Calvin, don't you know this is America, where only the dumb people seem to breed with regular success? It's almost as if your virility is directly proportionate to your stupidity.
Wait, only TWO cocktails? You're a cheaper date than I am. And I got your pm and I shared my own personal horrible name story with you. So there. I wouldn't know what to do with myself if I used that knowledge for evil. The two-drink thing, though, I do intend to use.
I guess my own name falls in this thread, too. It's supposed to be Solomon, but due to some freak spelling from my mom, it's spelled "Soloman." Solo Man.
Considering my recent sex life, I'm living up to my namesake.
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HEDWIG: "The road is my home. In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me."
Years ago when one of my nephews was in elementary school I was looking through his school yearbook and in one grade there was a boy named Christ. I'm not making this up. Can't remember the last name, but it was pretty common, like Christ Andrews or something.
You know a lot of Elizabeth Bennets? That's interesting.... I don't know anyone with the last name Bennet, but I guess if I had that last name then it would be reasonably tempting....
Had an Art teacher named Dick Biter. My theatre teacher's neighbor was Harry Organ. My grandmother went to school with Imma and Ura Hogg. A friend of the family was named Iona Couch. (We called her Squeakie) And I went to school with a girl named Harmony who had sisters named Charity, Honor and Grace and a brother named Joe. Grace's name would have been Benevolence, had she been a boy. Hmmm, hope none of them read the boards :/
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
My current favorite is 'Arshpreet' - which I understand is not that unusaul in this little girl's native culture, but in the suburban American one she finds herself immersed in, it's fairly eye-catching.
SweetQ- I don't know if they were born in these months, but when I was a little kid my mom knew two sisters named August and September.
My high school friend April was actually born in October- her mom just liked the name April.
Twins in my grade came from a family where all the children's names started with "Ch..."- (some of the spellings were trendoid cr8v spellings)- I think their family was something like 13 children total, including three sets of twins: Chantisha, Channon, Chauna, Chantal, Cheyenne, etc. etc.
And then, this one's not so much horrible, I don't know if this is/was a regional thing, but growing up I knew a *ton* of girls who were named after their fathers: Toni-ann, Tonylynn, Bobbisue, Randylee, Stevie-lynn, etc.
A good friend was doing Notary work for birth certificates and the name that came up was supposed to sound like ashley or asholey, but you can see where that might go...
As-sho-le
yeah....sad...I mean, you would get in trouble for spelling your own name in class.
My father was a paramedic and he would from time to time have to deliver babies on the way to the hospital or in people's homes if they were too far along to make it to the hospital. He told me some of the more interesting names that parents had named those babies. One was Urine, pronounced Ur-een, because she thought it sounded pretty (she read it off of the cathater bag, and didn't know what it meant). Another was Uterus, again the mother had no clue what it meant. She pronounced it Ut-ris.
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot my father's boss Richard Head (he went by Dick) and a guy I went to high school with named Peter Little.
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
for an indian woman in western culture, i've always thought Kunti was an unfortunate name-- but it is the name of the mother of the Pandava brothers (Arjuna et al) in THE MAHABHARATA.
my friend swears his mother taught a little girl named "pajamay" who was named after a word her mother saw in a catalogue --pajama.
