Strange names

Wonderful Terrific Monds III was a minor leaguer in the Braves' system in the 90s.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Wonderful_Monds

Wonderful Terrific Monds II, strangely, is the current high school football recruit. God knows how they keep up with it.

 

Girl I went to high school, her first and middle name was "Unique Surprise."
I bet she was planned.

 

Reprobatus is among my all-time favorites. LSU/Alabama standout Phelon Jones is pretty good, too.

Strangest was that I covers a high school team with a player named Liquorori Jones (not real last name). Thought it was kinda odd, but whatever. About a week later, another school not five miles down the road called in with Liquoroi Smith. I stopped the coach and said, I thought his last name was Jones. Coach said: "Different kid. I was a stunned as you were."

At that paper, there's a cops reporter who has held that position for years upon years. Long ago, he started keep track of strange names. Here are some of his favorites from his list: Fartivus Fomby, Devious Wilson, Phetis Porter, Kervorkious Stockdale and Fetisha Samples.

 

We had a high school tennis doubles team of Good-Knight.

 

Furious Bradley - Played on the Miss. Gulf Coast and now plays for Southern Miss. I'd always snicker when I heard that name.

Passion Camper - Basketball player from Mendenhall.

 

Went to school with a girl whose first name was "Joy." Last name was "Hole."

 

Bunch of track prodigies in Oklahoma some 14 years ago - last name: Bumpass.

 

I once had a Courvosier Brandy (first, middle) in a high school English class the one year I taught.

Such a nice, studious girl to have such a terrible name. For the record, she went by Kiki.

 

I also believe there was a Seton Hall softball player by the name of Misty Beaver.. who is now a prominent coach, I believe.

 

Dan borrowed those last two from me. I heard them from a middle-school counselor in Louisville. She said they were pronounced "o-ronj-a-lo" and "la-monj-a-lo."

 

Those two are an old urban legend that has made its way around the block more than a few times.

 

Fifteen years ago, she said they were 7th graders in her school. Wouldn't be the first time I've been lied to.