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The White Dragon posted:Gun Shows is the best goddamn surname ever. And now I remember one more cool/horrible Native American name. I saw a news story out of Montana once about a dude named John Henry Knows His Gun, whose 1st-degree murder charge had been reduced to manslaughter because he didn't know the gun was loaded when he aimed it at his brother-in-law. Also, the victim's surname was Whiteman.
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We just enrolled a boy named Daniel San
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Lotish posted:We just enrolled a boy named Daniel San I get Daniel-san jokes all of the time just from my first name being Daniel, that kid must have it the worst.
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One of the kids in my child's class is named Feanix. Not Phoenix, as I naturally thought when I heard her name, but Feanix.
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My girlfriend got a Christmas card from a weird, anime-obsessed girl she hasn't seen since high school. Picture of the girl, a baby, and a fluffy gray cat. "Season's greetings from me, Benjamin, and Sephiroth" Turns out the cat is Benjamin. 
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I was at the grocery store last week and the cashier's name was Destination.
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Mar 31, 2015 03:07
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I've met 2 boys called Zeon in the last 48 hours. I was told "like Leon, with a Z" on both occasions.
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I got an email at work from a guy with the last name of "Fagbenjo", which made me laugh because I'm 12. But then I saw his email address: Goddamn.
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Mar 31, 2015 03:30
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Had friends of the family with the last name Birdie growing up They named their Daughter Imawee Imawee Birdie These were sensible adults as well in all other walks of life
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Mar 31, 2015 03:45
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fullroundaction posted:I got an email at work from a guy with the last name of "Fagbenjo", which made me laugh because I'm 12. But then I saw his email address: Can't tell if better or worse than Peter File.
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Mar 31, 2015 04:44
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Had a customer today named Wu, Teng clan ain't nothing to gently caress with
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Mar 31, 2015 08:23
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Istari posted:I've met 2 boys called Zeon in the last 48 hours. I was told "like Leon, with a Z" on both occasions. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zeon#English 
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fullroundaction posted:I got an email at work from a guy with the last name of "Fagbenjo", which made me laugh because I'm 12. But then I saw his email address: I want to say he's probably Nigerian. I think it's the "gb", that's common in certain languages spoken in Nigeria, like Igbo. See also Gbenga Akinnagbe, first-generation American son of Nigerian immigrants. The cool thing is that it's a double-articulated consonant - you pronounce the G and B sounds at the same time. Most people can't hear it if they didn't grow up around it, so the G ends up disappearing and he becomes Benga Akinnabe to English speakers. Or Peter Fabenjo. I knew a Gbolahan in college who insisted on going by "G" because nobody could say his name.
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Mar 31, 2015 11:37
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This one is kind of mild as a whole if maybe a little bit on the hippy side of things, but the combination of name and position I think is great. This is not from a small company either.
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Do dumb pronunciations count? My SIL has a friend, Sean. Also my brother's name. Solid, traditional name, with traditional Irish spelling. Except this kid's name is pronounced "See-an". I saw this kid's name in writing, correctly pronounced it, and was told I was wrong.  No, your friend's parents saw a name and didn't know how to pronounce it and made up their own poo poo.My 4 year old has a kid named Speed in his class. (I whisper-asked their teacher if he had a pet monkey, and she laughed. A lot.) There's also a Cullen [Twilight]. Edit: My mom also had a cousin named Richard Dick. Yup, he went by Harry Dick. AlistairCookie has a new favorite as of 02:28 on Apr 1, 2015 |
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AlistairCookie posted:Edit: My mom also had a cousin named Richard Dick. Yup, he went by Harry Dick. Hah! I'd go by 
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Haruharuharuko posted:Hah! I'd go by Or (named after the animal). 
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AlistairCookie posted:Do dumb pronunciations count? My SIL has a friend, Sean. Also my brother's name. Solid, traditional name, with traditional Irish spelling. Except this kid's name is pronounced "See-an". I saw this kid's name in writing, correctly pronounced it, and was told I was wrong. I once met a Niamh, pronounced Nee-am.
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Istari posted:I once met a Niamh, pronounced Nee-am. I've always wondered how that was really pronounced. It's one of those names I've seen in text but never in speech.
