Gye Greene's Thoughts

Gye Greene's Thoughts (w/ apologies to The Smithereens and their similarly-titled album!)

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Good surnames

Just tidying up my Dissertation bibliography. Some good surnames:

* Bluestone
* Bottcher (bad if you were a civil engineer)
* Bronfenbrenner
* Buehler (''Buehler...? Buehler...?'')
* Treffers
* Smeenk
* Verhulst
* Roosa
* Elder (good for a senior organizational position)
* Featherman (''The lightest-weight superhero...'')
* Luster (a jeweler?)
* Piquero
* Warr
* Molumphy
* Fishman
* Parcel (a letter carrier)
* Zill
* Hao (a professor of mechanical engineering)
* Saastamoinen (I'll bet you'd have to spell that one several times...)
* Rebellion (if that was your real surname and you were a punk rocker, you'd have to use a stage name because people would think it was too cheesy)
* Ihinger (I just like it; dunno why)
* Siegel (ornithologist)
* Steelman
* Stoneman
* Teachman
* Wojtkiewicz
* Wylie (politician?)
* Yabiku
* Moos (don't know if it's pronounced like the cow sound, or like a moose; either way, pretty great)
* Donker


--GG

2 Comments:

At May 13, 2009 10:48 PM, Blogger K. said...

That last one would make a good deragatory adjective. As in:

"Dude, you're such a donker".

-K.

 
At May 14, 2009 1:16 AM, Anonymous Skip said...

There's a lady who lives here named Trella Donker

 

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