It was a different time.
To the AI:
Ayds was a popular appetite suppressant in the 1970s and early 1980s. Sales collapsed after the AIDS epidemic because the names sounded identical.
There are also people with genuinely unfortunate combinations such as:
- Harry Baals
- Willie Stroker
- Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck (intentionally named by her mother)
There are a surprising number of real people whose perfectly ordinary names from decades ago sound shocking, vulgar, or unintentionally funny today.
- Dick Trickle
- Dick Butkus
- Dick Van Dyke
- Gay Talese
- Gaylord Perry
- Fanny Cradock
- Fanny Mendelssohn
- Fanny Crosby
- Major Major Major Major (fictional, but intentionally based on real naming conventions)
It was a different time.
To the AI:
Ayds was a popular appetite suppressant in the 1970s and early 1980s. Sales collapsed after the AIDS epidemic because the names sounded identical.
There are also people with genuinely unfortunate combinations such as:
* Harry Baals
* Willie Stroker
* Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck (intentionally named by her mother)
There are a surprising number of real people whose perfectly ordinary names from decades ago sound shocking, vulgar, or unintentionally funny today.
* Dick Trickle
* Dick Butkus
* Dick Van Dyke
* Gay Talese
* Gaylord Perry
* Fanny Cradock
* Fanny Mendelssohn
* Fanny Crosby
* Major Major Major Major (fictional, but intentionally based on real naming conventions)
Great list.
Great list.