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The_White_Crane posted:Edit: That's the stereotype, anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_culture#Names Phy has a new favorite as of 22:49 on Dec 18, 2012 |
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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. Actually its probably an americanization of the name Xiao-Lin which is a reasonably common girls name. Sorry its not interesting. I have a few friends from college with odd names, Nastiti who went by Nasti for short, and Dam My who's name was pretty much impossible to shorten since "my" i pronounced like "me". I also dated a girl named Porn for like 3 months, yes apparently it means something else in Thai, but still.
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My parents named me Autto. Thank God they changed it when we moved to Canada.
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I sometimes do classroom observations for work and recently I was stationed in preschools. I saw a lot of terrible spellings and lots of Madisons and the standard bad child name fare, but the one that really stood out was Anakin. Yeah, like Darth Vader's baby name. I didn't think I heard right so I sneaked a look at his cubby label to check. It's not a name that existed before Star Wars, right? He was a cute little dude so I hope he's got an OK middle name to fall back on.
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Got a Kryestyn today. Of all the ways to spell Kristin/Kristen, what the gently caress?
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Got a Kryestyn today. Of all the ways to spell Kristin/Kristen, what the gently caress? Cry Stein, the saddest Jew of all.
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This is a list of baby names which the site calls, kindly, 'unusual'. http://www.babycenter.com/0_unusual-baby-names-of-2012_10375911.bc I post it here only because 'Fedora' is on the list, for girls.
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Uncle Salty posted:This is a list of baby names which the site calls, kindly, 'unusual'. Who named their kid Mango? I hope he grows up to be a good dancer of ambiguous sexual preference.
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Dec 22, 2012 21:42
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Uncle Salty posted:This is a list of baby names which the site calls, kindly, 'unusual'. Gilmore. Joshitha. Shoog.  My friend's middle name is Jazzi. He was named after the dog. I know a kid who has a long, difficult African name, which is shortened to a pretty great and simple nickname, so that's fine. His surname is Bowels. Pronounced as you'd expect. 
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My cousin gave his daughter the middle name of Ripley after the heroine from the Alien films. Kind of cool I guess. But what to do when the tyke asks where her name comes from? Show her the movie? Also was in a hospital room with a man named Max Power. He had a tattoo of a fist with a lightning bolt through it on his bicep. Finally, working at a school I came across the name Candy Lane on a year 7 role.
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Uncle Salty posted:This is a list of baby names which the site calls, kindly, 'unusual'. I don't know if it's been said in this thread, but the Fedora hat was actually named after a woman. I forget exactly who, but she wore that style of hat in a play and it took off from there. The Trilby got its name the same way. At least, that's what I'm telling myself because if people are naming their children after hats now, I'm going to be sad for a long time. Edit: Here we go: Wikipedia posted:The word fedora comes from the title of an 1882 play by dramatist Victorien Sardou, Fédora, written for Sarah Bernhardt.[4] The play was first performed in the United States in 1889. Bernhardt played Princess Fédora, the heroine of the play, and she wore a hat similar to what is now considered a fedora.
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I was once looking through old class lists at a school and saw a kid named Chase Cox
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Parasol Prophet posted:I don't know if it's been said in this thread, but the Fedora hat was actually named after a woman. I forget exactly who, but she wore that style of hat in a play and it took off from there. The Trilby got its name the same way.
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Carnaticum posted:Also was in a hospital room with a man named Max Power. He had a tattoo of a fist with a lightning bolt through it on his bicep. You're in the wrong thread. This is "terrible names" and you are looking for "PYF Coolest Person You've Ever Met."
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There's a guy in my city. A grown rear end man with frontal lobes and everything. Legally entitled to vote. He had his name legally changed to Kakarot. I've not found anybody who knows what his real name was previously. I presume that he had anyone who did know killed.
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Dec 23, 2012 01:58
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The other day I came across a complaint form filled out by someone named Mashaelareigh.
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kitsunamugen posted:There's a guy in my city. A grown rear end man with frontal lobes and everything. Legally entitled to vote. Sounds a lot like "the kid" from the old HumperMonkey thread about the drama train that was raising a kid his ex-wife (and her lovely gene pool) ruined. It's somewhere in the archives, and is absolute gold. Content: dunno if I've posted this, but a girl I was once friends with named her baby Gayge, after the kid from Pet Sematary.
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Just read Rob Lowes book. His second kid is named Johnowen, apparently a compromise for his wife and him. I just hear someone with an awful lisp trying to say Jonathan.
