Humor: What's Your Stage Name?

[ozover50]

John Burroughs......... boring!!

John Jerilderie-Deniliquin...... I say, chaps. THAT'S IT!!

[ajish4]

NOW we're talking...and YOU ASKED FOR IT!

REMEMBER, I lived in the BIRD SECTION......

How's WINSTON WOODCOCK?

YES it is an actual STREET!

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=woo ... 1&ct=title


....damn, splinters

AND THIS IS A TRUE STORY.....I once interviewed a POOR SOUL who had the misfortune of being named...........READY???????????

RICHARD STICKLICKUS. I AM DEAD SERIOUS. The interview ended when I saw his address....I lost it.
You can't make this stuff up! (For those in another country who may not get it, there is a shorter name nickname used for RICHARD.....look it up).

Some parents are just NOT RIGHT IN THE HEAD to name their kid that.

[ricaddic]

Uriekus Mc Diesel

[teeder]

Peter Keifer, here! Damn glad to know you!

[woodyng]

yech..... "woodber harwood".....

[scotty]

William Peter Falloch.I sound like a poet and i didnt even know it.........

[wayang]

A guitar player I used to play with first informed me of this method...his stage name turned out to be Lance Corona, which is pretty hard to beat...

I grew up in the army, so it's a long list of streets...many of the ones 'on post' named after famous historical battles, and some rather foreign sounding, including one in Coptic...but none produce as much of a humorous result as using my current address:

"Ladies and gentlemen...please welcome...Paul Gaylord!"

...(not that there's anything wrong with that)...

[whojamfan]

Thomas Ramona, oh so close to being one of my favorite bands

[jimk]

Talking about names too weird to be made up: Many years ago, I thought I'd buy a horse. So among all my horse riding friends, I let it out that I was in the market.

Finally, through a farrier I found one across the state line in Missouri. There's a little rural community near Kansas City called Peculiar, MO. And I kid you not....the man who owned the horse I eventually bought had the name of Gene Looney. The sign on his mailbox read "The Looney Farm" of Peculiar, Missouri. I figured with circumstances like this, the guy had to be on the up and up. I bought the horse, and had some really fine times with her.

[wayang]

When we were younger, my brother and I would spend hours combing the phone book for funny names...and believe me, they are there. Two that stand out in my memory: a dentist named Charles Chew, and some guy named Skippy W. Boomershine...

[jingle_jangle]

Alan 11th?

Anyway, I've had lots of addresses in my life, so we could try:

Alan Washington

Alan Sawyer (my fave--as in Alan Sawyer, Private Choreographer...)

And about 45 more. We moved a lot when I wuz a sapling.

Re: funny names. When I was in the toy biz, I collected a lot of biz cards from our Chinese vendors. Two that stand out are:

I. O. Yoo

Jetson Wang

We had a neighborhood doctor whose last name was "Bonebrake". Unfortunate.

[johnallg]

Alright, I'll bite. Edward Roseland. Sounds 40s British.

[sowhat]

Oh damn. "Middle names" in Russian tradition are formed from father's names. No thanks.

[antipodean]

Re: funny names. When I was in the toy biz, I collected a lot of biz cards from our Chinese vendors. Two that stand out are:

I. O. Yoo

Jetson Wang

We had a neighborhood doctor whose last name was "Bonebrake". Unfortunate.

Maybe we need a new thread on bizarre names. One that sticks in my memory was the shipping broker in Tokyo of sub-continental origin, whose name was Gyant (pronounced exactly as one would pronounce "giant") Dikshit. After introducing himself, his patter was: "please call me Gyant, don't call me Dikshit!".

[jingle_jangle]

Ummm....