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Old 08-22-2015, 04:30 AM
 
Location: Columbus, Indiana
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Ny husband went to school with a kid with the last name of Eder (pronounced eater), unfortunately his first name was Peter.
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Old 08-22-2015, 05:01 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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Ny husband went to school with a kid with the last name of Eder (pronounced eater), unfortunately his first name was Peter.
LOL, might as well have handed the kid a pre-printed suicide note when he was born.
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Old 08-22-2015, 07:54 AM
 
Location: Elsewhere
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I have a close friend with the last name "Butts". When she got married, she hyphenated it with her husband's last name. I guess she's OK with it!

She did say that when she was a kid in school and the teacher was calling attendance, she would raise her hand and yell "HERE" as soon as the teacher said her first name, lol.
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Old 08-22-2015, 07:55 AM
 
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I have a business colleague named Butts and used to have a landlord named Butts. Butt is a perfectly respectable Indo-Paki surname and Stephen Butt, also an acquaintance of mine, is a world-famous investment manager: Bonanza in the tens of millions adds to City chief's £380 million | This is Money. I guess I'm just chock full of butts.

Anyway, a butt is just a part of the human body.
The name has been around a lot longer than "butt" has been used for a part of the human body.
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Old 08-22-2015, 07:57 AM
 
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No mentioned the Reverend Calvin Butts yet?

He's done OK with the name!
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Old 08-22-2015, 09:14 AM
 
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I just saw some name records, and a wealthy, established family in Virginia has "Butt" as their last name. Women are still marrying into it.

I wouldn't want to live a single day with that name.

I would change it if it was me.

How would you feel about having a surname like that?
I would change it pronto!!!!! And be angry at my parents for not changing it when I was an infant!
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Old 08-22-2015, 09:19 AM
 
Location: Austin
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Those of us who have lived around here for a long time call it the H-E-Butt (as in, "are you going to the Walmart?" "Nope, I'm going to the H-E-Butt.")
Sooooo did you hear about the buy out of Whole Foods by HEB?

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They are going to change the name of Whole Foods to Butt Whole Foods.

Lem
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Old 08-22-2015, 09:19 AM
 
Location: Venice, FL
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For a long time the Police Chief for the City of Atlanta was a guy named Dick Hand.

I actually went to school with a pretty girl named Ima Pigg. Her family had a concrete pig statue beside their mailbox.
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Old 08-22-2015, 09:55 AM
 
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Probably. I've run a across a few in my time. The worst had to be a man whose last name was Raper. He's a stronger person than me to wear that one around.

Really bad if his occupation was therapist.
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Old 08-22-2015, 10:06 AM
 
Location: Groveland, FL
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I dated a guy whose last name was Dick. He talked of marrying me, but I couldn't envision taking that name. One day, he said he was thinking of changing his last name to something else, like Dixon, and I told him that sounded like a great idea. Later, he said he'd decided against it for fear of hurting his dad's feelings. We didn't end up staying together-not for that reason, but either way, I'm thankful that I didn't end up with that name.
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