Cordelia ,'Chosen'
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One of my grandmother's was a school secretary and some poor boy had been named Peter Long. Evidentally Peter Long got in trouble quite often (and can you blame him with that name) so she was constantly having to type out "Long, Peter".
Note: My grandmother DID NOT tell me this story. She told my mother with much embarassment, who then told me.
One of the big men in my Mom's hometown was named Harry Bahls, III.
We've had business dealings with a man named Dick Small.
I went to school with a Mike Hunt. Marching band rookie initiation prank for girls was to make them stand on the 50 yard line and yell "Has anybody seen Mike Hunt?" I was one of the few who was smart enough to put a really long pause between the names, a rarity for me, as I usually don't catch onto such things until it's way too late.
Re pizza: Do Aussies put whole-kernel sweetcorn on pizza, or is that strictly a UK thing? I'm normally very adventurous as to what I'll eat on a pizza--bring on your white pizza with goat cheese, spinach, and roasted garlic, for example--but corn/maize just tastes weird.
but corn/maize just tastes weird.
Ooh, I had that in Mexico and it was good.
whole-kernel sweetcorn on pizza
There was a gourmet pizza place in Vancouver who had a pizza with sweet corn on it. It was called "Cornan the Barbarian".
Re pizza: Do Aussies put whole-kernel sweetcorn on pizza, or is that strictly a UK thing?
In Academic Decathlon my senior year (I think), the theme was the global economy, and in a section on how international companies had to adapt to different tastes, they gave corn on pizza as an example of Japanese tastes.
The last doctor I saw was named H. Richard Wiener. Whatever H. stood for must have been pretty terrible to risk being called Dick.
Humongo? Horse? Hung?
Re pizza: Do Aussies put whole-kernel sweetcorn on pizza, or is that strictly a UK thing?
It's not a common thing; indeed I don't recall ever having seen it.
PS: re names, I did once know of one guy (Vietnamese) whose mother's name was Dang My Dung.