What’s in a name?

Bertha Venation: And Hundreds of Other Funny Names of Real People

Larry Ashmead

Laughs.  Lots and lots of laughs.

Names selected for their awesomeness from Bertha Venation by Larry Ashmead:

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  Vaseline Glass
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  Jermajesty Jackson (Jermain Jackson's son)
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  Shanda Lear (William Lear, Jr.'s daughter)
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  Johan Riley Fyodor Tiawo Samuel (Seal's and Heidi Klum's son)
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  Shreiking-Loud-Train-Whistle
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  Dooly Ponder
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  Bopeep Seahorse
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  Formica Dinette
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  Placenta Louise
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  Quentin Cumber (Q. Cumber)
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  Peter Enis (P. Enis)
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  Rita Book
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  Randy Hamburger
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  Kodiac Yazzie
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  Baskerville Holmes
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  Van Lingle Mungo
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  DeMarcus Faggins
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  Fonda Dicks
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  Sally Forth
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  Septimus Lurch
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  Nira Hardon Long

From the department of strange marriages:

"A literary agent, Janis Donnaud, had childhood friends named Barbara
Fatt and Bill Heavy.  They got married.  Odd names before the union,
odder after, and odder still when they had twin boys, Lemon Jello and
Orange Jello."

"Author Andrew Solomon's father went to law school with Mel Hiney, who
married a Smith classmate of her mother's called Barbara Fatt, and
became Barbara Fatt Hiney."

"His college classmate has a high school teacher with the first name of
Vermester, who marries Mr. Bester and became Vermester Bester."

'"Llonald King sent me this note: 'Joseph Cotten's son married (against
his family's wished) the girl next door.  Her name was Velvet Satin,
Satin being a name the father of the family , who was an immigrant from
eastern Europe, had adopted and made legal.  Thus the young woman's
name became Velvet Satin Cotten.'"

Place names that make me giggle (all in Great Britain):

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  Gropecunt Lane, London (renamed Grape Street)
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  Merkins Venue
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  Hole of Horcum
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  Upper Dicker
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  Nether Wallop
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  Mudchute
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  Crotch Cresent
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  Titty Ho
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  The Furry