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flakeloaf posted:I had two classmates in two different years named Manpreet, which isn't at all an unusual name. For a girl. Which only one of these people was. A little while back, but Sikh names are unisex.
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Chupe Raho Aurat posted:want to guess Richard Gere's middle name? Well, if we're doing celebrities, Hugh Grant's middle name is Mungo.
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All on Black posted:A little while back, but Sikh names are unisex. It's only five after eight and I've learned my thing for today. Can I go back to bed now?
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I just read a heartwarming story about a boy who could hear for the first time due to a cochlear implant. His name was Linkin. No, his last name wasn't Park. Have some more silly names...   
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OK, I like MST3K as much as the next nerd, but that episode aired 16 years ago, I think the joke has run its course.
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My idiot brother and his idiot wife have finally settled on a name for their unborn baby boy: Xander William. Could have named the boy after both grandfathers, and we could have called the kid Artie or Billy. Nope, had to be a special snowflake. Part of me is hoping the ultrasounds are wrong and he comes out a she. The rest of me is assured that they'd just come up with something worse if that was the case. Your older brother had to grow up with an extremely obscure spelling of an already fairly rare name why would you do that to your own child what the hell is wrong with you?
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RickVoid posted:My idiot brother and his idiot wife have finally settled on a name for their unborn baby boy: Xander William. Could have named the boy after both grandfathers, and we could have called the kid Artie or Billy. Nope, had to be a special snowflake.
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RickVoid posted:My idiot brother and his idiot wife have finally settled on a name for their unborn baby boy: Xander William. Could have named the boy after both grandfathers, and we could have called the kid Artie or Billy. Nope, had to be a special snowflake. Yeah, what? I guess it might be a bit odd that Xander isn't short for Alexander but it's a common, real name. My phone just autocorrected it no problem. Xander William is definitely a fairly normal American boy's name. What are you actually mad about here?
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Eh, at least Xander is a real name. A real stupid name.
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InEscape posted:Yeah, what? I guess it might be a bit odd that Xander isn't short for Alexander but it's a common, real name. My phone just autocorrected it no problem. Xander William is definitely a fairly normal American boy's name. What are you actually mad about here? All I see is that dope from Buffy. paragon1 posted:A real stupid name. This guy knows what's up.
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I wouldn't even bat an eye at the name Xander, to be honest. And if he hates it he can always go by William. It's a solid name choice.
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made of bees posted:I already know someone who was named after her mom's DnD character. There's a couple on the nerdiest Forgotten Realms forum who named their daughter Narnra. If you're not aware, FR is the most detailed/nerdiest D&D campaign setting. So why Narnra? Because it's the name of the daughter of the famous wizard Elminster (my avatar, actually.) So yes they named their daughter a nonsense fantasy name after the D&D setting they liked the most. But it gets worse. You see, Narnra is from the book Elminster's Daughter, which features the character Narnra trying to find her dad and getting mixed up in trouble. At least that's what the cover copy suggests. It's actually misleading: the title refers to the fact that a lot of fan-famous women are actually daughters of Elminster. There's a couple of scenes where these women just sit around in groups and talk about who daddy is. So, yes, little Narnra, you are named after a D&D character. Also your dad probably cheats a lot.
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flakeloaf posted:Little guy on the bus was just introduced by his mother as Boston. Not Austin, the person she was talking to was confused by it too, so she made mom repeat it to be sure Boston. I went to high school with someone who named her kids Boston (she has never been to this city ever), Ryder, and Banner. I guess random nouns are the trendy option now.
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My brother has gone to school with a Briar, Bailiff, Saber and Bruin. The last one is named after the team, not sure about Saber.
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Not sure if anyone brought this up before, but it was actually on the news at a certain point, that an Egyptian girl was named 'Facebook' in honor of the help social media provided to the success of the recent revolution. That aside, in season 2 of RuPaul's Drag Race reality show, one of the contestants (goes by the stage name of Jujubee) bears the first name of Airline. I also knew a hardcore weeabo that changed her (normal) given name to Nekori, and a girl that changed her name to Thomas (to her defense, she always felt like she was supposed to be born a man. I think her family name was Schlongger, which is precious by itself.) opallight has a new favorite as of 11:26 on Dec 25, 2013 |
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I had a buddy back in high school with the nickname "Sponge". His nickname was less horrible than his actual name. Granted, his first name - Frederick - isn't horrible in and of itself, but this was the mid-late nineties. Even "Freddy" was considered dated (and this was before Mr. Prinze, Jr. was coming into the limelight). Instead, he went by his middle name. Well, not even his whole middle name. His parents were huge on their French ancestry. Neither of them had a single "authentic" French name between them, so they decided to burden their kid with his middle name, DeShonge (pronounced "De-Shawn", more or less, with a French final 'n'). So he went by "Shonge", pronounced "Shawn". Hence, "Sponge". It wasn't even a family name, if memory serves. (Just having typed all that, I'm finding myself wondering if some goon knows Sponge and is going to correct any inaccuracies in my memory. Be my luck.)
