Running Stupid Spelling of Names Thread

There was a girl in my college class from, I believe, Thailand. I saw her in the freshman directory...in the grand tradition of recent immigrants picking a more Western name, this poor girl went by the name Kitty Porn.

 

Peerless Price

I remember reading or hearing that when his mother was pregnant, she saw a Peerless Moving Company truck. She liked the word Peerless, and decided once she looked up the word peerless in the dictionary to find out its meaning, it would be a good name for her son.

 

The parents are obviously fans of Cheap Trick's lead singer

 

Or the old Zander Hollander "Complete Handbooks"

 

True story.

I knew a woman whose name was Kelly Price.

She married a guy named John Kelly.

Yup, she changed her name to Kelly Kelly.

 

That's exactly what I thought of. Amazing how in those days, books like that were precious sources of info for hard-core sports fans.

 

Your wife has good instincts.

How about Mulva?

 

My buddy's wife was pregnant and she mentioned that she was interested in a Portugese name, since she'd gotten to know a lot of Portugese people that worked in their restaurant. My wife said she'd always loved the name "Aurelia" and my buddy said, "What, like the part around a girl's nipple?"

He then followed it up by saying it wouldn't matter because if it was a girl, he was going to drown it in a bucket anyway. It was, and he hasn't done it yet. Nobody follows through on anything anymore.

 

Came across this one just last week

spelled Carlson but pronounced Carson

First time in my life I ever heard of a silent L

 

Nope, Maarty's from BFE Eastern Oregon. Not Euro, just a little bit of hillbilly (love ya kid!).

 

Which nights did Candy work at the Boobie Bungalow?

And I've dealt with Wonderful Monds and Diamond Pride.

 

My brother graduated from high school with a girl named Candace Bush. Insisted on being called Candace, for obvious reasons.

A kid at my high school was named Jason Wyckoff, which when pronounced with a Southern accent sounds like ...