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Haji posted:One of my co-workers has a cousin named Candida and I also met some idiot woman who named her child Lucifer. I also know a Candida. For any of you not in the know, Candida is a type of fungus, mostly known as a yeast infection. She goes by "Candy." A guy I know who is in sales happens to have a pretty cool last name, and customers always ask if it's actually his real name and he didn't make it up (it's real): Moneymaker.
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Buzkashi posted:My friend passed out in public and was taken to a hospital, and when I went to check on him I met the nurse keeping an eye on him - a nurse named Mommy. Literally Mommy. My job involves a lot of talking to nurses, and holy loving poo poo, nurses have the worst names. I swear it's a requirement for the job. In the same day I spoke to a Shiny and a Twinkle. WHO NAMES THEIR KID THAT?
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A friend of mine is named Chalence. His parents are raging hippies and just totally made it up. His middle name is Timber.
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Just within my family: Bobby Robertson Robbie Robertson Robyn Robertson It's getting old, guys. Stoatbringer posted:I worked at a company where one of the bosses was called Forest Basket. My mother works for the state and has had to deal with the records of one Magnolia Basket. Any relation, I wonder? I worked in a call center and saw a lot of weird names, but the one that stands out is Rebel Lee(f). 
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I work with medical records so I see hundreds of names a day. All time favorite, Yourmajesty Johnson
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I work with a lot of people from Botswana/Mozambique and they have the finest names on earth, bar none. Last month I met Crystal Dick and Shiny Bijou. I'm in regular contact with Mr Urban Pigeon, as well as Miss Delicious Taylor. And a nurse friend of mine had to persuade a young woman out of naming her newborn daughter Chanterelle. Yes, it sounds like a sweet, charming French name for a girl, but it's the name of a bright yellow mushroom. No girl wants to be named after a fungus. Not even a tasty one.
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I used to work intake for a social services agency, and I got to see hundreds of names a week. One time I got a packet for three kids in one family: Jesus (Smith), Arlord, and Savior. Jesus and Savior you could almost get a way with, but it sucks to be Arlord.
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I was named after my grandfather and his father, both separately completely normal names. Together, they're from a very popular children's song. John Jacob. I've heard that drat song more times than anyone in history. Met a Sgt. in the Army named John Rambo. A friend of mine has a son named Zombie Xavier. My grandmother's maiden name was Buttram. First and middle Irma May. I May Buttram, could have easily ended up May I Buttram. On the other hand, I know a guy named William Edward Alexander III. Most regal sounding name I've ever heard.
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Over here we also have laws against ridiculous names. They aren't as strict as in other countries, though, since I read on a news website that parents were allowed to name their kids Emelie- Extra, Justin Alfalfa, Pepsi-Carola and Winnetou, which is the name of a male Native American male chief in a popular book series. The person called Winnetou was a girl. Personally, I went to school with a really nerdy girl named Arwen and another girl named Skrollan, which I know is a normal Swedish name, but it still sounds weird to me. My friend and her sister are called Ariane and Ariette which I find a bit silly. I also met a guy named Christopher whose second name was Adolf. Considering we are German, that is really unfortunate. I don't know if his parents were neonazis or whether it was some kind of family tradition. Usually the worst thing that happens here are parents who give their kids names like Beyonce, Britney or Rihanna, but are unable to pronounce them properly. I knew some Goth chick who named her child Marilyn Tarja after Marilyn Manson and Tarja Turunen, in combination with a stereotypically southern German last name, it sounded hilarious. I also know a bunch of Goths who go by names like Nox and Merlina and refuse to use their official names most of the time. Also I am so disappointed that names in American phone books are not always real. I remember finding a guy named Boy B. Banana in an online phone directory and I want this to be his real name. I also had a lecturer from Cameroon at University whose first name was Pepetual. Yes, without an r. She went by Peps and was pretty cool. lucythenomad has a new favorite as of 06:29 on Dec 9, 2012 |
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I went to camp with a kid named Benjamin Dover. And he was a Jr., so his dad must have been aware. A social worker told me about a family she worked with that tried to keep a named convention where the names all started with "corn." There was Cornelius, Cornell... and Cornice. As in, the decorative ledges over windows.
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Admiral Goodenough posted:I saw an episode of a home makeover show where one of the girls was called Shaolin. On the one hand it's a pretty cool name if you're a Wu-Tang fan, but to everyone else you will still be named after a monastery. Did she have a sister named Medina?
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The summer camp I used to go to was founded by a Mr. Richard Boner. Dick Boner. Us 14-year-olds had a lot of fun with that.
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I used to work in hotels, so there were a few. I worked with a girl named Toshiba, and her son was Dasani (I saw that name in this thread already though). There was an airline captain named Captain Horsey There was another airline captain called Captain Pancake There was a guy whose last name was Griesedieck, pronounced "Greazy Dick". I told my dad about it, who grew up during the depression in Southern Illionois, and without batting an eye, he said "Oh there's a Griesedieck beer. I almost got kicked out of a bar during the War for ordering a "Greazy Dick"".
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Just did calendars with custom family birthdays for a customer. One name on there: Hilanate Natery. There were also birthdays marked for Ayame Littlepants and Mayumi Azazel. Ayame and Mayumi are real Japanese girls' names, but Azazel is a demonic-related name from the Bible...and also the name of a (male) X-man character. I don't even know about Littlepants.
