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Found Gay Beavers in an old phone book once.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 07:46 |
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Went to school with a Bear Bryant and a Clint Eastwood. I've worked with a Sumshine. Once tipped a stripper who went by the stage-name Jennifer. When I asked about the name she said her real name was Stawberry. For the longest time in the phone book there was a Chuck Roast.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 07:58 |
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When I lived in Louisiana, there was a fellow named Jesus Christ Hallelujah. I heard about him from family who met him when he came by the dentist, and I honestly did not believe he existed. Then I saw him on a local truck dealership ad, and there, at the bottom of his picture while he shilled a Ford, was 'Jesus C. Hallelujah'.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 08:04 |
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Chamale posted:Summer that's my name, although I wholeheartedly admit I used to hate it and think it's silly; it doesn't help that my middle name follows the whole hippie-dippy theme. My brothers also bemoan their 'unique' names. All three of us wish our mother had not been the one to name us. I've known a Spring, two Autumns, two other Summers, and a Winter. Also my best friend when I was about five was named Breeze. I knew a girl named Shajuana (pronounced Sha-KWAH-nah), and another named Lironica when I was younger.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 08:16 |
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Friend of mine went to college with brothers named Cosmo and Om Buffalo I myself went to high school with an April Showers. She had NO sense of humor about it. There's an Olympic-medalist swimmer named Misty Hyman. I get that Hyman is an old-school, dignified family name and all, but you'd think that people named Hyman would know better than to name their children adjectives.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 08:18 |
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Giant Isopod posted:Playing around searching the social security death index a few years back, I found one gentleman named Electric Buttram My dad knew a guy with that last name, who said it as "boo-TRAM." Sure...
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 08:19 |
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I giggled like an idiot when I saw William Wiener's card at work because he goes by Willy. Willy Wiener.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 08:21 |
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I went to school with a girl called Misty Bates. It wasn't intentional on anyone's part, she'd just bottomed out in the mum-taking-stepdad's-surname sweepstakes. I'm pretty sure she now goes by her middle name.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 08:21 |
At Oakland Airport, I heard a guy ask over the intercom, "is there an, uh," and he paused, like he wasn't sure it was real, "Ching Chong Lee present?" Ching Chong Lee. Like Cpt. Spring Types, I worked in the military with a guy whose last name was Areola.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 08:22 |
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ToyotaThong posted:I've worked with a Sumshine. Sumshine: When Sunshine doesn't scream 'desperately different' sufficiently. Cream-of-Plenty posted:Like Cpt. Spring Types, I worked in the military with a guy whose last name was Areola. Was he good at storming hills?
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 08:23 |
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I had to check a kid's ID last week and his surname was Nazi. He just kind of sighed and looked at me when he had to hand the card over. I don't blame him.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 08:30 |
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spite house posted:There's an Olympic-medalist swimmer named Misty Hyman. I get that Hyman is an old-school, dignified family name and all, but you'd think that people named Hyman would know better than to name their children adjectives. Her brother Rusty got the worse of it. I taught English in mainland China for a while, and they choose anglicised names for themselves that range from the unpopular in the West to the completely ridiculous. Every class in the university had a Rainbow or Sunshine, there was a dude who chose Hamburger, and one girl had chosen the unfortunate name of Cowhush. Because it's what the horrible old alcoholic who taught her class used to say to her all the time. Then I met a hairdresser who was named Viagra. Yes, he knew what it meant in English. I also occasionally go rock climbing with a dude named Sundance, but he's such a cool gentle hippy type that I think he deserves a free pass.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 08:36 |
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Holly Wood Harry Mann Apple And the most masculine name you can have, Manbir. (Man-beer)
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 08:54 |
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I went to school with a kid named Obiwan Ken Noble. He was pretty okay with it, even though both his sisters had perfectly normal names.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 09:21 |
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Guy I knew changed his middle name to Turkey Sub. Could be a walking ad for Subway. Eat Fresh!
