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bringmyfishback posted:I knew she was loving with me, hence the "awfully inconvenient" comment. Maybe she was just tired of explaining her name all the time. I don't blame her, frankly. Was it perhaps a colon? The Seneca, Cayuga, and Mohawk languages all use colons.
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EnabledAssman posted:I'll never forget the time I met Shadow Ravenscraft at that party. He even showed us his ID to verify. I know a surname-Ravenscraft. He acts... well, exactly like you'd probably imagine someone with a surname like Ravenscraft to act, haha.
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HEGEL SMOKE A J posted:It's Italian for Matthew. This is a bog-standard name. Why on earth would it make you sound like a douchebag? Well that's a relief. Everyone who has heard or seen the kid's name has assumed that she simply took matthew and romeo and combined them to make a name that sounds ~*unique*~. Also, She has a history of naming her pets after anime and video game characters. I live in northern Alberta so the Italian and Spanish communities combined only make up about 1% of the population. (In response to the other poster: Whenever she mentions him on facebook, she spells his name in caps.) 
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No.44 posted:A friend of mine recently gave birth to a baby boy. She named him MATTEO, which she claimed is a common Italian name. All I know is that it's going to make the other kids immediately assume that he's an insufferable douchebag. I know two Matteos; it never struck me as odd. It's not an uncommon name, particularly for Hispanic people. Edit: Sorry, someone just said this.
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bringmyfishback posted:I knew she was loving with me, hence the "awfully inconvenient" comment. Maybe she was just tired of explaining her name all the time. I don't blame her, frankly. My friend's name is very Polish, Grazyna, which just means Grace, but I remember being a kid and someone asking how to spell her name, yet again. She started out with "Graz" and just started naming off other letters til they figured out it was gibberish.
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Jan 13, 2013 08:52
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Was it perhaps a colon? The Seneca, Cayuga, and Mohawk languages all use colons. It was definitely a semicolon, but I'm from upstate NY, so all three of those languages would be a good bet (I believe she was Onondaga, though).
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bringmyfishback posted:It was definitely a semicolon, but I'm from upstate NY, so all three of those languages would be a good bet (I believe she was Onondaga, though). Google tells me Onondaga has colons too! I think it's a thing that the Iroquois League must've come up with, standardizing some sort of orthography for written Iroquoian languages. Maybe she just had bad handwriting? 
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Google tells me Onondaga has colons too! I think it's a thing that the Iroquois League must've come up with, standardizing some sort of orthography for written Iroquoian languages. I solemnly swear I think it was a semicolon, but I'm turning 28 in less than seven hours, so I may be remembering incorrectly due to old age (and the fact that I knew her a decade ago). Perhaps it was a colon. I've been poring over my high school's website and not found any info about her, but I admit I could be remembering things incorrectly.
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No.44 posted:Well that's a relief. HEY GUNS has a new favorite as of 10:04 on Jan 13, 2013 |
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I wouldn't even blink at a kid named Matteo. Then again, as previously stated, I'm from upstate NY and a Mafioso farmer kid would be par for the course for me.
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Girl on my Facebook has three kids: Aeris, Celes, and Link. They have been raised since birth to be at conventions several times a year and dress for these. Mom does Homestuck porn on the side for money. Burn the Internet and salt what's left over.
