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Winter Stormer: Oct 17, 2012

Mammal Sauce posted:

At the park with my twins today. A mom in the same area was yelling at her daughter Porsche and then turned her attention to yelling at her son Scion. Just imagine being named after a defunct auto brand. Just lol.

Better than that, it just means "heir"

ETA: "descendant" works too

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# ? May 27, 2024 17:39

venus de lmao: Apr 30, 2007; Call me "pixeltits"

Also, Portia is a real (and really old, like Roman Empire old) name. In isolation it might not have been so bad, but combined with Scion, yeah, she probably named her kids after cars.

# ? Aug 18, 2019 17:43

Brute Hole Force: Dec 25, 2005; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

There seems an element of "the one I wanted" vs "the one I had to settle on".

# ? Aug 19, 2019 19:44

jojoinnit: Dec 13, 2010; Strength and speed, that's why you're a special agent.

Awesome name:

mrkillboy posted:

https://twitter.com/7NewsAdelaide/status/1164101741995933696

# ? Aug 21, 2019 12:14

DemonDarkhorse: Nov 5, 2011; It's probably not tobacco. You just need to start wiping front-to-back from now on.

HelloIAmYourHeart posted:

Processed some paperwork for a guy named Narkevious yesterday. I don't usually mind those kind of made up names that much but giving your kid a name where people will surely call him Nark just seems cruel.

It's the misspelled versions of common names that get me, such as:

Jeramey
Taelor
Isacc

have i got two for you then: karheign/karen and moniqeuca/monica
also found today:
Ny Omi
icy
saulvija
braily
quorra
tnise
jersey
orlauwn
alexyss

last names hugasian and firehammer :black101:

# ? Aug 21, 2019 22:18

venus de lmao: Apr 30, 2007; Call me "pixeltits"

Hugasian is probably Armenian

# ? Aug 21, 2019 23:08

marshmallow creep: Dec 10, 2008; I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a joke to make but I just realised the animators of Mass Effect already did it for me

Tuggle.

I also saw some ESL students named Rut and Loan, which are perfectly good names that just look weird to an English speaker.

edit: Chep!

And a guy came in to sign up for classes and said his name was William. Wanting to be sure, I asked him to spell it. He said "W....William. I'm not sure about spelling."

marshmallow creep has a new favorite as of 17:25 on Aug 23, 2019

# ? Aug 23, 2019 16:44

Lady Disdain: Jan 14, 2013; are you yet living?

I searched for a name on a baby name website, and 2 of the related names that popped up are Teletarvius and Mousseaux.

# ? Aug 24, 2019 08:27

rodbeard: Jul 21, 2005

Brantley

# ? Aug 24, 2019 09:45

Queen Gnome: Jul 30, 2006; Her Lawnliness

My friends parents named him Kona Coffi

# ? Aug 25, 2019 20:42

Guy Axlerod: Dec 29, 2008

Mammal Sauce posted:

At the park with my twins today. A mom in the same area was yelling at her daughter Porsche and then turned her attention to yelling at her son Scion. Just imagine being named after a defunct auto brand. Just lol.

There was a Mercedes Benza at my elementary school. Her parents eventually got divorced and Mom changed the kid's last names to her maiden name, so now she's Mercedes Smith or something like that.

# ? Aug 25, 2019 22:07

jojoinnit: Dec 13, 2010; Strength and speed, that's why you're a special agent.

Guy Axlerod posted:

There was a Mercedes Benza at my elementary school. Her parents eventually got divorced and Mom changed the kid's last names to her maiden name, so now she's Mercedes Smith or something like that.

There has got to be a Mercedes Benes out there

# ? Aug 26, 2019 00:10

Lady Disdain: Jan 14, 2013; are you yet living?

Today I came across 2 little girls called Love and Heart.

# ? Aug 26, 2019 12:10

venus de lmao: Apr 30, 2007; Call me "pixeltits"

Mercedes was a name long before it was a car, and the car was named after a girl.

