Trivia - Their name before they changed it

[KurtNYC]

You throw out the name of a celeb before they changed it. We guess who it is.

Here's three to start:
Roger Nelson
Jerry Rivers
Michael Weiner

[XNASA]

1. Prince's name was Prince Rogers Nelson, I believe.

The other two are ..... Geraldo and Michael Savage.

[KurtNYC]

8. yeah - From Weiner to Savage

over compensating?!

[XNASA]

2. Here's one: Reginald Dwight

[ProdigalJunkMail]

3. ohh ohh I know

do I get to answer??? or should I give others a chance???

theProdigal

[Magrittes Pipe]

4. Elton John.

Vince Whitacre.

[KurtNYC]

7. Good one ...... ??

[Screaming Lord Byron]

20. Vince Whitacre is Screaming Lord Byron.

[KurtNYC]

5. Elton John

The people with the most unhip names converted to some of the cooler ones.

Gordon Sumner?

[Magrittes Pipe]

6. Sting.

[gWbush is Mabus]

10. gene simmons

[gWbush is Mabus]

16. gene simmons was.......

Chaim Witz

[CatWoman]

11. I have one: Archibald Leech

[Mikimouse]

21. Cary Grant

[CatWoman]

23. you win a cookie

:D

[Mikimouse]

36. Crunch, crunch...mmmmm, my favorite, chocolate chip!

Thanks CatWoman!:hi:

[bif]

22. Cary Grant?

[Blue-Jay]

9. I got one!

Whitacre D_WI?

[Magrittes Pipe]

12. Suck my left one.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x1699193#1699209

And not as hard as last time, either. :hurts:

[Blue-Jay]

19. Lance, is that you?

[CatWoman]

14. Squirrel

:D

[KurtNYC]

13. Cherylin Sarkisian La Piere

What a name

[CatWoman]

15. Cher

:D

[KurtNYC]

17. Hugh Brannum

Didn't actually change his name - just better known by another.

[terrya]

33. Mr. Green Jeans...from Captain Kangaroo.

[XNASA]

18. Who is Steveland Judkins?

[KurtNYC]

24. Kurtland thinks it is Stevie Wonder

love the "-land" thing.

[XNASA]

26. And you would be correct says XNASALAND.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

25. Stevie Wonder.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

27. Charles Michael Kitteridge Thompson IV

[Magrittes Pipe]

28. Black Francis.

Black Francis?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

29. Frank Black.

[Magrittes Pipe]

31. Victory!

We have sunk the Lusitania! :D

[Screaming Lord Byron]

34. Arturo Pogknocky?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

68. No-one knows who Arturo Pogknocky was?

What about Sergio Felchdern?

[Magrittes Pipe]

98. You said "felch."

[KurtNYC]

30. Frances Ethel Gumm

[terrya]

32. That's easy...the legendary Judy Garland.

[pagerbear]

35. A little too much time on yer hands, eh Kurt?

[KurtNYC]

59. Sure

I love how nerdy some of the names are before they change them to the coolest sounding names you can come up with.

I think it is Dana Carvey who has a whole bit on Sting. Which he points out is a verb (can't do the routine justice so I will stop there).

[Mikimouse]

37. Doris Ann Kappelhoff?

[terrya]

39. Doris Day.

[GOPisEvil]

40. Doris Day?

[Mikimouse]

45. Doris Day it is!

[Mikimouse]

38. And, how about John Duchendorf?

[GOPisEvil]

41. John Davidson?

[terrya]

42. John Denver

[Mikimouse]

46. John Denver is correct...

interesting, they actually had a combined variety hour in the 70s, where they used their real names in the title.

[terrya]

43. Bernard Schwartz.

[Mikimouse]

44. Tony Curtis

[fudge stripe cookays]

47. Marion Morrison n/t

[Mikimouse]

49. John Wayne

[fudge stripe cookays]

53. Good girl!

:-)

[Mikimouse]

58. Is that how I come across (looking sadly at floor)?

Let me check, yep, still a guy (whew!);-)

[fudge stripe cookays]

77. Ack! Sorry.

It's that online thing, dude. I've always pictured you as a chick. My humblest apologies.

If it makes you feel any better, I've been called a dude before (not by you, though), so we're (sort of) even.

FSC, moran.

[Mikimouse]

92. No, not a moran...in fact, I took it as a compliment...

I consider it progress, of a sort(One of my specialty areas is Gender Studies).

[Mikimouse]

48. Ramon Estevez?

[fudge stripe cookays]

50. Martin Sheen!

[Mikimouse]

61. And a cookie comes your way!

[fudge stripe cookays]

71. A mint milano please.

I have very discerning taste.

[Mikimouse]

78. Your wish is my command...

n/t

[Richardo]

51. Leslie King, Jr

[terrya]

54. Gerald Ford!

[fudge stripe cookays]

52. Lucille LeSeur

[terrya]

56. Joan Crawford!

[fudge stripe cookays]

63. Yay!

I dressed up like Joan for Halloween year before last. I looked divine. Everyone loved my wire hanger.