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 09:32 |
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Giant Isopod posted:Playing around searching the social security death index a few years back, I found one gentleman named Electric Buttram My mother worked at a University and came across a Chinese girl named Dung Bitch. Many Asian students choose to use English names when studying abroad. I worked with a Malaysian girl called Rudeporn, but she went by the name Sun. Another who's name I can't remember went by the name Ice.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 09:34 |
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I knew a little boy named Indianna-Tiger.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 09:46 |
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Ebony Dicks. Poor girl.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 09:51 |
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Chewie Papas.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 09:57 |
Leocadia posted:I went to school with a kid named Obiwan Ken Noble. One, that's an amazing pun, and two, he can just go by Ken if "Obiwan" is too weird for him. I don't see the problem here.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 10:19 |
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Working in call centers for 8+ years I've come across a lot! I used to had them written down but I've lost it. One that I can remember though: Mr Strawberry Darryl Mr Rudolph Hitler Mr The Man The Man was an Asian fellow pronounced Teh. Oh! I also dated a Hayley Ball middle name Crystal. ExplodingSquid has a new favorite as of 10:22 on Sep 13, 2012 |
# ? Sep 13, 2012 10:19 |
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I knew a man who called Barbara Smith, who married a man called Glenn Dwyre. After the wedding, she insisted everyone call her Barb.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 10:21 |
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ExplodingSquid posted:Mr Rudolph Hitler This thread is for terrible names, there must be a mix-up. My ex-girlfriend requested I call her Ichigo. She was as white as you imagine.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 10:28 |
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Girl with the first name of Regret. That's gotta hurt. Also knew someone who was named for the alcoholic drink under the influence of which she was conceived.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 10:29 |
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I have some family somewhere who's three kids were named Bric, Brac, and Broc. Bric, Brac, and Broc Dike. Indiana. My cousin's daughter is named Harley. I asked his wife once where "Harley" comes from and she replied "the motorcycle". I said "you really let him name y'alls daughter Harley like the motorcycle?" and she replied "no I named her that". They have a son now too but I don't think his name is Davidson. Also I've never met him but there's a famous NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 10:43 |
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A friend of mine works in recruitment and had regular dealings with a hotel manager named Richard (Dick) Bottom. She nearly lost her poo poo completely when he took on a new deputy manager named Balls. Sad sequel, the hotel - a lovely example of Art Deco architecture - closed and is currently falling into derelict status. I guess between Bottom and Balls it ain't what it used to be.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 11:23 |
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I changed my name a few years back. I had to go in front of a judge, and the poor guy's name was Kirby Kongable. I like to think that he was sympathetic to people that wanted a new name. A friend of mine used to babysit a blacksmith's kids who were named Anvil and Gauge. A hippy girl I know named her son Ohm-Rin. Scathach has a new favorite as of 11:36 on Sep 13, 2012 |
# ? Sep 13, 2012 11:24 |
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These aren't real names but they are english names and these kids will probably use them when they grow older and don't know any better. I work at a foreign language school in China so the parents name their kids all sorts of poo poo that just sounds cool to them: - Prince - Dinosaur - Juicy - Handsome - Minirain - Angle - Pariah
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 11:41 |
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The Worst Muslim posted:These aren't real names but they are english names and these kids will probably use them when they grow older and don't know any better. I work at a foreign language school in China so the parents name their kids all sorts of poo poo that just sounds cool to them: This is just ridiculous. Everyone knows the correct spelling is "".
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 11:45 |
Abbayagaelle. I also used to work with a guy called Richard Hunter, he was cool though so we only occasionally called him Dick Hunter
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 11:55 |
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John Boehner, the current Speaker of the US House of Representatives. I know it's pronounced BAY-NER but no one in my high school Government class much cared about that.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 12:02 |
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I love it when Asian people choose their own Westernised names, because you know some names but you don't know about their context or how they're going to be perceived, so I work with a dude named Gilbert (which is awesome) and have heard him talking about his roommate Sherlock.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 12:03 |
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Aida Arian Ben Breedin Golda Tavish
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 12:15 |
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Boing posted:I love it when Asian people choose their own Westernised names, because you know some names but you don't know about their context or how they're going to be perceived, so I work with a dude named Gilbert (which is awesome) and have heard him talking about his roommate Sherlock. On a similar note; a Singaporean ex-client named Dorkus. We didn't know her last name, but every time we talked about her we referred to her as Ms Malorkus.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 12:18 |
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At my job in the New Zealand tax department we got all sorts of weird names, i used to keep a list. Muhammad Muhammad Muhammad Zoro Mr Smellie Mrs Felapenis (Pronounced feel a penis) and my favorate: Gaye Hoare.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 12:24 |
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Bich Face (though I don't quite remember the spelling of the last name) and a boy named Fuc. Pretty sure Vietnamese naming conventions are a guerilla warfare tactic. I'd imagine a few decades ago they were all rude French expressions.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 12:28 |
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Crow_Rodeo posted:I don't think Xbox live gamer tags count... Another girl I went to school with has named one of her many children Jaydann. Not that I can say much about it. My parents named me after a dog, and no, her name wasn't Indiana.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 12:34 |
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Taliaquin posted:...so did I. Lassie?
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 12:40 |
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I used to have a list of great customer names, but it was on paper and I can't find it. A few that come to mind are Scarlett Cox, Giza Bustahnutt, Bootsie McCracken, and Inta Funk (who was actually a 50ish white woman with a trust fund). My mother was a NICU nurse and came across a number of good names: "Ma'am, before you leave the hospital, we need a name to put on the birth certificate." "Oh, but I did name her" "Um, it just says 'female' Lastname here, ma'am." "No, that's my baby's name" "Female?" "No, Female (fuh-mall-ee)" .......................... "Ma'am, are you sure you want to name your baby that? It's going to be really rough on her, and other children are probably going to tease her about it." "But Diarrhea is such a pretty word!" My dad was the counselor in a public-housing project elementary school and also encountered hundreds of interesting names. Of course I've forgotten most of them, but I do remember Qalvin (Calvin), multiple variations of Shitawnya, and, at one time, seven girls named Unique, although one was spelled differently: Quniqua. Yeah, you could say that was pronounced... uniquely
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 12:41 |
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My parents nearly named me Arjen after my grandpa, pronounced pretty much the same way as in the OP. It's not an uncommon Dutch name, and pretty normal around here.
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