Emil Jellinek was an Austrian diplomat and racing enthusiast who raced Daimler Motor Group vehicles under the pseudonym Mercédès, after his daughter, Mercédès Jellinek. He later contracted with DMG to produce a small series of sports cars officially named for his daughter.

# ? Aug 26, 2019 14:24

Phlegmish: Jul 2, 2011

Awwwww. <3 Father of the year.

# ? Aug 26, 2019 15:05

jojoinnit: Dec 13, 2010; Strength and speed, that's why you're a special agent.

Bertrand Hustle posted:

Mercedes was a name long before it was a car, and the car was named after a girl.

Emil Jellinek was an Austrian diplomat and racing enthusiast who raced Daimler Motor Group vehicles under the pseudonym Merc�d�s, after his daughter, Merc�d�s Jellinek. He later contracted with DMG to produce a small series of sports cars officially named for his daughter.

Holy poo poo did Hitler not realise his favourite car was made by and named after Jews?

wiki posted:

Jellinek was born in Leipzig, Germany, the son of Dr Adolf Jellinek (sometimes known also as Aaron Jellinek). His father was a well-known Czech-Hungarian rabbi and intellectual in the Jewish collective around Leipzig and Vienna. Jellinek's mother, Rosalie Bettelheim (born 1832 in Budapest, died 1892 in Baden bei Wien), was an active rebbitzen.

There's Jewish and then there's "both his parents were rabbis" lol.

# ? Aug 26, 2019 17:04

Guy Axlerod: Dec 29, 2008

Bertrand Hustle posted:

Mercedes was a name long before it was a car, and the car was named after a girl.

Emil Jellinek was an Austrian diplomat and racing enthusiast who raced Daimler Motor Group vehicles under the pseudonym Mercédès, after his daughter, Mercédès Jellinek. He later contracted with DMG to produce a small series of sports cars officially named for his daughter.

Yeah, now that she goes by Mercedes Smith or whatever, the name is fine.

# ? Aug 26, 2019 17:17

venus de lmao: Apr 30, 2007; Call me "pixeltits"

Jellinek was Jewish, Gottlieb Daimler was a Christian socialist, Wilhelm Maybach was his orphaned shop assistant, and Karl Benz was the son of a poor widow who raised him on her own and busted her rear end to make sure he got a good education.

I feel like none of the key players here were people Hitler would have approved of.

# ? Aug 26, 2019 20:47

Bobby Digital: Sep 4, 2009

https://twitter.com/ravens/status/1166355992088633346?s=21

# ? Aug 27, 2019 15:46

RC and Moon Pie: May 5, 2011

I've had to look up an athletic team roster. There are 16 players. Three are named Riley.

There are three different spellings of Riley.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 02:39

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Bobby Digital posted:

https://twitter.com/ravens/status/1166355992088633346?s=21

Say that name three times fast.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 02:52

venus de lmao: Apr 30, 2007; Call me "pixeltits"

Phy posted:

Say that name three times fast.

I couldn't even manage one time fast.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 03:20

HelloIAmYourHeart: Dec 29, 2008; Fallen Rib

How is name spelled?

Ryun
Dayln
Kert
Cinthya
Damiquel
Schiyanne
Kharyee
Kylyn

And two excellent names:
Archangel Paul (first name)
Kenya Shakur

# ? Aug 28, 2019 03:57

ToxicSlurpee: Nov 5, 2003; -=SEND HELP=-; Pillbug

jojoinnit posted:

Holy poo poo did Hitler not realise his favourite car was made by and named after Jews?

The Nazis aren't exactly well known for actually thinking things through.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 10:59

venus de lmao: Apr 30, 2007; Call me "pixeltits"

HelloIAmYourHeart posted:

Kert

I can't stop laughing at this one. Fuckin' Kert. :laffo:

# ? Aug 28, 2019 11:45

TheKennedys: Sep 23, 2006; By my hand, I will take you from this godforsaken internet

Bertrand Hustle posted:

I can't stop laughing at this one. Fuckin' Kert.

