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Saw an Emma Lemmon on the bill for a short play I saw last night.
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I once saw the name "Robert Bob" in a phonebook. That's just cruel.
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Jan 21, 2013 11:28
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LegatusP posted:I once saw the name "Robert Bob" in a phonebook. That's just cruel. In the same way, the previous winner of American Idol is called Phillip Phillips.
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Jan 21, 2013 11:37
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There's a famous English football (soccer) player, Gary Neville, whose dad is famously named Neville. So yup, he's Neville Neville. It lends itself well, considering the amount of chants you can fit his name into the tune of "Rebel Rebel" by David Bowie.
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Jan 21, 2013 11:55
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Knew a dude who's first name was "Pinkus". Pinkus was doomed to become a hardened man from birth.
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Jan 21, 2013 14:04
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Imperialist Dog posted:I had no idea it could be pronounced any OTHER way than as "vagina". I'm from Ontario. When you look at a coin, we all pronounced it like that: Elizabeth II, D. G. Regina. I lived in Toronto for five years, and I remember the name being pronounced as "Re-GEE-na" and the city as rhyming with vagina. I could be remembering it totally wrong, though. Hahaha vagina. Saw this on Failblog:  EDIT: I love that your name is "Imperialist Dog" and you posted about the Queen.
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Jan 21, 2013 20:44
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My Bosses name at an old retail job was Rhoda Karr
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Jan 21, 2013 21:02
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My landlord's granddaughter is named Kyleighah.
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Jan 21, 2013 21:21
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My supervisor has a nephew named Hezekiah. I know it's an old Biblical name, and they're hardcore Christians, but man that's a mean thing to do to a kid.
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Jan 22, 2013 01:01
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bringmyfishback posted:I lived in Toronto for five years, and I remember the name being pronounced as "Re-GEE-na" and the city as rhyming with vagina. I could be remembering it totally wrong, though. Hahaha vagina. I think it's sometimes pronounced like the name "Reginald" minus the last two letters.
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Jan 22, 2013 01:14
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I have a great aunt named "Fat". Nothing else. Just Fat. She isn't even fat. She's quite thin. No, I don't know how this happened. We call my uncle "Bubba" but his name is "Lawerence", so I don't know if it fits in this thread. However, I didn't actually know he had a name other than "Bubba" until my teen years, so there's that.
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Jan 22, 2013 01:53
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bringmyfishback posted:I lived in Toronto for five years, and I remember the name being pronounced as "Re-GEE-na" and the city as rhyming with vagina. I could be remembering it totally wrong, though. Hahaha vagina. I can confirm this for southern Ontario. I can't say anything about the other places in Canada though.
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Jan 22, 2013 03:28
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Rough Lobster posted:Knew a dude who's first name was "Pinkus". Pinkus was doomed to become a hardened man from birth. gamingCaffeinator posted:My supervisor has a nephew named Hezekiah. I know it's an old Biblical name, and they're hardcore Christians, but man that's a mean thing to do to a kid.
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Jan 22, 2013 03:40
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I just saw an article on the local news site about some toddler. The poor kid's name was Wynter
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Jan 22, 2013 04:37
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This dude I used to know was a pretty cool dude and then he knocked some chick up and found God in a big way and now his facebook is filled with stuff about how Obama is going to dictate that all doctors must ask you if you own a gun because Obamacare. Anyway, the daughter's named Sophie, but they named the son Nebediah. Nebediah Zedwick. Poor kid doesn't stand a chance.
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Jan 22, 2013 05:05
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HEGEL SMOKE A J posted:Meh, Zeke is a nice nickname. The kid's parents call him Kiah, and his aunt (my supervisor) calls him by his full name. Zeke has never occurred to them, I assure you.
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Jan 22, 2013 05:14
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No Pun Intended posted:I just saw an article on the local news site about some toddler. The poor kid's name was Wynter My brother-in-law's crazy ex has a son called Winter, though I'm pretty sure it's just spelled like the season. He has a gingerfro and permanently grubby hands and is possibly the worst-behaved two-year-old I've ever encountered.  fe: correction
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Jan 22, 2013 06:16
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I used to work with a black guy whose mom named him Sir Derrick. I asked him about his name and he told me that his mom named him that because she thought that was the only way white people would call her son sir. 
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Apparently if I was a boy I was going to be named Obadiah. Not the worst name, but it would have sucked to have as a kid. Glad I dodged that bullet. As a girl I have a somewhat unusual name which is still in the realm of reasonable... I just could never buy name keychains or license plates for my bike v v
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Jan 22, 2013 17:25
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squeegee posted:Apparently if I was a boy I was going to be named Obadiah. Not the worst name, but it would have sucked to have as a kid. Glad I dodged that bullet. As a girl I have a somewhat unusual name which is still in the realm of reasonable... I just could never buy name keychains or license plates for my bike v That's just like my name. It's completely absurd how strange and unique my name is. If you're going to post that you have a strange or even relatively uncommon name, just post it rather than making people ask. So I'm not a hypocrite, my name is Steve which is pretty much the example of common name.
