One of my kids has a friend called Marley Beaver. Poor thing.

We have a stormie here too.

Not so much weird name as weird coincidence.

I had just got off the phone with someone who's last name is Moriarty. When I reached for the next donation form to process, the name it is in Memory of is Sherlock! :eek:

Not too weird, there was a Joe King, presumably Joseph, where I worked about ten years ago.

The Straight Dope says no, although they agree it gave a major popularity boost to what was a pretty uncommon name at the time.

Bill Lear, who invented the Lear Jet, named his daughter Shanda, as in Shanda Lear.

Nope.

She was a bright girl. It was so sad when she hung herself.

:sweat:you killed me with that one shaw :lol: :lol:

Double bonus points!

I don't know if this should be in list of weird names or list of long names. But we have got this guy from South India working for us. He's named:
"Kinnera Srinivasa Ravishankara Kumara"
(I didn't even remembered it (other than that its really long). Just copy-pasted it from his mail :D)

Better hope he never googles himself. :)

Better than Michael Bolton at least...

I rather enjoyed paging Mr Supakit Charnvanichborikoran at the library where I worked.

That's an interesting article. Thanks, to both of you, for pointing it out. Twice.:)

There is a boy called Nemo at my son Thor's birthday party right now. We've known about Nemo for a while -he's a grade below Thor and was his "math buddy" last year and is now in his class. But tonight it got better. Nemo informed me his sister is called Rocket (Rocky) for short -he was the one who named her. I think that's an awesome name (not sure about the abbreviation...)

I came across the name Shuwanugha (pronounced Schwanu) this year. It took me a semester to learn how to pronounce it correctly, but now it's one of my favourite names.

Regarding multiple occurrences of a given name in a group...

When school began this year, SonofV, "E", found that in three of his classes, there were other students also named "E". In one class, there were three of them.

He and his friends have this cute habit. When they're playing HALO on Xbox, and a party starts, when then enter the party, they often say "Marco" as in "Marco!" "Polo!" indicating "I'm here!". In the third class described above, when SonofV was called, he was the third "E", being toward the end of the alphabet for surnames, and he replied "Marco!". The teacher looked up to see which face belonged to *this* "E" and carried on with the roll call.

As he left the class, he looked at the teacher's seating chart and where his name was on the diagram, he saw "E" and (Marco) in parenthesis. Now he's Marco. :p:

I just learnt this the other day:

Back in the thirties, my g-mother & g-father were sitting at the kitchen table when my g-father said "Quick, give me a pencil!" She did, and he wrote a word across the newspaper he was reading, and announced "This is what we'll name our first son."

The word was 'Cosmorauder'. They didn't name their first son that.

She says she still has the newspaper.

Did they have a dog named g-spot?

No, he was always pissing on something so they just called him g-whiz...



I came across this today:

At my school, Harry and Alex(ander) are the most popular boys' names, followed closely by James and William.

Caitlin in various spellings (sorry, as a purist it still bugs me), Emily and Jessica for girls.

Am happy say the names I assigned to my never-to-be-born are not common. I know only one Ruby, no Dorothys, no Felix, Oscars or Theodores and no Rose/ Rosemary/ Rosalynns.

There is an Emilia known as Mimi though - which I think is delightful.

Two Theodores in Hector's class, one Felix, one Rosalyn! :lol: And a Ruby in Thor's. Several other Rubys in other places. No Dorothys, three Oscars back in UK. Rose is more popular among the moms.

A friend of ours says that there are two types of names for girls: Supreme Court Justice names and Stripper names. I'm sure I wrote about the somewhere. I vaguely remember monster saying her irl name is a borderline one.

I remember that, foot.

monster's irl name is one of my fave names!

Ugh, I think I have a pron name. I don't know.

Ran across a student's name today: Uniqua.

I'd kill my parents.

You're gonna see more of them in the coming years; that's the name of a character in a very popular children's show.

This thing? But, but...it's PINK! What is it, like Ghetto Barney?

Shawnee, you do have a stripper's name IRL.
Do you know how embarrassing it is to send cards to Flappy Cunt at Christmas?

