Working with Mike Hock

[+ purplekow]

I know in grade school most of us are familiar with the substitute teacher trap of writing down phony names on an attendance sheet. Dick Hertz was a popular one.

I work with a man named Micheal Hock. He prefers Mike. I have had to introduce him people on several occasions. Each time I have introduced him as Micheal Hock. Each time he has mentioned to me afterward that he prefers Mike. I would rather not introduce him as Mike Hock, as much to avoid the obvious but also I would hate for someone to laugh and get me laughing.

I know it is his name and he has heard every joke under the sun and perhaps he is just trying to own it. In either case, I came up with this introduction This is Micheal Hock but he prefers Mike.

I also work with a Dr. Pepper, but I do not have any difficulty introducing her as Dr. Pepper.

Anyone else have peers or colleagues with names that are potentially laugh inducing?

[+ sam.fitzpatrick]

The phys ed teacher at the school where my mother taught was named Jim Locker.

[Beancounter]

I found this on the internet several months ago. Pretty funny.

 

http://thechive.com/2016/07/19/that-cant-seriously-be-your-name-28-photos/?utm_source=Keywee&utm_medium=Paid&utm_campaign=Slideshow_Website_Click&utm_term=September2016&kwp_0=331017&kwp_4=1250859&kwp_1=558490

[+ sync]

The driver education teacher at the high school I attended was Mr. Carr.

One of the tellers at the bank in the town where I lived was Mrs. Money.

[+ Avalon]

I know in grade school most of us are familiar with the substitute teacher trap of writing down phony names on an attendance sheet. Dick Hertz was a popular one.

I work with a man named Micheal Hock. He prefers Mike. I have had to introduce him people on several occasions. Each time I have introduced him as Micheal Hock. Each time he has mentioned to me afterward that he prefers Mike. I would rather not introduce him as Mike Hock, as much to avoid the obvious but also I would hate for someone to laugh and get me laughing.

I know it is his name and he has heard every joke under the sun and perhaps he is just trying to own it. In either case, I came up with this introduction This is Micheal Hock but he prefers Mike.

I also work with a Dr. Pepper, but I do not have any difficulty introducing her as Dr. Pepper.

Anyone else have peers or colleagues with names that are potentially laugh inducing?

 

I didn't get it

 

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mike%20Hock

 

I once knew a Sam Hill

[rvwnsd]

There was a gentleman named Martin A. Dick at a company I worked for. Never met him myself, but others said he was a very nice guy.

[+ sync]

I didn't get it

 

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mike Hock

 

I once knew a Sam Hill

 

I didn't get it either. The Urban Dictionary definition brought it home. Now it's funny for me.

Thanks.

[+ Avalon]

I remember in an episode of "Modern Family" that Mitchell thought that Cameron and Jay were joking when they told him that there was a football player named

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Butkus

[+ azdr0710]

only one I can think of now as my melatonin starts to kick in is a fellow student in 7th grade named Dawn Sleeper

Edited July 4, 2018 by azdr0710

[+ azdr0710]

[Gadfly22]

I know in grade school most of us are familiar with the substitute teacher trap of writing down phony names on an attendance sheet. Dick Hertz was a popular one.

Al Koholic

Seymour Butts

Connie Lingus

[BabyBoomer]

Ben Dover.

 

~Boomer~

[Tarheelboy214]

I have a physician colleague named Dr. Perfect. While I’m certain that it’s made up, our local morning traffic reporter (eye-in-the-sky) is named Helen Wheels.

[LoveNDino]

Well, there was the late Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Manila, Jaime Cardinal Sin

[mike carey]

I didn't get it

 

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mike Hock

I didn't get it either. The Urban Dictionary definition brought it home. Now it's funny for me.

Colour me stunned. My immediate reaction if I don't get something like this is to say it out aloud. Worked this time too (although to me it was obvious straight away).

[mike carey]

Well, there was the late Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Manila, Jaime Cardinal Sin

Before he was elevated, Archbishop Sin joked that he would never be made a cardinal.

[+ sync]

Colour me stunned. My immediate reaction if I don't get something like this is to say it out aloud. Worked this time too (although to me it was obvious straight away).

 

For some diction is more precise.

[+ Gar1eth]

There was a CPA in the city I grew up in whose last name was Swindle.

 

Gman

[+ HornyRetiree]

In Presque Isle, ME, —- there were three brothers- last name GRAVES

 

one a Doctor, one Druggist and the other a Undertaker! Talk about working together:)

[+ WmClarke]

Math teacher in my high school: Shirley Gay

[+ quoththeraven]

Colour me stunned. My immediate reaction if I don't get something like this is to say it out aloud. Worked this time too (although to me it was obvious straight away).

Me too, and I don't even have a cock!

[+ quoththeraven]

Math teacher in my high school: Shirley Gay

Girl at my high school: Gay Fellowes.

[+ Gar1eth]

When I was in 8th grade, we had to give an oral book report. Now I love to read. But for some reason I didn't really read the book I was going to report on. I was going to wing it. It was a book about some kind of forest preserve, and one of the characters was Ranger Dick. Well every time I started to say his name, I started laughing. There's probably a fairly good chance it would have happened even if I had read the book. But I'm sure the nervousness over not reading the book played a big part. In any case I did not (and rightly so) do well on the report.

 

Gman

 

PS As long as I'm confessing, in high school I never acually finished "The Red Badge of Courage" or "A Farewell To Arms." In the case of "Arms" it wasn't entirely my fault. I didn't like the book, but I was reading it. Unfortunately I disliked it so much that I could never remember from day to day what I had read the previous day (we were were reading it during class). As a result I always had to go back to a point I knew I had read with the result that I was re-reading a lot of what I had read. And I fell more and more behind and hated the book more and more. And "Courage" as far as I can remember was just depressing with an unhappy ending.

 

I always told myself I'd go back and read them. And I'm not dead yet. So there's still a chance.

 

G

 

PPS- ok and to be almost completely truthful-while I read most of it, I did use the Cliff Notes in college for the last part of "Paradise Lost"

 

Boy, do I feel better now!!

 

G

Edited July 6, 2018 by Gar1eth

[+ purplekow]

There was a CPA in the city I grew up in whose last name was Swindle.

 

Gman

That reminds me of a secretary I employed Robin Swindle.

[+ poolboy48220]

@Gar1eth - you remind me of two memories from grade school. Fourth grade or so (so about 9 years old), the teacher was reading us a book and the story referred to a bird called a 'titfinch'. One kid couldn't stop giggling every time the teacher read that, and she finally grilled him as make him say what was so funny. He never did answer, as I recall.

 

We didn't read The Red Badge of Courage, but watched a movie of it (I've also never seen that movie since). I overheard two of the teachers talking about one of the soldiers at the very end of the movie, something akin to "I'd do him" but more delicately put. I doubt they knew I was listening.