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All I've got is worst: A classmate of mine had the last name "Gaylord"  ; surprisingly he didn't get made fun of much for it.This is second hand, but an aunt of mine was a teacher and on the first day, during roll-call, came across the name Le-a. After several attempts by my aunt at pronunciations like "Luh ah" the student bobbed her head & wagged her finger at her and said "nu uh, its LEDASHA, the dash isn't silent!".
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| # ? Dec 28, 2012 20:43 |
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Did she bob her head and wag her finger in that way all crazy black women do with their funny names?
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| # ? Dec 28, 2012 20:52 |
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massive spider posted:Did she bob her head and wag her finger in that way all crazy black women do with their funny names? Yikes... I have no idea if she was black, and I'd be surprised if that was more than a harmful stereotype.
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Hurt69420 posted:Yikes... I have no idea if she was black, and I'd be surprised if that was more than a harmful stereotype. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that one's an urban legend. Also there's already a thread for terrible names. EDIT: the most recent page of that thread actually discusses the same urban legend
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Ruxton Noble was a pretty good one I got when I managed a subscription database. I actually spoke to him once and he had a most excellent voice too.
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| # ? Dec 28, 2012 21:26 |
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I also have racist relatives
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| # ? Dec 28, 2012 21:27 |
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OP that second one is the biggest trap for closet racists, as other posters have pointed out.
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Hurt69420 posted:All I've got is worst: My brother works in a government call centre for assisted living and one of the regulars that calls up is Gaylord Grogan. He say's it takes all it has for him to not laugh when he calls up.
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When I was in High School, there was a student a few years below me called "Max Wang". As it turned out, he was exceptionally good at maths, and won a few awards and the like. Stuff they like to mention during school assembly. The cheers he got every time he went up on stage were pretty wild. I guess that counts at both the Best and Worst name I know.
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| # ? Dec 29, 2012 00:15 |
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Hurt69420 posted:This is second hand, but an aunt of mine was a teacher and on the first day, during roll-call, came across the name Le-a. After several attempts by my aunt at pronunciations like "Luh ah" the student bobbed her head & wagged her finger at her and said "nu uh, its LEDASHA, the dash isn't silent!". Did your aunt also teach Lemonjello and Orangejello?
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This thread already exists gently caress you OP
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Kid in my elementary school was named Harry Balls, III. Also in my organization there's a guy named Tung Dong.
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When I worked in a video rental store about a decade ago, we had a customer who opened an account. His name was Viking Kristjánsson, and the first thing I thought was that if I could pick someone to be on my side in a fight based on name alone, it'd be that. He never came in again, but I'll always remember that name.
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| # ? Dec 29, 2012 01:19 |
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pug wearing a hat posted:Did your aunt also teach Lemonjello and Orangejello? Not that I know of. Were you in a class with another "Le-a" or something?
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Our neighbors have given their kids awesome names: Gavin (8 years old) Petra Dane (6 years old) Charles Maximillian *last name* the Third (4 years old) Ekaterine (2 years old) and Jack Vincent (9 months old) All of them are really sweet natured little kids, supremely polite and well behaved, but they have names of steel  .As for worst names, I have a great uncle named Richard Butt, who went by Dick for years, and named his son Randy Butt. I wish I was kidding. edit: ugh, the frigging LeDasha and Orangelo/Lemongelo stories. I've heard at least five people in real life tell me they know a guy who knew a guy who knew kids with those names, and I'll always think a little less of the people that believe the stories.
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| # ? Dec 29, 2012 01:27 |
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Hurt69420 posted:
God you are just the worst. Viktor Deathrage is still the best name I have ever seen.
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| # ? Dec 29, 2012 01:28 |
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Hurt69420 posted:
Go home OP you're not cut out for this "posting" business I hope somebody trots out the "my _____ taught a kid in the witness protection program and the name he was given was Flanel Pajama" or somebody with the last name "Female" pronounced femahly
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Armand Hammer
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Hurt69420 posted:Yikes... I have no idea if she was black, and I'd be surprised if that was more than a harmful stereotype. You reckon? 
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Mu Zeta posted:Armand Hammer Aziz Ansari
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Mu Zeta posted:Armand Hammer Anita Fallace
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There's a french dude at work named "Coquegrabber" which is what I understand to be like a french version of the name Smith or Shoemaker or something like that which evolved out of job titles. Also at the co-op where I frequent the girl who sells fruit is named "Bonerhitler."
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| # ? Dec 29, 2012 02:45 |
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Francostein posted:Also at the co-op where I frequent the girl who sells fruit is named "Bonerhitler." Hahaha goddamn. That's German or something I'm guessing?
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Giant Dick MacJones. He was one of the Aberdeen MacJoneses.
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Hurt69420 posted:Hahaha goddamn. That's German or something I'm guessing? I hear it's cajun for "this is a dumb thread"
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Ali Raper, yes that is someone's actual name
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| # ? Dec 29, 2012 02:53 |
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In the Marines I got assigned temp duty with both a Cpl. Beer and PFC Boisuk. Pronounced 'Bwah-sook', of course, but come on, dude. Your name looks like BoySuck.
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Francostein posted:I hear it's cajun for "this is a dumb thread" I'm not sure if you're joking or not (you probably are), but if you are I recommend you vote 1 and move on...
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| # ? Dec 29, 2012 02:53 |
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Hurt69420 posted:Hahaha goddamn. That's German or something I'm guessing? Are you real?
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Max Fightmaster has a pretty kickin' rad name. Best part of it is that his title lends itself so well to the whole picture: Staff Sergeant Max Fightmaster.
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In my previous career, I managed a government office that handled all of the birth certificates for the county government. Every December I would write a press release to the newspapers about the most common names of the previous year. These were always something like Jayden or Jaden or Jaeden or Jaiden. But the database we had would also let me search the least common names. Besides all of the unique spellings of otherwise common names, the best I remember finding were Flamur which is just awful, but not nearly as bad as the gold standard of terrible names: Oinkon. As I remember, both of their parents were Bangladeshi, but I couldn't find any linguistic or cultural basis for either name. I feel really bad, too, because the county where I'm from is whitey whitesville and horribly xenophobic. Sorry, unfortunately named Bangladeshi kids 
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Hurt69420 posted:Hahaha goddamn. That's German or something I'm guessing? From the latin root "Weedlord"
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I met a guy called Hurtsixninefourtwozero once.
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I had to ship out thousands of envelopes to folk along with my labmates and we made a list of our favorite names. I don't recall all of them offhand, but we were all quite fond of Dick Ploof.
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Michael Torris lived in my freshman year dorm hall.
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I once knew a girl on another forum whose name was China Moon Rockett. ...she was a cool girl, everyone liked her  HoboZero posted:In the Marines I got assigned temp duty with both a Cpl. Beer and PFC Boisuk. Pronounced 'Bwah-sook', of course, but come on, dude. Your name looks like BoySuck.  (though it IS pronounced "bow-sack")
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Dick Assman. Was a pretty chill guy too. I went into his gas station occasionally before and after he was on TV.
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Chanandler Bong.
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Fred Repeat
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Hurt69420 posted:Yikes... I have no idea if she was black, and I'd be surprised if that was more than a harmful stereotype. Yeah, you wouldn't know anything about that would you
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