Best pseudonyms

That site has shaken my world.
I had no idea "The Big Bopper" wasn't really his name.
Next, I'm going to find out that M.C. Hammer isn't ... DAMMIT!

 

Enormous Genitals

 

I.P. Freehly

 

Harry Jenitalz

 

There once was a sports editor in Virginia who used the name "Matt Burns" whenever he covered wrestling.

 

Our youth services director wrote a letter from a "sixth grader" and she used her middle name and her maiden name. I didn't find out until we'd already run the page that it was her with a pen name.

I wasn't too happy about that...

When I and my former editor at a college pub were getting our pub critiqued by the incoming dean of the J-school, he suggested that we use pseudonyms because otherwise it's "the f_t and [editor] show." I never thought I'd hear a J-school's dean-designate suggest I use a pseudonym.