People with silly and / or stupid names

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/16/guests-kerala-wedding-marx-and-lenin-guess-the-grooms-name-india

Tuna Kunt

Tuna Kunt, who is originally from Turkey, has previously said she is "used to jokes" about her name but says it is an "amazing ice breaker"

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/student-standing-election-sparks-giggles-14093361

American tennis player, Katie Volynets

Tuna Kunt

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Descendant of this guy?
https://lettersofnote.com/2009/10/28/we-all-feel-like-that-now-and-then/

Just found this on german ebay kleinanzeigen:

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Obviously a completely normal German surname. :)

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Haha, brilliant!!

Genuine lol

Initially read that as ‘explosion’.

Always be suspicious... / Never trust a...

Does she only have one?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59650268

'It was one expense after another'
Alison Stitt

Alison Stitt in her quarantine hotel room
Alison Stitt says her experience has pushed her to the point of meltdown.
She was in South Africa visiting her father for his 90th birthday, when the country went on the UK's red list.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/15/ex-mckinsey-partner-pleads-guilty-to-insider-trading-in-goldman-sachs-fintech-deal.html

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John O’Looney, a funeral director and antivaxer

(stolen from the corona thread )

https://www.mkffs.co.uk/about-us

Our local funeral director (round the corner) is Ernest Cocks and Sons.

Still gives me a childish giggle.

Cocks handling the stiffs is surely nominative determinism

I'm about to deliver this guy's car. Actually quite a cool name - Tor Tigerstedt.

First man in Britain to catch bird flu......Alan Gosling

https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/article.cfm?id=121904&headline=First%20man%20in%20Britain%20to%20catch%20bird%20flu&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2022

Michael Fabricant MP - aptly named for someone who’s job it seems is to make up shit on behalf of the prime minister

Not a person, but my employers are retaining a US law firm, Morrison and Foerster, whose email domain is mofo.com.

And whose syrup is clearly made by Dupont, rather than being harvested from anything natural...

At this stage I think it’s still too early to rule out the possibility that boris Johnson’s hair is beginning to aggressively colonise the heads of bald MPs in order to stay in positions of power.

https://www.racefans.net/2022/01/14/mike-krack-named-new-aston-martin-f1-team-principal/

In his position I would have stuck with Michael

One of my brother's best mates at school was (still is) called Michael Rack.