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How about a cool name? Icelandic Strongman Thor Bjornsson. 6'10" and 450lbs of viking power. His full name is HafThor Julius Bjornsson, but he goes by the name Thor (why wouldn't he?). 
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DemonDarkhorse posted:I remember a few years ago reading an article about a baby named "Urhines Kendall Icy Eight Special K," with that first part being pronounced "your highness." I think there is/was a college football player named Yourhighness as well. At least the first dude can go by Kendall. There was an odd kid that moved to my hometown during junior high whose first and middle names were Prince Yourmajesty. I'm just guessing on the spelling since I don't think I ever saw his name written down.
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Sep 17, 2012 03:10
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I just found out that there's a guy who works for my company named Matress Fever. I'm torn. On one hand it's awesome but on another it's really bad.
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Sep 17, 2012 03:12
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In the category of attempting uniqueness, I know a girl named "Khrystyn" which is of course pronounced "Kristin." I also knew a boy named Lazzarious, and several little girls named "Precious" and "Treasure." I also worked at a daycare with a woman named Princess, and due to her role as a preschool teacher, the kids had to call her "Miss Princess."
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Sep 17, 2012 03:12
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Back in a small town I used to live in, there was a very prominent doctor who was part of my high school - like a member of the council or someone pretty important like that. Hist first name is not important. His last name? Butcher. Dr. Butcher
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Sep 17, 2012 04:15
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Okay, another teacher reporting in -- these are all names I personally read off roll calls while working as a sub. In increasing order of absurdity: Valkyrie (actually I really like this one but my wife says no way) Furious (a girl who turned out to be pretty awesome) Caprice Arizabeth Qwyentzz (pronounced "quin-tez") and my very favorite: Trecharous
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Sep 17, 2012 04:46
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I worked for a while at a retirement home, two names that stand out are Rusty Main and Bea Hatch.
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Sep 17, 2012 06:01
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Not a first name, but if you drive through Indiana you'll see a ton of billboards for RV salesman Tom Raper. The signs are everywhere. I also met an art student named The Zenith.
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Sep 17, 2012 06:50
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Zerz posted:I also knew a boy named Lazzarious, and several little girls named "Precious" and "Treasure." Along those lines, I've heard "Cherish" before.
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Sep 17, 2012 08:26
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Occultatio posted:Okay, another teacher reporting in -- these are all names I personally read off roll calls while working as a sub. In increasing order of absurdity: That sounds like the City Wok guy in South Park tried to say Elizabeth.
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Sep 17, 2012 12:33
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Zerz posted:I also worked at a daycare with a woman named Princess, and due to her role as a preschool teacher, the kids had to call her "Miss Princess." My mom worked at a preschool in the 1970s and says she taught boy-girl twins named Toady and Widget. I think Widget might have been the girl, but I'm not sure. She says those were nicknames and not their legal names, but she never learned their legal names because that's how their parents signed them up and those were the only names they answered to. Also, this was at a hippie preschool called Middle Earth.
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Sep 17, 2012 15:28
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I've also seen a Richard Butt. It was at a Bob Evans, and as I was waiting in line to pay, I looked up at the wall and there was a sign that said "Manager on Duty:" and right underneath that, in gold plating, was Richard Butt. I got out my phone to take a picture, but before I could focus on it, I saw a man behind the counter giving me a dirty look. Sorry, Dick.
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Sep 17, 2012 18:31
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Idiot Kicker posted:Along those lines, I've heard "Cherish" before. Cherith Cutestory? I just remembered these: Almondie Champagne, the last name pronounced "Sham-PINE." Ginger trailer trash, got kicked out of school for beating a girl's face against a sink. Kirai, a little kid in my friend's English class. It means "hate." Of course, it's written with different kanji, but STILL... Mark LaFramboise, a kid who went to my high school. It means "raspberry" in French. (I also think Shia LeBouef is a funny name, especially for such a skinny little dude. Not very beefy.)
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Sep 17, 2012 18:47
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I went to university with a guy named Zoltan Laszlo. He was an utter dick. But maybe he can be forgiven, because how else are you supposed to make it through life with a name like that? Also, this is one was just a near miss, but a few years back one of my childhood friends was dating an African girl called Stability. His surname is Walker. I was pretty upset to learn they'd broken up and wouldn't be getting married. 
