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I once met a guy called Willy Rape.
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Metal Loaf posted:I once met a guy called Willy Rape.
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Mar 9, 2013 19:26
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My dad knew a guy named Gene Fag but changed his name to Gene Roberts. Just remembered that  .I know a Greek family with the last name "Porn".
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Mar 9, 2013 21:34
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There's a handful of Norwegians who have the family name Homo. Simple case of once-innocuous name taken from local geography (there are two separate places in the country from which the name can plausibly be derived, so they're not all related either), then later overtaken by 20th/21st century slang. (And yes, "homo" is one of the main slang terms for a homosexual in the Norwegian language -- fighting-words offensive in many places, possibly considered more offensive a couple of decades ago than now, but whatever.) It is said that most folks who had that name have chosen to change it, but some googling indicates that there's still 18 die-hards left.
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Mar 9, 2013 22:08
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Knight2m posted:La-a (pronounced Ladasha) 
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Mar 9, 2013 22:56
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Knight2m posted:La-a (pronounced Ladasha) did you even read the first post? One of the guys I went to summer camp with had the last name Glascock. Sure, it's a common surname, but it was pretty funny to a bunch of preteen boys!
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Mar 9, 2013 23:24
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My boyfriend was almost named Lazer (his dad was Jewish). His Aunt Rachel spent a good portion of her life with the name "Cinderella" because her older sister was given the task of naming her. From what I understand, she went by "Cindy" but still hated her name so she got it changed later on. E: I knew of a girl in my hometown named Indigo Seaman. Her grandfather's name? Richard. E 2: My brother and sister-in-law were deployed with (and became quite good friends with) a man named Mahboob. If he's American then he's first-generation so it's not like his parents were trying to be malicious. Still funny though. Hummingbirds has a new favorite as of 01:02 on Mar 10, 2013 |
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Mar 10, 2013 00:10
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sweeperbravo posted:Less terrible, more awesome: Coming into my store this weekend, two families with the last names Brown-Battle and Bloodsaw West Virginia has quite a few unusual names stemming from German immigrants Anglicizing their names as literally as possible (or loving it up, not sure). I lived next to some Bonecutters, and there were also Gaspennys and Pancakes.
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Mar 10, 2013 17:37
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A woman I know named Holly has a daughter called Ivy.
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Mar 10, 2013 18:25
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These are both wonderful. Vomax posted:We had a couple great applications at my last job. One was Duc Quac, the other was Baddi Luckataro (don't remember the exact spelling but it was definitely pronounced like this).
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Mar 10, 2013 19:19
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Customers I've assisted in my various jobs over the years: Bunny Wolfe Blue Jazz LaRoux Harry Hyde Did a video featuring a kid named Shed3. At first I thought it was a cute nickname, like his real name was Joe Shed III... nope, Shed3. His older siblings are named Shed1 and Shed2. Knew a woman who named her kid Embra.
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Mar 10, 2013 19:29
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My dad told me he knew a girl named Shithead, pronounced shy-theed. I thought he was bullshitting me until my tenth grade percussion instructor, who went to school with my dad, confirmed it. So either I have been the victim of a massive baby boomer prank, or some parent actually named their infant girl Shithead.
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Mar 10, 2013 20:24
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razorrozar posted:My dad told me he knew a girl named Shithead, pronounced shy-theed. I thought he was bullshitting me until my tenth grade percussion instructor, who went to school with my dad, confirmed it. So either I have been the victim of a massive baby boomer prank, or some parent actually named their infant girl Shithead. That's straight up off the same Snopes page. quote:As the 1917 example shows, this legend has been around for dogs' years. It now exists in two slightly different forms — the parents either misread a word, coming up with an unusual but pleasant-sounding pronunciation of same, or a member of the medical staff is overheard to properly pronounce the word, the parents think it pretty, and thus choose to stick the youngster with it.
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Mar 10, 2013 20:36
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One of my mother's co-workers named her son Mufasa Diablo. Mufasa Diablo Jones...
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Mar 10, 2013 22:02
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about_face posted:One of my mother's co-workers named her son Mufasa Diablo. That name loving rules and I hope Mufasa Diablo is the baddest motherfucker on the block.
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Mar 10, 2013 22:07
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A guy I used to work with has 3 daughters. Their names are: Katharina, Precious, and Carisma. Spelled exactly like that. Before I knew this, at work I overheard him talking about someone whose name was Precious and I said "Who the hell would name their kid that?" and he's like "uh, me." Yeah, I didn't apologize.
