If you had an awful name, wouldnt you change it?

[Z-man]

Originally Posted by varmint

When I was younger I wanted to change it. Now I'm just indifferent.

With a name like Zoltan, I was teased a lot when I was a kid. That changed in my college years where my unique name (at least here in the USA) garnered positive feedback.

Now, I'm proud of my name, and would not change it for the world. It's a derrivative of the word Sultan, as in an officer of high rank. Now all I need are some minions...

-Z

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by Z-man

...Now all I need are some minions...

-Z

At your service Z

ps: I remember running across your name on a mainframe site many years ago (and confirmed with you here that it was indeed you)...

[Embraer]

I work with Debbie Downer. no joke.

[Bill Douglas]

I'd quite like to change my surname to Buzby. No real reason, I just like the name.

[john70t]

Knew the Hickeys, and the Hornys (changed to Horning). Also a Buzz Hoff.

[Shifter]

It was a sad day when I ran across the termination notice for Charlie Brown.

[Josh D]

A few I've known:

Mi Ho (she is Vietnamese. Imagine introducing her to someone)
Rich Coffee
Tom Olly (said fast sounds like tamale)

[beepbeep]

"Jerker" is rather common Swedish name. And I bet every William serving in the army had pucker moment when sarge yelled "fire at will!".

[Laneco]

My brother had a buddy in high school named Benjamin Dover.

Yeah... Ben Dover...

angela

[Bill Douglas]

Sue Glue. She said "Yeah, I married the wrong guy."

[Bugsinrugs]

A friend of mine worked at the unemployment office in Oakland,Ca. She said the best first name she ever came across was Latrina.....oh boy.

[shoemakj]

Worked with a guy named Harry Fagget, pronounced just like it's spelled. No silent "t" or French-style pronunciation. It was fun when people tried to ask for him by name on the phone. "May I speak to, Mr., uh, Harry, um..." Oh and he was also a Junior, so it's not like his father didn't know what he was doing.

He told me he got involved in martial arts from an early age. Probably the only way he stayed sane in high school.

[gorthar]

Used to work with a John Holmes.

[gorthar]

Originally Posted by Bugsinrugs

A friend of mine worked at the unemployment office in Oakland,Ca. She said the best first name she ever came across was Latrina.....oh boy.

Wow I remember hearing some woman screaming for her daughter in the grocery store years ago and that was her name. Small world lol.

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by gorthar

Used to work with a John Holmes.

So did I. My boss and I always had a giggle when we talked to John Holmes.

In Britian they are getting sick of hyphenated names when people get married. So some people are making a new name out of the couples surnames. For instance my GF is a Bateson and I'm a Douglas so we would be a Bouglas, pronounced Bug-less I guess. GF was explaining this to her cousin Coombes who married a Mr. Bunt. She didn't think it was such a good idea in her case.

[wdfifteen]

I had an engineering professor named Cudlip Jahar. He always wore a white turban, so we called him "Coolwhip"
When I was a kid our neighbor was Grover Tobin. It's not a bad name, just kind of quaint. It fit his personality.

[M.D. Holloway]

Had friends growing up named Chauncy Cappalbury, Mingus Mapps, knew a guy named Enoch with a last name of something I can't spell but it had a bunch of letters and very few vowels, a neighbor named Cosmo and a girl friend whose last name was Gay (she was very far from it...) and another girl friend with the last name Stank - she didn't stink at all in fact she was prolly absolute 'sweetest' girl I have ever known.

[Heel n Toe]

I had a rather generic 40's/50's nickname all of my early years... named after my dad's younger brother who died before he was 5/6 from complications from pneumonia, as I remember it.

I didn't really dislike it until I pondered using it when introducing myself at college, so I dropped it... especially thought it might be a liability with the wimmens... and went with John. One of the girls in my class had been calling me John all through high school, anyway... it just seemed like it was time.

It was a good decision too, because it would have probably followed me into my first summer job in college, and maybe even beyond.

When I'm around my siblings and people I grew up with, it still pops out fairly frequently, but I don't mind it.

No, I'm not going to reveal it. Heh heh.

[Bill Douglas]

I think Heel n Toe is a perfectly nice name. No need to be coy about revealing it

[Heel n Toe]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

I think Heel n Toe is a perfectly nice name. No need to be coy about revealing it

I appreciate the vote of confidence, William.