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Sep 17, 2012 19:11
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My cousin named his daughter Hawna. I'll admit that it has grown on me but it is still an awful, awful name.
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Sep 17, 2012 19:48
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Infant boy Tiny (middle name Michael) Bubbles and mother Princess. Brother and sister Precious and Righteous Bush. A coworker named Earleen Hornius, which is just awful, jesus.
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Sep 17, 2012 20:35
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One of the doctors on Curious And Unusual Deaths is named John Butt. He's a middle aged, beer gutted, bald guy which makes it even funnier.
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Sep 17, 2012 20:52
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Just remembered - my brother was in a play directed by a guy whose first name was apparently Trilby
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Sep 17, 2012 21:00
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If I remember right, my freshman year at uni our football team's quarterback was named Socrates Zacharias. Edit: He was a linebacker actually, it turns out.
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Sep 17, 2012 21:46
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My friend's sister just had a kid. She named him Jaxzon, supposedly after Jackson from Sons of Anarchy. I have also encountered a Blayden on a bus a year or two ago, his name was written on his stroller for some reason.
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Sep 17, 2012 22:19
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Weird name in context. I worked for a spell at a webmail company. We used our corporate server as a test server - corp.companyname.com - and we used First + 7 Last as our addresses. Example: jthegoon@corp.companyname.com One day 'alias@corp.companyname.com' shows up out of the blue in the corporate index. It's in the A's, and it's pretty obviously a test account...so we start using that account as our Let's Run This poo poo Into The Ground account. Just...HUGE attachments, 500 messages an hour...CD quality WAV files of fart sounds, you name it. About 2 months go by, and this little dude from accounting or marketing or something comes over on a tour of our new building, and is introduced around... Why, Hello, there, ANDREW LIAS. At least he was a good sport about it all. *sigh* A guy I went to junior high school was Jeff Cashdollar, which was pretty awesome - doubly so, as he played football, and his jersey read CA$HDOLLAR. Kenny Rogers has a new favorite as of 22:22 on Sep 17, 2012 |
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Sep 17, 2012 22:20
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Twisha. Tricia with a lisp. This irritated the gently caress out of me when I went to school with her because every time someone said her name, I instinctively thought someone was mocking her. 
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Sep 17, 2012 22:59
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The journalism teacher at my high school was named Triona, and she told us once about a man she dated in college who proposed to her and she rejected him. His last name was Hill. I think she made a grave error. My best friend is a kindergarten teacher in meth-ville, Idaho, and she had a kid in her class last year named Tigger. My father went to elementary school in Alaska with a little girl named 9. Not Nine, but 9. Apparently when she was born, they'd thought she was going to be a boy. Her mother had promised her father that he could name their next child after his favorite hockey player. Lo and behold, he instead chose the jersey number, since apparently a numeral is more acceptable to name a girl than a boy's name. And I went to high school with a family whose two eldest children were named Paul and Paula. Their last name was Paul. Yep. Paul Paul and Paula Paul.
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Sep 17, 2012 23:02
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the sky posted:I went to university with a guy named Zoltan Laszlo. He was an utter dick. But maybe he can be forgiven, because how else are you supposed to make it through life with a name like that? Quite easily if you're Hungarian. It's not at all an odd name in Hungary. Some true names that my ex-wife saw due to her job: Brothers named Philadelphia and Pencilvania (yes, spelled that way). Ted E. Bear Billionaire Sunny Rainey And for work, I once was in a colorectal surgery with Dr. Hameed Butt
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Sep 17, 2012 23:51
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A while back, I started collecting strange names. I spent a lot of time trolling through birth announcements, and I kept the strange ones I found. Then I started a web site. What can I say? It turned into a very strange hobby. Most of these names came from birth announcements. To be fair, not all would be real names - hospitals post what the parents tell them, so if you run across an announcement for a Sweety Pretty-Face, it might very well really be a Madeleine Rose. Place names: Des Moine, Jr. Johnny Vegas Daphne Champs-Elysees Denali Leann Tangier Oasis Malaysia Paris Atlantis Biloxi Faith Manhattan KenNya Tavianna Cardi Queen Nairobi Philadelphia Santee Hero Himalaya - a little girl Korea Daizy, mother was named Retina London Cloud siblings India, China, Israel, Ireland and Alaska Switzerlynne Ambergris Caye Melbourne Julian Joseph Aucklynn Talladega Joseph - I have to admit I kind of like the way this sounds Parisiene Nykia Alaska Reigne Tacoma Malibu Highland Guadalupe Cambodia Chateaubriand And the one that sums them all up - Earth.
