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hyperhazard: Dec 4, 2011; I am the one lascivious
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Peanut President posted:

I have some family somewhere who's three kids were named Bric, Brac, and Broc. Bric, Brac, and Broc Dike. Indiana.

There's a group of siblings from my hometown named Skiff, Surf, Shell, Sand, and Sun. The 60s were a fun time.

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Also I've never met him but there's a famous NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle.

Also, the Indy racer Will Power who has the coolest name ever.

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 11:17

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Deific Presence posted:

My ex's name is Betty. Not short for Elizabeth, her legal first name is Betty.

My name is pretty drat weird itself, but I'm not going to post it because according to the internet I'm the only one with this name.

If your name is Al, you missed a perfect opportunity.

vv Reminds me -- in middle school I had a camp counselor named September. All of her siblings were named after the months in which they were born. Makes sense if you come out between April and August, but any other time of the year it's just cruel.

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# ¿ Sep 16, 2012 04:04

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bringmyfishback posted:

1. What the hell kind of political motivations are at work here?

It could be creepier. I had neighbors that named their children after the places they were conceived. Paris or Sydney may not be so bad, but what happens if the condom breaks in Wagga Wagga?

# ¿ Sep 18, 2012 03:49

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Back when I worked in a psych lab, part of my job was doing cold calls to ask random people if they were interested in participating in studies. We got our list of people from one of those semi-sketchy companies that collects names and addresses if you sign up for anything online. So naturally, we got a lot of fake names.

One day a Tori Amos popped up on my screen. My coworker goes "Yeah right," and calls the number, sarcastically asking if she can speak to Mrs. Tori Amos. The guy on the other end tells her just a moment, and then a woman comes on. "Hi, this is Tori."

Yep, it was her real name. She came by a few days later to participate in one of the studies, and she had a pretty good sense of humor about her name.

The best part was that the next name on the list was James Brown. I never did find out if he was real, though.

# ¿ Sep 20, 2012 19:46

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Got a package from Tai Wan yesterday. Not the state. It was shipped from an Amazon fulfillment seller in New Jersey. The seller's name was actually Tai [middle name] Wan.

I guess they're common Chinese names, but I still got a kick out of it.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2012 18:38

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PeaBeeJay posted:

Nope, the resumes were serious. When I googled "Anotha Hitler" I found a Facebook page from a local high school where people mentioned going to school with her. Apparently, she's Sri Lankan.

I went to elementary school with a Harry Dix. Poor kid.

My grandfather's brother (my grand-uncle?) is the Rev. Dick Hol.

I know he's from a different generation and all, but that has to have gotten some snickers in the '30s and '40s as well.

VVV Sounds like an awesome name to me.

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# ¿ Oct 25, 2012 03:17

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I remembered this one today. My parents' old pastor was named Jean-Valjean. Like the character from Les Mis, except it was hyphenated as his first name. Jean-Valjean Simmons.

His family wasn't French, I think his parents just really liked the book. He went by Val, anyway.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2012 06:07

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bee posted:

A few other ridiculous-sounding boys names I've encountered lately are Henly and Corbin.

Please tell me his last name was Dallas. :v:

# ¿ Nov 11, 2012 16:32

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Say Nothing posted:

Not my photo, but I have the same book on my shelf:

# ¿ Dec 20, 2014 22:56

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stubblyhead posted:

I wonder how often people in Spain forget parts of their name, or those of their immediate family?

It's probably the same as a lot of traditional Arabic names, where you're technically Abdullah Nassar bin Abdul Mohamed bin Omar al-Sulati, but you go by Nassar al-Sulati. Unless it was my cousin or something, I sure as hell wouldn't remember a person's 3+ generation lineage.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2015 08:02

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Met a client the other day named Gru. As in the character from Despicable Me.

Apparently he's a real rear end in a top hat to work with, too. No word on whether or not he plans to steal the moon.

# ¿ Feb 4, 2015 14:59

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Istari posted:

In Primary school, our teacher read us the first Harry Potter (before the films had come out). 3 separate kids in the class told her how to pronounce Hermione, but she still insisted on calling her Her-mee-on.

And in high school, my teacher wouldn't believe me when I told her that the name Gillian is pronounced with a soft G (like Jillian). (Yes, I'm aware how Gillian Jacobs pronounces her name.) Later that year, the author of the book the name was from did an interview about the book, and pronounced it Jillian. The teacher's response was something to do with "artistic flair".

I knew three Gillians in school. Two pronounced it Jill-ian, and the other Gill-ian. It was confusing, to say the least.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2015 14:25

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bringmyfishback posted:

Grandmascouch Leftcushion Johnson, you put that ice cream back right now!

"Hey Honey, I was thinking we could have a nice romantic night together toni--"

"Godammit George, not until we leave Wagga Wagga!"

# ¿ Feb 23, 2015 17:52

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Say Nothing posted:

Poor guy walked out of that Life of Brian sketch.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2015 19:18

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Did they honestly name their kid Keiythan?

# ¿ Mar 9, 2015 21:51

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Zeph. Short for Zephyr.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2015 03:32

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Istari posted:

Is he Australian ? Because I know a Zeph/Zephyr.

Nope, American. I'm guessing it's not a common Australian name either?

