days, I knew a lady named Krystal Ball. Upon introducing herself she would always add: My parents have an odd sense of humor.

[smfrazier]

I knew someone named Candy Barr.

[Swordsman422]

Some of my friends went to high school with the brothers Couch. Dusty Blue and Rusty Red.

I also had a cousin whose best friend growing up was Christina Noel Christmas, and she had a sister name Mary. To prove to me that the world is the size of a marble, my best friend graduated college with Christina Noel, who is all the way from the other end of the state.

[icmedia]

I went to middle school with a girl named Tara Highman. We used to tease he and ask if she has a brother named Buster.

[Marmalady]

When my father was at school, he sat next to a girl called Olive Hoyle.

And when I used to prepare insurance renewal notices, among the more memorable names were Sydney Harbour, Arthur Pounder and Ralph Sitch. The last one doesn't seem funny, until you try it with just the guy's initial instead of his full first name....

[nutraxfornerves]

I had a friend in high school whose last name was Groth, rhymes with oath. She had a great grandfather named Harry.

[WishfulSpirit]

I know of a woman with the last name Tush. Her parents named her Wendy. Oy. Then there are the profession ones. My dad's uroligist is Dr Peter Standard. I also know of a doctor Linda Mental (psychologist) and James Shorts (PE teacher).

[Sparklyturtle]

When I worked at the military hospital years ago there were six doctors named Anderson.

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.

[gerund]

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"

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

[KuariKaydrith]

I knew a gentleman whose last name was Love - he was a gospel singer. And he had a brother who was a gynecologist...Dr. Ernest Love. I damn near pissed myself laughing when I heard that name!