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NorskHotDog posted:I don't know if it's some weird Norwegian thing to give your kid your last name as a first name, but I've met both a Henrik Henriksen and Kittel Kittelsen. It's the same for girls if the surname ends in -dottir instead of -sen.
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sticklefifer posted:It is. Culturally, this is like naming your kid "Junior". Literally, "Henrik is Henrik's son", or "Henrik, son of Henrik". No. That's Iceland.
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Sep 26, 2012 18:32
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Khazar-khum posted:So many variants of La-a have been told that I wouldn't be surprised if someone now gives it to their kid to be 'ironic'.
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Khazar-khum posted:Then there's the truly wild world of athlete names. My favorite is God Shammgod, while this year's Olympian Destiny Hooker is right there. I like the name Captain Munnerlyn (NFL player). Sounds like a 60s sitcom/kids' show name or something.
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Sep 27, 2012 01:19
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Hip Flask posted:No. That's Iceland. Fun fact: If you want to give your kid a unusual name in Iceland you'll have to run it by the governments name committee which will decide whether or not it's legal based on a number of factors such as whether it can be grammatically declined. However what get's through seem slightly random since "Spartakus", "Pedró", "Gísela" are all perfectly legal while "Lúsifer" and "Baltazar" are illegal.
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Sep 27, 2012 01:25
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A dentist in my hometown was named Seymour Gold. Tangential to the poster who mentioned Chinese taking Anglo names for school, the same is done for doing biz with the west. Had an overseas contact in ROC named Peter Pan.
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[quote="Aidan_702" post="407759194"] One of my friends went out with a guy last year who was called by his parents REALITY. Also don't poo poo on Aiden too much  it's not my fault most people can't spell.[/quo There was a girl in my graduating class in high school with that name.
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Sep 27, 2012 04:17
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 Went to a restaurant with my boyfriend and had a great time. Not sure who served us though...
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Sep 27, 2012 04:18
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There's this girl who was really into the Australian cosplay/fandom scene a few years ago. I never met her but I have some friends who knew her quite well, and I've seen her mentioned here on the forums a few times because apparently she's batshit crazy. Anyway, she changed her name to Lily. After Lily Potter. Not that weird, right? I mean, it's a pretty name, and people won't automatically assume she picked it from a children's book or anything. The horrible part is that she continued the Harry Potter trend with her son... Severus. 
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Sep 27, 2012 05:17
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Paracetamol Boy posted:
Where the gently caress did you go that charged $12.00 for a coke? 
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Sep 27, 2012 05:43
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FrancisYorkPatty posted:Where the gently caress did you go that charged $12.00 for a coke? If they only ordered one Coke between the two of them, it was probably a big Coke.
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Sep 27, 2012 05:46
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Are we allowed to submit our own names? Before I changed my name, I was called Iayn Kiir Pyotr Öpik (If that rings any bells, it's because this clown is my uncle). As you can see the Estonian influence was strong, and whilst Iayn wouldn't have been too bad, my parents and family always called me Kiir, and insisted to everyone else this be done as well. So. Kiir Opik. Queer, Beer, Ear, Jeer, Rear, Fear, Oprick, Opicks-his-nose, O'sick, O'thick, O'tick you name a rhyme, it was applied to me. I... did not have a happy childhood. Pretty much the day I was old enough to do so, I changed my name.
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Mister Adequate posted:Are we allowed to submit our own names? Before I changed my name, I was called Iayn Kiir Pyotr Öpik (If that rings any bells, it's because this clown is my uncle). As you can see the Estonian influence was strong, and whilst Iayn wouldn't have been too bad, my parents and family always called me Kiir, and insisted to everyone else this be done as well. How do you pronounce it?
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Sep 27, 2012 06:19
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One of my sister's retarded friends called her son Zeppelin. I mean, I love them too, but for gently caress's sake.
