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La-a
« on: October 10, 2009, 09:31:40 PM »
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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Re: La-a
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2009, 10:19:21 PM »
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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Re: La-a
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2009, 10:21:22 PM »
Quote from: Unisaw on October 10, 2009, 10:19:21 PM
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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Re: La-a
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2009, 10:33:28 PM »
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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Re: La-a
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2009, 11:35:59 PM »
la-a is 78 percent urban myth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCdmiZyyGjQ
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Re: La-a
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2009, 12:28:13 AM »
A Officer friend once told me he saw Lamonjelo and some other choice names from people arrested and otherwise.
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Re: La-a
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2009, 04:05:32 AM »
From my time in customer service I spoke to more than one Aquanetta.
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Re: La-a
« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2009, 05:59:08 AM »

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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Re: La-a
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2009, 06:20:48 AM »
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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Re: La-a
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2009, 09:14:24 AM »
Quote from: RevDisk on October 11, 2009, 05:59:08 AM
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 and Doug Anakin.
« Last Edit: October 11, 2009, 09:23:07 AM by MicroBalrog »
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Re: La-a
« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2009, 10:12:04 AM »
Yes, but those are last names, not a first name.
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Re: La-a
« Reply #11 on: October 11, 2009, 10:57:59 AM »
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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Re: La-a
« Reply #12 on: October 11, 2009, 01:05:55 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on October 11, 2009, 10:57:59 AM
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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Re: La-a
« Reply #13 on: October 11, 2009, 01:06:19 PM »
Another name my wife saw in hospital records was Vaseline!
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Re: La-a
« Reply #14 on: October 11, 2009, 01:53:48 PM »
Quote from: Unisaw on October 11, 2009, 01:06:19 PM
Another name my wife saw in hospital records was Vaseline!

How about Katherine Yvonne ?   :O
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Re: La-a
« Reply #15 on: October 11, 2009, 01:57:52 PM »
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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Re: La-a
« Reply #16 on: October 11, 2009, 08:50:58 PM »
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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Re: La-a
« Reply #17 on: October 11, 2009, 08:59:25 PM »
I know a girl named marijana... her parents are potheads.
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Re: La-a
« Reply #18 on: October 11, 2009, 09:08:08 PM »
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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Re: La-a
« Reply #19 on: October 11, 2009, 09:32:43 PM »
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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Re: La-a
« Reply #20 on: October 11, 2009, 09:50:34 PM »
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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Re: La-a
« Reply #21 on: October 11, 2009, 11:09:28 PM »
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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Re: La-a
« Reply #22 on: October 12, 2009, 12:23:29 AM »
Quote from: White Horseradish on October 11, 2009, 09:50:34 PM
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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Re: La-a
« Reply #23 on: October 12, 2009, 12:58:20 AM »
Quote from: Chrissy on October 11, 2009, 08:50:58 PM
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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Re: La-a
« Reply #24 on: October 12, 2009, 01:02:20 AM »
A Milwaukee native and race car driver recently passed away. His name was Dick Trickle.
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