Drag queens have the best names. My favorite from this season of RuPaul's Drag Race is Amanda Tori Meating.
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I'm rather partial to Ma~
I don't get it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde?wprov=sfla1
Ma tilde = Matilda
I thought it was a ma squiggly and got confused
My friend lived in a house with 4 other guys and all but one was athletic and outdoorsy. The other guy was a WOW addicted Mexican who never left his room except to get food deliveries or cigarettes. The others called him The Brown Recluse.
amazing
Do library cats' names count? Like Catticus Finch and the Great Catsby?
Chairman Meow Zedong
Alotta Fagina - Austin Powers:International Man of Mystery
Also, I used to have a friend called BroDeal because he used to flip land. Then he became an Ayahuasca shamen and now people call him "the profit"
Pizza delivery for, I. C. Weiner
Sum Ting Wong
We Tu Low
Ho Lee Fuk
Bang Ding Ow
Donald Glover goes over his own name in one of his stand up specials. His parents named him “Don Glover”. I guess it’s better than Tess Tickles.
Oswald Endswel
Here in dutchland this family by the name of 'Modder' (meaning mud) gave their baby girl the traditional Frisian name 'Fokje', which is female of 'Fokke' which is Frisian for Alphonse.
They obviously didn't speak English as 'Fokje Modder' pronounces as 'Fuck yer mother'.
I read "dutchland" as "Deutschland" (which means Germany)
Also also, herr van Lemmy, das klinkt wie Duitsland!
Sue Yoo, attorney at law
Slarty Bartfast?
I always wondered about that name. It seemed deliberate, but I didn't know what he was going for. TIL
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slartibartfast
Douglas Adams wrote ... that he wanted Slartibartfast's name to sound very rude, but still actually be broadcastable. He therefore started with the name "Phartiphukborlz"...
...
"One thing I don't think I explained in the script book was that I was also teasing the typist, Geoffrey [Perkins]'s secretary, because ... she'd be typing out this long and extraordinary name which would be quite an effort to type and right at the beginning he says 'My name is not important, and I'm not going to tell you what it is'. I was just being mean to Geoffrey's secretary."
That's fantastic and I don't doubt for a second he was being a smartass with his friend's secretary. Hell, the first book was begun on a hillside in Amsterdam after plural bottles of wine and who knows what else. Makes perfect sense.
There are hills in Amsterdam? gasp
O’ranjelo and L’monjelo. I was told these were names of real kids, but that was third hand information and i was a kid myself, so probably just someone goofing.
It was actually a GURPS character I made for a homebrew setting. It was a male techpriest named Silas Berg who fell out of the imperium and was working to get back to his home. It took something like 6-8 months before my GM noticed, because I only ever used the full name once (initial introduction), then only ever called myself Sy in all interactions after that.
The day that he finally noticed glorious. He had captured our party and was going through the prisoner list. He got to me, read out 'Sy Berg's, and I swear you could see him bluescreen for a second when he realized that he'd been running a game with a cyborg named cyborg for months without noticing.
Easily one of my favorite experiences in a TTRPG. I'm hopeful that when I get around to running my own game, I'm able to work in the story I've got in my head about the library dungeon that culminates in a fight with a wyrm. I really hope I get a similar reaction when I reveal that it's actually a bookwyrm.
Trace for a third child
The often repeated Carson for a boy born in the car on the way to the hospital.
Hairy Pitts
Ella Vader
Shanda Lee
Robin Banks
Chris P. Bacon
“Can I be frank with you?”
“Sure! You be Frank and I’ll be Ernest”
There was a Harry A. Hole in my hometown
Playing D&D, we inherited a haunted tavern that was home to a ghost named Lift (tbf, that's the name we gave it since it could only communicate by lifting things). After we solved the mystery of Lift and allowed the spirit to pass on to the afterlife, we renamed the tavern The Lifted Spirits.
There was a NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle. The only motorsportsman I'm aware of named after a symptom of enlarged prostate.
- Richard “Dick” Fitzwell
- Harry Balsagna
- Adolf Oliver Busch
- Mike Rotch
- Pat McRoyne
- Ben Dover
Mike Ochzarekt
Mike Rustibalz
Micah Misztiki
Mike names go on for miles
E. Norma Stitts
Bond movies cringe at this thread.
What's so wrong about Pussy Galore, Holly Goodhead, Honey Ryder, Dr. Molly Warmflash and Octopussy?
Nothing. Those have style. My point exactly.
And, if we're being blunt and using British slang, Roger Moore.
I like the robot in the dogman books named 80-Hexotron Droidformigon. AKA: 80-HD
Colonel Angus is always a classic.
Not sure if it was a real name or a joke, but I had a service ticket once for Stu Pedasso. It gave me a light chuckle.
I'm currently playing in two D&D 5e campaigns.
Silver-Dragonborn Cleric, Twilight Domain named:
Argentus
The other is a Shadar-kai Circle of Moon Druid. His name is:
Hrast Quercus
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This is a scene from asdfmovie (I can't remember which one in the series):
"Dad, I'm hungry.
Hi Hungry, I'm Dad.
Why did you name me this way?"