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De Nomolos posted:A "wiccan" girl my wife went to college with named her little girl Reignbeaux. No, see, that's Ojibwe for "I just threw up through my loving eyes" so it's actually very moving.
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The White Dragon posted:I was like, "Rejjin boo(palatal x)?" I dunno why parents would give their kids such punchable names. It's like this huge moke Hawaiian guy I knew named Masashiro (and his brother Koji). I assume it was a boy-named-Sue kinda deal that actually worked, they were from Waianae where you get piledrived for having a name like that.
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Jan 28, 2013 08:58
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Went to highschool with a guy named Dirty Brown Shirt. His explanation was succinct: "My parents are hippies." Nobody ever made fun of him because it was just too easy. I guess that's more of a name that's so terrible it's actually awesome.
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Jan 28, 2013 09:11
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HEGEL SMOKE A J posted:Why, what's wrong with those names? I get that "moke" means beater/cholo dudes in Hawaii, but why would they hate Japanese names?
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Jan 28, 2013 09:19
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The White Dragon, maybe you should start an A/T about being Hawaiian, because you keep saying stuff that sounds interesting and cool, but I am too much of a dumb non-Hawaiian person to understand some of it. EDIT: By the by, I am not being sarcastic- I would totally read that thread. Fleta Mcgurn has a new favorite as of 09:36 on Jan 28, 2013 |
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Jan 28, 2013 09:30
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bringmyfishback posted:Quvenzhané, as in Quvenzhané Wallis the actress. I can't even with this name. Quvenzhané! She's a pretty wicked actress, though. Yeah, I brought that up one page 34, apparently her mother is named Qulyndreia and her father is named Venjie.
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Lord Tywin posted:Yeah, I brought that up one page 34, apparently her mother is named Qulyndreia and her father is named Venjie. I like them. It's like French but better!
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Jan 29, 2013 05:32
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When I worked at a call center for a retail website, had a pleasant customer by the name of Kandy Hyman. Always easy to remember her file.
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Jan 29, 2013 13:28
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Was talking about this with some friends. One person had a professor named Dick Hyman who refused to go by Richard, which reminded me that the head of my course was also a Richard who insisted on going by Dick, and not just Dick but Dr Dick. Had it on his mug. Some nicknames are too childish though. I wrote an inter-office email to a 'Dickie'. At a certain point in your career you should probably drop the '-ie/y' suffix from your childhood nickname.
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Jan 29, 2013 14:16
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There's a guy in my company's Indian office whose surname is poo poo. I know that various Indian names include this and I'm sure it's pronounced differently, but it still cracks me up every time. Even though I've seen Dikshit etc before, something about the simplicity of it just being poo poo makes it funnier. Also a guy I used to know swore that when he worked in a shop he once saw a customer's debit card featuring the name Tweedy Waggot.
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Jan 29, 2013 15:57
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Space Flyman posted:Even though I've seen Dikshit etc before, something about the simplicity of it just being poo poo makes it funnier. Reminds me of a New Zealand television presenter who just couldn't help himself when he found out that an Indian official during the 2010 Commonwealth Games had that same name. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq5dUyiRKuA
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Jan 29, 2013 16:12
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The White Dragon posted:I was like, "Rejjin boo(palatal x)?" I dunno why parents would give their kids such punchable names. It's like this huge moke Hawaiian guy I knew named Masashiro (and his brother Koji). I assume it was a boy-named-Sue kinda deal that actually worked, they were from Waianae where you get piledrived for having a name like that. Sorry, I know very little about Hawaiian culture, but what is wrong with those names?
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Jan 29, 2013 16:56
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1-800-DOG-LAW posted:Sorry, I know very little about Hawaiian culture, but what is wrong with those names? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moke_(slang)#.22Moke.22_in_Hawaiian_culture
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jojoinnit posted:Was talking about this with some friends. One person had a professor named Dick Hyman who refused to go by Richard, which reminded me that the head of my course was also a Richard who insisted on going by Dick, and not just Dick but Dr Dick. Had it on his mug. I actually own a record by one Dick Hyman... turns out he's a pianist who did some pretty pioneering stuff with synthesizers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Hyman That said, I bought the record (The Age of Electronicus... weird Moog covers of 60's music)for fifty cents because the album art was kind of amusingly bad and his name's hilarious. It's a conversation piece, if nothing else.
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One of the guys I hang out with is named Gutemberg. With an M. Now, that's strange enough, but the kicker is that his last name is Gutierrez, and he is as Mexican as they come. Apparently his grandmother was German. The poor dude is also a little bit deaf, so he talks kinda goofy, which makes introductions a pain. He's from the hood in Houston, so he's not afraid to fight people, and he likes getting SUPER hosed up at parties and making an rear end of himself. He burns bridges for us by annoying the host whenever we party, but he's worth it. The guy's a legend around here.
