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Doctor Bishop posted:I think this one may very well have already been posted here at some point, but I will never forget how simultaneously bemused and amused I was the first time I saw the name Dong Dong come up during the 2008 Olympics. These are just a few of the athlete's from the 2012 Olympics. There's too many to list.        
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The author Anne Rice, was named Howard by her mother.
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I knew a guy in Jr. High named Justin Case. I always wondered if it was intentional or not.
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My husband's cousin just had a son and named him Link Raiden. He's not even that nerdy, that part of the family is more white trash.
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I had two classmates in two different years named Manpreet, which isn't at all an unusual name. For a girl. Which only one of these people was.
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This guy was named Steety.
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I don't think I've got a really strange name, just very uncommon (never met anyone with it). My name is Yola. Or, as most people go, 'Yolanda?' No, Yola. No -nda. It's not short for anything. When I was about twelve I seriously had a conversation with a friends grandfather who insisted I must have gotten my own name wrong. 'Surely you are called Yolanda.' No, I'm not. Also, I have a very short last name (three letters) that fits my first name quite nicely. When I have to say my name and just say 'Yola <lastname>', people stare at me and ask what my first name is. So I've taken to spelling it. Going 'Yola <lastname>, l-a-s-t-n-a-m-e.' My cousin Antoinette gets it the other way around, when she introduces herself people go 'and your last name?' On the plus side, I get to explain it's a name with the Kwakwaka'wakw Nation. I'm sure I pronounce it all wrong, but it's worth it for the look people give me when they hear Kwakwaka'wakw.
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Alterian posted:My husband's cousin just had a son and named him Link Raiden. He's not even that nerdy, that part of the family is more white trash.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:They pronounce it "rayden", don't they? Yep. Their grandma was very confused about the name and thought it was "Link Raven" at first.
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Wayne Gretzky posted:This guy was named Steety. Sfeefy thought he'd go incognito by flipping the f's in his name.
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I hope this is a photoshop Edit: poo poo, it's real. http://www.tillamookregionalmc.org/gallery/colt-45
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At least that poor kid can just be Colt.
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How long until a lot of people start naming their children after internet handles do you think?
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paragon1 posted:How long until a lot of people start naming their children after internet handles do you think? I'd rather meet a baby named WeedGoku420 than yet another Ava or Mason. I swear there's like 8 baby names that all middle-upper-class suburban people pick from.
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I already know someone who was named after her mom's DnD character.
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The Pell posted:I hope this is a photoshop  Yeah, who would name their kid after something stupid like a beer. Pick a sweet weapon instead. And if you're sick of defending that name after half a month, imagine how much he's going to hate it after 18+ years of it. Also, 10 points if you can guess what their older kid is named. HUNTER.
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Purple Prophecy posted:Also, I have a very short last name (three letters) that fits my first name quite nicely. When I have to say my name and just say 'Yola <lastname>', people stare at me and ask what my first name is. So I've taken to spelling it. Going 'Yola <lastname>, l-a-s-t-n-a-m-e.' My cousin Antoinette gets it the other way around, when she introduces herself people go 'and your last name?' Hi, three-letter-last-name buddy! I'm used to automatically spelling mine as well. "What's your name?" "Sweeper Poo P-O-O" cue a moments confusion where they think my last name is Poopeeohoh. Please let no one have that last word as their real last name.
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sweeperbravo posted:Hi, three-letter-last-name buddy! I'm used to automatically spelling mine as well. "What's your name?" "Sweeper Poo P-O-O" cue a moments confusion where they think my last name is Poopeeohoh. My surname is 20+ letters. I say it, then begin spelling it, and only get about 3 letters in before the other person just hands me a piece of paper and says 'it's probably easier if you just write it down'. Which I don't mind, because it is a hell of a lot easier if I just write it.
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Ugh, I hate this poo poo so much. Speaking as somebody with a pretty weird name, I hate that people are so eager to give an a unique snowflake name to the ~*special thing that they made*~ with no regard for the fact that the baby will grow up as a human being with an identity. Then the kid has no choice but to deal with the poo poo name their parents gave them and the parents act like they're the ones being persecuted.
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Inspector Zenigata posted:You from New York? I know somebody with a similar story. There can be too many, right? What I mean is that I will pay you money to name your child paragon2.
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There's a boy at school whose name is pronounced "Fatty." (He is  )
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The Pell posted:
Why is there a baby gallery? Anyway there's some pretty good stuff on it, for example these beautiful children born within 15 days of each other. http://www.tillamookregionalmc.org/gallery/jaxon-clarence http://www.tillamookregionalmc.org/gallery/jaxon-kb http://www.tillamookregionalmc.org/gallery/jaxon-allen Tillamook is a pretty small town that does not deserve that many Jaxons.
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A friend of mine goes to school with a guy named Jesusislord.
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There's a guy who runs commercials (for an auto dealership if I recall correctly) called Dick Smith. It doesn't seem so bad but he says his name really fast.
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sweeperbravo posted:Hi, three-letter-last-name buddy! I'm used to automatically spelling mine as well. "What's your name?" "Sweeper Poo P-O-O" cue a moments confusion where they think my last name is Poopeeohoh. Secretly I'm glad to hear other three-letter-last-name people get that too! I imagine it's even worse when your last name doesn't mean something (mine does) and you can't even try to explain by referencing that thing. Back to weird names, I met a Jurphaas once. And one of my best friends has a last name that in my language means 'vomit'. Very unfortunate. edit: Just remembered mr. Neighbour. Too bad he doesn't live next door to me. But someone, somewhere, has a neigbour Neighbour. Purple Prophecy has a new favorite as of 10:28 on Dec 17, 2013 |
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paragon1 posted:How long until a lot of people start naming their children after internet handles do you think? My name IS my internet handle! 
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paragon1 posted:How long until a lot of people start naming their children after internet handles do you think? My real name is pronounced the same way as my internet handle, does that count? Which I must say is sometimes unfortunate.
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paragon1 posted:There's a guy who runs commercials (for an auto dealership if I recall correctly) called Dick Smith. It doesn't seem so bad but he says his name really fast. 
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Sham bam bamina! posted:There's an entire (presumably unrelated) Dick Smith electronics retailer chain in Australia. 
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Congratulations! Tens of sums shall be yours upon my receiving a certificate of live birth.
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Little guy on the bus was just introduced by his mother as Boston. Not Austin, the person she was talking to was confused by it too, so she made mom repeat it to be sure Boston.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:There's an entire (presumably unrelated) Dick Smith electronics retailer chain in Australia. When I worked at Dick Smith we hired a Richard Smith.
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I was stuffing envelopes at my job today and ran across an "Aeryelle". I imagine it's meant to be pronounced like "Ariel" but I can't be sure.
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want to guess Richard Gere's middle name? Wrong. It's tiffany.
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My sister's two kids were both delivered by Dr. Bush. When I was a kid we lived across the street from a dermatologist named Dr. Skinner.
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stubblyhead posted:My sister's two kids were both delivered by Dr. Bush. When I was a kid we lived across the street from a dermatologist named Dr. Skinner. My cousins' dentist is called Dr Dre.
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