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shock.wav posted:Processing new enrolments of kids at work I have noticed a gradual bastardization of the once proud name, Taylor Constipated posted:Aida For content, I knew a guy who while his wife was pregnant with twin boys kept threatening to name them Microwave and Just In Time. They ended up being christened Michael Wave and Justin Time. jojoinnit has a new favorite as of 16:58 on Sep 13, 2012 |
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letthereberock posted:Another one, my brother used to work for a company that arranged trips and tours for senior citizens. He swears that once there was a woman who signed up named Ima Slutsky. It is very possible he was loving with me, but I want to believe its true. Similar to Mike Hunt before, I worked with a realtor named Matt Locke. I always wonder why people who have a *son style last name would use it for a first name. Why would the Paulmans name their son Paul?
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Sep 13, 2012 18:29
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Pochoclo posted:That's a throwback to patronymics, which was a popular naming scheme around the dark ages. In Wales, for example (and many other places) you had Corbyn ap Bran - Corbyn, the son of Bran.
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Sep 13, 2012 18:52
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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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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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Hirudo posted:I knew a guy named Zebulon. Third from last Tribe of Israel. This thread needs to learn some Old Testament. 
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Sep 14, 2012 22:16
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madlilnerd posted:I knew of a kid at school with the surname Gaylord. His first name was something innocuous like Tom, but he ended up dating a girl called Regina Shufflebottom. Now there's a worse name. 
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Sep 16, 2012 02:03
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Eggbeater Jesus posted:It seems like more people are giving their kids last names instead of first names. It's really getting to be a pet peeve of mine. Stop naming your kids "Jackson" and "Davis" and "Carter." Stop it.
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Sep 16, 2012 05:46
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spite house posted:It's a fantastic name. It just falls into the Menlo Park Anglo kid named Nazim category of situational dissonance. And would cause a lifetime of being addressed as "Uh". When I was about seven my favourite team added a new player named Nicky Butt which I found endlessly hilarious.
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Sep 16, 2012 10:25
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The King of Swag posted:I've actually freely said my first name on the forums before, but now that there's an actual thread devoted to terrible names, I can feel a bit of dread welling up. Let me preface by saying that I don't mind my name, but I understand why it belongs on a list of terrible names. My only comforts are that I really like my last name and chicks seem to dig my first name, despite being terrible.
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Sep 16, 2012 15:29
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Bonster posted:A brief part two on names pulled from the dictionary: You just reminded me. There was a story in our (very) local paper about a family in town who have five living generations. They're lower income and obviously its a chain of the mothers getting pregnant as teenagers. What I found interesting was that they all had the trendy names of their day. The newborn was named Paris Chanel. The mother is named Jade. I can't remember the rest of them though, but the grandma is 38 and the great-great-grandma was 76, so whatever was the Paris or Jade of their day is probably their name.
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Sep 21, 2012 19:26
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Khisareth posted:My brother-in-law's name is Storm. Conceived in May though... ask your sister.
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Sep 24, 2012 05:50
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Dudes! posted:How do you pronounce it? Iayn Kiir Pyotr Öpik: Ian Keer Peter Opik, phonetically I believe. Alhazred posted:There's also a Norwegian law that says that if less than 200 people share a surname you have to ask them for permission to use it Call Now posted:All of them?
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Sep 27, 2012 20:50
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Khazar-khum posted:Our local Vons (a supermarket chain, for you non So Californians) there was a bag girl named Latrina. Yes, it could be a pretty name if you didn't speak English, but why do that to your daughter? How do you get to be old enough to procreate without knowing what a latrine is?
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Sep 27, 2012 22:57
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rodbeard posted:An engineer I work with told a variation of the L-a story while we were out to lunch with some people today. He claimed she was one of his wife's students. He did the stereotypical black neck waggling thing and tried his best to sound like a black woman. It was awkward. Yeah I've had that. I mention it's an urban legend but everyone insists that their mum/wife/friend works with someone who actually saw it, this one was definitely real.
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Sep 28, 2012 03:34
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Veev posted:Sorry, Dumbposting.
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Oct 3, 2012 03:07
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Shugojin posted:Oh, I know a pair of old brothers. 
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Nov 2, 2012 16:42
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Fader Movitz posted:One time in school my class made a field trip to a church to do some assignment about worship. At that time we also had two english speaking dudes as exchange students with us. So our guide first showed us in and then said in english "Welcome to our church, i'm Rev.Jerker". I don't think i have ever seen anyone trying so badly to supress a laugh since.
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Just read Rob Lowes book. His second kid is named Johnowen, apparently a compromise for his wife and him. I just hear someone with an awful lisp trying to say Jonathan.
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Dec 23, 2012 06:39
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SHAM BAM BAMINA posted:They live among us, they vote, and they breed In that order?
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Dec 24, 2012 06:56
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Has Twilight been around long enough for kids named after it to be in schools and scout troops? That also made me wonder why there wasn't a run of kids named Harry and Hermione over the past fifteen years.
