CNN blows me out of the water

[Eliseu Gouveia]

No, really.
I´m a creative guy and yet some of the reporters/anchormen/women names they have there puts my Muse to shame:

Wolf Blitzer
Richard Quest
Arwa Damon
Femi Oke

You can´t make up names like these!!

Do you know other examples were reality outshines fiction? :biggrin:

[Tetsuo_man]

Obama's chief strategist is David Axelrod. I mean seriously Axelrod just seems to fit the criteria.

[the4thpip]

I miss Flip Spiceland. :frown:

[darkhanamaru]

I miss Flip Spiceland. :frown:

that is like the perfect name!

[DavidAllred]

I'll never forget the Nascar driver named, Dick Trickle. I mean, if you're the guy's parents, what in the heck are you thinking?

[TCJohnson]

And there is always Soledad O'Brien.

[Infra-Man]

Nothing comes to mind, but I will make a reference to something awesome...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHlJ2voJHY

[scout1279]

A woman who used to work for one of the clients of the law firm I work at had the last name Furbush. It was so hard to not laugh when I took those calls.

Oh, and there was also a guy with the last name Fightmaster, which I thought was kind of an awesome name.

[TCJohnson]

My fiancee once had a client who was a little girl whose name was pronounced Ash-Oh-Lay.

How is it spelled, you ask? Assholè

[Tetsuo_man]

Oh there's also dick sargent.

[Grazzt]

I heard someone talking about having a professor named Dr. Deathrage. She pronounced it "Duthridge", but I imagine that's just to cover up the fact that there's no way she's going to escape becoming horrifically mutated into a vampire or somesuch.

[Calvin Government]

My uncle knew someone whose name was 'Le-a'. I ad assumed that it was pronounced Lea or Leah or something, but nope...that ended up being pronounced Ledasha.

[Tien Long]

Wolf Blizter is such an awesome name. Honestly, it sounds like a fighting game move that requires a level 3 rage meter!

As for some interesting names that punctuate my life, here in the NY/NJ area there's the newscaster for the local ABC affiliate, Sade Baderinwa. At my old school, I had a professor named Prof. Looser and I once had a martial arts instructor named Sifu Shamburger.

Still, I have to include myself on this list, or rather my old AIM screename. Indeed, while "Long Wang" in Chinese means dragon king, in English it apparently has a very different connotation :rolleyes: .

[Tobias March]

There's a law firm in Sydney named Sparke Helmore.

"No one can defeat Sparke Helmore!"

[Josh S]

Still, I have to include myself on this list, or rather my old AIM screename. Indeed, while "Long Wang" in Chinese means dragon king, in English it apparently has a very different connotation :rolleyes: .

I'd say "long wang" and "dragon king" are interchangeable in English.

[PatrickG]

Reminds me of some of my loopier creative writing stuff.

Stuff like Maurice Dragonsiege going to buy a lottery ticket and a beer from the clerk, Leonard Starcrusher. Nothing abnormal at all except the names.

I convinced a friend to include a character in his perpetually unfinished novel. The character's name is Eddie Cocktail-Chowder. According to my friend, Eddie Cocktail-Chowder is a violent homophobe who winds up causing a major turn in the life of his gay, self-inspired protagonist. (However, there's a bit of a twist there as the title character is intentionally supposed to make people think the novel is autobiographical. When, in fact, the author is a separate character who is also gay, physically identical to the main character and has all the same friends and life experiences. But is conveniently absent for the novel's main action.)

[Bakasama]

I heard someone talking about having a professor named Dr. Deathrage. She pronounced it "Duthridge", but I imagine that's just to cover up the fact that there's no way she's going to escape becoming horrifically mutated into a vampire or somesuch.

That's an awesome villain name.

[PatrickG]

That's an awesome villain name.

There's an education professor at my college named Dr. Outlaw. She's the terror of junior block education majors from what I hear.

[Grazzt]

That's an awesome villain name.

Apparently footnote.com lists 39 Deathrages. (http://go.footnote.com/results.php?gsfn=&gsln=Deathrage&s_place=&query=+Deathrage&links=0&category=&collection=-1&bc=All&xid=87&sub=SF20081110)

[The Ray]

CNN is a hussy.

I hoped you used protection Eli.

[Black Atom]

My fiancee once had a client who was a little girl whose name was pronounced Ash-Oh-Lay.

How is it spelled, you ask? Assholè

This name is either unexpectedly prevalent or little Assholè is extremely popular, because I've heard this story before.

[Black Atom]

That's an awesome villain name.

Perhaps he could team-up with City Councilman Baron Night!

http://www.baronnight.com/

[Nova Land]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Neel Kashkari (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neel_Kashkari), the Treasury Department official who was recently put in charge of the "Office of Financial Security" in order to oversee the $700 billion dollar bail-out program.

[Ghost]

No, really.
I´m a creative guy and yet some of the reporters/anchormen/women names they have there puts my Muse to shame:

Wolf Blitzer
Richard Quest
Arwa Damon
Femi Oke

You can´t make up names like these!!

Do you know other examples were reality outshines fiction? :biggrin:

Always loved the name "Wolf Blitzer." Sounds like the name of a video game character. :biggrin: Richard Quest is also awesome.

I've also always thought Adam Savage on Mythbusters had one hell of an badass name.

As does this kid:

http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/dan/game_shows/carmen_sandiego2.jpg
Who the hell names their kid "Cleaver"? oO

This guy is really hard to top, though:

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/7700/motivationalpostermanleno6.jpg

That was his real name. For serious.