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ms_hyena posted:Just did calendars with custom family birthdays for a customer. One name on there: Hilanate Natery. I desperately hope that by "family" you mean "passel of spoilt cats owned by a weirdo." I can't deal with Littlepants. It sounds like a character in a Game of Thrones-themed parody porno.
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bringmyfishback posted:I desperately hope that by "family" you mean "passel of spoilt cats owned by a weirdo." Unfortunately, I saw the baby pictures that made up 75% of this calendar. And upon reviewing it today, I realized that almost all of these babies were white, making me wonder just how likely it is that little Ayame and Mayumi are the children of weeaboos. Which would explain Azazel (but not Littlepants, seriously, what? at least keep to a theme when you name your children horribly!).
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ms_hyena posted:Unfortunately, I saw the baby pictures that made up 75% of this calendar. And upon reviewing it today, I realized that almost all of these babies were white, making me wonder just how likely it is that little Ayame and Mayumi are the children of weeaboos. Which would explain Azazel (but not Littlepants, seriously, what? at least keep to a theme when you name your children horribly!). Oh, god, and what if Littlepants gets fat? Then it's just mean, like when the two fattest kids in my entire middle school had the last names of "Butts" and "Wadler."
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My name is Beavis Marxism.
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This is not really terrible but there's a guy at my workplace called Troy. That's it. His whole name is just Troy.
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I've encountered a never ending flood of terrible names doing social work. A couple which always stuck with me were Princess Armani My Love Porsche(that's the 'first' name) and Ma Luk.
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I had a user (let's call him Bob) who frantically called me one day asking if it was at all possible to recall a sent email. I told them it was only possible when very certain criteria was met (both sender and recipient have to be on a certain email platform), and this was not such a case. Apparently we had a customer whose name was Outerbridge Horsey, and this moron accidentally hit "reply all" instead of "forward" when he meant to send an email to his girlfriend cracking jokes about this guy's unique name. Thankfully, Mr. Horsey is a very understanding individual. Bob is one of my dumbest users, and still has a job, unfortunately. Also : our sales team works with a guy named Richard Odor.
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I know someone named Richard Payne. No, it never stops being hilarious.
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Harvey is a bad name.
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I don't think you understand the point of this thread.
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One of the top guns at Barclays Bank is an American investment banker called Rich Ricci . It's pretty appropriate - he was one of the "fat cat bankers" who got criticised for his wealth after the 2008 crash, and until recently his boss was a Mr Diamond . You still have to wonder who the hell sends their kid to school called that, though.
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A girl I was friends with in high school posted a picture of her newborn nephew on Facebook. His name is Dyson. She became very upset when people were asking why he's named after a vacuum cleaner.
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I had a brief work-related correspondence with Dr. Manish Butt
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Rino posted:A girl I was friends with in high school posted a picture of her newborn nephew on Facebook. His name is Dyson. She became very upset when people were asking why he's named after a vacuum cleaner. Was he named after Freeman Dysahaha who am I kidding
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VogeGandire posted:I don't think you understand the point of this thread. Maybe he understands it better than any of us...
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Harvey isn't my favourite name.
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lucythenomad posted:German names German naming laws are weird. My best friend was born in Germany (GI dad, German mom) and is called Jordana because they couldn't name a girl Jordan. Unsurprisingly, she goes by Jordan, but I think Jordana is pretty. 
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I've recently learned that my brother goes to school with a girl named Katana Roy-Cutting. Katana Cutting. A martial-arts-sploitation flick writer would say that name's "a little too much".
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Just ran across a document for a child by the name of Beezle Wieth. I looked up the name to see if it maybe meant anything special. Beezle is on the Urban Dictionary as This term is used to describe any activity done for its own sake/pleasure which lead me to determine the parent is an rear end in a top hat.
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One of my friends once heard a callout in an airport for Mister Aridando Alfranco. I went to school with the children of some parents who gave their children traditional Cornish names. Their eldest son, Headric, known as 'boy'. Their daughter, Damarisk, known as 'Gozzel'. And their youngest son, who was known simply as 'newby'. I was nearly named "Isaac Hayes", after the mad scientologist/singer/voice actor. And a question - can anyone explain this whole "A-a pronounced Adasha racist myth" thing? I don't get what's racist about that. Isn't it just a tale about a silly name that doesn't really exist, like that photoshop of a driving license for 'Suparman bin Batman'?
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The_White_Crane posted:And a question - can anyone explain this whole "A-a pronounced Adasha racist myth" thing? Put it to you this way, how often have you ever heard it told about someone named M@, Ma~, or |r? (That's "Matt", "Matilde", or "Piper".)
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I've never heard it told at all until this thread. Why is "Adasha" racist when other punctuation mark related names aren't? Edit: Wait, is 'Adasha' a name that would immediately mean 'black person' to most Americans or something? The_White_Crane has a new favorite as of 22:00 on Dec 18, 2012 |
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I see someone isn't familiar with the work of -iell Hammet.
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Ezenunim posted:Just ran across a document for a child by the name of Beezle Wieth. I looked up the name to see if it maybe meant anything special. Beezle is on the Urban Dictionary as This term is used to describe any activity done for its own sake/pleasure which lead me to determine the parent is an rear end in a top hat.
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