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[KD5NRH]

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."

[mtnbkr]

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

[J.J.]

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.

[Tallpine]

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.

[mtnbkr]

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

[p12]

A few years back I had a co-worker sort of boss named

Richard Head

I smirked everytime I saw him.

[erictank]

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.  

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.

[41magsnub]

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.

[brimic]

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. :|

[BrokenPaw]

I once met a girl named Daiquiri.

Seems her dad had a fondness for various alcoholic beverages; she had sisters named "Brandy" and "Tequila".

[roo_ster]

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.

[RevDisk]

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.   

[Harold Tuttle]

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...

[Scout26]

I went to High School with Jack Goff.

[Perd Hapley]

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. 

[Tallpine]

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" 

[Jamisjockey]

Friend named her new daughter "Ever".
 :rolleyes:

[Perd Hapley]

She must be of the Microbalrog Methuselist persuasion.   

[Chrissy]

My dad had a client named Richard Wiener.  And yup, he went by the first name Dick.

[Harold Tuttle]

http://www.healthgrades.com/directory_search/physician/profiles/dr-md-reports/dr-harry-beaver-md-fd3b8b34.cfm

[brimic]

https://www.uwsp.edu/cls/scholarships/History.aspx

The third name down on the list was a Prof when I went to college there.

[Silver Bullet]

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?"   

[AJ Dual]

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...)

[freakazoid]

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, 
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.

[red headed stranger]

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.