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Shithouse Dave posted:But Coon cheese has everyone giving the side-eye right back. Not to mention the Golden Gaytime, with it's elegant slogan, "it's hard to have a Gaytime on your own". I am American and never had a preschool graduation. I remember thinking 8th grade graduation was pretty silly. However, my parents are not of the generation where everything your kid does is automatically precious and special and shiny, which is how I feel people my age or younger with children seem to kind of act. (I'm in my late twenties and very happily childless.) However, preschool and kindergarten graduation are big things in Japan, complete with dress rehearsals. I remember pissing myself laughing in the storage closet at one preschool I worked at because I was watching them practice for graduation and the kids were SO SERIOUS until they remembered they were kids- like, frowning and bowing deeply, but then seeing a sticker on the floor and getting excited about it and the teachers absolutely spazzing over these 5-year olds not behaving like perfect angels.
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I guess it varies from school to school, but at my school here in Australia, high school graduation wasn't even considered a big deal.
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I met with a taxman name M Silvernails. He's Iroquois.
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I wish I wanted kids, I'd name my daughter La-a to gently caress with people. It may be a good thing that I don't want kids.
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Flagrant Abuse posted:I wish I wanted kids, I'd name my daughter La-a to gently caress with people.
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There was a headteacher at a school one of my friends went to called Mister Shore-Twilley. We also had a gym teacher called Mr Darling.
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Asian people using old white names for their kids is the best. Why? because it means I met a Dickson Poon.
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I recently learned that my name is old viking for "jackass". I still think it's cool, though.  It's Tóki, pronounced "tov-che"
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tiananman posted:I know this sounds incredibly stupid and made up but I ran track in high school with a kid named Michael Hunt. (Mike Hunt = My oval office) This is from forever ago but - small world, I went to the same school. Class of 1999? Also, I've met a woman named Velvet Bush.
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Kajeesus posted:I recently learned that my name is old viking for "jackass". I still think it's cool, though. Where are you from ? Or rather, where is your name from ?
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Flagrant Abuse posted:I wish I wanted kids, I'd name my daughter La-a to gently caress with people. Way back in this thread someone posted hard evidence of someone naming their kid Abcde for the same reason.
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Istari posted:Where are you from ? Or rather, where is your name from ? I'm Faroese. It's also an Icelandic name.
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rodbeard posted:Way back in this thread someone posted hard evidence of someone naming their kid Abcde for the same reason. Was that the supposed real and not at all photoshopped screenshot of a college admissions database?
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Kajeesus posted:I'm Faroese. It's also an Icelandic name. Thanks; I think it's a great name.
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I actually did meet a Ladasha. When I first saw it I couldn't believe it and thought of this thread. Maybe someone heard the rumor and liked the name? However, her name was spelled out completely and pronounced something like La-day-zha. So anyone still claiming to have heard of La-a is lying, an idiot, and probably racist and sheltered.
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Talon Nightshade contracted with my company last year. And the best name in videogames is still Feargus Urquhart.
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DeKalb posted:I actually did meet a Ladasha. When I first saw it I couldn't believe it and thought of this thread. Maybe someone heard the rumor and liked the name? However, her name was spelled out completely and pronounced something like La-day-zha. So anyone still claiming to have heard of La-a is lying, an idiot, and probably racist and sheltered. I once knew a boy whose middle name was Lodasia pronounced like La-day-zha.
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Ran into a girl from my sister's graduating class the other day. She's named her daughter Novella. Like the "too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story" prose form.
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GabrielAisling posted:Ran into a girl from my sister's graduating class the other day. She's named her daughter Novella. Like the "too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story" prose form. Not that uncommon: http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Novella Apparently Sonny & Cher's child was named Chastity Sun. My friends name is Iwo.
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Painter Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) was featured on Antiques Roadshow. He named his son Titian. Two sons, actually. That was the worst of his themed names, but it had to have been awkward for children to know that yep, their daddy was a weird one. By his first wife were born: Margaret Jane James Willson Eleanore Margaret Van Bordley Raphaelle Angelica Kauffman Rembrandt Titian Ramsay Rubens Sophonisba Angusciola Rosalba Carriera She died, so he married Elizabeth DePeyster. He started running low on male painters, so he switched to other important individuals. Vandyke Charles Linnaeus Benjamin Franklin Sybilla Miriam Titian Ramsay (because the first one had died) Elizabeth DePeyster If you're missing some of the references, this site breaks them down. Every weird name except Charles Linnaeus and Benjamin Franklin were indeed involved with art in some way.
