"It's a joke name, sir."

[Desdichado]

his tag line was I wish my brudda George was here. his PC didn't have an actual name. so the others called him George's Brudda.

That's not the line of thinking I was taking...

Then again, I walked in while my wife was watching Sex and the City a bit yesterday on TBS, and one of the characters was complaining about how she'd accidentally dyed her bush bright red, so maybe it was just a lingering aftereffect of that idea in my head...

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

I have a simple rule,

You name your character after your manhood (or elf-hood, dwarf-hood, gnome-hood as the case may be), the chances of encountering rabid female halfling ninjas with wounding swords of sharpness named Hanna Bobbit increase ten thousand percent.

Thus, you will soon have the nickname Shorty.

 

[Dragonhelm]

I knew a Prof. Hardy who named his daughter Laurel Ann.

When I broke my arm the first time, my bone specialist was named Dr. Jelly. He considered having a daughter named Peanut Butter Ann.

Other interesting character names..

More from Shadowrun:
Shalom (Jewish mercenary)
Brick Masonry (Troll who kept saying, "There is not enough killing!")
Al E. Gator III (Gator shaman)
Southern Belle
Yellow Rose
Longhorn (Troll with long horns, Texas Ranger)

The last three were in a one-shot I ran where the characters went to Texas.

From my friend's homebrew sci-fi/fantasy game...

R.A.L.P.H. - Robotic Assault Lethal Prototype Hovertread

This is fun!

 

[hexgrid]

I have a simple rule,

You name your character after your manhood (or elf-hood, dwarf-hood, gnome-hood as the case may be), the chances of encountering rabid female halfling ninjas with wounding swords of sharpness named Hanna Bobbit increase ten thousand percent.

Thus, you will soon have the nickname Shorty.

That reminds me that "Half-Cocked Jack" is one of the main characters in Neal Stephenson's latest books. I guess even respected authors aren't immune.

 

[BlackMoria]

I knew a girl in school called Irene Mary Ann Fink..... I. M. A. Fink. Now say it out loud....

I knew a Dan Major. Not a problem. Except that both of us were in the military. Over the space of my career in the military, I've had to call him Sgt Major.... then when he got promoted to Master Warrant Officer, he was called Sgt Major Major. He took his commissioning and was Capt Major and got promoted after I left the service, making him Major Major.

 

[Desdichado]

I knew a Dan Major. Not a problem. Except that both of us were in the military. Over the space of my career in the military, I've had to call him Sgt Major.... then when he got promoted to Master Warrant Officer, he was called Sgt Major Major. He took his commissioning and was Capt Major and got promoted after I left the service, making him Major Major.

That's just one of those unfortunate coincidences. Sometimes when folks get married that happens too. Ruth Ricker, a friend of mine in college, married James Carruth and became Ruth Carruth. My sister-in-law Kim was dating briefly a Korean-American guy with the last name of Kim. If they had married, she'd be Kim Kim.

 

[Mark Hope]

There was a thread about this last summer, iirc. It was actually what prompted me to join Enworld (albeit under a different sn), just so I could share my pain. For some reason, all of my games except for the current one are plagued by daft names. I like to think that I run an intense, serious game and my players like to prove me wrong...

Amongst the PC names of the past are such diverse elements as:

Acid Popper Caligula Caesar
Ustinov the Unthwarted
Sister Vulva Deathmace Salladan Frizbee and her brother...
Tracheotomy Sharpsword Devastator Frizbee "The Duck"
Kiryakov Kalashnikov
Binky Spazz
Ivan Itdropoff the Medalliognome
Melons Stoatpamphlet
McDeath
Mouse the Starr
Capillia Reaction
Reversible Reaction
Lyman Lemon I through III
Gaffaths I through VIII
Ferencvaros Kharkov
King Kong Bundy (who later became plain old GBH)
Cujo the Cavalier
Faro-ut (a far-out name, if there was one)
Ghut
and a dwarf called Noddy.

Oh, the joy...

 

[billd91]

I read in a baby-naming book that in some countries, it is illegal to name your kid embarrassing puns.
I'm not a fan of blatantly funny names in my games, that's more the place for nicknames that come up out of events during play. I don't mind mundane names, though, as long as they have a resonably long pedigree. Names like John and Joseph are pretty ancient and have stood the test of time. I don't have problems with PCs using them. In fact, I'd rather use them than some of the tortured names that come up in attempts to sound like they come from a fantasy culture.

As far as real life names I've encountered that are embarrassing, I haven't met too many personally, and only heard of a few more.
Sandy Brooks
Mickey Morse

And, my wife's aunt, who works in a large metro school district, encountered a young girl whose name was very interesting. For those of you who are Seinfeld fans and remember how he was trying to remember the name of a date whose name rhymed with a part of the female body (Dolores), well, this poor girl was the opposite of that. Her name WAS the body part that rhymed with Dolores... because her mother thought it sounded pretty but, apparently, didn't know what it was.
Poor kid.

 

[Gentlegamer]

My surname is Peel, and I hope to name a daughter Emma . . .

 

[diaglo]

My surname is Peel, and I hope to name a daughter Emma . . .

and dress her in tight fitting ....


at least you didn't say Banana