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My own IRL name is kinda messed up. It's mostly the same as, and pronounced like, a relatively normal name, but looks like someone did a typo. It's actually more aesthetically pleasing (I think) then the normal spelling, but still, unusual. It's actually so distinctive that a long while ago, when I still gave free money to Blizzard, a random person's character had my real name, and because I had never seen my name before in any context I did a double take and almost followed that guy trying to find out where he got the name from. Later I found out it from a random selection of syllables for random names they give World of Warcraft characters.  Turns out my parents named me for some weird artist who no one has ever heard of but was momentarily popular around the time I was born. I feel like a 27 year old version of the "Aeris" or "Cloud" kids. Only not quite so bad. People will remember FF7 for decades to come, but I was named for someone way more obscure. I can pass off for just being a really bad typo on the birth certificate, while they're doomed forever as being the children of nerds. IronClaymore has a new favorite as of 15:46 on Jan 13, 2013 |
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IronClaymore posted:My own IRL name is kinda messed up. It's mostly the same as, and pronounced like, a relatively normal name, but looks like someone did a typo. It's actually more aesthetically pleasing (I think) then the normal spelling, but still, unusual. It's actually so distinctive that a long while ago, when I still gave free money to Blizzard, a random person's character had my real name, and because I had never seen my name before in any context I did a double take and almost followed that guy trying to find out where he got the name from. Later I found out it from a random selection of syllables for random names they give World of Warcraft characters. This is a hell of a lot of words for no content
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IronClaymore are you Jeph Jacques? e: I'm sorry if that was mean 
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When I used to work in a call center there would be some great customer names come through. My favorite was probably a lady called King Kong. But I think the best was actually a co-worker named Dikshit Dikshit. When a customer would ask about the last person they spoke to, it was always really tough explaining to them that I was by no means joking when I said they spoke to him. edit: Oh crap and I totally forgot Mr. Thickness! There was one customer who was named Joe or John Thickness, something like that. But he was one of those real uppity people and insisted on being addressed as "Mr". So having to call him "Mr. Thickness" was incredibly tough to do with a straight face. thepokey has a new favorite as of 20:21 on Jan 13, 2013 |
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IronClaymore posted:My own IRL name is kinda messed up. It's mostly the same as, and pronounced like, a relatively normal name, but looks like someone did a typo. It's actually more aesthetically pleasing (I think) then the normal spelling, but still, unusual. It's actually so distinctive that a long while ago, when I still gave free money to Blizzard, a random person's character had my real name, and because I had never seen my name before in any context I did a double take and almost followed that guy trying to find out where he got the name from. Later I found out it from a random selection of syllables for random names they give World of Warcraft characters. Christ, if you have an odd name and don't wanna reveal it, just say that you once heard of some person that had your name so we can laugh about how ridiculous it is.
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I want to know which artist this is so we can all decide whether he really is less likely than FF7 to remain in public memory for decades to come.
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I know someone that named their crotch fruit Aeris of FF7 fame. E: looks like I'm not the only one. 
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BONUS ROUND posted:crotch fruit Really? Crotch fruit? I've mentioned C. Matthews Dick, a lawyer from the town where I grew up, but the Social Security Death Index is still a goldmine for ridiculous names. An unfortunate gentleman by the name of Fat Beverly is my favorite.
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IronClaymore posted:My own IRL name is kinda messed up. It's mostly the same as, and pronounced like, a relatively normal name, but looks like someone did a typo. It's actually more aesthetically pleasing (I think) then the normal spelling, but still, unusual. It's actually so distinctive that a long while ago, when I still gave free money to Blizzard, a random person's character had my real name, and because I had never seen my name before in any context I did a double take and almost followed that guy trying to find out where he got the name from. Later I found out it from a random selection of syllables for random names they give World of Warcraft characters. This is hilarious and I really want to know what your name is, but you don't have to tell.  My father told me today that if I was a boy, my grandfather wanted me to be named Llewellyn George, the George specifically after George V. I know Llewellyn isn't the weirdest name in the world, but I would not have liked to be named that.
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My aunt was pregnant with my first cousin the same time my mom was pregnant with me. My late grandfather had insisted on naming the children, which they humored him with until he'd passed away shortly before my cousin's birth (3 months before me). If they'd followed through with that rear end in a top hat's demands, I'd have been named Filbert and my cousin would have been named Clementine.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Really? Crotch fruit?
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I was wondering, can racehorse names count? A lot of them are pretty goofy sounding and I love it when smartasses give their horses names like Hoof Hearted. Apparently, there are five people in the United Kingdom named Anita Hoare. I think a Toronto health board meeting got pranked with that name earlier this year. Celery Face has a new favorite as of 04:14 on Jan 14, 2013 |
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I make accounts for students at an online school. One name I came across recently was K'Vaughn Bacon. Okay, "K'Vaughn," that pseudonym's not fooling anyone.
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Nerdrock posted:My aunt was pregnant with my first cousin the same time my mom was pregnant with me. My late grandfather had insisted on naming the children, which they humored him with until he'd passed away shortly before my cousin's birth (3 months before me). If they'd followed through with that rear end in a top hat's demands, I'd have been named Filbert and my cousin would have been named Clementine. Maybe he was just hungry a lot?
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TotalHell posted:I make accounts for students at an online school. One name I came across recently was K'Vaughn Bacon. Nah man it's a Maori name, that apostrophe is actually a 'amata 
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I had a chemistry TA name Domarin who told us all about the million and one nicknames she got. One time, her chem professor accidentally called her Bromarin (after Bromine) and the name stuck with her classmates.
