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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

775.0. "Fun Pun Names" by PNEUMA::WILSON () Wed Feb 14 1990 17:18

    Ray D. Aider
    Freida Slaves
    Justin Case
    Amanda B. Reckonedwith
    Trudy Ages
    
    
    (NOTE: I have seen note 29. I think this is different. Pure fun pun
    names you make up. Moderator, if you feel this is wretched excess, I
    won't feel offended.)
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775.1COOKIE::DEVINEBob Devine, CXNWed Feb 14 1990 18:493
    Annie Histamine
    Pat Pending
    
775.2a few ...LESCOM::KALLISPumpkins -- Nature's greatest gift.Wed Feb 14 1990 21:3017
    
    Psyche Atrick
    Mona Maniac
    Joe Cose
    Val U. Able
    Pam Purr
    Stan Dard
    Jerry Atrick
    Ray Elroads
    Otto Mobile
    Dane Gerhause
    Dan Dee Line
    Skip Itt
    Hugo N. Frye
    Brendon Butter
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.
775.3good list, but....IJSAPL::ELSENAARFractal of the universeThu Feb 15 1990 13:3913
>    .....
>    Hugo N. Frye
>    Brendon Butter
>    
>    Steve Kallis, Jr.

I didn't get that last one.... could you explain please? ;-)

One from here:

Sharon N. Joy

(name omitted, for some reason ;-))
775.4some more for the list...LESCOM::KALLISPumpkins -- Nature's greatest gift.Thu Feb 15 1990 15:0820
    Re .3 (Arie):
    
>>    Steve Kallis, Jr.
>
>I didn't get that last one.... could you explain please? ;-)
 
    "Stave-call is junior," means that the effort to ward off the event
    was executed with minimum enthusiasm.  I _hate_ to have to explain
    them.
    
    How about:
    
    Arie Ahh             (great in the opera house)   
    Arie Plane                                               
    Arie Izz             (once he's located)
    Arie Serious
    Arie Kidding
    
    Enough ...
    
775.5Beep,beepCAM::MILLERLightness has a call that's hard to hearThu Feb 15 1990 17:472
    There is a man from my home town named Otto Horn. Sadly, his son
    is also named Otto Horn.
775.6PSYLO::WILSONThu Feb 15 1990 18:1627
    Robin Banks
    Paul Bearer
    Patty Wagon
    Aaron Boy
    Karen Feeding
    Minnie Skirt
    Winnie S. Everything
    Dan Yankees
    Etta Meal
    Sharon N. Caring
    Biff Wellington
    Kitty Litter
    Greg Arious
    Yul Regretthis
    Cary A. Torch
    Lotta Baloney
    Clark Barr
    Austin Tayshus
    Thurston Hunger
    Frank N. Sense
    Brian Surgery
    Cal Oric
    Val Yumm
    Bob N. Weave
    Warren Pease
    
    
775.7COOKIE::DEVINEBob Devine, CXNThu Feb 15 1990 18:4618
    Mark Mywords
    Ben Dover
    Eileen Dover
    Rachel Prejudice
    Tyrone Shoelaces  /* from Cheech & Chong */
    Lee Vitoobeaver  ;-)
    Eve Ning
    Sir Pent
    Parson Sage Rosemany N. Time
    Judge Mental
    President Al
    Ian R. Out
    Jess Tation
    Guy Sangals
    Wyatt House
    Anne (miss) B. Haven
    Bob N. Furapples
    Mayor E. Mary Quitecontrary
775.8SMURF::MEYERMainstream BohemianThu Feb 15 1990 20:012
    I once knew a reporter named Peter Abbott
    
775.9sounds like some movie names...MISFIT::GEMMELand now here's Mac and Tosh...Thu Feb 15 1990 22:194
    Is this a bad Bond movie (Pussie Galore, Goodnight, et al.) or a Mel
    Brooks movie (Engulf and Devour, Yogurt (he had culture), etc.)
    
    Or maybe submitt them for consideration.....
775.10a book nameLESCOM::KALLISPumpkins -- Nature's greatest gift.Thu Feb 15 1990 22:565
    Thorne Smith, a marvelous "roaring 20s" author, used to write what
    were called "slightly risque" novels.
    
    One of his heroines was named Honor Knightly.
    
775.11really!TLE::RANDALLliving on another planetFri Feb 16 1990 14:303
    My father occasionally repaired the car of a man named Les Gotobed.
    
    --bonnie
775.12Any earlier sightings?MARVIN::KNOWLESintentionally Rive GaucheFri Feb 16 1990 14:586
    re .6
    
    I remember Lotta Baloney from a fifties Mad Magazine (along with
    Rex Karz, parking lot attendant)
    
    b
775.13Phil Free?LAMHRA::WHORLOWAre you proud of Digital's computers?Sun Feb 18 1990 22:3511
    G'day,
    
    
     Seeing Ben Dover, reminds me of the well known Scots
    
    
    (risque names follow.)
    
    
    Phil McAverty
    Ben Doon
775.14DUCK::AMANNPDon't ask me whyTue Feb 20 1990 13:389
    I remember getting highly embarrassed in a supermarket when I went
    to the customer service desk on hearing -
    
    "Would Paul Amann please contact customer services - Customer call,
    woul Paul Amann please contact customer services"
    
    I said to the lady behind the counter why they had tannoyed me,
    and she collapsed in laughter.  Five minutes later I finally determined
    that she was trying to call for a  Paula Mann
775.15Eat at Joe'sCAM::MAZURIt ain't the meat, it's the lotion.Wed Feb 28 1990 22:565
    How about the couple who owned a diner named after themselves ?
    They wondered why they didn't get any business.
    