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Dec 25, 2012 15:51
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The White Dragon posted:I wouldn't be surprised to see an influx of Joannes. Maybe Terrys, too, but that might be too much of a boy-named-Sue sort of name at the moment.
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Dec 25, 2012 18:15
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The other day I had to go back and correct a work email to a Megan when I noticed she spelled it Mehgann.
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Dec 30, 2012 02:38
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OozieNelson posted:Not kidding with this one, I encountered a name on a form "Shaquille-O'Neal K. Lane." I actually think I know the story with this one. I read years ago about a pregnant women who met Shaq and for some reason he ended up meeting her family and gave her a bunch of signed sneakers and stuff so when she gave birth she named her son "Shaquille O'Neal *Lastname*". It'd be funny if that's the same kid but it could also just be a random big fan who did the same thing.
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Dec 31, 2012 14:54
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OozieNelson posted:Well, I saw this name in Wisconsin. Was this lady from Wisconsin as well? Dunno. What I posted is literally all I remember.
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HEGEL SMOKE A J posted:*Edit: I will mention, though, that my initials are LSD. I know a psychologist with the initials OCD.
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HEGEL SMOKE A J posted:At some point in the 18th century, the Prussian government gave last names to all the Jews living there (before, they had all gone by their parents' names, I think), and a number of the officials assigned to the job deliberately named them funny or disrespectful things. I've seen some of these too and I always wondered why people didn't change them when they could instead of passing down names like Grosskopf (Big Head).
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Isnt that one of the "Urban Legend Names"? Edit: quote:http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp jojoinnit has a new favorite as of 18:02 on Jan 3, 2013 |
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Jan 3, 2013 17:58
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Amateur Saboteur posted:Initial chat: My brother's initials are SMG which is pretty rad, but the actual name it took to get there I don't envy at all.
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Jan 3, 2013 18:05
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DarkUltim8Hedgehog posted:I sometimes look at charts of the most popular baby names in recent years, and in the last couple of years names that end in that "yn" sound are extremely popular. They are mostly spelled with an "en" - names like Jaden, Caylen, Payden, etc. However I must admit I find the name Blaydynn to be cool. Who would bully someone who's named after a blade? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7URSM_ShQQ
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foot posted:British MP Ed Balls has one of my favorite names. Sillier, but Armand Hammer is still my favourite actual famous person name.
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gamingCaffeinator posted:Today, I learned that there is a tech at my local pharmacy named Porsche. I'm an acquaintance with a Porshah.
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squeegee posted:As far as people's birth names, I also know of a family whose children are named Heaven Earth (first and last name) and Seven. I guess I can understand Heaven Earth in a stupid cutesy way, but Seven? Who names their child after a number? He's not old enough to go to school yet, but I wonder what his teachers and classmates are doing to think about that.  They're either Seinfeld fans or just dumb. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jan 10, 2013 16:22
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Antivehicular posted:This is way late, but I once worked for a woman named Melody who named her daughter Harmony. It's a little daft as a sibling-name thing, but as a generational thing, it verges on the cruel. It doesn't really matter what you make a Junior because that's what they'll be called no matter what their first name is.
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Jan 11, 2013 14:23
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treiz01 posted:I decided to google Adasha, and it told me that in that form it is an actual name, an old near east combo that means "beauty" or "noble". I can believe people met Adasha. I can't believe anyone met A-a.
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Was talking about this with some friends. One person had a professor named Dick Hyman who refused to go by Richard, which reminded me that the head of my course was also a Richard who insisted on going by Dick, and not just Dick but Dr Dick. Had it on his mug. Some nicknames are too childish though. I wrote an inter-office email to a 'Dickie'. At a certain point in your career you should probably drop the '-ie/y' suffix from your childhood nickname.
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On the topic of Gaelic names I knew a Tadgh. Can't remember how to pronounce it though as he went by a nickname.
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bringmyfishback posted:I had a boy named Ashley in my kindergarten class. Remember thinking it was weird at the time. It was probably really annoying for the poor dude; he must get "like in Gone With the Wind!" every day of his life. I grew up knowing Ashley as only being a boys name (in the uk).
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Most of those are real. My grandma is named Sybil.
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razorrozar posted:My dad told me he knew a girl named Shithead, pronounced shy-theed. I thought he was bullshitting me until my tenth grade percussion instructor, who went to school with my dad, confirmed it. So either I have been the victim of a massive baby boomer prank, or some parent actually named their infant girl Shithead. That's straight up off the same Snopes page. quote:As the 1917 example shows, this legend has been around for dogs' years. It now exists in two slightly different forms — the parents either misread a word, coming up with an unusual but pleasant-sounding pronunciation of same, or a member of the medical staff is overheard to properly pronounce the word, the parents think it pretty, and thus choose to stick the youngster with it.
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