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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: eyebrows on October 10, 2009, 09:31:40 PM
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I've heard of some weird (and sometimes stupid) names but this takes the cake.
A friend of my GF waas telling us a story about a baby they delivered at the hospital, a baby the parents named La-a. Pronounced "la dash a".
Cracked me up, I've been threatening to name our son -*a ever since. :lol:
Add to that I found out my GF has a far off cousin named Bronzella. :laugh:
Poor kids.
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When my wife was a teenager, she worked in the records department of a rural hospital in Virginia. She actually saw the record of one poor child named Velveeta!
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When my wife was a teenager, she worked in the records department of a rural hospital in Virginia. She actually saw the record of one poor child named Velveeta!
Was his brother named Kraft? Or maybe they went whole hog and chose Walmart.
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Bronzella - not bad. :laugh:
La-dash-A reminds me of this.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001107/
And my favorite Ghettotastic name is still Latrina. Yes, I have seen it. :O
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la-a is 78 percent urban myth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCdmiZyyGjQ
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A Officer friend once told me he saw Lamonjelo and some other choice names from people arrested and otherwise.
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From my time in customer service I spoke to more than one Aquanetta.
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I know a lady that named her kid Anakin. She wasn't even a Star Wars nerd, just heard the name and thought it was "pretty". Yes, the poor kid's nickname is Ani. I wonder if anyone ever told her she named her kid after Darth Vader.
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That is precisely why people should research names for their kids haha. =D
I feel sorry for a lot of these kids with weird names, the parents may love the name, but the kids who have to live with it might not appreciate it. I'm sure that Frank Zappa's kids had an interesting time at school...
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I know a lady that named her kid Anakin. She wasn't even a Star Wars nerd, just heard the name and thought it was "pretty". Yes, the poor kid's nickname is Ani. I wonder if anyone ever told her she named her kid after Darth Vader.
Vader was cool. I'd do that.
Google confirms that Anakin/Annakin is a legit name.
Ken Annakin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Annakin) and Doug Anakin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Anakin).
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Yes, but those are last names, not a first name.
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If I had started learning Gaelic sooner, I might have named my daughters something like Ealasaid and Raonaid =D
And since we homeschooled, we could have practically had our own family language. :cool:
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If I had started learning Gaelic sooner, I might have named my daughters something like Ealasaid and Raonaid =D
And since we homeschooled, we could have practically had our own family language. :cool:
Ever read any of the Dune book? Husbands and wives would have their own language.
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Another name my wife saw in hospital records was Vaseline!
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Another name my wife saw in hospital records was Vaseline!
How about Katherine Yvonne ? :O
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Not nearly as weird, but as far as I'm concerned just as cruel. My niece and her husband named their son London Shields. Shields was my father's name, and London was where they went for their honeymoon.
That kid's going to get a lot of grief in school, and it will be their fault. My friend Homer Birdsong had a really tough time. They could have named him something else, but they had to name him after his father. :mad:
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I heard about the La-a thing on another gun board a few months ago. They were saying the lady was pissed because nobody could pronounce her kid's name right. We had a whole discussion about whether or not that little line is a dash or a hyphen. The lady didn't even know punctuation correctly, because the way she wrote it, technically the child should be called LaHYPHENa! :laugh:
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I know a girl named marijana... her parents are potheads.
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How about a kid with the first name of Mister?
My mom was a substitute teacher for a while and saw some wierd names...but that one took the cake.
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Last names are more funner, there is no escaping them. Consider these actual folks who, knowing their names, still chose to join the navy. There was seaman Seaman, later rated as a Boatswain's Mate. BM3 Seaman get over here! Hilarity ensues. It's always been a naval joke, but I saw the real guy. If your last name is Cox, why pray tell do you decide to be an Interior Communications specialist? Then there was seaman Hard, a constant fount of jokes.
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I went to school with a guy who swore his next door neighbor's name was Dick Flicker. Now, out of all permutations of Richard, what would posses one to choose that one with a last name like that?
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Interesting to know La-a is somewhat of an internet thing. This girl told the story like she was there and involved with the birth, she works at a hospital.
