"Butt Funnel"? I was tempted.

The pros and cons of capitalizing on an odd name.

“You must have been teased a lot as a kid!”

I still hear that comment fairly regularly in my travels. People who are tickled by my last name are often surprised to learn that, no, I did not get teased at all because of it. Butt was not an unusual name in my hometown. I’m the youngest of a gaggle of kids. Loads of cousins. Aunts and Uncles (which I believ…