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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 785775" data-attributes="member: 945">This just cracks me up.  I love crazy names.I used to work at Wal-Mart (the home office), and they are as crazy about the intercom there as they are in the stores.  There were a couple of names that would get paged all the time that would crack me up.Bud Hogue was one.  They would page him out "Bud Hogue, page 7144, Bud Hogue, 7144 please."  If you say it out loud, you'll get it.   Later, people would enunciate it more clearly.  Apparently, Bud didn't like the way people were saying his name.The best one was, by far, Candy Beavers.  Swear to god.One of my co-workers started a job once and his supervisor told him on his first day, "You'll be working with Jack Frost."  Apparently, there was a guy there whose name was Jack Frost.Some names around where I currently work:Dick CoxDick ShowersThere's a lady on the floor here whose name is Rutendo Ba, and I swear to god that sounds like some character that should be in a Star Wars movie.I knew a guy in college named Joe Azhoe.  It was a Korean name, but Joe was born in the states, so his parents gave him an American name.  But people were always making fun of it.  So, he went in to court to change his name, and he changed it to Tom Azhoe.  When the stunned judge asked him why he wanted to change his first name, and not his last, he said, "Because I'm tired of people always saying, Whatta ya know, Joe?"Ok, that last one was a joke.</blockquote>

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