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I would have gone with Dick Vitale's "Awesome, Baby!" College Hoops
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my brother's old neighbors named their two boys madden and raiden. they were pregnant with a girl when my brother moved; we were making guesses as to what the name would be. my guess was lara or aeris.
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Conducting a social experiment: I'm gonna name my twins Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 and Shaun White Skateboarding, and see how being named after the best and worst skateboarding games I've ever played effects them. Today I met a - "Dake." - "Drake ? Like the singer ?" - "No, Dake. Like Jake with a D."
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DemonDarkhorse posted:my brother's old neighbors named their two boys madden and raiden. they were pregnant with a girl when my brother moved; we were making guesses as to what the name would be. my guess was lara or aeris. There have to be a few Aeris out there with very angry parents when they fixed her official english name.
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Jun 22, 2022 13:51
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Aphrodite posted:There have to be a few Aeris out there with very angry parents when they fixed her official english name. I heard a mother calling out the name to her child when I was working at a grocery store as a teen, but only hearing it out loud, I don't know if she was saying Aeris, Eris, or Heiress.
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rodbeard posted:I heard a mother calling out the name to her child when I was working at a grocery store as a teen, but only hearing it out loud, I don't know if she was saying Aeris, Eris, or Heiress. Harris, maybe? 
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Lady Disdain posted:Conducting a social experiment: I'm gonna name my twins Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 and Shaun White Skateboarding, and see how being named after the best and worst skateboarding games I've ever played effects them. Why the hell does Shaun White have a skateboarding game when 1) Tony Hawk's Pro Skater already exists, and 2) Shaun White is much more famous/acclaimed for snowboarding anyway? 
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YeahTubaMike posted:Why the hell does Shaun White have a skateboarding game when 1) Tony Hawk's Pro Skater already exists, and 2) Shaun White is much more famous/acclaimed for snowboarding anyway? because they already made a Shaun White snowboarding game and they weren't making any more Tony Hawk games by that point so there was an opening in the market
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Jun 22, 2022 23:31
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Ralph Hurley posted:
Something something packing the courts
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I didn’t realize Judge Fudge was endorsed by Jimmy Kimmel just for being named Judge Fudge. https://fudgeforjudge.com
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Two recent standouts from working at a job processing a lot of paperwork with names on it: Dagon [Lastname] [Firstname] Ghosthorse
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Jun 23, 2022 19:43
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We now have a Solitaire working at a local shop.
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Double posting. Met a woman whose son, Blade, is at least a decade too old to've been named after the film character, and his parents definitely don't seem like comic book readers.
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Jun 26, 2022 00:03
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Lady Disdain posted:Double posting. I went to school with a kid named Blade long before the movies came out. His twin brother's name was Slade. 
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Someone at work swears blind that she overheard this conversation at a café: Man 1: So what did you end up naming the baby? Man 2: Lolita. After a character in a book. Man 1: ... The paedo book ? Man 2: No. It's a book Lana Del Rey quotes in one of her songs. Man 1: ... Yeah, the paedo book. *Cue frantic googling
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Jun 27, 2022 11:50
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Lady Disdain posted:Someone at work swears blind that she overheard this conversation at a café: The worst part is that the character in the book isn't even CALLED Lolita. Humbert Humbert calls her that. Her actual name was Dolores.
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That's the worst part ?
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Samovar posted:The worst part is that the character in the book isn't even CALLED Lolita. Humbert Humbert calls her that. Her actual name was Dolores. Lolita is a diminutive of Dolores
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Jun 28, 2022 03:46
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What's Lola, then?
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A diminutive of Dollar.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:What's Lola, then? Lola is also a diminutive of Dolores like how both Dan and Danny are diminutives of Daniel
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3D Megadoodoo posted:What's Lola, then? I dunno, what's Lola with you?
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Jun 28, 2022 09:32
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Daniel is a diminuitive of Dathaniel.
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Alaois posted:Lola is also a diminutive of Dolores Also, I'm pretty sure Lolita is a diminutive of Lola A diminutive squared, that guy Humbert Humbert is a pervert even on a linguistic level
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Jun 29, 2022 18:10
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Humbert²
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Alaois posted:Lola is also a diminutive of Dolores Dan is short for Danothy. Vincent Van Goatse posted:I dunno, what's Lola with you? Lol a funny answer Gottem!
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A woman in a shop calling after her child, Saudi (no idea of the spelling). Aurore, pronounced like "aura." - Like, the police from Harry Potter ? - No, it means sunset. It's French. - 
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Lady Disdain posted:A woman in a shop calling after her child, Saudi (no idea of the spelling). wät
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Lady Disdain posted:
It's a French name, though a newer one and it's popularity in France peaked in the mid-eighties.
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Jul 2, 2022 23:19
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It means dawn, not sunset.
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:It's a French name, though a newer one and it's popularity in France peaked in the mid-eighties. As already mentioned, it means dawn not sunset, and it's pronounced nothing like "aura".
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Jul 2, 2022 23:58
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Lady Disdain posted:it's pronounced nothing like "aura". That's... not immediately obvious, given the variability of English pronunciation. I have no idea how you pronounce "aura" around your neck of the woods. At least the kid had a regular name, even if her parent couldn't pronounce it.
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I'm struggling to imagine a pronunciation that could come close, but point taken.
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Lady Disdain posted:As already mentioned, it means dawn not sunset, and it's pronounced nothing like "aura". If you speak BrE it is kind of similar though, since the second syllable is pronounced in a fairly muted way
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  They're brothers.
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One of the drivers today is Tomorrow Niblett. Makes me wonder if he's got a twin called Today.
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I know someone who was hellbent on naming their child Yesterday, after the Beatles song, but changed their mind super last minute because they really liked the name of one of the nurses on the maternity ward.
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Jul 14, 2022 23:54
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Was the nurse’s name Elanor Rigby?
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Ralph Hurley posted:Was the nurse’s name Elanor Rigby? Or Jude?
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I was going to go with Bungalow Bill. It was Jacinta.
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