, it sounds like Keert from my brain exaggerating it and I can't stop

# ? Aug 28, 2019 14:17

DemonDarkhorse: Nov 5, 2011; It's probably not tobacco. You just need to start wiping front-to-back from now on.

last names sniff and smelley

# ? Aug 28, 2019 23:16

Rollersnake: May 9, 2005; Please, please don't let me end up in a threesome with the lunch lady and a gay pirate. That would hit a little too close to home.; Unlockable Ben

twin boys named Robin and Bear

a toddler named Eros Falcon

# ? Aug 29, 2019 08:24

rodbeard: Jul 21, 2005

Lame White Man

# ? Aug 29, 2019 09:11

Carbon Thief: Oct 11, 2009; Diamonds aren't the only things that are forever.

I had a group of 3 customers (2 siblings and a cousin) named Coco, Yoyo, and Bobo.

# ? Aug 30, 2019 02:14

Lady Disdain: Jan 14, 2013; are you yet living?

Carbon Thief posted:

I had a group of 3 customers (2 siblings and a cousin) named Coco, Yoyo, and Bobo.

Were they Chinese ? I don't know much about Chinese naming customs, but a family I know adopted 3 girls from China, at 3 different times from 2 different orphanages (in the same region of China, though, I think), and they all had names that were a single syllable repeated (FangFang and QQ (KewKew ?) are the 2 I remember).

# ? Aug 30, 2019 02:18

venus de lmao: Apr 30, 2007; Call me "pixeltits"

Lady Disdain posted:

Were they Chinese ? I don't know much about Chinese naming customs, but a family I know adopted 3 girls from China, at 3 different times from 2 different orphanages (in the same region of China, though, I think), and they all had names that were a single syllable repeated (FangFang and QQ (KewKew ?) are the 2 I remember).

Repeated syllables are a thing I think. Fan Bingbing is a famous actress. Think it's also a thing with nicknames; I've seen Fu Yuanhui (impossibly adorable Olympic swimmer) called Huihui sometimes.

# ? Aug 30, 2019 03:09

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

rodbeard posted:

Lame White Man

Stop loving doxxing me

# ? Aug 30, 2019 03:39

Aphrodite: Jun 27, 2006

Bertrand Hustle posted:

Repeated syllables are a thing I think. Fan Bingbing is a famous actress. Think it's also a thing with nicknames; I've seen Fu Yuanhui (impossibly adorable Olympic swimmer) called Huihui sometimes.

She has a brother name Chengcheng too.

# ? Aug 30, 2019 04:56

Carbon Thief: Oct 11, 2009; Diamonds aren't the only things that are forever.

Lady Disdain posted:

Were they Chinese ? I don't know much about Chinese naming customs, but a family I know adopted 3 girls from China, at 3 different times from 2 different orphanages (in the same region of China, though, I think), and they all had names that were a single syllable repeated (FangFang and QQ (KewKew ?) are the 2 I remember).

Yep! The shop I work in is near a huge Chinese shopping mall.

# ? Aug 30, 2019 05:54

rodbeard: Jul 21, 2005

Corky Burger

# ? Aug 31, 2019 03:22

Fleta Mcgurn: Oct 5, 2003; Porpoise noise continues.

Lady Disdain posted:

Were they Chinese ? I don't know much about Chinese naming customs, but a family I know adopted 3 girls from China, at 3 different times from 2 different orphanages (in the same region of China, though, I think), and they all had names that were a single syllable repeated (FangFang and QQ (KewKew ?) are the 2 I remember).

Yes, this is normal.

Even naming an orphan after a spyware-ridden chat program isn't off-brand. (I'm referring to poor little QQ here.)

# ? Aug 31, 2019 10:54