Name of the day

I passed a sign for:

Dr. Daniel Massiah

on the way to see my parents yesterday.

I know doctors think they're God, but puh-leeze.

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Dan Nutkis, CEO of the Health Information Trust Alliance.

Really.

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KIERAN SUCKLING, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity

Hoo boy. That is unfortunate.

Being boring

Names of the day:

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Pennsylvania residents Aaron and Christine Boring, who claimed that Google violated their privacy rights by taking pictures of their residence from a private road and publishing the images online. --InformationWeek

I, for one, would like to know the names of his four children

For years, a friend and I have been sending each other instant messages when we come across funny names. Yes, we're fully aware this is juvenile.

But all that is over, because we've found the funniest name in the world, and there is nothing else we can find that will even come close. Any other funny name we find from here on in will just seem lackluster.

And I'm about to share it with you.

OK, are you sitting down?

You are? OK. Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce you to ... Murdaya Poo!

Of course, as he is the 13th richest man in Indonesia, he could buy and sell me, and that probably takes the sting out of it.

Name of the Day

From a front-page New York Times story, so, no, this isn't like Liz Onya or Heywood Jablowme*:

Peter B. Teets, the new head of the nation’s spy satellite agency, appointed a panel of experts to examine the secret project, telling them, according to one member, “Find out what’s going on, find the terrible truth I suspect is out there.”

The terrible truth, sir, is that your name seems to be sending a seriously mixed message.



*Which, yes, actually made it into a New York Daily News "Voice of the People" piece.

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Apple France's marketing director, Hugues Asseman.

UPDATE: Somehow, The Velvet Blog is now the fourth second hit on Google for "Hugues Asseman"--just for making fun of the guy's name. I kind of feel like a huge ass, man.

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Pamela Balls Organista

Not to be a putz about this, but it takes a lot of huevos to go around with a name like Balls Organista.

(Sent in by concerned reader God Is My Codependent.)

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Steve Starlust, head of Paragon Advertising in Bay Shore.

Which is quite a coincidence, because that's my science-fiction porn name.

Appropriate Name of the Day

From a news story last week:

Patricia Feral, president of the Connecticut-based Friends of Animals

Gotta be an assumed name ... right?

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... Christian Pop, a 22-year-old third-year computer science student at the university, ...

For his sake, I hope he's not related to Creed.