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Inspector Zenigata posted:So you know a transman? Not sure if that ought to count as terrible. It ought not, but referring to him as "she" and saying it's terrible that he chose the perfectly respectable name "Thomas" is pretty terrible for other reasons.
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Inspector Zenigata posted:I know man, I was trying to point that out. I'm in a bit of a Christmas daze right now, sorry if you were just furthering my point and I'm misreading your post. I am transgender, I want Kugyou no Tenshi to feel bad for misgendering and being a general rear end. I think you mean opallight, not Kugyou no Tenshi.
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stubblyhead posted:My sister's two kids were both delivered by Dr. Bush. When I was a kid we lived across the street from a dermatologist named Dr. Skinner. My pulmonologist is named Dr. Hurt.
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I went to school with a guy named Harry Ho. He was really popular. Go figure...
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El_Phantasmo_loco posted:I went to school with a guy named Harry Ho. He was really popular. Go figure... I think this post deserves it's own thread
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flakeloaf posted:Little guy on the bus was just introduced by his mother as Boston. Not Austin, the person she was talking to was confused by it too, so she made mom repeat it to be sure Boston. City/place names aren't that unusual if they're just one word names. Austin, Boston, London, Denver, Cheyenne, Paris, Brooklyn...a lot of places are named for people, anyway. If people were naming their kids stuff like Salt Lake City or El Paso or Colorado Spings I'd be a lot more perturbed.
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It's likely true she named her children after towns that she'd never been to. I agree that place names aren't that strange and some work better than others, but Boston was a new one on me. She probably spells it Bawstyn.
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I've always hated cities being used as names. There's an absurd number of Austins in my town. Every school I went to as a kid had so many Austins that most of them had to go by a nickname or their middle name. EDIT: Sham bam bamina! posted:That one's an actual person-name. It's derived from Augustine. Yeah, I know, but I don't think a bunch of North Carolina Baptists all decided to name their sons after a North African saint. I mean, Phoenix is also a mythical bird, but I think most people who named their kids that got it from the town. Laocius has a new favorite as of 22:40 on Dec 26, 2013 |
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Laocius posted:I've always hated cities being used as names. There's an absurd number of Austins in my town. Every school I went to as a kid had so many Austins that most of them had to go by a nickname or their middle name.
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We have some fabulous cashiers at our local walmart including Diversity Princess Angel and Adversity.......... I heard one lady call her son Squirrel and i said "oh that's a cute nickname what prompted that one" and she got all butt hurt and said THAT"S HIS LEGAL NAME .... she also has a child named tawny and siamese I have a third cousin named Spawn i just don't get it.....
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:City/place names aren't that unusual if they're just one word names. Austin, Boston, London, Denver, Cheyenne, Paris, Brooklyn...a lot of places are named for people, anyway. If people were naming their kids stuff like Salt Lake City or El Paso or Colorado Spings I'd be a lot more perturbed. Austin and Denver were names first... those cities were named after people.
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My high school art teacher named her new son "Ronin." Even more insulting is that she gave him the middle name "James." How sadistic do you have to be to give them a hosed-up first name and a normal middle name? It's becoming disturbingly prevalent.
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Went to pick up a prescription today. The pharmacist's nametag said Daffany
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My weeaboo friend got knocked up by her weeaboo ex and they decided to name the kid Tristan Khaos (can't remember his surname). It's actually somewhat appropriate considering how much of a handful he is and the whole mess that led up to his conception 
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 "Laurie Lee" is the pronunciation. She also has a YouTube channel which is a whole 'nother ballgame.
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troutfish posted:
Is that an anime Jenna Maroney?
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Xtal, pronounced as if it were "Crystal". Not joking.
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My favorite liquor store has an employee there with a namebadge that reads "Trainee." I want to ask him whether that's his name or his position in the store hierarchy, but I think that would probably be rude.
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Orwellian Optimism posted:Xtal, pronounced as if it were "Crystal". Not joking. Oh man, this is the first one that's technically correct but that just makes it worse. Hope she's ready for a lifetime of "Extal".
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 Txhwj Xeeb. Pronounced something like Shu-Chee. I'm pretty sure it's Hmong, but goddamn, that is a brutal string of consonants.
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