So either someone else named a kid La-a or this girl is embellishing a little bit. :police:
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I went to school with a guy who swore his next door neighbor's name was Dick Flicker. Now, out of all permutations of Richard, what would posses one to choose that one with a last name like that?
Knew a guy growing up whose Dad was named Richard Head.... And yes, he went by Dick....
Even worse, our high school principal was named Richard Palmer.... Thankfully he went by Rich.... But boy did the jokes fly...
Also knew a kid named Justin Case.
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I heard about the La-a thing on another gun board a few months ago. They were saying the lady was pissed because nobody could pronounce her kid's name right. We had a whole discussion about whether or not that little line is a dash or a hyphen. The lady didn't even know punctuation correctly, because the way she wrote it, technically the child should be called LaHYPHENa! :laugh:
Yeah, but if you're going to get all technical about it, there are two dashes in typesetting. The short dash is an 'N' dash, and the long dash is an 'M' dash. So if she had been more (shall we say) astute, the kid could have had to be named either Laemdasha or Laendasha. And I doubt any mortal being could ever figure out the correct (?) pronunciation for either one.
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A Milwaukee native and race car driver recently passed away. His name was Dick Trickle.
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and London was where they went for their honeymoon.
Well, at least they didn't get more specific and name him "Motel 6."
Or "back seat of a Ford."
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Not nearly as weird, but as far as I'm concerned just as cruel. My niece and her husband named their son London Shields. Shields was my father's name, and London was where they went for their honeymoon.
Other than his first name being the name of a city, I don't get the problem. Am I missing something?
Knew a guy growing up whose Dad was named Richard Head.... And yes, he went by Dick....
Before my youngest daughter was born, we were at my grandmother's house and talking about baby names. My aunt suggested we name "it" Richard Edward (or Dick Ed for short) if it turned out to be a boy. My poor grandmother had suffered a fall a couple weeks before, breaking her jaw and requiring it to be wired shut. The sight of her laughing so hard with her jaw wired shut was funny. :D
Chris
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I had an employee that we had to terminate a while back named SemaJ. He didn't last very long with the company.. 3 weeks after i hired him I realized that his parents named him James backwards... I felt like a freaking idiot that I didn't notice that sooner.
Second Story.... I swear to god this is true... A good friend of mine is a lawyer and in Law school she became good friends with a girl named Precious. Well just before the Bar Exam Precious got married and decided that it would be funny to take her Husbands last name. So somewhere in U.S. you can hire a lawyer named............Precious Beaver.
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One of my great-great-uncles was a Doctor.
That is, his given name was "Doctor" :)
They had big families back then. I suppose they ran out of names. There was a John and a James in just about every generation. His brother my g-g-gfather shared the name of a county in Kentucky.
Other than his first name being the name of a city, I don't get the problem. Am I missing something?
We had a friend and neighbor whose first name was "Dallas". ;)
Funny, his last name is also the name of a city - which shall go unmentioned to protect his privacy.
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We had a friend and neighbor whose first name was "Dallas". ;)
Dallas is a fairly common first name, at least as far as "odd" names are concerned. I went to college with a Dallas. He was a political reporter in the Raleigh area until recently.
Chris
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A few years back I had a co-worker sort of boss named
Richard Head
I smirked everytime I saw him.
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I know a lady that named her kid Anakin. She wasn't even a Star Wars nerd, just heard the name and thought it was "pretty". Yes, the poor kid's nickname is Ani. I wonder if anyone ever told her she named her kid after Darth Vader.
My stepson's middle name is, in fact, Anakin. He and all his friends (who are gamers, and not particularly Star Wars geeks like his mother and I, thought they like it well enough) think it's pretty cool.
My stepDAUGHTER'S middle name is not, in fact, Amidala - but she wishes it was.
Last names are more funner, there is no escaping them. Consider these actual folks who, knowing their names, still chose to join the navy. There was seaman Seaman, later rated as a Boatswain's Mate. BM3 Seaman get over here! Hilarity ensues. It's always been a naval joke, but I saw the real guy. If your last name is Cox, why pray tell do you decide to be an Interior Communications specialist? Then there was seaman Hard, a constant fount of jokes.