FSC :D

[fudge stripe cookays]

55. Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler n/t

[Richardo]

64. Eva Marie Saint?

Hm? :shrug:

[fudge stripe cookays]

91. Nope!

Hint: The first name is a nickname of the one that's there.

[July]

102. Hedy Lamarr? nt

[fudge stripe cookays]

109. Oui! Cookie for you.

[terrya]

57. William Blythe

[underpants]

60. Bill Clinton

:bounce:

[underpants]

62. Henry John Deutschendorf????

Anyone?

[fudge stripe cookays]

66. Repeat of post 38?

I'm not sure of his spelling.

[DelawareValleyDem]

69. John Denver

[underpants]

93. Yes and it is a repeat of post #38

Sorry

[XNASA]

65. Who is Declan Patrick McManus?

[fudge stripe cookays]

67. Elvis Costello, of course.

[XNASA]

72. Of course.

We named a dog 'Declan' once. He was a good boy.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

70. Frederick Bulsara?

[fudge stripe cookays]

73. Freddie Mercury.

[DelawareValleyDem]

80. Pierre LaCock

[VOX]

125. Peter Marshall of H'wood Squares.

One of them "intellectual types." :)

[DelawareValleyDem]

74. Bela Lugosi?

[XNASA]

75. Who is 'Elias Bates'??????

[XNASA]

110. Elias Bates is 'Bo Diddley'.

Nah-nah....stumped ya.

[drumwolf]

76. Here are my names to throw out:

James Jewel Osterberg
Jeffrey Hyman
Richard Marin

[fudge stripe cookays]

79. First one

is Iggy Pop.

[fudge stripe cookays]

82. 2nd one

is Joey Ramone.

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84. 3rd one

is Cheech of Cheech and Chong.

[drumwolf]

100. bingo!

You're awarded an extra batch of fudge for more stripe cookays! :)

[fudge stripe cookays]

112. Woo hoo!

I can go buy some more coffay to go with my fudge!

[Dedalus]

85. Cheech is 3rd? n/t

[drumwolf]

101. Yes.

And Chong's real name is.... Tommy Chong. :D

"Dude, what's in this shit?"
"Mostly Maui-Wowee.... but it's got some Labrador in it..."

:evilgrin:

[Mikimouse]

86. Osterberg=W.C. Fields?

[Dedalus]

81. How about...

--George Noel Gordon?
--Paul Hewson?
--Gregory Yefimovich?

[fudge stripe cookays]

87. 2nd one

is Bono.

[underpants]

88. Hewson is Bono

I don't know the other two.

[KurtNYC]

89. 1st is Lord Byron

but not our Lord Byron :-)

[Dedalus]

97. nice work kurtNYC! n/t

[Screaming Lord Byron]

83. William Pratt?

[terrya]

90. Boris Karloff

[XNASA]

94. Sounds scary, like some kind of monster, or something.

[Dedalus]

95. I'll be impressed if someone gets...

--Cornelius von Kujik?

[drumwolf]

104. Was it Colonel Parker, Elvis's manager?

If so, yet another of the many useless bits of info my brain retains. If only it could do the same for calculus. :silly:

[DelawareValleyDem]

105. Colonel Tom Parker

[terrya]

106. Is it Sean "Will and Grace" Hayes?

Actually, I don't have the slightest idea who that is. :-)

[DelawareValleyDem]

96. Nat Birnbaum

"There's a guy down at the sewer - he don't spell 'gnat' with a 'G' -Nat Birnbaum" Norton on the Honeymooners

[Mikimouse]

99. Art Carney

[DelawareValleyDem]

103. Actually no

Let me clarify. Nat Birnbaum is the real name of a late great entertainer. This real name was once mentioned on an episode of the Honeymooners without any reference to who the actor was.

[Mikimouse]

108. Sorry, George Burns

[KurtNYC]

107. Carole Yvette Marie Stevens

[fudge stripe cookays]

111. Connie Stevens?

[KurtNYC]

113. That's "Chaka Khan"

which btw is the noise my car makes when you try to start it and it is 10-below outside.

[CatWoman]

114. easy one: Norma Jean Baker

[KurtNYC]

116. Marilyn Monroe

[CatWoman]

115. Roy Harold Scherer, Jr

[KurtNYC]

117. Harry Shearer (Simpsons voice) ?

[terrya]

118. Rock Hudson

[CatWoman]

119. yaayyyyyyyyyy, terrya

:D

[terrya]

121. Thank you! (blushing)

Hey, I know my Rock lore. :-)

[CatWoman]

120. Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr.

[DelawareValleyDem]

122. Kareem abdul jabbar

[CatWoman]

124. Leslie Hornby

[fudge stripe cookays]

126. Twiggy, right?

[terrya]

123. whoisalhedges.

Hell, even I'm not sure now. :-)

[XNASA]

127. Mark Borchardt?

[KamaAina]

128. Jerry Rivers = Geraldo Rivera

your basic little suburban kid from Long Island suddenly realized that it was cool to be Latino.

[drumwolf]

129. actually, Geraldo Rivera is his real name

and Jerry Rivers was actually the fake Anglicized name that Geraldo used for a while during his college days.

But yes, he did change it back to his real name when he suddenly realized it was cool to be Latino.