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Mar 10, 2013 22:35
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Another one from my last job: I ran a survey website for some military thing and one of the respondents was Col. Andrea Crunkhorn. I always thought she would make a fantastic member of the Parliament Funkadelic.
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Mar 10, 2013 22:38
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Mar 10, 2013 23:32
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about_face posted:One of my mother's co-workers named her son Mufasa Diablo. Sounds the protagonist of a blaxploitation film.
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Mar 10, 2013 23:35
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Megatron Bison Or to be more accurate, General Megatron Bison. Used to work at the same place I do, albeit in a different office. Apparently changed it by deed poll, but they made him drop the General in work so people didn't think it was his title.
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Mar 11, 2013 00:17
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I know a guy with the name (translated) Cockviolence.
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Mar 11, 2013 00:39
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Semprini posted:Megatron Bison So that's what the M. stands for! 
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Mar 11, 2013 17:26
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At the bank I went to years back, the clerks would have name plates at their windows in that bland, institutional, all-caps font. One lady who worked there was named ANA L RODRIGUEZ, and the spacing between "ANA" and "L" made it look like... Well, you know.
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Mar 11, 2013 17:35
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I currently work with the unfortunately named Mike Ocko.
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Mar 11, 2013 18:43
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Hortense. She pronounced it Or-tons.
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Mar 11, 2013 18:52
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A family came into my store the other day and all the daughers were named after continents/countries. Which isn't really *that* weird on its own, but when one of the girls had run off somewhere, and I heard the dad say, "Asia, where's India?" Well, it was funny to me v  v
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Mar 11, 2013 21:02
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One of my college professors, an excellent creative writing and poetry teacher, had the surname Seamon. Pronounced exactly as you think. We referred to her by her first name exclusively.
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Mar 11, 2013 22:48
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I was talking about this thread with my friend last night, and he tells me that he works with a girl called Denham, Denham Wrigley. My mum told me the other day that I was almost called Somerset Maugham [Lastname], yeah I'm a girl. So glad my mum didn't let my dad go through with it, naming a baby girl after an old writer dude...
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Mar 11, 2013 22:58
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I was interviewing a mother with her two young children for a story. She told me her daughter's name and I recited it to her, letter by letter, to make sure I had the correct spelling. "I-S-A-B-E-L, correct?" "No, no. It's I-S-A-B-L-E." The kicker was, she didn't pronounce it like it was spelled. She still pronounced it in the traditional way. I was so incredibly tempted to ask what inspired the spelling but I didn't want to look like a dick.
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Mar 12, 2013 01:53
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There was a teacher with the last name Diaper at one of the high schools in my town. It was pronounced Die-uh-per, but obviously that wasn't the first pronunciation that came to mind.
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Mar 12, 2013 02:02
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When I was a senior in high school, I went to a different school than the previous three years due to a family situation. My English teacher was a very kind and intelligent lady, but she also happened to be very large, as in borderline morbidly obese. Her last name, which she had married into, was Hogg. No one was enough of a dick to say anything about it, at least that I ever heard, but I couldn't have been the only one thinking it.
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Mar 12, 2013 02:17
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At my summer camp, there was a girl with a weird upturned nose whose last name was Hogshead.
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Mar 12, 2013 02:29
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Just found this birth announcement for a Xyvyn Xanyl-Xarryn Burnside, with siblings Dreysen, Karvyr, and Alyrya.
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Mar 12, 2013 05:54
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I knew a guy name Xyron, he had a weird high voice.
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Mar 12, 2013 06:20
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Hihohe posted:I knew a guy name Xyron, he had a weird high voice.
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Mar 12, 2013 06:55
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My mom knew a family growing up with the last name Christmas who named their children Mary and Rudolph.
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Mar 12, 2013 16:04
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I was doing customer calls at work the other day and called up a guy named Reidar. I thought it was pronounced "Radar", but it was pronounced as "Rider".
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Mar 12, 2013 16:56
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Was in the elevator a few weeks ago, and heard a mother say to her daughter, "Patience, this isn't our floor!" Robin Sparkles has a new favorite as of 00:01 on Mar 16, 2013 |
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Mar 12, 2013 17:47
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I went to school with a family with the last name Butcaris. The kids were normal and popular, but the parents were not amused when the kids answered the home phone with "Hello, Butt care is here."
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Mar 12, 2013 19:22
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i like nice words
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I have a coworker named Princess but that's not so unusual. What is unusual is that I have a friend who worked at a women's shelter. One of the women had two little girls. Their names? Syphilis and Gonorrhea. I don't know how she spelled it, but holy poo poo. 
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