# ¿ Mar 17, 2015 05:36

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Lotish posted:

KaWayii

Pronounced Kawaii? :sparkles:

# ¿ Mar 20, 2015 17:26

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Shithouse Dave posted:

I've always wondered how that was really pronounced. It's one of those names I've seen in text but never in speech.

Neeve

# ¿ Apr 1, 2015 04:03

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I have a doctor whose last name is Vaidya, which literally means "doctor" in Bengali. (She's Indian, but I don't know if she speaks Bengali.)

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# ¿ May 9, 2015 13:56

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Istari posted:

I'm really struggling to think of names that end with the letter D. David, Donald, Richard, Gerald, Conrad. Muhammad ? What are all these once-incredibly-common boys' names ?

According to Social Security, the top 20 include Richard, Donald, David, Edward, Ronald, Raymond, and Harold.

# ¿ May 12, 2015 00:20

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Choco1980 posted:

I would imagine Avengers would up the Bruces in the world. Mary honestly surprises me. It's one of those names like "Jane" or "John" where it's considered super generic.

I had this backfire with my kid. My (now ex) wife and I were huge b-movie fans, and liked the name Ash (from Evil Dead. We're nerds. Deal with it.) and went looking through name books for something Ash could be short for. Ashley is still too girly, despite being the case with the namesake, and Ashton would make everyone think we named him after Ashton Kutcher. So then we settled on Asher, because it was cool, it was different, and could be shortened to Ash (Ironically he at age 8 prefers the full name to the nickname.) Then, after he was born, suddenly we started seeing people named Asher everywhere. On TV, at playgrounds, in pictures in newspapers, etc etc. Apparently by chance we wound up with one of the hot "different" names of that year. I even found out later that a cousin of mine who had her son less than a year later named him the same thing, because apparently she'd always wanted a son with that name--to the point where she didn't tell her husband we already used the name, even though we're not at all close, until after the kid was born and named.

One of the main characters in The Giver is named Asher, and since the mid-90s, that book's been a requisite in every middle school ever. It's not unlikely that kids who read it back in the 90s are having kids of their own now.

I always liked the name :shrug:

# ¿ May 15, 2015 00:06

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First thing I thought of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APyl6Cnbfzw

# ¿ May 21, 2015 04:07

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Wired came out with an article about black market coupons on the deep web. The guy in charge of the scheme is Beauregard Wattigney.

# ¿ May 28, 2015 21:30

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trauma llama posted:

Way too many people named Special, and a few named precious.

A woman who works at the Panera near me has the name Unique. I guess technically it is?

# ¿ Jun 18, 2015 17:29

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sweeperbravo posted:

Either we go to the same Panera or Uniques are destined to work there.

That's kind of creepy. It wouldn't happen to be next to a Party City and across the road from a Giant, would it?

# ¿ Jun 18, 2015 18:53

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Crow Jane posted:

The nearest Panera to me is.

It's not creepy, I see you in the LAN thread all the time :v:

# ¿ Jun 21, 2015 22:01

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De Nomolos posted:

Came across something from a Dr. Harb Ranks at work.

1. Is Harb short for something?
2. What is Harb short for?

Harbinger

# ¿ Jun 22, 2015 18:38

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pookel posted:

I was just reading about the DEA Silk Road case and ran across this in a Wired story from March:

I had to stop and think for a minute about whether he was a guy named Carl who was a member of a team called Mark Force IV.

I gotta say, if my name was Mark Force, I'd want to pass that on to my children too.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2015 19:05

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I realized today that the two women I sit closest to at work have the last names Battle and Slaughter :black101:

# ¿ Jul 23, 2015 17:16

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Istari posted:

As a kid, I had a dance teacher with the surname Blood. She was a really sweet, demure woman. When she got married (to a man with a really ordinary surname), she chose to keep her own surname. I was thrilled.

My sister's 2nd grade teacher was a Mrs. Love. She was a really nasty person. No idea how she ended up teaching elementary students.

# ¿ Aug 2, 2015 08:03

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Shear Bliss would be an great name for a beauty salon.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2015 21:50

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Lotish posted:

Just got a student named No Nguyen, which if I'm informed rightly is pronounced "Know When."

More like "no win" which is actually funnier imho.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2015 18:29

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Got an email at work today from a Dr. Steve Holt. I had a good chuckle.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2015 05:01

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Husband met a Dr. Gert Kwakkel. It's probably a perfectly normal Dutch name, but I can't get over the fact that somewhere out there there's a Doctor Quackle, and he's not a cartoon duck.

# ¿ Oct 6, 2015 18:46

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It's always weird to me when suffixes go beyond Junior. By the time you hit IV, I think it's less a namesake and more "This name is common in my family."

# ¿ Nov 20, 2015 15:31

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Leonard Slutsky.

# ¿ Dec 13, 2015 20:27

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AA is for Quitters posted:

Not an actual name (yet) but my man is already angling for naming rights of we have a girl.

He has a hard on for Apatchalla. Like the way a good ol boy from KY might pronounce his region. No amount of reason and logic is working. I'm looking for jobs in Iceland so that he can try and pout and plead and still be legally unable to pick... That.

I did not alter this image in the slightest.

# ¿ Dec 21, 2015 06:22

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Absolutely no idea, but according to his IMDB page, he went by Scully.

Skuv-leethan?

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