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Went to high school with a guy named Justin Mike Hunt. Had a CPR instructor named Matt Man(n?). Played D&D with a guy named Justin Time (might have been Tyme, never saw it spelled).
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Sep 9, 2013 02:51
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Encountered a fantastic last name today: Riddlesperger. That's like cryptonazi for the internet age, that.
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Sep 13, 2013 15:30
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My middle name is Marava- Margarette (pronounced Marguerite) and Ava stuck together, after my two grandmothers. It was my mother's compromise towards not naming me Ava Margarette, which thinking back on it is really not that bad of a name. I love my middle name though, and as a side effect of it being unique and unusual I can use it as a character name in MMOs. AFewBricksShy posted:
My ex-husband's last name was Jackson, and when my older son was born, I had to have a serious conversation with him about why we could not name him Michael or Andrew. We're divorced for a reason.
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Sep 13, 2013 18:10
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TheKennedys posted:My ex-husband's last name was Jackson, and when my older son was born, I had to have a serious conversation with him about why we could not name him Michael or Andrew. We're divorced for a reason. "And that's how I saved my son Tito from having a funny name." How about Sir Thomas Crapper? He was a pioneer in plumbing, and developed some helpful toilet related inventions like the floating ballcock (  ). There's an old myth that the phrase "going to the crapper" or "taking a crap" comes from his name. The truth is actually more hilarious. The slang "crap" was already in use before his inventions and involvement in toilet development.So a guy whose name was Crapper got into the business of crap with a hilarious name. A guy at work's son has a substitute teacher at his high school named Mr. Ashole (pronounced ash-hole).
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Sep 13, 2013 18:35
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I just remembered the other day that my ex wanted to name his kids Fortinbras Guildenstern and Roderick Edgetho. He was heavily influenced by our 12th grade English class.
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Sep 13, 2013 19:09
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I had a good friend in high school who was the first girl born in her generation to her family. They decided to name her after all the women of the previous two all at once in an acronym, so her name was Brrasie. Note the spelling, because most official organizations did not.
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Sep 13, 2013 20:18
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Choco1980 posted:I had a good friend in high school who was the first girl born in her generation to her family. They decided to name her after all the women of the previous two all at once in an acronym, so her name was Brrasie. Note the spelling, because most official organizations did not. Pronunciation ?
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Sep 13, 2013 23:42
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Istari posted:Pronunciation ? Maybe the emphasis is on the "Brr," like "it's cold in here." But that just makes it sound like "Jurassic."
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Sep 14, 2013 00:34
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sweeperbravo posted:Maybe the emphasis is on the "Brr," like "it's cold in here." But that just makes it sound like "Jurassic." I was actually more curious about the 'asie' part. To me, the lack of double S would make it more an 'ayzy' or 'arzy' sound, rather than an 'assy' sound. E: I've just realised that, for Americans, 'assy' isn't simply going to be a sound that rhymes with 'sassy'.
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Sep 14, 2013 01:13
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I'll make it easy. It did rhyme with "sassy", like it was describing the metal.
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Sep 14, 2013 01:43
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I just started teaching in Korea and my younger students all chose English names. That's why I am the proud educator of: Fire Iron Man Doctor and Teapot Another teacher I met here has a student named I Die.
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Sep 14, 2013 13:44
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bringmyfishback posted:I just started teaching in Korea and my younger students all chose English names. That's why I am the proud educator of: Teapot is going places.
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Sep 14, 2013 14:29
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Teapot is going places. Personally I think and will be famous some day.
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Sep 14, 2013 15:27
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In one of the companies my GF works for are a pair of Asian workers she claims are brothers--that's not the important part of the story. They each have perfectly normal and common Asian names. One is named Phat, and the other is named Thin.
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Sep 14, 2013 18:53
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I worked with a dude named Harold Johnson. He went by Harry and answered the phone, at work, with '(the company,) this is Harry Johnson, how can I help you? I also went to school with a kid named Patrick Boner, but I think it was spelled Bonner. It was definitely pronounced with just one N.
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Sep 14, 2013 19:53
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bringmyfishback posted:I just started teaching in Korea and my younger students all chose English names. That's why I am the proud educator of: I don't allow non-name "names" in my class. I have a girl who says her name is Purple, so I just use her real Chinese name. If it's not on the birth certificate, I don't have to use it!
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Sep 16, 2013 10:55
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I took a phone call from a very polite lady today, named Miss Sixty-Eight, I had to confirm it with her, as I thought we had inputted her delivery address wrongly, putting the house number into the surname box. But nope, that was her name, her first name is Nineteen. She explained that her parents named her after the year she was born. Miss Nineteen Sixty-Eight.
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Sep 18, 2013 22:53
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aDecentCupOfTea posted:I took a phone call from a very polite lady today, named Miss Sixty-Eight, I had to confirm it with her, as I thought we had inputted her delivery address wrongly, putting the house number into the surname box. But nope, that was her name, her first name is Nineteen. She explained that her parents named her after the year she was born. Miss Nineteen Sixty-Eight. They...changed her last name when she was born?
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Sep 19, 2013 04:40
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Choco1980 posted:They...changed her last name when she was born? I don't know about where you're from, but where I'm from, you don't 'change' a baby's surname; you give them a surname. Most parents choose to give their baby the surname of one/both parent(s), but it's just as easy to put a completely different name on the form.