Monster - that's me pwned.
But only in the new world.
I'd have been okay here.

Flapping Cunt. That's my Native American name.

I knew it.
You're the new Billy Bass.

How did you catch her? Did unique up on her?

^ I don't know whether to give you a medal or a slap in the chops for that ^

slap!

Some dude in Egypt has just named his daughter Facebook.

:facepalm:

It's pronounced Fa-see-boo (the k is silent)

Uniqua - what a unique and horribly ugly name that is!

One of the girls at school is called Fa-SI-am-ee.
It's not spelt like that, I'm covering myself from searches.

I think it's a lovely name - I assume it is Afro/ Caribbean as she is black.
It's not weird per se. But it is unusual.

could you maybe spell it backwards for the curious? i'm thinking emae-caf no hyphen?

My name is exec dsscfv. Erffvxw.

thanks. thanks a lot. hot morning coffee out my nose and onto the puter screen.




good job!

I think she might be related to two-dogs-fucking.

We'd think you know by now not to drink anything while reading the forum. How many times have you splattered the computer monitor with liquids?? :eyebrow:

where;s that 10 foot pole again?? ah. here.

She's not been in my class - we know eachother through her siblings - so I've not seen it written down. I was being uber careful when trying to spell it, because if I lucked on the right one it would have been more easy to identify.

I will look it up and spell it backwards if you're interested. I am myself now.

I have many children cannon into me at lunchtime (I am on duty 12.30-13.10) and I only know half of their names. Black and Asian children are easier to identify purely because of their colouring/ rarity, but I find those that have been in my classes make a beeline for me.

Obviously some caucasian children do too, but given the numbers it's a smaller percentage. Fas has never been taught by me, but is related to children who have, and is friends with children in Craft Club (which I helped with before being employed). The family supports the school well, so she's seen me at school events too.

Same with hauqitra (reverse) and family. Technically I didn't know her sisters, but they live about 200 yards from me and were always together and always SO polite. One of her sisters gravely told me at Kids On The Catwalk that I was very cool. If you'd heard the offhand way she said it, you'd have lit up too.

My name in Navajo was translated to Gelka Sha Hay which is supposed to mean "My shit is falling"....... but actually translates to; "My shit stinks"

Either way it's correct.......:rolleyes:

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I just read the obit of one Beulah M. Conquergood.

When she does, I bet it smells like fresh baked pie.

There is or was (I've switched banks) a woman at the bank here whose name is 'Qualtine'

Living in a glass house, but......

There is a Zolan on Thor's Academic Games team. I can almost hear the movie trailer......

The Thor Wars continue....can our hero defeat the Mighty Zolan and his epic p-flubs?

Self-explanatory, I believe.

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I worked with a very insipid girl whose mother's maiden name was Grucock.
When we played the "what would your porn name be" one afternoon she was exceptionally reluctant.

Her first pets after all were two Guinea Pigs called Pinky and Perky.

you can't beat Dickens for, well, beating you over the head with symbolic names.
Professor Gradgrind, indeed!

How dumb does he think we are?

but I did hear of a Roman soldier once named Bigus Dickus.

His wife was called Incontinentia.

:)

Hawaii can't fit woman's last name on license
 

from AP, via YahooNews

This is one of those "penny wise, pound poor" issues of database programmers.

Back in the day, space was limited and programmers were mindful
to conserve it as much as they could. To wit: Y2K

But now the NSA has shown us that there is no limit to storage,
and anything of any length is possible.

Please to note his rank...

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Color me skeptical.

Ok, you're colored.

What do ya expect, with Velcro name tags?

Myself, I separated the humor out, and, just enjoyed that.

It's Captain, if ya didn't get that far.

Although we could doubt that, too, if you like.

Hell, it might not even be a guy, for all we know.

Could be a houseplant. Or a vaguely human-esque tumbleweed.

I've sometimes been mistaken for Warwick Hunt. And Warren Assol.

some people say that to me ;)

We used to pay a quarter at the Strawberry Festival to have them page "Mike Hunt." And we laughed and laughed. The old standard.