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Oddest name I've come across at work is a Baby Soosy. Unsurprisingly born in 1969.
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I went to middle school with a girl named Summer Breeze. Last I heard she turned into a goth. I went to high school with a girl named Krystal Ball. She was a goth. My dad occasionally works with someone named Ben Dover, but I'm not sure if he's pulling my leg with that one. My boss has the same first name and last name, but he's from Egypt. In Egypt people will have a long list of names, and immigration chooses the first, second, and third to be the first, middle, and last names, and his first and third happened to be the same.
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Sep 13, 2012 19:16
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Schizophrenic Orb posted:I went to middle school with a girl named Summer Breeze. Last I heard she turned into a goth. I had an employee named "Muhammed al Muhammedawi" I loved having him around just so I could say his name.
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Sep 13, 2012 19:19
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I knew a girl in highschool who's last name is Manlove. And I've known a dude all my life who name is Michael Jungels. Care to venture a guess what his middle name is? It's 'Tarzan" 
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Sep 13, 2012 19:21
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I went to college with a girl named Fire Rainwater. I also used to sell cars for a living, and I sold a car to a guy named Z. No last name, no other letters, just Z. That's what was on all of his official documentation too.
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Sep 13, 2012 19:24
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British politician Ed Balls British TV gardening presenter Gay Search
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Sep 13, 2012 19:33
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Met a girl once, named Pooza. Story is, her parents named the first kid something mundane. Then that kid got to name her. Then she got to name her brother, and so on. What did she name her brother? Redwood Pine Cone. He goes by Bro.
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Sep 13, 2012 19:44
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Gru Priddy. Spell it out. The GUY is the epitome of Larry the Cable Guy redneck, too.
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Sep 13, 2012 19:49
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Buttstink McGillacuddy
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Sep 13, 2012 19:57
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A friend forwarded me a letter from her HR department the other day informing everyone that an employee's proper email had been changed to harold.ardon@... as opposed to the the first initial and last name format they usually use. HArdon@...
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Sep 13, 2012 19:59
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I worked with a girl named Gwyndolyn Styarfyre (last name pronounced "Starfire"). The last name was made up by her hippie parents at birth. I also know a Talon, a Kelly Boozer, a Dica (named after acid), and twins Lemonjello ("leh-mon-ja-loh") and Orangejello ("o-ron-ja-lo"). Sorry dude who said they named their kid Eowyn but my dad and I met a couple with a newborn when we were out backpacking, and they named their kid the same thing, and that is straight up a weird name.
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Sep 13, 2012 20:10
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 This dude right here is the top professional gamer in the world. The man makes over $200,000 in salary per year. His name is Lee Young Ho e: A lot of Korean names are really awkward in English. Wang is uncommon as far as I'm aware, there are a ton of Hos, Dongs, and at least some Gooks out there. e2: Ducks and Bongs, too Zotwoz has a new favorite as of 20:39 on Sep 13, 2012 |
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Samfucius posted:twins Lemonjello ("leh-mon-ja-loh") and Orangejello ("o-ron-ja-lo"). http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090806215919AAQaMCt http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100602094716AAhqxF4 http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101209135842AAhM2bU http://forum.baby-gaga.com/about1086803.html http://voices.yahoo.com/lemonjello-female-debunking-myth-baby-names-765805.html Samfucius posted:Sorry dude who said they named their kid Eowyn but my dad and I met a couple with a newborn when we were out backpacking, and they named their kid the same thing, and that is straight up a weird name.
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Sep 13, 2012 20:37
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Emrys (not all that odd, just uncommon), Precious, Galadriel, and Raven Genesis.
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Sep 13, 2012 20:42
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I had a crush on a girl in high school from Australia. Her name was Arwen and she was dating a friend. 
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Sep 13, 2012 20:43
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I realize these are both normal girls' names in Japan, but I knew two sisters in a Japanese immigrant family whose names were Yu and Ai. It was just about impossible to have a conversation about them without ending up in a "Who's on first?" situation.
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Sep 13, 2012 20:54
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People who used to work for me: First name: Abdi Last name: Abdi Abdi Abdi on the flip side I also had another guy named Rah Hazzard Also, my middle name is Hrafn, it would have been my first but my parents planned on moving to the States and decided to save me the trouble.
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Sep 13, 2012 21:03
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When I was in Thailand, everyone has a short nickname. The kids in class had nicknames like Mint, Ice, Sprite, etc. That's how they were spelled in English though, when they pronounced them it sounded different. They had these nicknames because their first names were a lot longer (and funnier) to foreigners. Particularly Titiporn. In another job here in the US I saw some really awful names for kids. Noisivelet (yes, that's "television" backwards). The worst was a poor kid, I can't remember if it was a girl or a boy. Last name was Kane (or Cane), and the first name was something like Coe (or Ko). They always used the middle initial when addressing the kid, but it's still very unfortunate. I can't remember if we alerted the authorities or not.
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Sep 13, 2012 21:12
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Robot Lincoln posted:Also, my middle name is Hrafn, it would have been my first but my parents planned on moving to the States and decided to save me the trouble. Now I just want to know why your name is so anglo.
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Sep 13, 2012 21:14
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Robot Lincoln posted:People who used to work for me: Dude got a name sound like a Hanna Barbera character shaking its head
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Sep 13, 2012 21:19
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I had a civics teacher named Pachunka Kung.
