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

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

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.

Uriekus Mc Diesel

Peter Keifer, here! Damn glad to know you!

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

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

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)...

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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

jingle_jangle wrote: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!".

Ummm....