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marshmallow creep posted:I can buy every name on that list as real but the second one. What the heck? we already had a lester but we wanted more, so mo'lester.
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rodbeard posted:Jinger That's a Duggar name. They struggled with J girl names real quick
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eating only apples posted:That's a Duggar name. They struggled with J girl names real quick Mo'lester was right there all along though
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rodbeard posted:Jinger L Frank "Oz" Baum had a Jinjer. Edit: no, it was Jinjur.
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Just discovered that there's a Dr A. Bannan at work, so their contact name on the staff network is doc.bannana
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The college I went to had an email name format of the first eight letters of [last name first name], which worked out great for me because I have an eight letter last name so I just got lastname@college.edu, but not so great for Robert Ward, whose email was wardrobe@college.edu.
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I would've loved to have wardrobe as my email; at least it's fun. My uni used the same system, only it was the first 7 letters. My surname is triple barrelled, so I generally just use the last one. So my name is Firstname XXX YYY ZZZ, but I usually use Firstname ZZZ, but my uni email address was the first 7 letters of XXX which is 8 letters long. So I got a lot of "I couldn't send it to you because I couldn't find your email address," because people have started typing ZZZ and the system failed to autocomplete the address.
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Allow me to introduce you to a real doctor: https://fad.ecommunity.com/provider/Saima+Butt/374742 Who is your primary care physician? Saima Butt The exam isn’t until later. Who is your PCP? Saima Butt Yes, that will be part of the exam (etc)
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An old co-worker I had completely forgotten about, first name Kewpie. (yeah, like the doll and/or mayo) Also, Jim Earthman, or as it appeared on the caller ID just now, Earthman Jim. Marcade has a new favorite as of 18:20 on Jun 2, 2022 |
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Marcade posted:Also, Jim Earthman, or as it appeared on the caller ID just now, Earthman Jim. He's such a groovy guy.
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There is a courier van that parks by my house with the operator name “Jim Russell”
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Rich Cockshott
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My son's name is also Kumson
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I ordered pizza and uh
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 Candidate for Judge Randy Fudge ALL RISE THE HONORABLE JUDGE FUDGE PRESIDING
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It's not anyone specifically, but does anyone know when Carol and Karen stopped being unisex?
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I once taught a five year old girl named Zion Shitta.
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Samovar posted:It's not anyone specifically, but does anyone know when Carol and Karen stopped being unisex? Poked around a bit and Carol took a big plunge in popularity as a boy's name in the US in about 1950, a few years after it took a big spike in popularity as a girl's name. So I'm guessing maybe the reason people stopped using it for boys was because it became more perceived as a common girl's name. There's no good data about why though.
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I have a female coworker named Powers. Okay then.
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Ralph Hurley posted:
Probably shouldn't vote for him, because he'll be far too busy being delicious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiEoPkGjbXU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp480CfYpIk (Fun fact: Before she became HUD Secretary last year, Marcia L. Fudge was my congresswoman for over a decade. A look at Wikipedia suggests she has occasionally served as a judge.) Samovar posted:It's not anyone specifically, but does anyone know when Carol and Karen stopped being unisex? Was Karen ever unisex? I understand it to be a Danish variant of Katherine, and I also can't think of any male Karens.
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Harvey TWH posted:Probably shouldn't vote for him, because he'll be far too busy being delicious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiEoPkGjbXU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp480CfYpIk Karen Abdul Jabbar springs to mind.
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Samovar posted:It's not anyone specifically, but does anyone know when Carol and Karen stopped being unisex? Carol (well, Karol) is still a male name in Eastern Europe but Karen has never been unisex to the best of my knowledge.