With my last name, I got a fair ration of ... crap for my choice of service. I didn't have it NEARLY as bad as some people I knew, though.
The company yeoman for my boot camp company in Orlando, back in 1991, graduated bootcamp as 'Seaman Kumm'. Nooooo, he didn't get ANY crap for that. Especially not from the company commanders. :angel:
Even better, Orlando was the first "integrated" Recruit Training Center (boot camp), although "integrated" (at least in '91) meant there were separate all-male and all-female companies - don't know if there are actual co-ed companies now, and RTC Orlando has shut down, I believe. Anyways, we had a "sister company" which started at the same time as mine, and they ran us through basic issue at the same time, so I actually was present when Mary Ellen Blow was instructed to stencil "LAST NAME, FIRST INITIAL, AND MIDDLE INITIAL!!!" on her dungarees. Poor girl. The instructor's reaction was... priceless. :laugh:
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Dallas is a fairly common first name, at least as far as "odd" names are concerned. I went to college with a Dallas. He was a political reporter in the Raleigh area until recently.
Chris
Yep, I went to school with a lot of Dallas's. Parents must have been soap opera fans, they would have been the right age.
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My Wife's brother and his wife named their daughter 'Nyaloma.'
Not exactly sure what its supposed to mean, but it sounds like a tumor or something. :|
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I once met a girl named Daiquiri.
Seems her dad had a fondness for various alcoholic beverages; she had sisters named "Brandy" and "Tequila".
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I once met a girl named Daiquiri.
Seems her dad had a fondness for various alcoholic beverages; she had sisters named "Brandy" and "Tequila".
Too bad he didn't have a fondness for Grasshoppers.
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With my last name, I got a fair ration of ... crap for my choice of service. I didn't have it NEARLY as bad as some people I knew, though.
I'm in the same boat. It's not a bad or weird last name. Just shares a similarity with a popular character from a fictional story.
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What has a lot of traction with me is to name your kids the same name as someone "famous".
anyone who tries to google them up will be drowned in near misses
Obamaniqua Jones is so unique of a monicker, that any web hits, have to be her.
Case in point is
Jackson, Deilia A. (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/07/06/what-michelle-obamas-staffers-earn/
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=+Deilia+Jackson&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g-s1g-sx1
Yep, thar she is
If the Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady was "Susan Smith"
I wouldn't have her office phone number at Porter Novelli in San Francisco in 30 seconds...
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I went to High School with Jack Goff.
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I've known a guy named Dallas, a girl named Rebel, and I have a great-uncle (or something) named General Jackson Ward. And yes, his first name is "General." I saw a guy in the paper, last name "McGirl."
My last name is pronounced just like it looks, but it sounds so stupid that people always try to say it some different way. They can't believe I have such a silly-sounding name.
I don't know why so many people name their daughters Hunter or Taylor, or Mackenzie. Those are about the un-girliest names I can think of.
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I saw a guy in the paper, last name "McGirl."
That would be an Anglo-bastardization of some Gaelic name, though I don't what that one is derived from? But for example, McKintyre (and various spellings) comes for mac an t-saor, or "son of the carpenter." (the t replaces the s as the first letter)
However, I have no idea why anyone would name their son "fistful" :laugh:
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Friend named her new daughter "Ever".
:rolleyes:
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She must be of the Microbalrog Methuselist persuasion.
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My dad had a client named Richard Wiener. And yup, he went by the first name Dick.
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http://www.healthgrades.com/directory_search/physician/profiles/dr-md-reports/dr-harry-beaver-md-fd3b8b34.cfm
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https://www.uwsp.edu/cls/scholarships/History.aspx
The third name down on the list was a Prof when I went to college there.
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Knew a guy growing up whose Dad was named Richard Head.... And yes, he went by Dick....
A colleague of mine worked with somebody by that name. The colleague would get phone calls asking for Dick Head. He'd reply, "which one?" =D
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http://www.linkedin.com/pub/princess-barutha/1/257/949
I knew of her, and occasionaly assisted her with I.T. issues at a large promininent Milwaukee employer.
