"Hello Ms. P**sy , That's how my email started and I didn't notice my mistake until after I had already pressed send. So in the frantic moment to correct myself I sent her a second email with the correct spelling and added a bunch of crap to make it seem like the first one was sent by mistake.
This happened last year while applying to graduate school. Ms. Pusey was director of the history department in the school.
When the day of the interview came, I introduced myself, and just said hi. I decided to play it off and told myself her last name probably wasn't pronounced the way I thought it was. When she said her name, I swear it sounded just like, well you know...
For the rest of the interview (it was a group interview) I couldn't help but think of all the times she was probably teased growing up. A few of them were already running through my head. It had to be brutal growing up with that name.
I escaped unscathed, got into the school without any problems and haven't had contact with her since, until today. She emailed me asking about classes and I saw the whole event unfold in front of my eyes, all over again.
Do you know anyone with a family name that's straight weird, like the name of a body part, animal, or food? Why would anyone continue to have their last name sound like a women's genitals? What would you do if your family last name was something weird like that?
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I hate this kind of thing.
Do all guys' minds stray into this kind of territory? You can't just get over it, block the association, and move forward without feeling awkward every time you see or hear that name?
Think "pussy, like in cat."
Hahaha! I don't know anybody that has their last name describing a body part, or genitalia for that matter. If I had last name like that or "D**k", that would be awkward as hell. I would never hear the end of it! I can just imagine it right now...oh...the nightmare! lol
I don't know this person personally but, I heard about a guy in my town with the last name Titts. Yes, it's pronounced the same way as the t-i-t-s spelling. I wonder if his future wife would take his last name?
Slang is constantly changing -- it's not uncommon for older men named Richard to be nicknamed Dick (eg Dick Cheney), for example. What sounds inappropriate to you today was probably fine a generation ago, and what you deem appropriate may well be a source of amusement for youngsters in twenty years! It'd probably not be worth trying to change your name every time slang changed.
I knew a guy named Harry Nutter..The third!
I know a guy whose last name is Dickman.. Yeah, I can't help but snicker a little bit. His friend's last name is "Cox", which can be misconstrued quite a bit as well. I have a horrible mind.
There's a girl who goes to the same school who's name is Mya, and her last name is pronounced "balls itch"....She's Bosnian I believe, I don't know how to spell it so I won't even attempt to.
my friend had a teacher in australia named 'richard head'
... dick head, hahahahahahah
i'm not sure if that's completely relevant but it's hilarious
One of the first jobs I had was supervised by a woman named Mrs Head. Her husband's name was Dick. Poor guy.
Dr. Dick Titlow.
I'm come across some nasty ones in my genealogy searches. Many spring from an unfortunate last name: Balls.
@RoidBear@xanga - Do you actually refer to the vice-president D**k Cheney?
@LadyLibellule@xanga - hahahah yeah!
I did see a book in the library by someone named Vanessa Weiner. LOL
@RoidBear@xanga - the guy on Home Improvement, Tim Allen. His real last name is D*ck.
My mother couldn't understand why her mother would laugh when she asked if she could play with the boy next door: Hebie Heinz.
My son went to school with a girl who's last name was Manlick (poor thing).
Finally, I just met a nice family who named their daughter Parker after Spiderman's alter ego. When I found out their last name, I had to stifle myself. Her name? Parker Pyle. Well, she can marry...sigh.
Also had a customer named Candy Sheetz.
I had 4 science teachers in my freshman year. I had so many science teachers for several reasons: transferring to a different science class, one teacher called in sick for the rest of the year, long term subs...
Well, one of the teachers I had was Mr. Arnal. He usually wrote his name on the board, and when he wasn't looking a couple of guys would erase the "r" in "Arnal" so it looked like Mr. "Anal".
My last science teacher was named Ms. Butt. We all felt sorry for her for having that last name.
HAHAH
This 1972 or 82 -- well you get the point OLDD HIGH SCHOOL GRAD FROM BACK IN THE DAYS
1 girl was name : Anita Kum
@RoidBear@xanga - My elementary school VP's last name was Weiner (RIP) When I got to know him after HS, I used to crack on him about it. He passed away a few years ago. I still laugh about it everytime someone says weiner at a baseball game referring to hot dogs
@kash@healthkicker - hahahahaha
Um, I know a guy with the last name Weiner.
I also refer to a number of people as body parts. But that's my choice.
I had a tech teacher who's name was Mr. Smallwood.
I still laugh hysterically like an akward teenager in my head.
I'm blessed to not be named some kind of body part or derogatory term.
Lucky me, unlucky them. But I guess they've just gotta come to terms with it, or change their name.
@phuck_diz_shiz@xanga - omg that's so sad/funny XD
hahaha wow. this post and some of the comments make me appreciative of my name...