Far Out Names

[nietsroob17]

Ex CFL star with helmet ear hole protruding Afro, Wonderful Monds.

That's Wonderful Terrific Monds to you, and he was a Jr. no less.

He also had a son, WTM III, who had a spell as a minor leaguer, primarily in the Braves system.

I'd like to contribute former Stetson basketball player Chief Kickingstallionsims to the list.

 

[OscarMadison]

Still one of my favorite hockey player names but not out there so much as it's just a great name: Ty Rattie.

I went to college with a Shanda Morse. I asked her if her family was Jewish. Yep. Ouch. Yes, she knew.
Later on, she told me she had cousins who went by Dot, Dash, and Tap. Some people need to get terriers and stop there.

 

[da man]

I knew a young man once whose girlfriend was named Candy Apple. And she was not 'in the service' so to speak. The kind of girl you'd bring home to mom.

There was a girl in my high school named Candy Kane.

 

[zufer]

 

[playthrough]

The city mag where I live has a dining editor named Twinkle Van Winkle. And it is indeed her given name.

I went to high school with a guy whose full name was Winston Miller Ford. We joked that he must have been born during a Nascar race.

 

[justgladtobehere]

My cousin's high school classmate's mother taught a set of twins named Orangello and Lemongello.

 

[Flip Wilson]

I offer up these two.

A reserve lineman at Baylor one season was named Hunter Hunter.

when I worked at a mall photo lab a buncha years ago, the yogurt store around the corner that had really good chicken salad sandwiches was managed by a lady named Ginger Snapp. She told me once that if she ever got married, she was keeping her name.

Turns out, Ginger died in 2001.

https://www.whbfamily.com/obituaries/Ginger-Snapp?obId=658356

 

[PCLoadLetter]

In high school, my best friend's brother had a buddy named Tab.

His dad was an executive at Coca-Cola.

 

[da man]

My cousin's high school classmate's mother taught a set of twins named Orangello and Lemongello.

Outing alert! @justgladtobehere is Dan Jenkins!

BTW, how’s Potatus Fry doing these days?

 

[da man]

The city mag where I live has a dining editor named Twinkle Van Winkle. And it is indeed her given name.

I went to high school with a guy whose full name was Winston Miller Ford. We joked that he must have been born during a Nascar race.

Born to be a car dealer.

 

[da man]

I can’t believe I forgot ****!

Which reminds me: Woody Johnson.

For some reason this also got me thinking of Vitas Gerulaitis.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Outing alert! @justgladtobehere is Dan Jenkins!

BTW, how’s Potatus Fry doing these days?

I had somebody tell me this story and I immediately called bull****. But he said the woman who told him was the sister or daughter of the teacher. A close relationship, so it wasn't presented as some silly example of playing Telephone. I guess she just wanted to **** with him.

[Edit] Dan Jenkins Lemonjello - Google Search

The first link is a Charlie Pierce Tweet and the second is a link to this site.

Dan Jenkins to be inducted into World Golf Hall of Fame

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I once shot pictures at a little league game featuring a kid named Chandler Bing. My spit take was not appreciated.

Could you have BEEN any more surprised?

 

[Driftwood]

The Jell-O twins have been in every high school in America, it seems. I think it's been told so much that some people honestly believe they met them. One of them is my sister-in-law, who is a retired teacher at a tiny high school in the middle of nowhere North Carolina. More than once she's said, "We had these brothers..." I just let her say it and think to myself, "No, you didn't." It's not worth it.

 

[Songbird]

Joseph Joseph.

3 of a kind beats a pair.

Joseph Joseph Joseph of Bennington died 12 years ago.

 

[swingline]

At one stop we covered twin brothers who were named Joe and Joseph. Seriously, what the?

 

[da man]

At one stop we covered twin brothers who were named Joe and Joseph. Seriously, what the?

George Foreman approves.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

If I ever have boy-girl fraternal twins, I've considered naming them Elvis and Presley. Does that combination exist in the wild?

 

[MTM]

The Jell-O twins have been in every high school in America, it seems. I think it's been told so much that some people honestly believe they met them. One of them is my sister-in-law, who is a retired teacher at a tiny high school in the middle of nowhere North Carolina. More than once she's said, "We had these brothers..." I just let her say it and think to myself, "No, you didn't." It's not worth it.

Just like everyone knows someone whose mom was a teacher who says she had a student named Female (pronounced Fee-mall-ee) because she didn’t have a name when she left the hospital so FEMALE was put on her birth certificate.

 

[Batman]

3 of a kind beats a pair.

Joseph Joseph Joseph of Bennington died 12 years ago.

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I bet he was a big fan of Tony! Toni! Tone!