I’ve just read a news story about how circumcision halves the risk of contracting AIDS.
I’ve heard this theory before, having recently written an article about circumcision for For The Girls. Good news, I thought.
And then the juvenile sniggering started, thanks to this quote:
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“It’s not a magic bullet, but a potentially important intervention,” agreed Dr Kevin De Cock, of the World Health Organisation.
That’s right folks. The director of the HIV/AIDS department at the World Health Organisation is named Kevin De Cock.
Now that’s a serious case of nominative determinism.
I found myself wondering if there are any more examples of people with “sniggery” names getting into a sniggery occupation, as it were.
I found:
Dr. Bonnie Beaver, gynecologist
Dr. Splatt and Dr. Weedon, authors of a paper on incontinence
Mr Richard Vice, anti pornography campaigner
Dr. Hymen Meltzer, gynecologist
Dr. Harry Beaver, gynecologist
Dr. Angel Colon, gastroenterologist
Dr. Dick Chopp, urologist
Janet Woodcock, US government expert on Viagra
Dr. Alden Cockburn, specialises in vasectomy reversals
Dr. Handwerker, gynecologist
Stewart Hardman, runs gay online gallery Adonis Art
Offa Peanis, Jewish circumcision expert
Dr. Love is the author of “Hot Monogomy” but I’m not sure if it’s a pseudonym.
There’s also Dr. Maroon Dick and Dr. David Dickoff but the page didn’t say what they do for a living.
(thanks to Funny Doctor’s Names, Why Mr Storm Studies Weather, Slate, and the Canadian Aptonym Center).
Apparently the word aptonym has a similar meaning.