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AFewBricksShy posted:That's just like my name. It's completely absurd how strange and unique my name is. I'm not making people ask because I'm not going to post my real name. I was just pointing out that the name I would have had as a boy was much worse than the name I was actually given. The point of the post is that I narrowly avoided being named Obadiah. squeegee has a new favorite as of 18:14 on Jan 22, 2013 |
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Jan 22, 2013 18:11
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Nobody actually gives a poo poo what you might have been called tho
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Jan 22, 2013 18:14
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BAKA FLOCKA FLAME posted:Nobody actually gives a poo poo what you might have been called tho Geez, sorry. Other people have posted about names that they or their relatives were almost saddled with, and several people were posting names ending in -iah, so I thought it would be funny. This thread is 35 pages long with a lot of more pointless posts than mine, you can just skip over it you don't like it.
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I care!squeegee posted:Apparently if I was a boy I was going to be named Obadiah. Not the worst name, but it would have sucked to have as a kid. Glad I dodged that bullet. As a girl I have a somewhat unusual name which is still in the realm of reasonable... I just could never buy name keychains or license plates for my bike v I like the name 'Richard' because in my head I will immediately substitute it for the name 'Dick.' Typically it results in me calling guys like Quentin Richardson, Q-Dick or Trent Richardson, T-Dick which I think is the height of comedy, but once I had a physics teacher named Richard Tung and it made going to his lovely class a million times better.
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Jan 22, 2013 18:26
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squeegee posted:Apparently if I was a boy I was going to be named Obadiah. Not the worst name, but it would have sucked to have as a kid. Glad I dodged that bullet. As a girl I have a somewhat unusual name which is still in the realm of reasonable... I just could never buy name keychains or license plates for my bike v You could have been the Obediah Wheatfish.
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sweeperbravo posted:You could have been the Obediah Wheatfish. GODDAMMIT I WANT TO NAME EVERYTHING THAT BAKA FLOCKA FLAME posted:Nobody actually gives a poo poo what you might have been called tho I do! I think it's interesting.
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bringmyfishback posted:GODDAMMIT I WANT TO NAME EVERYTHING THAT That and Barkevious Mingo are my favorites this thread has produced.
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Just remembered that I briefly worked with a girl named Reality Winter. Throw a colon in there and you have a 1970's era nuclear post apocalypse novel. e: you guys mike like this Key & Peele skit about ridiculous names in the NFL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gODZzSOelss Rough Lobster has a new favorite as of 04:18 on Jan 23, 2013 |
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Jan 23, 2013 04:14
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My old optometrist was named Dr. Renis Lapienis. He's a nice guy and great at his job, but it was impossible to see that name and not snicker like an idiot.
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Today I filled out paperwork for two new staff memebers: Zoe Voltz, and Sadako Panic. I'm pretty sure they're superheros.
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I got another good one! Someone I know has named their baby boy "Kahless", as in the legendary Klingon warrior. I'm actually stunned. I mean, I googled Kahless and only the Star Trek definition came up. What the gently caress Sarah?
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I was just reading an obituary in our local paper for a girl named Olive that died over the weekend. Olive is survived by brothers Elijah, Jayden, Simon, Noah and Twyzum. That one just came out of nowhere.
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My friend just had a baby boy and named him Malahkai Quynn. Yes, said as "Quinn". I'm under the impression the special snowflake spelling is from the mother and was a compromise for something far more biblical which is weird because neither of them are even slightly religious.
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Quvenzhané, as in Quvenzhané Wallis the actress. I can't even with this name. Quvenzhané! She's a pretty wicked actress, though.
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Jan 28, 2013 03:59
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A "wiccan" girl my wife went to college with named her little girl Reignbeaux. Reign. Beaux. Rainbow.
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Jan 28, 2013 04:14
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I work in a school system. I could go on forever, but I doubt I'll ever be able to top Ta'Yestaday.
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Jan 28, 2013 04:41
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Goosed it. posted:I also know children with the following names Finbar, Napoleon, and Hannibal. This reminded me of two guys I knew in high school, they always hung out together, named Vlad and Attila. As in Vlad the Impaler and Attila the Hun. I never brought it up to them but always thought it was a great name coincidence. They were also both beefy and vaguely menacing guys, or as menacing as high school kids can be.
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De Nomolos posted:A "wiccan" girl my wife went to college with named her little girl Reignbeaux.
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Jan 28, 2013 06:47
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On a Marine base I had the pleasure of meeting a rather buff young Marine with the name Dethrage. Seemed like the coolest dude to be around.
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Apparently if I were a boy my name would have been Johnallen. John-allen, all one word. Bleargh.
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