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Retired basketball star God Shammgod has started an after-school basketball program in my state.Carnaticum posted:My cousin gave his daughter the middle name of Ripley after the heroine from the Alien films. Kind of cool I guess. But what to do when the tyke asks where her name comes from? Show her the movie? Why not? Ripley owns. venus de lmao has a new favorite as of 06:43 on Dec 23, 2012 |
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Literally Named Dan posted:My name is Beavis Marxism. I thought it was Dan.
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Carnaticum posted:My cousin gave his daughter the middle name of Ripley after the heroine from the Alien films. Kind of cool I guess. But what to do when the tyke asks where her name comes from? Show her the movie? Show her the movie and thank your lucky stars she isn't one of the many, many kids born over the past few years named after a Twilight character.
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My coworker named his daughter Annika. Why Annika? Because that's the human name of Seven of Nine from Star Trek Voyager of course! They also have another kid named George, middle name Lucas. The thing that confused me more, however, was that they have never seen Deep Space Nine, only TOS, TNG, Voyager and Enterprise EDIT: Defiance Industries posted:You're in the wrong thread. This is "terrible names" and you are looking for "PYF Coolest Person You've Ever Met." You know that it's a lame Simpsons joke, right? Homer changed his name to Max Power for an episode once. "I got it off a blow dryer!" Shame Boy has a new favorite as of 13:11 on Dec 23, 2012 |
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Watching Law and Order: SVU last night for some reason - one of the producers on the show is called Speed Weed. I'm still trying to decide whether this is terrible or awesome.
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I went to high school with a dude named Jason Mason. He vowed that, on the day of his 18th birthday, his present to himself would be to march down to the courthouse and either change his name right then and there or, at the very least, start the process because, well, he had no idea how that thing actually worked. Sadly, I don't know if he did or not. This particular fellow was actually a swell dude, if a bit obnoxious and somewhat rude. Not a bad guy to be around, but he'd be a major liability at a black tie event. I also briefly worked with a guy named Harry Johnson. Like, for real. I'm dead serious. I'm not making this up. His parents, truly and honestly, looked at their last name and decided that Harry was a good name for him. And no, I'm not saying that they named him Harold and it never occurred to them that this is where Harry comes from. No. They dead seriously specifically named him Harry. As in, they wrote that poo poo right on his birth certificate. This guy was an unbelievable rear end in a top hat that hated everything and everybody. He was nice to exactly nobody. But, see, nobody called him on it or gave him grief about it because, well, we knew WHY and could totally not fault him. I briefly knew another guy whose last name was Hurl. I don't know what his first name was because he never told anybody and insisted that everybody call him Hurl. On one hand, I suspect he was ex-military and just went by his last name. On the other hand, I think he was amused that everybody called him what was another word for puke. This guy was a joker so I'm going to guess it was a mix of the two. On what is, I'm going to say, a sadder note, when I worked as a waiter, I served two families with daughters that were named Princess. Or at least that's what they told me. I'm hoping they were full of poo poo. The girls were very, very young (I'm talking like 2 or 3) so I have no idea how they turned out but I can't help but assume they'd grow up having massive princess complexes. Especially considering that these were parents that decked them out in princess gear, doted all over them, and acted more like servants than parents. A kid briefly came to my high school that was named Blaze. Teachers would assume he was trying to skirt a nickname past them but no, he was honestly named Blaze. Never really got to know him but he LOOKED like typical greasy white trash. He didn't go to our school for more than a year. He never got in trouble, didn't say much, and played trumpet in the band so I'm going to assume that he was a way better person than he looked. ToxicSlurpee has a new favorite as of 19:32 on Dec 23, 2012 |
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ToxicSlurpee posted:On what is, I'm going to say, a sadder note, when I worked as a waiter, I served two families with daughters that were named Princess. Or at least that's what they told me. I'm hoping they were full of poo poo. The girls were very, very young (I'm talking like 2 or 3) so I have no idea how they turned out but I can't help but assume they'd grow up having massive princess complexes. Especially considering that these were parents that decked them out in princess gear, doted all over them, and acted more like servants than parents. I have met some families with daughters named Princess, and they all act like that for some goddamn reason. I guess the mothers really wanted to be a princess as a kid?
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Why not? Ripley owns.