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Well, I met a Tennis Alemen today. I thought at first he said Dennis but nope, Tennis. Poor guy.
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I grew up in an everybody-knows-everybody rural community. There were these two brothers who lived there; one was named Lemon, and the other Lamoyne. Lemon had a hook for a hand.
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Cmdr Tomalak posted:I posted about that guy earlier in the thread. Scarborough, right? South Etobicoke, actually. I always thought that was strange because south Etobicoke is mostly Eastern European, where Scarborough has a much larger South Asian community.
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'Florida woman named Crystal Metheny arrested in Polk' the lovely lady: 
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Most of mine are daft, rather than flat-out retarded. I work in a big hospital in IT, so I get to see a lot of user names. Some of the more memorable ones: Shiny Baby Ms. Nurse, a nurse Dr. Doctor, a doctor Dr. Assad Butt (username buttdr (changed from buttass by request of the user)) And one time in my youth I was arrested by PC Beard and PC Shave. Sadly the facial hair did not match.
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I couldn't believe it when I heard an ad on the radio this morning for a local realtor: Twinkle Rowan. Ugh. http://www.twinklerowan.com
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Overheard a mother admonishing her son Jameson in a Target store the other day. I'm only assuming the spelling from how it was pronounced, because who the hell knows.
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Sudden Guts Pill posted:Overheard a mother admonishing her son Jameson in a Target store the other day. I'm only assuming the spelling from how it was pronounced, because who the hell knows. I went to high school with a Jamieson. Less alcohol-inspired and hopefully the correct spelling for the kid you heard...
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Sudden Guts Pill posted:Overheard a mother admonishing her son Jameson in a Target store the other day. I'm only assuming the spelling from how it was pronounced, because who the hell knows. That reminds me, I'm also baffled in general by most American names being common as both first and last names. Jackson Paul, Damon Thomas, Shelby Scott... I don't know of anywhere else that's really a thing.
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S'Ranthony L'Nard. I mean, L'Nard kind of works as a truncated Leonard, but it just makes me think of Monster Squad dubbed in French or something. "Loup-garou a l'nards!" edit: Another one from the terminations pile: Aspen Sky. marshmallow creep has a new favorite as of 17:00 on Jun 13, 2014 |
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Sudden Guts Pill posted:Overheard a mother admonishing her son Jameson in a Target store the other day. I'm only assuming the spelling from how it was pronounced, because who the hell knows. Err, that name's been around for a while, though it's a bit more rare as a first name, but not unknown. Kajeesus posted:That reminds me, I'm also baffled in general by most American names being common as both first and last names. Jackson Paul, Damon Thomas, Shelby Scott... I don't know of anywhere else that's really a thing. Once upon a time in England, it was fairly common to give the first-born son the mother's maiden surname as a first name. That's probably how a lot of them first moved from last names to first names. Then, unaware of the historical reasons for the trend, there are probably plenty of people who figured they could just name their kids with a surname. And there's the whole "special snowflake" bullshit that's affecting American parents these days, so if you're trying to find a ~special and unique name~, how can you go wrong with a surname? Ultimately, I think surnames-as-first-names is less terrible than brand-new-unique-names-as-first-names. At least they're still names. I have a cousin whose first name is Greyson because the doctor who delivered him was Dr. Greyson and the parents liked the name. 
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Okay okay okay guys, I just had a sudden memory leap out at me from the "first name is last name talk". Take this with a grain of salt because this is a barely-remembered haze from like 15 years ago. My last name is Donelson. When I was a kid I visited the States, and I swear to Christ I remember my great Uncle casually mention that a distant cousin Donelson was up to something. I inquired, and it turns out he wasn't referring to the guy by his last name. There might be someone in my family named Donelson Donelson
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frankenbeans posted:Dr. Assad Butt (username buttdr (changed from buttass by request of the user)) Please please say he's a proctologist.
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Gerlmy Javon Todd This clown just made the news for getting high and crashing into CNN headquarters
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frankenbeans posted:Dr. Assad Butt (username buttdr (changed from buttass by request of the user)) This is the best thing I've ever heard.
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I met a woman yesterday named Quiata.
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stubblyhead posted:Please please say he's a proctologist. Sadly not, I'm afraid. edit: Just checked, he's a paediatrician. frankenbeans has a new favorite as of 18:02 on Jun 18, 2014 |
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