I also assisted a "Scarlet Box" at one of their distributors.
One of my best friends worked for a small software firm here in town. The two partners that owned it were named Dan Shine and Mike Hunt. (say them together...)
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The company yeoman for my boot camp company in Orlando, back in 1991, graduated bootcamp as 'Seaman Kumm'. Nooooo, he didn't get ANY crap for that. Especially not from the company commanders.
Even better, Orlando was the first "integrated" Recruit Training Center (boot camp), although "integrated" (at least in '91) meant there were separate all-male and all-female companies - don't know if there are actual co-ed companies now, and RTC Orlando has shut down, I believe. Anyways, we had a "sister company" which started at the same time as mine, and they ran us through basic issue at the same time, so I actually was present when Mary Ellen Blow was instructed to stencil "LAST NAME, FIRST INITIAL, AND MIDDLE INITIAL!!!" on her dungarees. Poor girl. The instructor's reaction was... priceless.
lol. I'm still at Great Lakes for A school, :'(, and there is a seaman Guzzler, not sure how it's spelled, and even funnier is it is a female, :lol:
Now we don't call them companies, they are called divisions. We had a brother div, so I'm not really sure how the integrated divisions worked. And Great Lakes is the only RTC now.
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My FIL's name is Dick Burger.
I was in Korea for 5 years, and I still had to smirk a little bit inside whenever I met people with the not uncommon name mi-suk or bum-suk.
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The worst I recall is a woman featured on the tube whose daughter's birth certificate ran, IIRC, 167 pages. The few seconds of Mom's recital sounded like nothing more than a randomized listing of Los Angeles street names.
I used to figure my sister should have been a loan officer: "You want a loan? Go see Helen Dye!"
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Last names are more funner, there is no escaping them. Consider these actual folks who, knowing their names, still chose to join the navy. There was seaman Seaman
It's actually spelled Siemen. I think its German. I knew a girl with that name. It was funny for a while.
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It's just a name.
Both the common and rare extremes of the naming spectrum can be annoying. Being a "Tom Jones" or "John Smith" could get pretty tedious, but at least they can adopt nicknames if they want, and filling out paperwork is a breeze for them.
I think too many people take names too seriously, as if they're sacred heirlooms passed down through the generations. That may work if your family is famous, but otherwise it's just tedious. At least when it's first names that are passed down, they tend to be common and unobtrusive. Tradition is fine and good, but I do not think a parent should value tradition over the annoyance a child would suffer having to spell the last name "Abusufait" or "Alexandropoul" countless times in a borderline-illiterate culture that frequently can't even spell real English words. (those two names were picked at random from the end of the census data)
Rare, exotic, or variant names tend to be hard to spell, and who knows what embarrassing or silly thing they might sound like in some other language. Variant names are the worst, though. A "Krysti" would have to spell her name with the NATO phonetic alphabet EVERY TIME it's asked for.
The U.S. Census has neat name datasets from the 2000 census, listing last names, males' first names, and females' first names by frequency.
It's just a name. I think parents should strive to find a happy compromise so that their kid will not get lost in a sea of "Jane Smiths", but also won't be subject to ridicule or google-searching as "Blu Skyy". If your kid really wants an exotic or un-spellable ethnic name, he or she can go by that nickname, and change it officially at 18 once (hopefully) wise enough to understand some of the implications of having those kinds of names in western society.
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Well, generally, traditional family names are often at least unique and normal at the same time. You normally have several to choose from also. Making up some "far out" name or trying to be clever usually gets people into trouble. I guess also many of the "normal" names in the US are Biblical as well.
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Being a "Tom Jones" or "John Smith" could get pretty tedious, but at least they can adopt nicknames if they want, and filling out paperwork is a breeze for them.
Being named Jacob Johnson, I can agree with that completely.
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OTOH, having a common name means there is likely some criminal with your same name =(
When I was a kid, some high level state official with my first/last was prosecuted for corruption. I took a lot of crap for it for a few days.
There is a US congressman with my first/last right now. I might even be distantly related to him. At least he is an R. :)