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I now have a HR assistant in the office with me, and she just showed me a fax cover letter from a gent named Poonman Tang. This person is real, definitely works for the board of labor in my state. edit : vvvv oh, he's easily googleable, but I'm not going to internet detective this poor sap. vvv Nerdrock has a new favorite as of 21:53 on Jan 2, 2013 |
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Every thread I enter has been penetrated by MEGAZONE. For content, I knew a guy named Cody, already a terrible name, who claimed to have legally changed his first name to "Codemeister".
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HOLY poo poo MEGAZONE IS IN MY THREAD Megazone, in case you haven't checked the Awkward and Ugly thread, there is a man with snake eyes for nipples that I really want you to fight. PLEASE FIGHT HIM, MEGAZONE. I think you could win! Also, could you tell me what a Megazone is? I am curious. I processed a credit card application for a girl named Morgana LeFaye [redacted] yesterday. Spelled just like that.
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NewtGoongrich posted:For content, I knew a guy named Cody, already a terrible name, who claimed to have legally changed his first name to "Codemeister". Eternally disappointed every time someone failed to do the Rob Schneider Copy Guy routine at him.
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bringmyfishback posted:Also, could you tell me what a Megazone is? I am curious. He explained earlier (or maybe in the Awkward thread, I don't remember), it's an animu that he chose for his UNIX username, which then became his nickname, which then became his normal name, and here we are. Shame Boy has a new favorite as of 18:12 on Jan 2, 2013 |
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:Pretty sure he's someone the Awkward and Ugly thread made fun of, specifically this guy: Does MegaZone refer to the amount of space he takes up?
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Went to high school with one Chanda Lier. She was a good sport about it. e: Come to think of it it might have been Leer, but the effect's still the same. Slim Killington has a new favorite as of 21:04 on Jan 2, 2013 |
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I used to work in a call centre for new Zealand's tax department. I spotted one other poster who'd worked in one too, ^5 soul destroyed drone brother! I saw many many terrible baby names and at one stage I had a page worth of list, but I've moved countries twice since then so it's long gone. There were lots of weather names, a rage or two, a couple of rebels, and the two that stick out the most, twins named Teagan and Jade. Which doesn't sound at all odd until you realise they're spelled T-Gen and J'd. I also have a second cousin named Phillippa Kettle (her mum didn't realise until a drunk friend made fun of it when the child was a toddler, she goes by Pippi now). My first cousins went to school with a Frank Arts, and I have a friend of a friend named Cecil Hotbake. The latter may have changed her name by deed poll though, I dunno.
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My fianceé just reminded me of one he got during one of his call center jobs. What he did was call back customers to ask them to do a survey about the parent company and whether their service was good, any complaints, etc. He looked at his list and found out he had to call the owner of some Texan company... one Scrotum Anderson. The secretary that answered the phone confirmed his name was Scrotum, then the guy himself, AND upon asking, he even spelled it out for him. Apparently he was incredibly polite and when my fianceé apologized for being too intrusive, he was told "Oh son, it's fiiiine, happens all the time!"
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In elementary school, my sister's class had a girl whose parents alternated naming. The mother would name one kid, and use her last name, and then the father would get to name the next kid and use his last name. The mother named her child Harmony. Not to be outdone, the father, whose surname was King, named their son Phoenix Fire King.
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I once had a crush on a guy named Stone Ridge. He was pretty good looking, but not in the rugged way you'd expect.
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Lolitas Alright! posted:My fianceé just reminded me of one he got during one of his call center jobs. What he did was call back customers to ask them to do a survey about the parent company and whether their service was good, any complaints, etc. There was a local Dirt-Track racer that went by Weiner Anderson here, but I'm pretty sure it's just a nickname. I wish they were related.
