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18 Sep 2006

I. Etta Hamburgher! And It Was Delicious.

Written by sally @ 14:55 — Section: old news

So I was looking through this Ripley’s Believe It or Not! from 1946 (which was originally in the reference section! hilarious!) and while there are many notable and totally made up things, I thought this list of funny names had at least a chance in hell of being maybe 50% true:

LOVE, SUNSHINE, AND BLISS once owned a candy store in Johnstown, Pa.

REPAIR AND GOFORTH are nurses in the Gallinger Municipal Hospital, Washington, DC.

BUYAM AND SWALLUM are druggists in Goldfield, Iowa.

B.A. GENTLEMAN is a lady living in Kendall, Florida.

I. ETTA HAMBURGHER is buried in the Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison, Wisc.

SWEET AND SAUER are business partners in Chico, Cal.

DR. BESICK is a physician in Chicago.

By the by, I. Etta Hamburgher is my new code name, for reals.

(from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! Two Volumes in One, Garden City Publishing Co., Inc. Garden City, NY, 1946, pp. 300-301.)

UPDATE: I have confirmed the existence of a lady B.A. Gentleman and the presence of many Besicks in the Chicago area in 1930.

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One Response to “I. Etta Hamburgher! And It Was Delicious.”

  1. The Oh Really » It’s Nuglicious! said:
    September 26th, 2006 at 10:28

    [...] • I still think that I. Etta Hamburgher is funny. [...]