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Sep 19, 2013 05:15
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Istari posted:I don't know about where you're from, but where I'm from, you don't 'change' a baby's surname; you give them a surname. Most parents choose to give their baby the surname of one/both parent(s), but it's just as easy to put a completely different name on the form. I always assumed a baby in the US is automatically given the last name of the father, or mother if it's a single mother, but thinking about it now there are cases where the single mother gives the baby the last name of the father, or purported father, and as far as I know there's no legal hassle over it. Maybe it's the same way for giving the baby a different last name entirely. I never really thought about it.
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Sep 19, 2013 15:33
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Not a terrible name, but a lovely coincidence: One of my best friends in high school was Austin Powers, born and named years before the movie of the same name. Apparently, as an RA in college, one of his residents was the son of Rob Lowe, who played young Number 2 in The Spy Who Shagged Me. Mr. Lowe met Austin during move-in, and was delighted by the coincidence.
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Sep 19, 2013 16:03
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I had a client today named Семен, or rather Семён (Semyon). Russian is a rather confusing language, often people don't bother to mark the additional dots above ё that would distinguish "yo" from "ye". Unfortunately the official transliteration Семён had in his passport didn't read "Semyon", but "Semen".
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Sep 19, 2013 23:04
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Sep 19, 2013 23:21
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Inspector Zenigata posted:When I was growing up, my mom always used to tell me and my siblings about her neighbors growing up, Doug and Phil Updegrav. I'm not sure how the surname is spelled, but it was pronounced "Up de grave", and their parents self-consciously named them dumb pun names because they thought it was hilarious. We never believed them, until we visited her parent's house for a Christmas party a few years ago, and lo and behold who's sitting right next to me? Doug. Phil had died a couple years before, which is sad, but still. Are you sure it's not Doug and Philip de Grave?
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Sep 19, 2013 23:59
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razorrozar posted:I always assumed a baby in the US is automatically given the last name of the father, or mother if it's a single mother, but thinking about it now there are cases where the single mother gives the baby the last name of the father, or purported father, and as far as I know there's no legal hassle over it. Maybe it's the same way for giving the baby a different last name entirely. I never really thought about it. As I said, I don't know about anywhere else. But I assume that most birth registration forms have fields for the child's name that go something like: Child's name: First:______________ Middle:________________ Surname:__________________ To me, it hardly makes sense for it to not be like this. Otherwise, it would be a serious pain for all those parents who give their kids hyphenated names.
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Sep 20, 2013 00:26
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I work, in a very roundabout way, with mothers and young children. My favourites so far are a brother and sister named Ayhsha and Dontay, and three siblings called Nirvana, Jahleah and Vegaz.
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Sep 20, 2013 02:53
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There's a lawyer in my town named Mr. Ramsbottom. I'm sure it was prestigious once, but not any more!
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Sep 25, 2013 18:48
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In the last few days I've come across some odd names in court cases: Rod Eagles LaTrina Dick Fischmann
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Sep 25, 2013 18:57
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I am way too immature to process paperwork by our new hire, Ku Ke.
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Sep 25, 2013 19:15
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Now that I'm two jobs out, I can report on a VIP from an association I used to work at. Bent Gay To my knowledge, he is neither in real life. But I also loved his email address, which was bgay@[hisdomain]. Oh, and his company was GayCo. Wonderful stuff.
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Sep 25, 2013 20:47
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The Macaroni posted:Now that I'm two jobs out, I can report on a VIP from an association I used to work at. Please tell me his domain was getbent.com? 
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Sep 25, 2013 21:35
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Choco1980 posted:They...changed her last name when she was born? Yeah, I'm fairly certain she said she was Indian? And that in India they don't have surnames, usually they pick the first name of one of the parents, but that they don't have to, and can technically pick whatever they want. Also! Today I spoke to a lady called Beckeny/Bekeney, I'm not sure of the spelling, but it was pronounced like half way between Bethany and Becca. aDecentCupOfTea has a new favorite as of 22:11 on Sep 25, 2013 |
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Sep 25, 2013 22:09
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Sep 26, 2013 10:27
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Met a girl in college with the first name "Golden Eagle". She was not a Native American, in fact she was a run of the mill white girl which was extremely out of place in that city. Edit: facebooked her. I missed the opportunity to make her Spread Eagle.
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Sep 26, 2013 13:48
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its like lava posted:Met a girl in college with the first name "Golden Eagle". She was not a Native American, in fact she was a run of the mill white girl which was extremely out of place in that city. Isn't/wasn't Golden Eagle a grocery store?
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Sep 26, 2013 23:34
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two forty posted:Isn't/wasn't Golden Eagle a grocery store? You may be thinking of Giant Eagle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_eagle
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Sep 28, 2013 02:39
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A couple on my Facebook named their newborn daughter "Linelda", combining the names Link and Zelda (from Nintendo's Legend of Zelda series) together in some sort of strange Twilight-esque "Renesmee" blending.  Everyone was congratulating them on their awesome name, but I'm sorry, I just find it so incredibly stupid.
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Wings of Mine posted:A couple on my Facebook named their newborn daughter "Linelda", combining the names Link and Zelda (from Nintendo's Legend of Zelda series) together in some sort of strange Twilight-esque "Renesmee" blending. Had you not mentioned the origin of the name, I probably wouldn't have batted an eye. Even though it's a name I've never heard of before, it doesn't sound all that strange. If they wanted a totally normal name and still honor the whole Zelda thing, then Link + Zelda could've simply just been Linda. v  v At least it's no Marjoe.
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