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Sep 27, 2012 06:52
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FrancisYorkPatty posted:Where the gently caress did you go that charged $12.00 for a coke? Maybe it was cocaine? $12 of cocaine is like barely any cocaine at all. That makes as much sense as a 12 dollar soda.
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So my sister-in-law just had a son. First name: Ryden Middle name: Dangerous Last name: Lee I hate to say "white trash" but they really are.
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Sep 27, 2012 07:18
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FrancisYorkPatty posted:Where the gently caress did you go that charged $12.00 for a coke? The line reading "VAT" indicates that it's not either the USA or Canada, so it has to be one of these other countries (many of them tropical islands, just the sort of place where you'd blow a lot of money at a bar) that uses a currency called "dollars": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar#Economies_currently_using_the_dollar For instance, 12 East Caribbean Dollars, used in Antigua and Barbuda, is about $4.50 USD. And 12 Jamaican dollars is only 13 US cents.
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During a recent trip to Old Navy I encountered a girl named "Tyranny." I guess that's what happens when your mom gives birth to you and she's so messed up on painkillers that, when the doctor asks for a name, she blurts out the first thing that comes to mind without realizing she learned it from the freaking dictionary. I also love it that someone with such a tyrannical name has a job doing something so utterly un-tyrannical and mundane.
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I have a friend who works on a military base, and he met someone who gave their son the middle name of Thebarbarian.
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Sheldrake posted:I have a friend who works on a military base, and he met someone who gave their son the middle name of Thebarbarian. Edit: oops Vidaeus has a new favorite as of 12:23 on Sep 27, 2012 |
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Sep 27, 2012 12:21
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Sheldrake posted:I have a friend who works on a military base, and he met someone who gave their son the middle name of Thebarbarian. Please tell me his first name was Conan.
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Sep 27, 2012 12:22
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FrancisYorkPatty posted:Where the gently caress did you go that charged $12.00 for a coke? Different currency - this is in ZAR.
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Just had a patient named Gay Hammie. Well thanks all.
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Nothing will ever beat Dr. Richard Chopp, M.D. His specialization? Vasectomies.
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I went to school with a set of triplets named Quark, Quantum, and Quasar. Didn't know them personally but I heard their parents were both astrophysicists. Maybe they're awesome names in general, but that's gotta kill the mood in the bedroom.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Fun fact: That's the law for pretty much the whole of Scandinavia. It's illegal to give your kid a name that can be burden for it. A Swedish couple for example wanted to name their daughter Metallica but that was denied. There's also a Norwegian law that says that if less than 200 people share a surname you have to ask them for permission to use it
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I see commercials for an eye doctor on TV all the time. His name? Dr. Harold Ballitch II. Yeah, I really want a guy named Harry Ballitch touching my eyes. He even has a website! Eyeballs all itchy? BETTER CALL DR. BALLITCH! http://www.drballitch.com/
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Where has this thread been for the past 3 years?! I deal with a ton of strange names on a daily basis at work. Best one we ever saw: Luscious N. Delicious. That was his LEGAL NAME on all of his documentation. As far as we could figure, it was the dude's drag name and he had legally changed it to his real name. A few other good ones: Traeghvaghne (pronounced "Treyvon") and the never ending reiterations of Michelle (Meshelle, Mischelle) and Ashley (Ashleigh, Ashlee, Ashli, Ashlii). I am sometimes overcome with pity for these people. Edit: Do weird naming conventions count? My friend Viola is the second daughter in a set of four, Vera, Virginia and the youngest Vickie Homoagogo has a new favorite as of 19:41 on Sep 27, 2012 |
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I sit behind a girl in my math class whose name is Eternity.
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Alhazred posted:There's also a Norwegian law that says that if less than 200 people share a surname you have to ask them for permission to use it All of them?
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I saw a good number of odd names while working sorting mail. I saw what I believe was a reminder for a medical check up addressed to a Miss Havana Biggs. A fine name for a Cuban hip-hop artist; less so for an English girl who was most likely not 6 years of age yet.
