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Working as a server, I've seen some incredible names on credit cards. Standouts for me are the unassuming old white man named Manuel P. Calamari, the cop (in full uniform, with gun) named Harry Trotter, and most recently, a man named Rodney Cox.
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Found in lovely movie credits: Dick Pitstick One of the staff on campus: Talor Mourning. Sounds like an awful fantasy novel protagonist.
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Nov 20, 2013 05:49
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Brother Jonathan posted:While "schmuck" is an insult in Yiddish, it is also a family name in Germany, and one of them moved to New York City: The Atlantic: Sister Schmuck Takes a Stand. Schmuck is also just a regular German word. Its meaning is "jewelry" or "decoration." Avshalom posted:I'd like to see a Swiss version of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' now. Oral, Oral Johnny, Colonel Oral, Oral the Second, the seventeen doomed Orals, it would delight highschool literature students everywhere I would get a chuckle out of it myself (well, assuming I could read German well enough, and specifically a Swiss dialect of it, to understand).
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Nov 20, 2013 06:56
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ibntumart posted:Schmuck is also just a regular German word. Its meaning is "jewelry" or "decoration." 
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Nov 20, 2013 07:56
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Bosslee. Insisted everyone call him boss. Theodoric Wong
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Nov 20, 2013 09:54
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Met a Richard "Dick" Payne before. McPhail is a pretty common surname in my area too.
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Nov 20, 2013 12:51
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One of my grand-grandmothers was named Anna Lizer.
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Nov 21, 2013 17:49
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I overheard a guy signing his twins up at the library. Surname, Bear. First names, Lily-Kiss and Baby. Baby Bear. These kids were like six, shouldn't remorse have kicked in by then?
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Nov 22, 2013 00:09
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Came across a couple odd ones at work today: Mr. Penelope Haig. And one which doesn't belong here, but I don't see an Amazing Names thread: Barbados D. Dicks.
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Nov 26, 2013 02:59
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 Tell me if I start repeating myself, but I still have quite a few stupid names to post.
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Nov 26, 2013 03:32
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When I was in college in Bellingham, Escamillo Thunderbunny was a bit of a local phone book legend.
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Nov 26, 2013 04:36
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Nov 27, 2013 01:45
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I shipped a package to a woman named Candy Graves today
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Nov 27, 2013 06:04
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Nov 27, 2013 08:14
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meet Dr. Happy Thanksgiving Reynolds.
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Nov 27, 2013 23:08
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Could you imagine if you met some one named Scroden?
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Nov 28, 2013 00:54
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I think this one has showed up in the thread before, but last night my cashier at the hardware store had to call over her manager for an override...the manager's name tag said Jerrica. I know it's not vanishingly rare, but it still seems like a typo of Jessica to me.
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Nov 28, 2013 02:09
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RazorBunny posted:I think this one has showed up in the thread before, but last night my cashier at the hardware store had to call over her manager for an override...the manager's name tag said Jerrica. Maybe her parents were really into Jem and the Holograms? 
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Nov 28, 2013 02:17
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Nov 28, 2013 02:34
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GabrielAisling posted:Maybe her parents were really into Jem and the Holograms? She seemed about the right age for that to be the case...
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Nov 28, 2013 02:49
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You ever hear of this one "Shebby"
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Nov 28, 2013 16:10
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Wayne Gretzky posted:You ever hear of this one "Shebby" Written like that, or a poorly-pronounced Shelby? I just found out the other week my neighbour's name is Nolanda, "like Yolanda with an N" was how she described it to me. I guess it's the feminine of Nolan but I've never heard it before.
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Nov 28, 2013 17:28
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Wayne Gretzky posted:You ever hear of this one "Shebby" My shebby got some fat tars on the back got fawv hunnert horspowr, fassest shebby yever saw
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Nov 28, 2013 19:45
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Grrl Anachronism posted:Written like that, or a poorly-pronounced Shelby? This sounds like one of those Terry Pratchett names like Nigella that means "oops, we wanted a boy".
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Nov 28, 2013 20:44
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A Meat posted:Nimrod I think the entire reason "Nimrod" became a synonym for "idiot" is because Bugs Bunny used it to mock Elmer Fudd. Nimrod was described in the bible as a "mighty hunter" but most people just heard it as a dopey sounding name. content: My Dad knew a guy in the Navy with the last name of Rickets who went by Scurvy. The Moon Monster has a new favorite as of 23:18 on Nov 28, 2013 |
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Nov 28, 2013 23:15
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The Moon Monster posted:I think the entire reason "Nimrod" became a synonym for "idiot" is because Bugs Bunny used it to mock Elmer Fudd. Nimrod was described in the bible as a "mighty hunter" but most people just heard it as a dopey sounding name.  I guess they stopped making fun of him.
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Nov 29, 2013 03:14
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Nov 29, 2013 05:58
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Inspector Zenigata posted:I'd still make fun of him; he looks like a grotesque parody of a human being. I wouldn't say anything to his face though, for fear of being smashed into a million pieces.
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Nov 29, 2013 06:14
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Stop making fun of the poor, huge man!
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Nov 29, 2013 07:39
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The Moon Monster posted:My Dad knew a guy in the Navy with the last name of Rickets who went by Scurvy. I'm sorry, you seem to have put this in the wrong thread because Scurvy Rickets is the absolute greatest sailor name ever. Dude sounds like an awesome pirate.
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Nov 29, 2013 09:08
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Flagrant Abuse posted:Don't worry, with thighs that huge, he wouldn't be able to run after you very fast without risking friction burns. It's fine, he's so bowlegged there's clearance.
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Nov 29, 2013 15:09
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Nov 30, 2013 02:41
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One of my grandmother's close friends always went by Talia (plus a host of other Russian diminutives), but at her funeral I found out that her first name was  Stalina.
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Nov 30, 2013 06:41
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So the 400 pounder from the hoarder house next door is due in a month and I just found out their name choice: Zaydyn (grampa1) (grampa2) Xavier. There truly is an -aden for every letter of the alphabet.
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Nov 30, 2013 22:20
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Served food to an Elyssa today. I couldn't figure out exactly how to pronounce it so I went with 'Allissa' and that worked. Firefox does not count Elyssa as a misspelling and that's a little bit troubling to me. edit: After doing some searching, apparently Elyssa is a real name. What a dumb, annoying way to spell a totally different name that's pronounced the same way!
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Nov 30, 2013 22:35
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Elissa is an alternate name for Dido. Carthage Dido, not the singer. So the name is over 2100 years old. Edit: 2400 years or so, according to Wikipedia. It probably predates the spellings using A. Aphrodite has a new favorite as of 23:23 on Nov 30, 2013 |
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Nov 30, 2013 23:13
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Then perhaps Allissa is the dumb misspelling after all.
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As poetry would have it, he probably has a dong the size of your forearm.Say Nothing posted:Then what the hell does this guy have? Fur20 has a new favorite as of 09:25 on Dec 1, 2013 |
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The White Dragon posted:As poetry would have it, he probably has a dong the size of your forearm. 
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