Names of note

[rowan]

Probably the best thing this year workwise was last week, finding a colleague named Fukun Dai.

There's a few others over the years, Fanny Houl, Sandy Tati, Arsi Pulli and the like but really, can Fukun Dai be topped?


Anyone else know any names of note?

[rowan]

Also there's this poignant WW2 communication
https://lettersofnote.com/2009/10/28/we ... -and-then/

[F-ZeroOne]

The credits of the TV show "Cheers" used to list someone called "Mary Fukutoo" and I've often wondered, given it was a sitcom, if that was intentional.

[KlaxonCow]

With a quick search, it does seem that "Fukuto / Fukutoo" is a genuine surname.

Whether it's real in the Cheers credits is, of course, another matter. But it absolutely could have been.

[KlaxonCow]

This reminds me of the various "Gropecunt Lane"s that exist around England.

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

They've often been sanitised and renamed "Grape Lane" or just "grope lane", dropping the profanity, or whatever. But, in Medieval times, this street name was liberally found all over the place and it absolutely is exactly what you think it is, in a blunt "say what you see" manner.

These were the lanes and streets upon which the prostitutes practised their trade, and the Medieval mind was not woke nor puritan. So they just named the street rather literally after what went on there.

[Ratsoap]

Had a few good ones at work over the years, recently Cristal Merth and Todd Huffer (only really funny if you listen to Athletico Mince).

My all time fave was Qing Dong.

Many more to be had here (including Gay Hitler): https://x.com/ActualNames1

[Whiteball]

We had someone called Justin Case

[Mat]

I've worked with a few over the years...
A Nuclear Physicist called Martina Mullarkey
I never met him, but Wayne Pigeon would regulary get tannoyed in the Shielded Area at Berkeley labs.

And I worked with a guy at the Beeb in London who had quite possibly the manliest name I've ever heard:
Rostrum Kilgore

Oh, and a guy at my current workplace is called Matt Gubbins.

[Mayhem]

Two names always stood out from my graduating year at univeristy: Suk Mai Lei and Angozi Dozi.

[zip accident]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy53vz1qpx1o

Elon Musk changes his name to Kekius Maximus on X

Erm.what?