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** For example, their legal troubles with the parents of a girl named [[wikipedia:Renault Mégane|Mégane Renaud]] made local headlines for a while. They're also accused of killing the use of [[wikipedia:Renault Clio|Clio]] as a girls' name, and [[wikipedia:Renault Zoe#Name controversy|Zoé]] might now be in danger as well.

*** Somewhere, [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|Ford Prefect]] must be laughing his arse off.

* Russian soccer player Yuri Zhirkov ("''zheer''-kov," often mispronounced '''Jerkoff''')

* Actress [[Mimi Rogers]]' real name is ''Miriam Spickler''. You can see why she changed it.

* There was a man in the North Carolina Coast Guard (Oak Island) named Ernest Sprey, at one point was at the rank of Seaman. For almost a year his title was Seaman Sprey (much ridicule followed).

* In Fort Wayne, in 2011 the citizens voted to name their new government building after beloved former mayor [[wikipedia:Harry Baals|Harry Baals]].

* Hermione Granger's Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare (SPEW) in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' was actually named for a real-life Victorian feminist society in England, the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women... which eventually had to rename itself the Society for Promoting the Training of Women (SPTW) because of its amusing acronym.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131016183535/http://www.rapdict.org/Fudge_Town_Mafia_Crips The Fudge Town Mafia Crips]

* Hyman George Rickover had to be a rough name to grow up with. Maybe it had something to do with him becoming a four-star admiral in the United States Navy and the "Father of the Nuclear Navy".

* In late 2007, the South-Lake Union community in Seattle, Washington was pleased to be the home of the first new rail line in the city in 30 years. Residents just couldn't wait to ride the South-Lake Union Trolley! It was quickly re-christened a "streetcar".

* The Wisconsin Tourism Federation...think about it.