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Back in college I remember at least three or so girls named "Apple". A few guys who were named "Mickey" and "Donald" after the Disney characters, and two who were named "Winston" after Churchill. Also "Garnet" as a boy's name. His last name was Red, too. I've also processed a lot of passengers with hilarious names, but the only one I can remember now is a Southeast Asian guy with the name "Wimpy". We thought it was a mistake, so we asked for his passport. It was indeed "Wimpy".
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Homoagogo posted:never ending reiterations of and Ashley (Ashleigh, Ashlee, Ashli, Ashlii). Ashleigh is not a new or "unique" way of spelling it, it's been around since at least the 1930s. And people who give their children all the same first initial are just asking for trouble. How do they know who's mail to open?
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Dudes! posted:How do you pronounce it? Iayn Kiir Pyotr Öpik: Ian Keer Peter Opik, phonetically I believe. Alhazred posted:There's also a Norwegian law that says that if less than 200 people share a surname you have to ask them for permission to use it Call Now posted:All of them?
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jojoinnit posted:Iayn Kiir Pyotr Öpik: Ian Keer Peter Opik, phonetically I believe. In English this is right, in Estonian it would be Yan for Iayn, and Pyotr is Russian (Pyot-ur basically) because my mom wanted to troll my Russia-hating Grandma. I don't even know how to write the sounds for Kiir. Halfway between a K and a G for the start, then "ee" then a rolled "r". In this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP51rUR4NNg she pretty much says "Öpik" at the end there, just a p instead of a b. This is why I went with the English variant with everyone until I just said gently caress it and got a new name entirely.
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I used to work at a school for Native American children, and many of them had really neat last names, including Knows His Gun, already mentioned in this thread. I had compiled a list of all the great names I encountered but can't find it now -- off the top of my head, I remember Rides the White-Hipped Horse, Kills the Pretty Enemy, Kills on Top, Bear Comes Out, Bad Bear, Lone Bear, Yellow Eyes, Middle Rider, Bear Chum (the last name of a very nice little boy, first name Byron...very plausibly a friend to all bears), Scalp Cane, Big Back, and Onion. Some had first names that were traditional in their tribe -- one of my students had a sister with the first name of Red Leaf; one of my students was named Talon, another named Mountain -- and some were just badass, like the kindergartner named Valor. Then there was the kid named Chauncey.  I'm guessing it was a family name or something because why else would you give your kid that name in 1997 or thereabouts?
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Our local Vons (a supermarket chain, for you non So Californians) there was a bag girl named Latrina. Yes, it could be a pretty name if you didn't speak English, but why do that to your daughter? How do you get to be old enough to procreate without knowing what a latrine is? For a while I tutored a girl named Doqueisha. I asked her if it meant anything specific, and she said, "Yeah, my mom was an idiot." Last I heard she was in Pre-Law.
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Khazar-khum posted:Our local Vons (a supermarket chain, for you non So Californians) there was a bag girl named Latrina. Yes, it could be a pretty name if you didn't speak English, but why do that to your daughter? How do you get to be old enough to procreate without knowing what a latrine is?
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Rabbit Hill posted:I used to work at a school for Native American children, and many of them had really neat last names, including Knows His Gun, already mentioned in this thread. I had compiled a list of all the great names I encountered but can't find it now -- off the top of my head, I remember Rides the White-Hipped Horse, Kills the Pretty Enemy, Kills on Top, Bear Comes Out, Bad Bear, Lone Bear, Yellow Eyes, Middle Rider, Bear Chum (the last name of a very nice little boy, first name Byron...very plausibly a friend to all bears), Scalp Cane, Big Back, and Onion.
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Powercrazy posted:I have a friend from high school whose name is Richard Biggs. Yep, his real name. Huh, I also went to high school with a guy named Richard Biggs.
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