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I had a customer tell me his kid's names today. They were Logan, Bruce, and Kal-El. Fine, you like superheroes and obviously Wolverine, Batman, and Superman in particular. So why not, I don't know, CLARK? Poor kid.
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All on Black posted:I had a customer tell me his kid's names today. They were Logan, Bruce, and Kal-El. Fine, you like superheroes and obviously Wolverine, Batman, and Superman in particular. So why not, I don't know, CLARK? Poor kid. Odd thing: My friend named his son Logan because he loves Wolverine that much. He wasn't too upset when they revealed Wolverine's REAL name - because my friend's name is James. 
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Apr 26, 2013 17:21
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I'm Facebook friends with this batshit crazy hippie girl who honestly believes she is an alien from another galaxy and writes songs about it and her ultra-Christian boyfriend who makes worship music. Well, turns out they are having a child! And they picked the named Unity. Normally, this would just be a dumb name, but when you consider her parents and realize her mom is going to raise her thinking she is an alien (as her grandmother did before) it just becomes sad.
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Apr 26, 2013 19:14
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Ghost Party posted:I'm Facebook friends with this batshit crazy hippie girl who honestly believes she is an alien from another galaxy and writes songs about it and her ultra-Christian boyfriend who makes worship music. Well, turns out they are having a child! And they picked the named Unity. Normally, this would just be a dumb name, but when you consider her parents and realize her mom is going to raise her thinking she is an alien (as her grandmother did before) it just becomes sad. This is the only kid I will ever say deserves a reality show. Also, how do the multi-generational belief that you are literally aliens and Christianity coexist?
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Apr 26, 2013 19:26
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From the awkward/ugly thread: So, how do we think this is pronounced? I'm going with Gal-ee-shay-ah, myself.
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Apr 27, 2013 03:35
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bringmyfishback posted:Oh, Abcde. Oh, LaDASHa. Oh, bleh! Hey, Glynis Johns played the mom in Mary Poppins! Okay, that's like the only Glynis I've ever heard of...
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Apr 27, 2013 06:34
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Everyone who's called Mike Hunt or Mark Hunt, and there's a lot of them. Also, I once worked with someone with the first name Medad. Now, that's a pretty innocuous Hebrew name right? But then I started to lose track of the number of times I ended up in a conversation like this... "And then I went over to see Medad and we looked at doing (blah blah)" "Sorry who?" "Medad" "Your Dad?" "No, the chap in IT called MEDAD" "Ohhhhhhhhhh....." Mr. Gibbycrumbles has a new favorite as of 14:38 on Apr 29, 2013 |
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Apr 29, 2013 11:13
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There's a dude living on the third floor of my dorm called Loki. I have no idea if that's his real name, but it's what's on his school ID. I can only hope that there's a Thor somewhere so I can introduce them. My friend claims to be acquaintances with someone named Spartacus, who was disappointingly small and skinny. This friend also knows a girl who goes by Thunder Braun, which is either really cool or really dumb. edit: I forgot to mention that my dad very nearly named me Kal-el after Superman. I am so very glad my mother put her foot down on that one..
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Apr 29, 2013 14:26
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Ashol. Pronounced "a shoal" unfortunately. http://svenskanamn.alltforforaldrar.se/visa/Ashol Donarts. DONARTS PLS http://svenskanamn.alltforforaldrar.se/visa/Donarts Wanaporn. One person is called this in Sweden. http://svenskanamn.alltforforaldrar.se/visa/Wanaporn Pornpatch. Same here. http://svenskanamn.alltforforaldrar.se/visa/Pornpatch
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Apr 29, 2013 14:48
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TheWorstAtWords posted:There's a dude living on the third floor of my dorm called Loki. I have no idea if that's his real name, but it's what's on his school ID. I can only hope that there's a Thor somewhere so I can introduce them. I know a Thor and it is indeed his given name. I'll ship him out to you. Honestly nerds are doing terrible things to their children right now. One of my facebook friends, who also feels it's appropriate to let his four-year-old watch Game of Thrones, is naming his son Altair. He is not from an Arabic or Greek speaking culture, or particularly interested in astronomy, he's just a gigantic loving nerd.
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Apr 29, 2013 15:48
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I wonder if the kid will eventually decide to start pronouncing it the way most English speakers would, just to avoid the hassle.
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Apr 29, 2013 16:08
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For disease names that people actually use as a real name, there's always Candida, both a feminine given name and a genus of yeasts, including the one that gives us yeast infections, C. albicans.
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Apr 30, 2013 23:55
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Went to school with Dusty and Wendy Trail.
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May 1, 2013 01:38
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Dake Darkstalker posted:Went to school with Dusty and Wendy Trail. At least you never met their brother, Oregon.
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May 1, 2013 01:40
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My family has some pretty good ones. My brother's name is Domiano, my grandmom is Erana. My great aunts are Cheris and DeEtta and my great grandmother is Norfa. My brother's name is Italian but I have no idea what's going on with the rest of them.
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May 1, 2013 01:45
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Derringer posted:DeEtta For some reason this reminds me of my aunt, Eldonna. Named for her father Eldon, why the gently caress.
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May 1, 2013 04:21
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An old classmate of mine had a daughter named Serenity Grace Lei Brown.
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May 1, 2013 06:55
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I work with a guy named Bruce Wang. He's hilarious and awesome and fully embraces his title of Chinese Batman.
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May 1, 2013 09:08
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I met Richard Battle today. You'd think he would go by Richard, but no he prefers to be called Dick. Dick Battle. He's the nicest guy though. And not an adult performer.
