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Pretty sure when he did it Harley Quinn was still only really known to people who watched cartoons at least, way before she blew up.
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Harley also started being used as a girl's name in the US in 1991 so it's easy for it to just be a regular name and not the comics reference if Harley Smith wants it to be: https://www.behindthename.com/name/harley/top/united-states
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I know someone who transitioned and briefly became Harley, but then changed it to Haley because nerds ruined it.
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Arivia posted:Harley also started being used as a girl's name in the US in 1991 so it's easy for it to just be a regular name and not the comics reference if Harley Smith wants it to be: https://www.behindthename.com/name/harley/top/united-states She uses the full name so I'm guessing she likes that better
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Sep 10, 2023 14:51
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I will not hear another word spoken against Khaleesi Psylocke Argonian Maid Smith
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uh her real name is Lifts-Her-Tail, obviously
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Sep 10, 2023 15:02
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That was her cousin, whose sister was ecksdee rawr.
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Kit Walker posted:There are some countries out there where if you have a kid you have to name them something from a preapproved list or get the courts to okay it or whatever, and I always thought that was a really stupid and restrictive policy. But then I see poo poo like this and it makes me think that maybe they have the right idea It seems sensible in the context of rich idiots naming their kids stupid stuff. But it would be a disaster in the US because of our history of systemic racism. I can't tell you how many Facebook rants I've seen about black people with "made up names". Or co-workers cracking jokes about native American names.
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wash bucket posted:It seems sensible in the context of rich idiots naming their kids stupid stuff. But it would be a disaster in the US because of our history of systemic racism. I can't tell you how many Facebook rants I've seen about black people with "made up names". Or co-workers cracking jokes about native American names. The number of people who have personally sworn they've met in real life a woman named Q-a is too drat high.
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Dameius posted:The number of people who have personally sworn they've met in real life a woman named Q-a is too drat high. She’s best friends with Orangello, Lemonjello and Obgyn
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Fishstick posted:Name your kid after a regex pattern so you have multiple choices for what to call them later /Al+ai?n+e?/, come down for dinner
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Sep 10, 2023 15:58
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What dialect though, PCRE, ECMA, ERE (GNU or POSIX ERE)?
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Sep 10, 2023 16:19
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I like this one for some reason.
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credburn posted:I know someone who transitioned and briefly became Harley, but then changed it to Haley because nerds ruined it. I know someone who was born Harley in the 80s, when that name was associated with tough guys and motorcycles, and then transitioned but kept the name because now it's a very femme name.
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Henchman of Santa posted:She’s best friends with Orangello, Lemonjello and Obgyn I mean there's literally a dude named Kool-Aid playing for Alabama right now.
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Antigravitas posted:What dialect though, PCRE, ECMA, ERE (GNU or POSIX ERE)? BRE. But people gawk.
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endocriminologist posted:Batman bin suparman probably has a great life but he's the exception What's weird is that "bin" usually designates the father's name. So he's batman, son of suparman.
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i named my kid after the actor who played my favorite star trek captain
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Byzantine posted:I like this one for some reason. 
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If I'd been born a girl (my parents didn't want to know my sex before I was born) I would have been named Eleanor, but called Nora after Nora Charles, the character from The Thin Man. Which sounds classy because it's an old movie, but I don't see how different it really is from Harley Quinn Smith's name. My mom is named Robin and I'm like 99% sure it's because my grandma had a huge crush on Errol Flynn when she was a teenager. She apparently watched the movie like 30 times in the theater, it was her Titanic.
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Lazy_Liberal posted:i named my kid after the actor who played my favorite star trek captain Better be named Avery
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Naming a goon after a thin man seems wildly optimistic
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wash bucket posted:It seems sensible in the context of rich idiots naming their kids stupid stuff. But it would be a disaster in the US because of our history of systemic racism. I can't tell you how many Facebook rants I've seen about black people with "made up names". Or co-workers cracking jokes about native American names. Meanwhile, Kayeighlynne is a completely normal and in no way made up name.
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Lazy_Liberal posted:i named my kid after the actor who played my favorite star trek captain Ronny?
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I know my actual name is their "backup" name because my uncle and aunt had a kid the year before I was born with their first choice. But I genuinely like my eventual name more than the one they had in mind. Now I'm curious what my parents would have called me if I was a girl.kdrudy posted:Better be named Avery 
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Lazy_Liberal posted:i named my kid after the actor who played my favorite star trek captain Happy birthday to little Chris Pike
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Henchman of Santa posted:He got paid for that! He's really named Ga'Quincy. That's really sweet (no pun intended).
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It bugs me that Aubrey has become a girls name. It means “elf KING” darn it
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Lazy_Liberal posted:i named my kid after the actor who played my favorite star trek captain Scott Bakuka?
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Scratch Monkey posted:It bugs me that Aubrey has become a girls name. It means “elf KING” darn it It’s a Rear Admiral’s name and it is fantastic regardless of gender
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Scratch Monkey posted:It bugs me that Aubrey has become a girls name. It means “elf KING” darn it Whitney and Ashley were originally boy's names.
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Naming your kid John or Eli or whatever is the same thing, it's just that the Bible is old so people get away with it. Universe fanfiction isn't any less stupid than cartoon fanfiction. Humans love calling their kids stupid bullshit (former Thomas here) and all this "lol stupid names" crap is often, although not always, just dogwhistle racism.
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wash bucket posted:It seems sensible in the context of rich idiots naming their kids stupid stuff. But it would be a disaster in the US because of our history of systemic racism. I can't tell you how many Facebook rants I've seen about black people with "made up names". Or co-workers cracking jokes about native American names. We have one of those lists in Denmark, and whenever it's updated with new ethnic names, the papers write haha, look at these silly names articles. Invariably, the silly names are completely ordinary names from other countries. Like, Piphat is a common name in Thailand, but "pip" means "tweet" in Danish, so it's like a hat for tweeting, hahaha! Imagine being the Thai couple who picked that name, only for national media to mock your choice. SimonChris has a new favorite as of 19:13 on Sep 10, 2023 |
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"Khaleesi" is dumb because it's not even the character's name, it's like naming your kid Darth instead of Anakin.
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Air Skwirl posted:Whitney and Ashley were originally boy's names. Evil Dead's Ash's full first name is even Ashley. Ashley Joanna Williams.
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I think English is the language where names are the most divorced from their literal meaning, just by virtue of borrowing them from so many other languages.
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tokin opposition posted:Naming your kid John or Eli or whatever is the same thing, it's just that the Bible is old so people get away with it. Universe fanfiction isn't any less stupid than cartoon fanfiction. None of this is going to stop me from dragging a parent who names their kid Hermione.
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mycot posted:"Khaleesi" is dumb because it's not even the character's name, it's like naming your kid Darth instead of Anakin. Ehh, I don't even remember that characters actual name, so I get it. I do feel bad for all the kids named that before the series ended though. "Oh you're named after your parent's fictional character, how did that end?" It's obviously not the same since it's a tv show and not actual real life acts, but a bit like like naming your kid Osama in the late 80's early 90s because of how brave he was standing up to the Russian invaders of Afghanistan.
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