    
     	    Sam 'n Ella Diner
775.16Or was, in 1979MINAR::BISHOPWed Feb 28 1990 23:214
    There _is_ a diner of almost that name on North Carolina's
    Outer Banks, near Kitty Hawk: Sam and Ellie's.
    
    			-John Bishop
775.17don't know how she spells her nameTLE::RANDALLliving on another planetMon Mar 05 1990 16:267
    I heard this one on the radio the other day -- apparently the
    station I was listening to (not my usual) has a deejay named Jane
    Doody.  The station's sports announcer used to work with Curt
    Gowdie.  The announcer wished Jane would marry one of the Gowdie
    sons and become Jane Gowdie Doodie.
    
    --bonnie
775.18C. Howard FieldsWMOIS::M_KOWALEWICZIris Anna, welcome to your life.Tue Mar 06 1990 18:548
	Then there was Ben Dover's doubles partner...





				8{)    mkowa
775.19Surgery anyone?BARTLE::BARRLThe sun sets like molasses in the skyWed Mar 07 1990 18:344
    Someone I work with told me that there's a doctor at Beth Isreal
    Hospital named Dr. Knokimoff.
    
    Lori B.
775.20Dear Mr. Pynchon,STAR::RDAVISThe Man Without QuantitiesMon Mar 26 1990 18:2113
    Here are two characters for your next novel (if you write one - ha ha,
    just kidding!):
    
    Mrs. Olemnis, a widow who befriended Beethoven
    
    Mr. Biamyle, a violent inept man
    
    Please send me money for these characters.  If you would like more
    characters, please send me more money.  (I have 30 band names as well,
    if you have any acquaintances who are starting a band.)
    
    Your pal,
    Rage Ohwell
775.21JGO::FIELDHave chainsaw, will FCOWed Mar 28 1990 22:397
    A well known one:
    
    Max Headroom
    
    (strange this one hasn't been mentioned yet. Perhaps it's copyrighted?)
    
                                          - Rik -
775.22RDGENG::OLDHAM::MIDONAAlan Midona, SIE Reading, DTN 830 3996Thu Mar 29 1990 17:103
	The're an ITN Reporter called:

	Mike Rowbottom
775.23KAOFS::S_BROOKHere today and here again tomorrowThu Mar 29 1990 18:5310
>
>        The're an ITN Reporter called:
>
>        Mike Rowbottom


Most Rowbottom's I ever met spelled it Rowbotham, but then I've also met
someone called Sidebottom pronounced Sid-ee-baw-toom !?


775.24RDGENG::OLDHAM::MIDONAAlan Midona, SIE Reading, DTN 830 3996Fri Mar 30 1990 13:1112
Re: .23

>> Most Rowbottom's I ever met spelled it Rowbotham,

	You may well be right. When old Alisdair Burnett announced the
	report I was to busy laughing to read the name at the bottom 
	of the screen.  I bet he got a lot of stick at school with a 
	name like that!

	Alan Midona

	(Yes I did get a lot of stick at school with a name like that!)
775.25PEKING::AMANNPDon't ask me whyFri Mar 30 1990 15:205
    Well, I have yet to meet someone who hasn't either queried my name,
    or it's spelling or failed to bring up some joke or other regarding
    it.
    
    Paul
775.26CUPMK::SLOANEThe dream gains substance ...Fri Mar 30 1990 17:118
    A top-notch tort lawyer: 
    
       Sue M. Fast
    
    A lazy beach bum: 
    
       Sandy Balls
    
775.27HEFTY::SCHARMANNComputer Freak --- BewareFri Mar 30 1990 18:5611
    
    
    How about a situation where your secretary's name is Kay. You trot
    over to her office and find she's not there. In her place is
    another girl. You ask to see Kay and the girl tells you she ent
    to lunch. you say "Ok", and leave. You get about 5 feet away and
    think, 'why don't I leave a message', so you turn to the girl and
    say...............
    
    "If you see Kay" tell her I'm looking for her.
    
775.28But it's a real place...WELMT2::HILLCarpe diem!Fri Mar 30 1990 19:209
    re .26
    
    Sandy Balls is a holiday caravan park in the New Forest at Godshill,
    near Fordingbridge.
    
    It's set on a sandstone escarpment, in which there are some spherical
    aggregations of sand.
    
    Nick
775.29Sportz, sport ?BIGUN::KEOGHPersonal NameThu Apr 05 1990 15:4010
The ABC (our ABC, the Australian Broadcasting Commision) had, at one stage,
the punniest group of sports announcers ...

Dick Lewers (fishing)
xxxx Green (Lawn bowls)
Tim Lane (various)
...

It seemed that to get a job in thje sports department, that either you needed
a punny name, or a spooch impodimont.
775.30JGO::FIELDMy cat: Felix SchroedingeriensisWed May 02 1990 12:0713
    From Hofstadter:
    
    
    Eve Rybody  
    Ann Yone
    
    and then some more
    
    Bette Leavitt
    Penny Wise

    
                                          - Rik -
775.31You wouldn't BELIEVE how many basenotes in here have NAME in them!DRDAN::KALIKOWWWW: ``Sliced Bread's in danger!''Thu Jan 13 1994 08:396
    ... so I picked this one at semi-random.
    
    Couldn't help noticing on NPR this morning a quotation from a professor
    of environmental science (at Boston University methinks) named, and I'm
    not sure of the spelling, Dr. Ozonoff.