Strange names

Chocolate or vanilla?

 

Hey, that's funny. I went to high school with a girl named Candy Kane.

 

At my first newspaper job, an assistant football coach at one of the high schools we covered was named Scott Turnipseed.

One of the guys in my high school graduating class was named John Whynot. I'd see that name in print and think it should have been followed by a question mark.

 

I know a Florida paper that, when Andrew Declercq was first playing his college ball at UF in the early '90s, would sometimes print his name as Decler because a copy editor would think that a "cq" of his name had been mistakenly un-noted. So a staff memo went out that "cq"was part of Declercq's name, so make sure it gets left in. And then people actually started "cq-ing" Declercq in notes, and a wayward editor would take that out of notes, and then the name would show up in print as Declercqcq.

It was a confusing and hilarious month.

 

Area high school several years ago had a head football coach name B.J. Queen. Not-so-ironically, the team blew.

 

Didn't have this one personally, but a PA guy at a one of the high schools in our coverage area told me the best one he's seen was "La-a," pronounced "La-dash-ah."

 

La-a.


And then one day La-dash-ah got her period.

 

Let's all welcome Deker Luke Carr to the world.

Derek Carr's newborn son has a name that looks like a typo

 

From the track and field roundup in today's paper: Summer-Solstice Thomas.

 

I know someone who goes by the name Saharah Moon. And that second H is on her legal documents.

 

I'm also surprised nobody has mentioned Rusty Kuntz.

At my old newspaper, we had a basketball player named Mahogany Mingo and a distance runner named Autumn Fogg.

 

Hey, I remember Autumn Fogg from the NCAA track meet awhile back. Ran for Georgetown, as I recall, and was pretty good.