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A friend when I was growing up had no legally given middle name. This became a problem when he went to get his driver's license. Being 16 at the time, he legally changed it to Danger. A distant family member has a 7-month-old boy whose middle name is Atomotron. His first name is normal though so it could've been worse.
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Went to school with a Gavina Vigilis.
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bucketmouse posted:A friend when I was growing up had no legally given middle name. This became a problem when he went to get his driver's license. Being 16 at the time, he legally changed it to Danger. What, was it actually a legal requirement to have a middle name in your area? Why are middle names even a thing? I don't understand.
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BAKA FLOCKA FLAME posted:What, was it actually a legal requirement to have a middle name in your area? Meaning he made it a problem by being sixteen years old and picking that for his middle name.
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Jan 31, 2013 01:34
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Had a young child customer with a super common not at all Japanese last name... with the first name of Asuka.
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Allucinari posted:Had a young child customer with a super common not at all Japanese last name... with the first name of Asuka. But if the kid's parents are white as the driven snow and just squealing Japanophiles, then yeah that's pretty hilarious.
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Jan 31, 2013 04:10
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A friend is naming her new baby boy Drecklyn. Ughhh
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Rino posted:A friend is naming her new baby boy Drecklyn. Ughhh Dreckitude! This is the worst so far, I think. It actually sounds like an insult.
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Jan 31, 2013 04:54
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My kindergarten teacher's name was Judy Fingerlow, and I once had a doctor named Gail Snow
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Cashed a check today for a guy named Telly Savalace [lastname]. I guess I could understand if the guy's parents were huge Kojak fans or something, but you'd think they would at least spell it correctly?
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I had a teacher named Gay Rendle. She wouldn't let anyone be embarrassed about their own names because, in her own words, "Come on. My name is Gay." She was an awesome teacher, but her name still makes me laugh because I am a terrible person.
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bringmyfishback posted:Dreckitude! noun Slang. 1.excrement; dung. 2.worthless trash; junk. When this was pointed out to her, she said, "That's why his name is Drecklyn." 
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Jan 31, 2013 06:55
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Rino posted:dreck [drek]
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I'm friends with a girl named Rain Eiday.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:I had a teacher named Gay Rendle. She wouldn't let anyone be embarrassed about their own names because, in her own words, "Come on. My name is Gay." I had a Latin teacher named Donal McGay. This was in the suburbs of Philly, where Donal is one letter short of a real name and McGay is just asking for it. But holy gently caress, he named his son Leospence McGay.
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bringmyfishback posted:Dreckitude! Dreck means filth in german, so it actually is.
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Went to a renaissance festival with the wife and saw a kid run past me, running behind him was his dad yelling "Anakin, get back here!" If I had to pick a terrible star wars name I would probably go with Yoda over Anakin. Anakin would be acceptable (but still terrible) only for someone born in the late eighties. Sephiroth_IRA has a new favorite as of 15:06 on Jan 31, 2013 |
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I like the idea that in 20 years they'll go through and digitally replace him in all the family photos with a new actor.
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My nephew is named Rosario Doncello [last name]. His older sister (who was like 8 at the time) wanted to name him Cello, and my dad's name is Don, so they combined those into the middle name. Everyone just calls him Yayo (yah-yo) though since that was how his other sister pronounced it when he was a baby and the nickname stuck.
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De Nomolos posted:A "wiccan" girl my wife went to college with named her little girl Reignbeaux. This is awful. Someone out there exists a small child (probably more than one, honestly) with the name LilLee. I mean, how do you gently caress up a four-letter word?
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Another Facebook special, a girl I know has named her newborn son "Kahless" as in, the Klingon warrior. She is completely aware of the connection because her last post was about the tattoo of her son's name she will be getting... in Klingon.
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Watching Toddlers & Tiaras because I'm a horrible person, and one of the girls in this particular episode is named Saryniti. Pronounced Serenity. Her mother is Ca'Trina.
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treiz01 posted:Another Facebook special, a girl I know has named her newborn son "Kahless" as in, the Klingon warrior. She is completely aware of the connection because her last post was about the tattoo of her son's name she will be getting... in Klingon. As long as the grammar and orthography on the tattoo is correct I see no problem? 
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HEGEL SMOKE A J posted:As long as the grammar and orthography on the tattoo is correct I see no problem? Would you name your child Odo or Garak, just because they are cool Star Trek characters? Kahless is going to have a lifetime of people thinking his name is weird and having to explain that his namesake is a minor character in a fictional universe. Maybe he'll roam from town to town, Bat'leth strapped to his back, searching for the mother who gave him that awful name.
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