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An idea from postings in another thread (the right thing to say):
What are the best examples people have come across of names that fit - or don't fit! - their owners' professions.
I used to live near a funeral directors which was called 'Wake and Paine'.
I knew a salesman called Cheatham and a lawyer called De Sevo.
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Dr. Beavers, gynecologist
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>Dr. Beavers, gynecologist< VERY American, Jackie - I had to think about it before I understood it! ...and what's that you're always saying about people taking threads in the direction of the gutter? 
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>What are the best examples people have come across of names that fit - or don't fit! - their owners' professions.
While not exactly on point, when I was a kid growing up in Northern Virginia, there were two brothers with last name Murphy, one was an OB-GYN, the other a mortician. Though at that time the doctor could not advertise, many people knew that their preferred slogan was "From the womb to the tomb with the Murphy brothers."
A fired of mine who went to UNC law school a few years before my wife went there swore that there was a trio of law students trying to find a fourth with a particular name so they could form the law firm: Finder, Binder, Raper and Lever. I suspect it was the third they couldn't find.
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Which reminds me of the possibly apocryphal headline after someone who had escaped from a mental institution raped some laundry workers:
Nut screws washers and bolts.
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>>Nut screws washers and bolts.
Ohmigawd! Oh, how funny! Multiple, munificent
kudos to you! My feet love this gutter!
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On the little railroad my kid loves to ride the conductor is John Silvers.
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I would cite Thomas Crapper, inventor of the flush toilet, as an example, but the euphemism for defecation came from his name. . .
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