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Last month, a man brought prescriptions for his newborn twin daughters to the pharmacy I work at. Their names were Aphroditee and Aphrodite, pronounced "afro-deetee" and "afro-dītee". We were beyond confused when the parents became upset with us for spelling one of the twin's names wrong, then when they realised that we had actually assumed that they were the same person, became outraged that we assumed such a thing when it should have been "obvious" that they were two separate people. They also mentioned that the hospital had some similar things a few times during their stay and how annoying it was when it's "clear as day"  .We just assumed that the hospital made a spelling error  .Oh, and one of my cousins married a Native American (Blackfeet tribe, for those interested), named Sundance Backs Of Many White Horses. Why the gently caress can't I have a cool last name? My last name comes from the Old Irish word for "deceitful" since my ancestors were horsethieves  .
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HEGEL SMOKE A J posted:I did, however, go to college with a guy named Christian Blood. That was pretty rad. Reminds me of this song (read the lyrics under the video), I'm rather jealous  .Oh yeah, my mum always talks about a kid she went to secondary with named Mark Bates, they used to always call him Master Bates and he apparently turned many shades of red from it. Edit: A former co-worker named his first kid Kilo with one girl, then a year later, knocked up another girl. They named that kid Graham  .Edit Two: We were going over the invite list for me and my fiance's wedding, and I remembered "Oh, guys, we need to invite Peter Fashho!" (pronounced Fa'sho, like a rapper says. It's Arabic) and my mum was like "why do we have to invite him 'fo'sho'?". When I explained, she was less confused but was mumbling about being here too long or something  .Dienes posted:I worked with a woman named Summer. Her sisters were named Rainy, Breezy, and Sunshine. I met them. Summer named her daughter Canyon Rain. FAT32 SHAMER has a new favorite as of 07:51 on Mar 5, 2013 |
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Niall Horan isn't a fictional character, and Niall was a real name before One Direction became popular. Sybil is a bit old-fashioned, but it is a real name. Decimus is as old as, well, Rome. Senna is also the name of a German pop singer born in 1979. Most people assume that Irish and Welsh first names are completely made up. Senna is also a type of laxative  . Oh, and Arya is Sanskrit for noble, great, or truthful.
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My dad knew a guy named Gene Fag but changed his name to Gene Roberts. Just remembered that  .I know a Greek family with the last name "Porn".
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Robin Sparkles posted:Was in the elevator a few weeks ago, and heard a mother say to her daughter, "Patience, this isn't our floor!" Or the mother was using it as an archaic imperative or whatever you want to call it, I know that my mum used to use "patience" as a command.
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ExpletiveDeleted posted:My dad always tells me he wanted to name me Dagny. I have no idea why. We have, as far as I know, absolutely no Scandinavian heritage. It might just be a really long-running joke at this point. If your last name is Swearengen as well then you, my friend, are probably Swedish. Only reason I bothered to look it up is because surnames that end in -engen are typically Northern Germanic. Also Dagny means something like "new day" and was originally pronounced "day-noo" or "day-nee", not "dag-nee"  kastein posted:It's in the first post on the first page, what makes you think anyone will pay attention to it at the top of the other pages? I never really thought "Frankenstein" was a weird name; I knew a guy named Jeff Frankenstein too. I know of a family named Himelstein, which translates to heavenstone v v.
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I dream of giving one of my kids the middle name of Danger because I think that's the coolest thing since the invention of the fridge.
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