Well, not to be a spoil-sport, but given my
own name; I don't find unusual names all that funny - Mr. Bumgardner's (could that be 'Baumgartner' misspelled?) name is relatively benign.
My name: Dave Organ caused a lot of grief for me at basic training back in '86; thrown in with a hundred forty other kids that thought funny names were hilarious. Being 18 and sensitive, I took a lot of abuse and got into a lot of fights about it.
Of course, 9 years, three tours of duty, a couple promotions and a hell of a lot of learning later, people didn't find the name 'Organ' nearly so funny. The conversations went something like this:
(looks at clipboard) Master Corporal Organ...Organ! Ha ha ha! 'Organ'! Who's
Organ? Ha! Ha!"
"Umm...M/Cpl Organ? That's him, right over there...See that great big guy yelling at the platoon over there?"
"Ha! Ha! Uh....oh..."
"Yeah...oh, by the way; he's your unarmed combat instructor. Good luck!"
