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jojoinnit posted:I had a similar thing when whilst in America I came across a Mr Wankoff. I had a customer once named Mr. Jerkovsky.
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GabrielAisling posted:We have a regular customer at the pizza place where I work named "Tangela." Like the pokemon. But since she's too old to be realistically named after the pokemon, I can only assume it's just one of those things.
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On a pregnancy site I read a name poll: the mom-to-be really loved the name Nevaeh but wanted to spell it differently. Should she go with Nevaeh or Neveah? indeed.
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Andrias Scheuchzeri posted:On a pregnancy site I read a name poll: the mom-to-be really loved the name Nevaeh but wanted to spell it differently. Should she go with Nevaeh or Neveah? There are many reasons to want to kill and flay Sonny Sandoval. That name is one of them.
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jojoinnit posted:I had a similar thing when whilst in America I came across a Mr Wankoff. Famously, there was also the German engineer Felix Wankel, who has a type of diesel engine named after him.
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I like weird names myself, but working in hospitality you see some unfortunate ones. The saddest was a nice old man named Gaylord Newby. Second favorite is Reginald Peen. Then probably Mirna Smoot. You really gotta say them out loud, preferably in your best poo poo-eating customer service voice, to get the effect. Our computer system logs names in Lastname/Firstname format, so when I came in and saw Straw/Bary, it made me smile  I also met a Stirling Black once. Pretty sure he was a superhero. Boner is also a surprisingly common last name.
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Four years ago I saw signs to "Elect Bonner Gaylord" and I'm pretty sure he won.
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General Panic posted:Famously, there was also the German engineer Felix Wankel, who has a type of diesel engine named after him. 
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I'm friends with a girl named Chardonnay as well as a girl named Patience. Also babysat a little girl named Unique. I used to be close friends with a girl named Gennesis.
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safety dan posted:Four years ago I saw signs to "Elect Bonner Gaylord" and I'm pretty sure he won. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7O29d8GKz0 (Probably NSFW)
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I was involved with a music video production earlier in the year and one of the assistants was credited as Tess Tickles.
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I once met the most insufferable "harikrishna" "artist" in Fayetteville AK. He had a little rat tail and a voice that made you want to commit murder. He introduced himself as Blade A. Grass. I made a point of asking him how he writes it out and sure enough it's just like that. I died a little that day.
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Every day this thread makes me grateful that my parents aren't, you know, morons.
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Iworked with a guy named Harry Carey. I also talked to an Ob-Gyn who said he met people who were havig a child on Halloween and had settled on the name Spook, and another that liked the name Luscious. Lastly, I know a little girl who is named Seaven. But on the sweet spectrum, my sister named her daughter after me- Julianna Kathleen. :3 we occasionally call her Jukabee for giggles, although I prefer Julie-bean (jellybean) .
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They cheered his name at the Olympics.
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I spoke with a Dick McAnally once or twice, several years ago. He was a pastor. His business card said "Rev. Dick McAnally", and I regret losing it, because that's the kind of thing you want to keep in a little gilt frame or a display case for the rest of your life. I still don't know why he didn't go by "Richard". EmperorFritoBandito has a new favorite as of 01:22 on Nov 26, 2012 |
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Just saw on my facebook that one of my old classmates named their baby daughter "Poppy Prairie Moon (last name)". At least Poppy isn't horrible. I had a geometry teacher named Poppy Underwood.
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Tigntink posted:Just saw on my facebook that one of my old classmates named their baby daughter "Poppy Prairie Moon (last name)". This is infinitely funnier if you're from somewhere with no prairie.
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French canadian toddler named "Teschoses" pronounced tay-shows and is french for 'your things' or 'your stuff'
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My great-grandmother came across an unfamiliar word in a book and she thought it looked so pretty that it became the name of her first child. The word? Couturier. Great-grandma apparently had no idea how to say it, as it was pronounced within the family as Ka-tray-ah.
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I hope this is fake but... http://awkwardmessages.com/a-baby-was-just-born-with-the-first-name-hashtag/
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A few favorites: Koert Council Anschwing "Chewy" Wang (Yes, he really goes by the nickname "Chewy") Meena Mistry These are all really cool people, and I talk to them on a regular basis.
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I went to high school with a gentleman named Harry Dong.
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There's someone named Orkunt in one of the apartment complexes that my company owns. I think that name's Turkish.
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Tigntink posted:Just saw on my facebook that one of my old classmates named their baby daughter "Poppy Prairie Moon (last name)". Do we have the same friend? Because someone I know just had a daughter named Poppy Prairie Moon. Do the parents live in Seattle, and the father has an "interesting" name himself?
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Last week I bumped into a girl from high school whose name is Aranda (no I didn't spell that wrong) I guess her parents decided she was such a special snowflake that the name Amanda just wasn't special enough. She has decided to continue this unfortunate trend by naming her son Dreco...
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BuckT.Trend posted:Do we have the same friend? Because someone I know just had a daughter named Poppy Prairie Moon. Do the parents live in Seattle, and the father has an "interesting" name himself? Small world. Yes. We went to art school together.
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Yeti Yeti Yeti posted:When I was a TA back in high school, I had to file a bunch of students' files or something and I came across one person whose full first name (not first and middle) was Maria Margarita. It's not the worst name ever, especially since she probably just goes by Maria, but it's a bit silly. I just started reading this thread, and I know this is from the first page, but holy poo poo, lol. That's my mom's name. It's a Mexican name. She usually does go by Maria though.
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I saw an episode of a home makeover show where one of the girls was called Shaolin. On the one hand it's a pretty cool name if you're a Wu-Tang fan, but to everyone else you will still be named after a monastery.
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My work involves schools so I get to see a lot of interesting name choices for people's children. A great example is these three kids, all sharing the same surname and presumably crazy parents: Blaze, Phoenix-Star, and Zeal. 
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kells posted:My work involves schools so I get to see a lot of interesting name choices for people's children. Admiral Goodenough posted:I saw an episode of a home makeover show where one of the girls was called Shaolin. On the one hand it's a pretty cool name if you're a Wu-Tang fan, but to everyone else you will still be named after a monastery.
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Bampf Kerpow! posted:I just started reading this thread, and I know this is from the first page, but holy poo poo, lol. That's my mom's name. Nothing even remotely wrong or weird with Margarita as a middle name---the first few pages just had a few overly enthusiastic contributions. Anyway, it's my mom's middle name, too, so 
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Yeah, that's not weird at all. Hell, the drink was named after someone.
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Ladies and Gentlemen. Special K Raper
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I think my favourite was a student named Summer Burns at my high school. I wish it was her nickname, for her sake. But no.
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My friend passed out in public and was taken to a hospital, and when I went to check on him I met the nurse keeping an eye on him - a nurse named Mommy. Literally Mommy.
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When i was in Iraq I saw a.specialist named Dickhouse. That made me pretty happy. There was another dude there named Wigglesworth. These arent that terrible but, it's all i got.
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I know a guy named Frodo. And he's just too nice a guy to make a LOTR joke out of. 
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I have nephews named Aahren and Zayne and a niece named Persephone Andromeda. Seeing all the lovely things people name themselves/their children makes me wonder how I ended up choosing the nice average name of Ken when gender issues got me to change mine.
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