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Sep 13, 2012 21:23
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When I was highschool aged I worked at a bowling alley hosting little kids birthday parties. One of my duties was putting the kids names into the bowling computers because that's apparently really hard. Two names that stuck out to me were twin boys named "JUSTICE  and LIBERTY! "This next one I'm pretty sure is just one of those stories but it's amusing and not impossible. In the army every now and then you have to pull what's called staff duty. This involves sitting at a desk, one junior and one mid rank enlisted soldier, for 24 hours. During the day you screen calls and do whatever the command staff needs done, and at night you clean and keep everything secure. It sucks to have on a saturday. Well a friend of mine told me he had staff duty one time, on a saturday, and the entire day his friends kept prank calling the desk saying things like "THIS IS MAJOR PAIN! This is Captain Obvious!" well in the middle of the night he gets a call from someone claiming to be captain america. Being sick of the prank calls he says "Yeah and this is Private Spiderman" and hangs up. Well within the hour an extremely angry man named America who is a captain in the US army showed up.
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Sep 13, 2012 21:33
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Samfucius posted:
My niece is named Eowyn I didn't know it was a thing.
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Sep 13, 2012 21:34
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There was a small child near where I used to go to school named Shotty Sprankle
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Sep 13, 2012 21:36
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Friend of my mother's is a preschool teacher in a really hippy town, so she gets some good ones. The ones I remember of the top of my head are Universe and Ultra Violet (girls). She also had a boy named Bird in her class. For some reason this didn't surprise me at all. I did go to school with a girl whose full name is Tananger.
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Sep 13, 2012 21:38
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I had to do a job interview on a guy named Abu B. Jabber. We didn't end up hiring him.
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Sep 13, 2012 21:40
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Ah yes, and at University there was an elusive law professor called Doctor De'Ath.
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Sep 13, 2012 21:40
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History of San Angelo Mayors Check the nineties. Don Butts. Heh. Johnny C Fender. Weird. Dick Funk. Wait WHAT?!?!? Yes for years the mayor of San Angelo, texas was a man named DICK FUNK. Edit: I almost forgot some of our local businessmen. Such as: Rexy Zipper Rusty Spoonts Urologist "Gail Flood"
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Sep 13, 2012 21:51
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Sep 13, 2012 21:54
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One of my dad's best friends is named Oak Cinnamon. Nice old guy. I've also come across a woman named Marcella Pancake, which is adorable. I was also very nearly named Piper. My last name looks like it should be pronounced "shoe", so that would have added some fun times to grade school.
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Sep 13, 2012 21:56
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Elim Garak posted:Hope, Faith, Charity, Mercy, etc. are all actually pretty old names. I know one set of sisters in their 70's named Hope and Faith and another in their late 20's named Mercy and Grace. The ones in their 20's are actually descendants of Mercy Otis Warren. This reminds me of a bit from one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books, where a family names all thier daughters stuff like that, and all thier sons after sins. Here, this explains it: http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Bestiality_Carter Also most of the non-urban-legend names in this thread are awesome.
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Working at bank loan center, I ran across all sorts of interesting names, including a dude named Anakin, a Justin Time (had no idea there was more than one of those) and someone with the unfortunate last name of De Feo ("the ugly", in English). Also, one of the members of my graduating class had the last name Beachboard. Had a pretty regular first name, though.
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I used to work at a portrait studio. We got a lot of real winners, most of which I've forgotten by now. A couple I remember: Sassy'Marie Phynesse Da'Million, who incidentally broke one of our cameras Sisters named Sailor and Liberty I'll post more if I remember them.
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Sep 13, 2012 21:58
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fizzy-o posted:Sisters named Sailor and Liberty Incedentally I live near a family whose children are named Jet, Sailor and Chase. And I have a very good friend named Destiny who lives with her dad and brother, Chance.
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One of the local idiot 19-year-old kids had a baby a while back and named said baby Unique Destiny.
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I see so many horrible names everyday. Mostly they are just really bad spellings or hippy things like Sundew and Flowersong. Two that stick out in my mind that border on the horrible/awesome line are Margarita Casablanca and Robin Prince Absolute.
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ibntumart posted:OP, can you add a rule against racist bullshit naming stories in your post? At least for the more obvious idiocy like the entries below, most of which are so common as to have their own Snopes entries: Notice that I made a follow-up comment both admitting that I likely misremembered a joke overheard when I was like eight years old and that I was unaware of it being a "thing." I'd certainly show my mom those links if she wasn't dead. Sorry. Chaitai posted:I also used to sell cars for a living, and I sold a car to a guy named Z. No last name, no other letters, just Z. That's what was on all of his official documentation too. Was this around Macon? I've done a notary for a dude named Z with a Georgia driver's license.
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funkybottoms posted:Notice that I made a follow-up comment both admitting that I likely misremembered a joke overheard when I was like eight years old and that I was unaware of it being a "thing." I'd certainly show my mom those links if she wasn't dead. Sorry. It's great you understand that it was a joke now and accepted the correction, but seriously, yours was something like the third tired racist joke near the beginning of the thread. You'll notice I quoted several other posts. You can take it as a personal insult against your mom if you want, but honestly? The reason I quoted the offending posts and asked the OP to put it in the first is so that a promising thread stays funny without more stupid "I totes knew a guy who knew a La-a!" posts making GBS threads it up.
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My father was in the Air Force for some time and met quite a few folks who ended up being things like Sargeant Sargeant, Major Majors, etc. He too encountered a Captain America, although unceremoniously. The real topper, though, was the Canadian Master Sargeant. Canadian convention for that rank gives you the (otherwise awesome) title "Master", except this poor guy's name was Bates. He wasn't bothered by it, but the secretaries didn't like to page him, and one would try to page Sargeant Bates instead, only to get chided by Master Bates for not using his correct title. I think some folks tried to get him promoted as a way of "fixing" it... The best I ever saw in my own experience was a Mr. Gaylord W. Hurlbut.
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My friend's mom, a nurse, once saw a baby named Polyethylene. The mom thought it sounded pretty. I gotta admit, it does sound kind of like a name, derived from Polly and Ethel.
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