Whats in a name? also as Names I wouldn't want to be found dead with

If you've read my prev post, you'd know i spoke at some length about a certain Leacock Stephen. I just wikied him and found that he was a canadian(not to be confused with kanadian) comedian; so i think he'll probably appreciate what i am going say about him now.

Now those who have been reading my blog regularly(which would b in the last two days) or in fact anyone i have spoken to recently will know that i have been bored to death these hols; others know now. I'll make that my excuse for the worthless crap that i am going to write now.
I was thinking about people's names(Mr.Leacock being responsible for this(ashwin, you were right; his name was stephen leacock and not that other thing(and no nishanth, i wont stop bracketing just coz u want me to))) and how wierd some of them are. Take Mr. Leacock, for instance. Suppose he's going give a press conf or something and instead of him Bruce Lee turns up. The reporter mistakes him for the peacock oops..leacock(not likely given their er..quite different(to say the least) ancestries..but lets just assume(for the sake of argument) a near blind reporter(like kaushik when he's driving..only he can mistake a chinky for a canadian)) As i was saying supposing this reporter(i am tired of saying reporter, so shall we say kaushik instead..is more convenient..adds more spice to the discussion too), this kaushik says "Hi Mr. Leacock", and Bruce Lee who(understandably) interprets it as leecock says "Whats that again?"(in a menacing tone(u'll know wat i mean if u have seen any of his movies(ofcourse in english..not the dubbed versions on vijay tv))) and kaushik, knowing somethings wrong and but not what(he's kaushik..you cant expect too much of him) says.."err..Mr Leacock?". What follows is all a blur with sounds like a cat fight(no references to pussy paddyman here..that part is reserved for later) and then the cow is a mishapen bulk on the floor(remember, bruce knows kung-fu..among other martial arts). Now, you can appreciate what its like to have a name like leacock and what unimaginable consequences it might provoke(cow's death for one..god(or gosh..whichever your prefer) bless stephen's ancestors..for picking up such a nice surname). Its also not so hard to see why the guy turned out to be a successful(so says wiki..personally i've never heard of him) comedian..i mean with a name like his, it'd be harder not to make people laugh(atleast while introducing oneself).
Speaking of funny names, i came to know last sem that eminem's real name is Marshall Mathers..thank goodness he didn't perform in north india.(dont get it? mathers you maaather..(still dont get it? then you never will)). I guess every country has its fair share of hopelessly funny names, but India has more than a fair share..its simply LOADED with names that seemed to have been aimed to sound hilarious. There are a couple sardars(mandae malle kundae, i mean) i know with names sukhdeep and hardick...seriously! i swear it. There's another guy in my coll..right here from tn..called puviventhan. Now if this guy lived in chnai,his name would merely have been funny; but in surathkal, among the hundreds of shettys and bhats(thats another one!), imagine going around with a name like puviventhan..hilarious, eh? One of my profs, after asking us all to introduce ourselves, finding us laughing(pardonably, coz he was laughing too) at puvi, asked him, to make him feel better, what his name meant. The reply, 'king of earth'. Now know what the king of earth is called at coll? ding dong bell,(puvi in the well). I am sure he must be cursing his parents.
If you've seen as many tamil movies as i have, you'd know this part where the hero/heroine asks the herione/hero what his/her name is and replies invariably, "nice name". Now imagine if puvi is cast in a movie(or for that matter paddyman..except that no producer in his right mind would even consider playing rushi in a movie in even a comedy role) and the heroine(cant think of anyone appropriate for puvi..or, in paddy's case, cant pick a single one) asks him for his name and he replies "puvi(or pussy paddyman, respectively)" and she says, "nice name"..imagine how puvi/rushi would feel..i think the next scene would b the movie climax..or rather, an anticlimax.
No post about wierd names would be complete without a reference to the mad names celebrities come up with nowadays for their kids. What with Sahara and Maddox Pitt-Jolie, Jigme Gere and Kafka Jones...and ofcourse Rushi Padhuman, a good-old ordinary Stephen Leacock comes as a refreshing change.