Another guest post on The Blog of Funny Names.
“Can’t anyone here play this game?”–Casey Stengel
Question: What do Roughned Odor, Zealous Wheeler, Caleb Bushyhead, Michael Goodnight and Tuffy Gosewisch have in common?
Answer: They are just five of the 63 also-rans in the 2012 Minor League Baseball Moniker Madness, behind the eventual winner, Rock Shoulders. Shoulders joined previous winners Seth Schwindenhammer, Rowdy Hardy, Dusty Napoleon, Will Startup and Houston Summers in winning the annual Wonderful Terrific Monds III award for the most awesome name in all of organized minor league baseball.
Wonderful Terrific Monds III??!! Yes, that’s a real name, of a real baseball player, who spent the years 1993-1999 in the minor leagues, mostly in the Atlanta Braves organization. It seems his great grandfather had a slew of girls, and when he finally had a son, he thought it was Wonderful and Terrific and named him such. Like the Outerbridge Horsey legacy, the name has been…
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I used to work for a medical magazine and had a list of very funny names. Great that you’re doing this.
I have that in my distant past as well (working for a medical publication). Glad that you liked it. 😉