Walter Mondale is a Funny Name

I find the name Walter Mondale to be very funny. Walter Mondale was the vice president under Jimmy Carter, I don’t even know what the guy’s position is on anything I assume he was old guard democrat because that’s who everyone was then, but the name Walter Mondale is extremely funny to me.

It’s a certain level of mundane. Walter Mondale. Bob, a name which most people think is funny also sounds mundane, but Bob is boring, it lacks luster its stale. Sure it’s a boring name, its in with other mundane names like John or Frank. But these names also now lackluster. Then you have exotic names, Mercury Aries Ignatius: these names are exotic. They’re not boring or mundane but then there’s Walter Mondale its so mundane that it sounds out of place to me.

Walter Mondale.

Walter, it’s a German name that means “Power of the Army” It was popular long ago but now its less so. I’ve met people named Walter, I’ve seen heard of on TV or in real life of people named Walter and I’ve heard last names that sound like Mondale. But you put it together and it sounds out of place.

Walter Mondale is an AI who wants to be normal and blend in so it creates the most normal sounding name it can think of but it just sounds off. Now that’s false, Walter Mondale was a real person, he died in 2021, but his name sounds like a computer invented it to better blend in and scam people.

Why do I not laugh as much as I do at other funny names. Gay bowser. I never found this to be too funny on its own. Richard Mentor Johnson, another vice president, who despite having possibly the objectively funniest name I don’t laugh at. But Walter Mondale, well now I’m on the floor busting a gut.