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This thread makes me feel less terrible about wanting to name my future kid after my favorite NFL kicker. BF nixed "Tucker" because it sounds like "Fucker," but we went through the roster and couldn't find anything else I liked. I don't think a white/Asian kid would look right if his name were Haloti or Lardarius. Which, if you hear it enough, it kind of escapes you that the first syllable is literally, "lard." I don't have a lot of really awful ones, but the worst is taking a regular name and butchering it. I'll take an unpronounceable "unique" name over a Ginnyphyr or a MaQkenzyie. My sister did go to school with a kid named Justin Case, though. At least I narrowly escaped being called Megan. Which is bad enough, but no, my mom wanted the "traditional" spelling Meghanne (I don't even know if that's right), which in my mind sounds like a throat clearing or the Georgian word for "frog." My dad rescued me by saying it sounds too much like "maggot." Maggie Fletcher has a new favorite as of 22:31 on Jan 2, 2013 |
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:He explained earlier (or maybe in the Awkward thread, I don't remember), it's an animu that he chose for his UNIX username, which then became his nickname, which then became his normal name, and here we are. Oh... That's...yeah, maybe he does belong in the Awkward thread. Shoot. I was sort of hoping it wasn't an anime thing.
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Nerdrock posted:There was a local Dirt-Track racer that went by Weiner Anderson here, but I'm pretty sure it's just a nickname. I wish they were related. Apparently after the call, he and his supervisor and work buddies went to the Census site where you can search names. Apparently as of the last census in the 90's, there were five Scrotums living in the USA.
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Slim Killington posted:Went to high school with one Chanda Lier. She was a good sport about it. I knew a Chandelier in elementary school, pronounced Shawn-dell-ee-ay "like the French say it." Also a girl named Klamitia (I think that was the spelling, but I'm not sure). It was pronounced Cluh-mee-sha, but more than once I heard a teacher reluctantly ask, "Um...Chlamydia?" I didn't know him, and I don't know how it was spelled or what ethnicity he was, but I graduated from college with a guy whose first name was Smegma. My last name is Boyle, and my smartass father wanted to name me Lance.  I think my mom would have put her foot down and stopped him, but the issue ended up being moot since I'm female.
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STONE OF MADNESS posted:I was served at Muffin Break by a 'Kallipoli' Either she is named after a city in Greece or her name was misspelled and it's Kalliope, which is a pretty common Greek name. Kallipoli translates to good city. I'm not going to pretend that some Greek names aren't weird. Heck, I dated a guy named Strates
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Time And Relative Dimension Un Space. Oh, and my last name is a misspelled version of a common frozen pizza, so that's something.
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Not really terrible, but I recently was at a wedding where I met a Valkyrie who said her sister's name was Venus. I also have a friend who was apparently very nearly named Arwen.
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I was very close to becoming Handsome Belvedere, as suggested by my 5 year old brother at the time. My parents decided on something slightly less awesome.
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Insensative_Asshole posted:I was very close to becoming Handsome Belvedere, as suggested by my 5 year old brother at the time. My parents decided on something slightly less awesome. Oh man, your nickname could have been Han So(lo) and you would have been the coolest motherfucker in the 3rd grade.
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Charles Bronson posted:Either she is named after a city in Greece or her name was misspelled and it's Kalliope, which is a pretty common Greek name. I wish I could embrace this, but it's Perth, Australia maaate so https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8e7ECdG69U but feminised, somehow, with a 'K'. That said I like the idea of some braindead Muffin Break manager just assuming it's Kallipoli because THAT'S ALL THE WORDS AY MATE
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jojoinnit posted:I actually think I know the story with this one. I read years ago about a pregnant women who met Shaq and for some reason he ended up meeting her family and gave her a bunch of signed sneakers and stuff so when she gave birth she named her son "Shaquille O'Neal *Lastname*". Well, I saw this name in Wisconsin. Was this lady from Wisconsin as well?
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Torquemada posted:There was a guy so irritating I remember his name from seeing him once on t.v 20 years ago. The UK version of Gladiators, a one off "UK vs USA" special. A team of normal (for Gladiators) Americans, and one humongous douche named KYLER STORM. That sounds like a name the WWE gives to a random schmuck in developmental.