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as far as i can tell, Karen is a masculine name exclusively in Western Armenia
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HopperUK posted:Poked around a bit and Carol took a big plunge in popularity as a boy's name in the US in about 1950, a few years after it took a big spike in popularity as a girl's name. So I'm guessing maybe the reason people stopped using it for boys was because it became more perceived as a common girl's name. There's no good data about why though. You probably don't need data. Society in general still stigmatizes femininity, so once a name crosses over to be predominantly a girl's name, it's hardly ever used for boys again. (Dana, Lindsay, Leslie... the list goes on. I also love that in Gone with the Wind, Ashley Wilkes is played by Leslie Howard. Male character (1860s), male actor (1939), credits seem to check out at first...) In many years I've still never noticed a name that went the other way. The same is true of rich/upper-class names that are given aspiringly to children in poor/lower-class/minority families and then stay there (I learned this from Freakonomics, I think, and there may be some studies cited there). Carroll is the classic male spelling (as in Carroll O'Connor of All in the Family), by the way, and most male versions seem to be spelled something besides C-A-R-O-L. Carol, as a girl's name, seems to come from Caroline, but both that and Carroll come from Charles. A clue last week on Jeopardy told me more about a sailor whose name had amused me and stuck when I visited Pearl Harbor: Doris Miller (his mother expected him to be a girl, apparently). But the clue referred to "Dorie", and I was confused. Seems this is a nickname, but whether it was used to avoid the girly name Doris or was a typo that stuck is unclear. Still, schools and things named for him are split between Doris and Dorie. (That's what I learned from Wikipedia, anyway.) 3D Megadoodoo posted:Karen Abdul Jabbar springs to mind. Yeah, he changed it from Louise Alcindor. 
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Carol (well, Karol) is still a male name in Eastern Europe but Karen has never been unisex to the best of my knowledge. Hmm. Could have sworn I remembered reading about a general Karen, or maybe Charon? Back in WW2. But now I can't find it, so maybe I was just having a brain collapse.
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Harvey TWH posted:Carroll is the classic male spelling (as in Carroll O'Connor of All in the Family), by the way, and most male versions seem to be spelled something besides C-A-R-O-L. Carol, as a girl's name, seems to come from Caroline, but both that and Carroll come from Charles. Charles, in turn, is the frenchified version of a Germanic word you can still recognize in German and Dutch as 'Kerl/kerel': a man. So Caroline is the manly lady (so is Andrea, by the way, but that comes from Greek). IIRC in Eastern Europe the derived name 'Karol' took on a meaning of 'king', after Charlemagne. Kind of like 'ceasar' became the stand-in word for 'emperor' but ultimately derives from one dude.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Karen Abdul Jabbar springs to mind. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar Or did I just miss a good joke?
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"Yawn" is one of the surnames in my extended family. Also one of the women on that side had the maiden name of "Feral".
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Harvey TWH posted:Probably shouldn't vote for him, because he'll be far too busy being delicious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiEoPkGjbXU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp480CfYpIk Ha! Thanks for posting this. I knew the name Judge Fudge was something I had seen before but I didn’t bother to look it up.
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Jogging through my local cemetery, I saw a Mungo McAllister. I don't know what he did for a living, but I like to think he wrestled Haystacks Calhoun at some point.
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Cletus Biggerstaff, born 1924. Also, presumably his wife, Anita Biggerstaff (I wish I was making that up)
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HawkHill posted:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Not a good one, no.
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Jock Zonfrillo is one of the best "Why yes, me mam is from X and me dad is from Y" names I've ever heard. e: Turns out Jock isn't his birth name, drat it. Lady Disdain has a new favorite as of 08:16 on Jun 20, 2022 |
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walked past a real estate sign and the realtor's last name was Bippus husband helped a dude at work named Larry Dingus I went to highschool with an Abraham Lincoln, and he was not named after the president, he just has very religious parents (his brother's name was Jebediah) my dad's shooting coach was named Dick Curry got inlaws who named their baby boy Madden. After the video game, not the guy. speaking of my inlaws all the women are named some variation of Jana and I cannot tell them apart and I never will. Jana, Janae, Jenna, I think there's a few more. Why would you do this
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Saw a Lynxtyn today. I'm not even sure how it's supposed to be pronounced.
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SkyeAuroline posted:Saw a Lynxtyn today. I'm not even sure how it's supposed to be pronounced. Linkston?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Linkston? Langston is my guess, if you run through something like a reverse-Southern/ Midwestern filter.
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Skratte posted:got inlaws who named their baby boy Madden. After the video game, not the guy. Gonna name my kids NHLPA 95 and Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf.
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