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SHAM BAM BAMINA posted:Because creepy, violent, profanity-filled action/horror movies might not be the best thing to show someone who can be described as a "tyke"? My ex was named Kyle after Kyle Reese from Terminator, and if you check Wolfram Alpha there's a huge leap in Kyle popularity post 1984. That film isn't really suitable for kids either.
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There was a guy in my high school who pretty obviously had fetal alcohol syndrome, and his name was LaVodka. There was also a black dude named Ching Chung *normal last name*
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:I have met some families with daughters named Princess, and they all act like that for some goddamn reason. I guess the mothers really wanted to be a princess as a kid? I think it has to do with the increase in the "every girl is a princess" mentality but yeah I can't help but wonder if that's part of it. Mother thinks back to her childhood and finds it lacking in the "everybody serving me all the time" department and decides to give her child that life. And then turns her child into a soulless, spiteful monster. I've met women that were raised that was as kids and, invariably, they are horrible, selfish people that expect to be treated like, well, royalty. It's like saying "yes please, I'd like to have a narcissistic monster of a child." I'm not saying that you should treat children badly, just that there needs to be some kind of middle ground. Treat them too well and it SHOWS later in life. And it kind of confuses me. Being royalty would really loving suck, if you think about it. Royalty tends to get assassinated. Everything you do is placed under tight scrutiny and plastered all over the tabloids. You can't have a normal life in any stretch of the phrase. Always need to look perfect and act and think a certain way. Yeah sure you'd be ridiculously rich, but the richer you are, the more poo poo you have that can be stolen, which means you need to take measures to protect said poo poo. Sounds awful to me. I'd rather be a smelly, belching peasant. At least nobody gives a drat if I get drunk and pass out in the gutter. If the Queen did that. Boy howdy. Plus poor people get potatoes and potatoes are delicious.
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My cousin named his kid Kire--"Erik" backwards. :-/
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I met a woman who named her baby boy Ocean.
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The_White_Crane posted:I've never heard it told at all until this thread. Here's almost an exact transcription of the supposed e-mail that the myth originated from. If you can read this and don't understand why it's racist it's probably the pointy white hood obscuring your vision.
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First time I saw that it was shown to me by somebody who was trying to tell me that it wasn't anti-black, it was anti-stupid. It was very, very hard not to find a brick and hit that person.
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SHAM BAM BAMINA posted:Because creepy, violent, profanity-filled action/horror movies might not be the best thing to show someone who can be described as a "tyke"? Yeah, pretty much this. Ripley is a strong female character so I get that aspect of it, but how old are most kids when they ask where there name comes from or what it means? In other news, I remembered that I knew somebody with the last name Dick. No big deal, I guess, just some Scottish name. But she herself pointed out something weird to me. Her name was Naomi and her sisters name was Lana. Put those names backwards and you get I moan and Anal. As if having to put up with Dick as a last name wasn't bad enough. I know somebody who called Justin Case. Poor sod. I also went to school with somebody called Jello. And for something less personal, Dave Mustaine, the Megadeth guy named his son Justis. And these are old but contain some great terrible names: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/06/new-zealand-justice-baby-names http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7522952.stm
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Carnaticum posted:And for something less personal, Dave Mustaine, the Megadeth guy named his son Justis. Speaking of celebrity baby names, the one I can't really get over is what Shannyn Sossamon named her kid: Audioscience. I mean, Apple whatever Pilot Inspektor blah, but friggin' Audioscience!!!!
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My uncle's a cop, and he named one of my cousins Justice (spelling is correct). My other cousin's name is Jacob, but that's not weird until you realize that my uncle (same uncle) named his son after his horse. Makes me happy that my name is made up of two of the most common English names in the US.
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Working layaway at Walmart and helping out cashing checks at the service desk, I've come across many an interesting name with an ID to back it up. The three that stick out the most from this past holiday: -A gentleman with the unfortunate first name of Charmin (wonder how many times kids tried to 'squeeze' him in school) -Someone whose name was [firstname] Australian [lastname] -A lady with a hyphenated last name through marriage, making her [firstname] Loving-Boutay And though not really a terrible name in its own right, I work with an elderly Middle Eastern lady named Jannatul- I'm not entirely sure how to pronounce it (I tend to go with 'JAH-nuh-tull'), but I'm pretty sure it's not pronounced "genital" like all the old redneck women here say it.
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Amateur Saboteur posted:http://i.imgur.com/Mbiu2.jpg
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SHAM BAM BAMINA posted:They live among us, they vote, and they breed In that order?
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