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Apr 1, 2015 03:43
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Shithouse Dave posted:I've always wondered how that was really pronounced. It's one of those names I've seen in text but never in speech.  Neeve
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I've just been told that my SIL's friend doesn't go by a nickname, or her surname. Her given name, that her parents bestowed upon her on the occasion of her birth, really is Mcgee. (Like McGee; pronounced muh-gee) hyperhazard posted:
Or Nee-ov, depending which part of Ireland you're from.
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The gently caress is a SIL?
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Was reading a history on George Wallace, that of 'segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever infamy', and two names stick out: His wife being called Lurleen - which I honestly thought was a name made to mock people from the South. And some poor mis-guided woman who tried to become his second wife; Ja-neen Welch.
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Apr 1, 2015 10:49
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Jerry Cotton posted:The gently caress is a SIL? Sister-In-Law?
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Fizbin posted:Sister-In-Law? Jesus. In that case it's the shittiest abbreviation ever devised by a mentally incompetent shitfuck because it could just as well be son-in-law.
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Sure but going by the assumed age of forum posters that didn't even cross my mind. I mean you're technically right and all but in the context of SA members sister in law is gonna be far more likely than son.
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jojoinnit posted:Sure but going by the assumed age of forum posters that didn't even cross my mind. I mean you're technically right and all but in the context of SA members sister in law is gonna be far more likely than son. All the goons I personally know are old enough to have son-in-laws 
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I just found out one of my teenaged cousins has something that would count for this thread. I thought her name was Kayla. It's K-La 
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The Orange Mage posted:I just found out one of my teenaged cousins has something that would count for this thread. I thought her name was Kayla. Is that her legit birth name or did she start writing it that way herself? I know a Kathryn who goes by KT, and a Casey who writes his name KC. I also went to school with a girl named Susie who decided to start spelling it Psiouxzy. I don't know if she continued it into adulthood, but she was in the yearbook that way and teachers went along with it.
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Sat next to a dude named Hooman in a class yesterday. Apparently it's a Persian name and I've just seen too many cat macros not to smile a little.
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Phy posted:Sat next to a dude named Hooman in a class yesterday. Apparently it's a Persian name and I've just seen too many cat macros not to smile a little. 
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Jerry Cotton posted:Jesus. In that case it's the shittiest abbreviation ever devised by a mentally incompetent shitfuck because it could just as well be son-in-law. It is my sister in law. I am not nearly old enough to have a son-in-law. But quite frankly, in the context in which I used it, it really doesn't matter whether it's son-in-law, sister-in-law, or something else entirely; that really wasn't the important part of the story.
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My husband worked with a dude named Just A Name. He had legally changed it years before, we have no idea what he changed it from. They called him Just. I assumed it was short for Justin. I was wrong.
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I met a dude named Alf Shadowsong and he's a big ol goon.
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Amorphous Blob posted:I met a dude named Alf Shadowsong and he's a big ol goon. How did it feel when he smirked and bisected you with his katana and then flew away on his demon wings That name is like someone created a real life OC do not steal.
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CJacobs posted:How did it feel when he smirked and bisected you with his katana and then flew away on his demon wings He beat the crap out of me in a couple of games of Magic and then told me he was pretty much one of the developers of the game. Really intelligent guy and just as much of a nerd as his name suggests.
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Amorphous Blob posted:I met a dude named Alf Shadowsong and he's a big ol goon. O poo poo why did this remind of this. I got trained in an old job by a dude named Derrick Singingwind his number is still in my phone thats getting loving deleted. Dude was the biggest hippy dippy goon I've ever seen in the 3 years I worked with him I never saw him wear anything but sandals gently caress.
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Amorphous Blob posted:I met a dude named Alf Shadowsong and he's a big ol goon. 
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Once I was I line at really crowded Tim Horton's with my mother and we witnessed a lady screaming at her daughter, "Ocean! Ocean I said sit down! Don't play in the garbage!" There were more than a few people in line that I accidentally made eye contact with who looked like they were legit trying not to pee themselves laughing. My best friend's single mother got all excited when her cousin named his daughter Genesis (which is somehow 80's music related I guess?) and had to be talked out of naming my buddy Duran after Duran Duran by his grandmother. Some of my best friends were getting married to each other a couple years back and decided to hyphenate their last names for the sign at the venue because they are self aware people who enjoy trolling their stuffy old relatives--the "Fata-Cox Wedding" sign was easily the best thing I ever saw and then somehow managed to forget to take a picture of.
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