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{{quote|'''Clarissa Dickson Wright''': And thank ''God'' she pulled out Richardson's ''Clarissa'', and not the ''Encyclopaedia Britannica''. And then I think they were so delighted they'd finally found a name, they got pissed on the way to the church!}}
* Robert Strange McNamara, Secretary of Defense during the JFK and LBJ administrations. McNamara shared an anecdote in which his fiancee's parents asked for his middle name by telegram for the marriage invitations. She sent back, "[[Who's on First?|IT'S STRANGE.]]" They sent a reply insisting that they didn't care, they just needed to know what it ''was.''
* And yes, some parents do this sort of thing deliberately. Frank Zappa named a daughter "Moon Unit Zappa". William Lear (founder of Lear Jet) reportedly named a daughter Shanda Lear (or "Crystal Shanda Lear").
* Dido's full name is Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong.
* "Funny Weddings" is a recurring sub-bit of the classic ''Tonight Show'' bit "Headlines", in which newspaper headlines that display humorous married name combinations are shown.
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* British composer Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (of [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]) understandably never used his middle name. Seymour isn't too bad, just that it made his initial ASS.
* As the quote on top of the page says, [[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood|Fred McFeely Rogers]]. You know, the guy who made a TV show for ''four year old'' kids!?
== For women with embarrassing married names ==
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