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I had a classmate with the surname Bigge, pronounced "Big-ee". The only unfortunate thing about it was that she was morbidly obese and led to a lot of teasing
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I met a public access TV producer once named Crescent Diamond.
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IronClaymore posted:My own IRL name is kinda messed up. It's mostly the same as, and pronounced like, a relatively normal name, but looks like someone did a typo. It's actually more aesthetically pleasing (I think) then the normal spelling, but still, unusual. It's actually so distinctive that a long while ago, when I still gave free money to Blizzard, a random person's character had my real name, and because I had never seen my name before in any context I did a double take and almost followed that guy trying to find out where he got the name from. Later I found out it from a random selection of syllables for random names they give World of Warcraft characters. Is it Ander? I had a friend named Ander for a few years and his name explanation was bizarrely similar. Also I knew a Polish girl named Kinga Korbus. She told me that Kinga was the name of a beautiful queen of Poland, but wikipedia says she was only princess and doesn't mention her looks. This name was ironic to me because Kinga was not beautiful.
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m3monster posted:I used to work in a call center, one day I got a call from a woman who named her child "ABCDE" (pronounced Ab-cidee) because that as much of the alphabet as she knew. I thought at that point no one would ever top that for laziness and ignorance... I was wrong about a week later I spoke to a woman that named her daughter "FEMALE" (pronounced Fe-mall-ee) and I quote, "that is what the doctor wrote on the paper work.". This poo poo is bannable.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:This poo poo is bannable. I am sorry I didn't know, what is wrong with it? I will correct the post or delete it.
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I went to high school with two sisters who just moved over from Vietnam Bich Ho and Dat Ho . Really unfortunate names. My physics teacher had a kid senior year and she named it Ivy Green Wolfe-Lamm. She smoked a lot of weed.
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m3monster posted:I am sorry I didn't know, what is wrong with it? I will correct the post or delete it. The part where none of it happened and you're about as funny as a scrotal boil.
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m3monster posted:I am sorry I didn't know, what is wrong with it? I will correct the post or delete it. The part where you didn't read the first post of the thread, or either of the two posts made on previous pages. Sorry, dude.
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redmercer posted:The part where none of it happened and you're about as funny as a scrotal boil. On Big Island, not really a lot of rich white families in the general vicinity of the locals so you don't get that too often. Same for Molokai and Kauai. On Maui, oddly enough considering we have lots of burned-out stars and new-age types and poo poo, you usually get variations on canned upper middle class names. I knew a Jayden, a Brayden, a Kayden, and a Shayden, all my age. A Clifton, too, who was utterly convinced he was a gangsta, and would have you believe that he grew up on The Street. The sort of street with picket fences and cul-de-sacs and Mormons, at least. Oahu is where you get the batshit rich white people sorts of names, which is equally odd because it mostly has the normal(ish) well-to-do white population you'd expect to get Jaydens and whatever out of. The Abcde and the Ocean (that's oh-sheen/oːʃin), as well as a Brede (like the Brady Bunch), came from this island. I also had someone in my dorm named Squirrel. At first, I thought this was a nickname because that's a very common thing in a boarding school environment (having known a nicknamed Cayanyan and a Weedlord, which, sadly, wasn't me, but then, I wasn't much of a weedlord at that age), but it was entirely and genuinely his real first name as he wrote it in class and was so called by the administrative body. Abcde in particular is perpetuated as an internet rumor, in part because it's so absurd, but it's absolutely a real thing. Maybe overstated by this point, but really nothing to call someone out on over bullshit. treiz01 posted:Is it Ander? I knew a Zorin, too. Apparently, he was named after a storybook character. Also a good guy, though you wouldn't want him for a roommate.
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EDIT: Never mind. I'm sick of arguing about this with people. Post what the mods told you not to post willy-nilly. So, apparently Bristol Palin's babydaddy named his new sprog Breeze Beretta? How did I miss this? Fleta Mcgurn has a new favorite as of 05:38 on Jan 16, 2013 |
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bringmyfishback posted:So, apparently Bristol Palin's babydaddy named his new sprog Breeze Beretta? How did I miss this? You probably missed it by not giving a gently caress about the Palins like a well-adjusted human being. That family is a trainwreck, and not just for bad names. There is that, though. Track, seriously? Who names a child Track?!
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