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Insensative_Asshole posted:I was very close to becoming Handsome Belvedere, as suggested by my 5 year old brother at the time. My parents decided on something slightly less awesome. I wanted to name my little brother Flower, after the skunk in Bambi.
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OozieNelson posted:Well, I saw this name in Wisconsin. Was this lady from Wisconsin as well? Dunno. What I posted is literally all I remember.
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I'm of Italian descent on my father's side. My own last name is rare enough in the US that I'm not going to share it,* but it's really difficult to spell for English-speakers and a giant hassle over the phone. Other Italian names I have known include Mangiapane (Eat Bread) and Bevelaqua (Drink Water). I have a cousin named Alma. He's a dude. I used to go to college with a guy named Christian Blood  and a chick named Sorasomol Prapasiri which isn't necessarily odd, as she was Thai and it might be super common there, but it was really fun to say.*Edit: I will mention, though, that my initials are LSD. HEY GUNS has a new favorite as of 09:16 on Jan 3, 2013 |
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I was shopping for a used car in Virginia and saw a business card on the wall for one of their salesmen, Trampus Stamper. I asked the salesman helping me and apparently he used to be in a band.
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Slim Killington posted:Went to high school with one Chanda Lier. She was a good sport about it. My daughter's name is Claire Victoria. Originally, I had wanted to name her Claire Annette. I decided against that when I realized my daughter's name would be said like a certain band instrument.
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At some point in the 18th century, the Prussian government gave last names to all the Jews living there (before, they had all gone by their parents' names, I think), and a number of the officials assigned to the job deliberately named them funny or disrespectful things. And thus, you got names like Katzenellenbogen (Cat's Elbows). I go to grad school with a dude whose last name is Lustig (Funny). He's Jewish, so he could be descended from one of those people.
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OozieNelson posted:Well, I saw this name in Wisconsin. Was this lady from Wisconsin as well? There are probably quite a few children named Shaquille O'Neal [lastname]. There was one when I worked at a middle school in a state far from Wisconsin. He was a standard height kid with no interest in athletics and wore thick glasses. I don't think his mother saw that coming when she decided upon the name. If you notice high school athletics (and that's part of my job description), a ton of kids have the first name of Shaquille. Like there are a number of children named Prince who were born around 1984, Shaquille became a popular name about 18 years ago.
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Dr. Hippocrates Apostle translated a bunch of Greek philosophical works. Edit: Not terrible, just awesome. Edit 2: I just remembered I also went to college with a chick named Shiraz. It was where she was born, I think. Nice person, and I got so used to the name I'm mildly surprised when I see it on wine bottles. HEY GUNS has a new favorite as of 07:51 on Jan 3, 2013 |
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HEGEL SMOKE A J posted:At some point in the 18th century, the Prussian government gave last names to all the Jews living there (before, they had all gone by their parents' names, I think), and a number of the officials assigned to the job deliberately named them funny or disrespectful things. Lustig may very well be a Swedish soldier name as well, since back in the 18th century the army gave new surnames to their recruits to distinguish them since everyone had patronymic names. So there's a lot of people with names such as Lustig(funny), Modig(brave), Seger(victory), Krig(war) etc. Pump it up! Do it! has a new favorite as of 13:13 on Jan 3, 2013 |
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DaisyDanger posted:My daughter's name is Claire Victoria. Originally, I had wanted to name her Claire Annette. I decided against that when I realized my daughter's name would be said like a certain band instrument. Similarly, my best friend's mom narrowly escaped being "Rhoda Camille" and a lifetime of desert-themed jokes.
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HEGEL SMOKE A J posted:*Edit: I will mention, though, that my initials are LSD. I know a psychologist with the initials OCD.
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My wife's initials were almost PEE.
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Nerdrock posted:My wife's initials were almost PEE. My husband's spell SAP.
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