People with silly and / or stupid names

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57747128

Stjohn Youngman

Pronounced Sinjan, like Norman St John-Stevas?

There's no need to feel down.

Werewolves Within is a 2021 American comedy horror film directed by Josh Ruben from a screenplay by Mishna Wolff,

Just heard this one on the Olympic coverage (pronounced Shite by the commentator)

Robert Scheidt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Scheidt

Historical one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preserved_Fish

Amazing

Parents must’ve had a sense of humour

Well his dad was also called Preserved Fish, as was his grandfather, so I suspect it was his great-grandparents with the sense of humour and his dad just had a sense of “I had to suffer this stupid name and now you will too”.

I take it you've all seen the footnote explaining the name's meaning?

His first name was properly pronounced with three syllables (/prɪˈzɜːrvɪd/ prih-ZUR-vid), and was a reference to being "preserved from sin" or "preserved in grace".

Names like this used to be fairly common among Christians. /namesplaining

Like Preserved Killick. Who is, admittedly, a fictional character.

All sounds very Hitchhiker's Guide.

I'm hoping he's a gastroenterologist

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How about a boy named Sue

https://youtu.be/WOHPuY88Ry4

In the last local election, a candidate in a nearby ward was Sandy Lay.

Zac Stubblety-Cook.

Australian swimmer. Gold medallist in 200m breast stroke.

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in what appears to be a case of nominative determinism, Chinese trampoline silver medalist Dong Dong

Just watched today’s highlights of the Olympics. The Brownlee’s old swimming coach was interviewed and is called Coz Tantrum.

Stubblety-Cook

Presumably this is what swimmers get a week after shaving everywhere...

GB track cyclists are expressly told not to do this, I understand. Just a light trimming.

Zoah Hedges-Stocks
@Zoah_HS
THIS IS NOT A FINANCE ACCOUNT. I DO NOT HAVE ANY TRADING ADVICE.

HEDGES-STOCKS IS MY SURNAME.

https://twitter.com/Zoah_HS/status/1355074685566939137

Frances Crook OBE (born 1952) is the Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Crook

She's stepping down, though:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/10/reform-prisons-utterly-broken

Serious topic, shouldn't make light of it, but the name is still good.

Not that most people in prisons actually are crooks.

Good taste in cars but not names

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That is a good one!