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Science posted:I met Richard Battle today. You'd think he would go by Richard, but no he prefers to be called Dick. Dick Battle. When your last name is Battle, I think you legally can just do whatever the gently caress you want.
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May 1, 2013 17:06
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A recent local kidnapping case involved young Brayden, his father Beau, and his father's girlfriend, Bryndi. These people are all exactly as attractive/clean as one might imagine. http://www.krtv.com/news/amber-alert-issued-for-montana-infant-brayden-blasius/ (the kid is okay ) Also, a kid came in the store with his mom and grandmother, who kept calling him "Ben-JAMMIN'." I have no idea if this is a cute nickname or not, but this is the state where people can't pronounce the word "leggings," so I choose to believe that they cannot pronounce the name Benjamin.
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May 1, 2013 23:41
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Where's the crying kiwi emote when you need it? New Zealand rejects names that are too stupid (mostly). http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/world/asia/new-zealand-stange-baby-names/index.html
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May 2, 2013 02:41
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Went to college with a kid who, I was told, had the middle name of 'Stalin'. Didn't believe it until, yup, they announced it at graduation. "Michael Stalin Lastname, graduating with a B.S. in Biochemistry!". So weird. He was a shy inner-city black kid who played on the basketball team, I can only imagine his parents were hard Reds during the 70s or something... who knows. e: also, a girl from high school named her poor daughter 'Raynee Skye'. Vomit.
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May 2, 2013 03:44
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So this article was linked to me today: http://thestir.cafemom.com/pregnancy/154886/30_cool_baby_names_inspired Do people even *listen* to these songs? First off, Luka is a boy's name in the song by Suzanne Vega and is about an abused child. Nice association. Don't get me started on Pearl Jam's "Jeremy".
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May 2, 2013 17:43
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Oh dear, Eleanor from 'Eleanor Rigby' is on there too. I don't think I'd name my child after a song where nobody came to the person's funeral.
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Leelee posted:So this article was linked to me today: http://thestir.cafemom.com/pregnancy/154886/30_cool_baby_names_inspired Stellar is not a name! 
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Leelee posted:So this article was linked to me today: http://thestir.cafemom.com/pregnancy/154886/30_cool_baby_names_inspired I feel like they just sort of randomly picked songs with names out a hat because they were running too close to deadline and needed something to post. I mean, they think "Ben" is a good song inspiration (I don't know about you, but I sure as hell want to associate my future son with a movie about murderous rats!)
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Miss Kalle posted:I feel like they just sort of randomly picked songs with names out a hat because they were running too close to deadline and needed something to post. I mean, they think "Ben" is a good song inspiration (I don't know about you, but I sure as hell want to associate my future son with a movie about murderous rats!) That's why I'm naming all my kids Willard.
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Leelee posted:So this article was linked to me today: http://thestir.cafemom.com/pregnancy/154886/30_cool_baby_names_inspired Urge! Earl? That is literally a song about a wife beater that gets killed and no one cares... Why. Also, if you were going to name your child Buddy after Buddy Holly, wouldn't it make more sense to name him that because of the performer and not after one song from a college stoner band? I was in Primark the other day and hear a mother calling for her children, Pixie and Diesel.
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Came across a man with the first name of Merlin today.
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How is that weird but Marlon is an acceptable name. I'd rather be named after a wizard than a big fish I know it's marlin but still.
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May 2, 2013 21:53
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I encountered a person named Awestehn today. God is dead.
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All on Black posted:I encountered a person named Awestehn today. God is dead. That's awful. Not as awful as the girl named Loowyza I met once upon a time.
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It came from Facebook: a guy I knew from high school has a mother named Zsuzsanna. Pronounced the same as Susanna, I imagine.
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Kid came through the pharmacy named Macarena. She'll ever be haunted by that terrible 90s dance craze.
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1-800-DOG-LAW posted:It came from Facebook: a guy I knew from high school has a mother named Zsuzsanna. Pronounced the same as Susanna, I imagine. Zsuzsanna is a normal Hungarian name.
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Marengo posted:Zsuzsanna is a normal Hungarian name. These are my favorite posts in this thread, even better than the feckless racist urban legend ones. Someone was freaking out a few pages ago over "Matteo," having concluded it was a Special Snowflake combination of "Matt" and "Romeo." 
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swamp waste posted:These are my favorite posts in this thread, even better than the feckless racist urban legend ones. Someone was freaking out a few pages ago over "Matteo," having concluded it was a Special Snowflake combination of "Matt" and "Romeo." The thing is, though, that it's entirely possible that someone put those two names together and thought they created "Matteo." I grew up with a friend named Janice whose parents were convinced they'd invented that name by combining theirs- Jan and Denise. EDIT: Janice totally smelled like corn chips and cigarettes.
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swamp waste posted:These are my favorite posts in this thread, even better than the feckless racist urban legend ones. Someone was freaking out a few pages ago over "Matteo," having concluded it was a Special Snowflake combination of "Matt" and "Romeo." I would've thought watching 20 minutes of hockey would let you know that Eurasia has some names that sound odd to us, but are quite normal over there.
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Leelee posted:So this article was linked to me today: http://thestir.cafemom.com/pregnancy/154886/30_cool_baby_names_inspired On the same note, Maxwell? That's a perfectly fine name I guess, if you're into surname-as-first-name names, but no one should receive it in honour of Maxwell's Silver Hammer. That's kind of messed up. Also, ha, my name is on the list of boy names and I'm a girl  I get that a lot; couldn't count the number of times I've been asked what my real name is or mistaken for a dude (if someone sees my name but not me).
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