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Sep 18, 2012 00:29
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Most of my physics teachers or their children tend to have strange names, my college physics teacher was a Professor Stankey, and my high school teacher named his son "Vector"
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Sep 18, 2012 01:14
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Jabs posted:One day 'alias@corp.companyname.com' shows up out of the blue in the corporate index. I went to a school where your email name was 8 letters long--if your name was longer, it got truncated, if it was shorter, they added as many letter from your first name as needed. I have an 8 letter last name, so mine was just lastname, but there was a guy there named Robert Ward, which made his email wardrobe.
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Sep 18, 2012 01:39
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This is fairly tame compared to most of the other names, but my childhood dentist was Dr. Bonkers.
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Sep 18, 2012 01:46
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MAKE NO BABBYS posted:Do you live near the South Bay Area? Those are my friend's daughter's names. I live in Seattle. I've also remembered a couple more names: Richard (Dick) Heiny, my next door neighbor growing up, and a poor sweet girl I knew whose legal name is Ah Ha Chu. She goes by Sarah.
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Sep 18, 2012 02:22
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Some lady I went to high school with just named her baby Kingston Kenneth King. I also know a goth girl from high school who named her baby Draven. Yay for small towns. 
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Sep 18, 2012 02:30
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My brother knew a guy named Zebulon, and I've seen a kid named Katana. Another winning name was CJ. It didn't stand for anything; he was just two letters. There's no shortage of Ann/Anne/Anna/Annie-May/Mae around here either. Less hillbilly male names, but there are still a few.
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Sep 18, 2012 02:34
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Bonster posted:
1. What the hell kind of political motivations are at work here? 2. Nothing says "Mommy loves you!" like naming your kid Whale Barf. 3. "This is my baby. I named it MEAT." Fleta Mcgurn has a new favorite as of 13:50 on Apr 10, 2016 |
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Sep 18, 2012 02:37
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My brother named his youngest daughter Caldie, my paternal grandmother's maiden name. She was originally going to be Doris, but my sister-in-law put the kibosh on that. We're all used to it now, but some relatives were threatening to call her "baby girl" for awhile. She was also nicknamed CJ at first since her middle name is Josephine, but people got over it. An old friend of mine named her daughter Analese, as in "anna-leece" and the spelling drives me batty. A girl I went to high school with was Araby and her valedictorian speech revolved around where the name came from, which I've since forgotten because it was boring.
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Sep 18, 2012 03:19
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Tourette Meltdown posted:Infant boy Tiny (middle name Michael) Bubbles and mother Princess. Brother and sister Precious and Righteous Bush. A coworker named Earleen Hornius, which is just awful, jesus.  Edit: Too many to list. http://www.you-can-be-funny.com/FunnyLastNames.html
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Sep 18, 2012 03:38
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bringmyfishback posted:1. What the hell kind of political motivations are at work here? It could be creepier. I had neighbors that named their children after the places they were conceived. Paris or Sydney may not be so bad, but what happens if the condom breaks in Wagga Wagga?
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Sep 18, 2012 03:49
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I have also seen David K. Fish, L.L.B and a construction contractor called Buttcon
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Sep 18, 2012 03:58
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hyperhazard posted:It could be creepier. I had neighbors that named their children after the places they were conceived. Paris or Sydney may not be so bad, but what happens if the condom breaks in Wagga Wagga? poo poo, my name would be Grandma's House.
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Sep 18, 2012 04:25
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hyperhazard posted:It could be creepier. I had neighbors that named their children after the places they were conceived. Paris or Sydney may not be so bad, but what happens if the condom breaks in Wagga Wagga? I suspect that's where names like Ambergris Caye came from (it's a resort island, the largest in Belize). So every time she hears her name, she's reminded of where her parents had sex. I didn't like my parents kissing in front of me as a kid. The only intercourse I wanted to be aware of between them was a lively conversation. Oh, and some parents have drinking problems. Hennessey Torshae - lots of Hennessy/Hennessey/Henecy Henecy Alizae Kahlua Bacardi Dom Perignon Jack Daniels Chardonay Raine
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Allegedly a friend of my sister heard a lady calling her kid who she happened to have named Ampersand. I don't know if I believe it but drat, lady.
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