Far Out Names

Ran into a prep coach I used to write about. His name is Harry Post.
He was a middle school teacher so there were no snickers.
I told a co-worker who was in his class 30-plus years ago that I saw him and all these years later she laughed at his name.

 

Pitcher Mark Lemongello was with the Astros on the 1970s. Isn't he doing time somewhere now?

 

Fair Hooker always cracked me up.

 

He must not have any fans. His Wiki page is all but empty.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Hooker

 

Fiona? You did a bad, bad thing.

 

Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin famously named their daughter Apple (and she is almost a spitting image of Gwyneth).

Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter Apple Martin makes her fashion week debut during Chanel show in Paris and she is the moment

I thought about that when Bruce Willis and Demi Moore named their first two daughters Rumer and Scout. I've seen a high school quarterback and a high school girls' basketball player each named Scout.

I don't know any families with the last name Swift but it's not uncommon and wonder if there's another Taylor Swift out there.

 

Years ago, I was taking pics for a school event at the local junior high. Snapped a pic of a group of kids working on a project, then proceeded to have them tell me their names. Things are going fine until I get to a girl who says "Rosie Areola." My head pops up from my notebook to look her square in the eye, then I look to the teacher. Teacher says, "Yes, that's right."
Different school had a high school football coach named B.J. Queen. He preferred the letters; we never learned what they stood for.
One year the all-district football team included a linebacker (not from one of our teams) named Magnus Bitsch. We later learned he was a foreign exchange student.

 

Thirty years ago a school news release came across my desk for a kid who got some kind of achievement award. His name was Be A. Ware. This thread reminded me of Be, so I googled his name. Looks like he's doing OK. He dropped the MI on his LinkedIn page, so he's just Be Ware. Be Ware - Husco | LinkedIn

 

Was this his father?

 

I guess you didn't recognize him without the shades.

 

Seriously, his name must have inspired him -- he got an engineering degree from MIT and became a corporate exec in his hometown.

 

Not really fitting here, but I once covered a HS football game where local team played a first-year team from the other side of the state. We had no information on the team (pre-internet), no roster or anything. I asked the visiting coach "what's your nickname?" His response: "Most people just call me George" Oh, the only way I got the roster was he had a student manager walk with me while the team was doing warmups and matched names and numbers.