Mrs Danvers

Hmmff. Just asked the American other half about beaver. He said "uh. Well. It's an idiom for a woman's......."

Funny how long a person can live here and still not know all the slang

And I bet Dr Dick Chopp jokes about his own name.

scrubbedexpat097

The Buc-ees Beaver is everywhere...it always makes M snigger


As for weird names. One of the docs in the Cardiac unit that treated M was called Dr Pepper

Jerni

Amigone Funeral Home Inc., New York Always makes me smile when I drive past. Pretty sure the answer is 'yes' if you take up residence there.

Chapmandan

That is nothing short of amazing!

Sally Redux

There's an aptly-named underwear shop where my son lives.

Pulaski

Yes it does.
Where were you before? Like Yorkie said, it is the same in the UK.

Bob

Where we used to live, there was a dentists office who had a Dr Pain and a nurse Blood.

Wonder how they drummed up business...

SultanOfSwing

We still have the signs for Bald Knob Marina along Rt.12 on the way into town, always good for a laugh. There's also a bar called Liquor Hole, complete with a sign that has a huge tongue on it.

I used to work with a guy whose last name was Baumgartner, which as far as I can tell is German for 'brown gardener'. How in the hell did that name originate? Uphill, presumably.

Sally Redux

It's tree, but that spoils it

We had the Knob Grill restaurant near us. Always sounded a bit painful.

SultanOfSwing

I blame Blackadder for calling Nurse Fletcher-Brown, Nurse Fleicher-Baum.

Last time I trust the BBC.

MrFloyd

Came across a customer last year whose last name was Mycock.

First name was Jacqueline. Even better when it's shortened.

Pulaski

In the crazy world of German compound nouns, "baumwolle" is "tree wool", or what we call cotton. Thankfully England developed its own language and didn't import German instead.

Sally Redux

That's because it's braun, sounds the same as brown so their gag wouldn't work.

SultanOfSwing

I shall now start referring to q-tips as baumwool-buds

I did German for a year in school, you'd think I'd have remembered the bloody colours

Pulaski

My all time favorite, at least of the names I "found" myself, was when I was digging through an archive box of papers at work when I was still in London. In the box was a contract that had been signed by an Indian gentleman, a Mr Singh, ..... whose first name was "Letsal"!