My sister dated (and I worked with) Michael Hunt. Who did go by the name Mike.
I never considered the impact of both names together until I heard it as a joke later. Well I was 14-15 at the time.

And I knew a Richard Head through work - he was my contact in a local council. As far as I know, no-one knew him as Dick though.

I am quite happy to accept that there are plenty of parents like Mike's and Richard's who don't realise the combination of names might be amusing or ribald, especially where abbreviations are concerned.

We used to pay a dollar each time to have them page Mike Hunt at the Strawberry Festival each summer. We yukked it up! The paging fee was, I'm sure, to discourage such shenanigans. Good times.

We need a support group!

i really did go to school with Sherman and his sister Septa. And yes, their last name really was Tank. No Joke.

I also went to school with James Bond, Raquel Welch, John Carson, and Gerry Ford.

There was obviously something in the water the year we were born.

oh don't be silly. I particularly like the medical terms ones. I really personally did see an obit in the Ann Arbor News a few months back where the bereaved mother (of a young child :( ) was called Felony.

And there was a research fellow called Randy Dong in the Psych dept when I was doing my PhD. In the UK no-one uses the name Randy and it means only one thing....

But I'd still read their resumes. ;)

yep! In fact, if a resume crossed my desk for Randy Dong . . . well, let's just say I'd give it a thorough perusal.

eff that. they'd totally be disruptive and stuff.

yeah, and people would laugh at you for hiring them!

"Randy" is a pretty common name in the States, though. It's not automatically associated with randy meaning horny. Now, if there was someone named "Horny Dong" . . . (rolls eyes)

:)

There was a local band (a good band I liked to go see) named Who's Randy? Some locals didn't get it, and really wanted to guess which band member was named Randy. None of them were.

I do run across some fun ones on our insureds policies... Gay Shoemaker was one of my favorites. And today I saw someone with the last name Assmann.

He was Chinese, and they usually take "English" names when they come to study/research in the UK, but The Chinese Official List of English Names appears actually to be an American English list. Many of them pick Chuck, which is also not used much in the UK. Especially for girls ;)

I see some great names come across my computer/desk. However, I am forbidden by FERPA law to tell you them. :tinfoil:

I had a lot of engineering students called "Sukdeep". Beautiful intelligent, quiet young ladies. Common Indian name, apparently. Shame about the juvenile humor moments that overcame me when grading their papers. But I still graded them ;)

and then there are place names. Like Phucket, which gets me every time.

Actually it got a lot of people a couple Christmaseseses's ago. My sister was there when the Tsunami hit.

Is that the same sister that died in the WTC? She sure doesn't have much luck. I see why you take separate vacations.

I've met a Sukdeep. And yes, she was also beautiful, intelligent and shy. And I've met two Preti's (sorry for the greengrocers' apostrophe but you'll read it wrong otherwise, it's pronounced Pretty) who were fat & obnoxious.

And a Celeste who who as noisy and crude as they come, and a Seraphina who wasn't much better.

I didn't read their resumes. But I would, if I could ;)

It was her twin. Now you can see why it is such a sensitive subject for our family. thanks for rubbing salt in that wound.

actually my sister literally was in Phuket in a beachfront hotel when the tsunami hit. well her stuff was. She was on an elephant excursion on the mountain looking at the waves come in. yes, seriously.

Yikes! Was she able to recover any of her stuff?

nah, her stuff was pretty much toast. What she did recover she left there for the survivors when she was able to leave the island - except her camera of course.

Well, in Radar's defense, I just received an email from Miss Fatou Labi, and she's from Nigeria, and wants me to manage millions of dollars for her. But I'm not doing it, because her name is funny.:rolleyes:

my ex sis-in-law named her baby girl Amanda Lynn. A mandolin.

Any pics available Lookout?
Not in a ghoulish way, just looking for a personal perspective.

The tsunami touched many people here because it's such a popular holiday/ gap year destination. I knew many people who knew people who were there, or had been there previously themselves. Luckily they were all safe.

Call me naive, but how is someone's name going to affect their chances of employment? Unless it's grossly inappropriate, a name is a name. I get tired of meeting Ashleys and Johns.

Gak! don't get him started again!

Actually, I took a class in Consumer Behaviors a little over a year ago, and we did discuss the fact that in the U.S., the Michaels and Marys of the world are a HELL of a lot more likely to get the job than anyone named Laquisha or Tyrone. Maybe we don't like to hear it, but it's true of us as a culture that we are "name biased." Maybe it's helpful that the Condy Rices of the world are getting somewhere, though.

Bad Names
 

At lunch today we were talking about the strange names the kids have in the black community we are in. The kids can't even pronounce each others names with ease. Twins are given names that match like Zavier and Zaviea, Ranesiaha and Rakesaha,.,,not spelled right i am sure.

The worse one that came up is a three year old with the name Eurea. Do the parents not look up what a name means? The seem to think they can add a letter to it and change it. I feel sorry for these kids when they get older.

Freshman year, instead of going to north thailand or other places in asia, i went on a school trip to bang sak, just north of Phuket, to help build the "Raj Pratchanuklok 35" school and generally assist with the even-still-ongoing reconstruction and aid efforts.

when she came home to visit a few months later she showed us a few after pics. no during pics. not too much though, sad isn't really her thing. she had a bazillion pics from her jaunt to madagascar though. that happy fun thing is more her area of expertise.

I think it better to ignore an applicant's name and focus on the person's astrological sign. Anyone who said they were a Capricorn would get preferred hiring status, once I figured out if it really was a Capricorn, I mean. ;)

From ABC News Online (Australia):
Biblical to bizarre: American baby names run the gamut

JaMarcus? WTF?

REGISTRAR'S OFFICE
Registrar: "What is the baby's name?"
Mother: "James"
Registrar: <clickety> <clickety> ...
Father: "No, we agreed on Marcus"
Mother: "Yes, Marcus"
Registrar: <backspace> <backspace> <clickety> <clickety> <clickety> <clickety> <clickety> <clickety>

TWO WEEKS LATER
Mother: "What the hell? Damn computer has called our son JaMarcus!"

MEANWHILE, AT THE REGISTRAR'S OFFICE:
IT Guy: "Here's your new keyboard"
Registrar: "Thanks. I've been having trouble with the backspace key for weeks."

:lol:

NZ judge backs girl over 'embarrassing' name
 

From here:
Murfitt - that's funny name.

They could have had a, Vee Eight.:smack:

I met a guy whose real name is Shelby Ford

I've actually always resented my parents for giving me a common name -- Maria. (The year that Carlos Santana's "Maria Maria" came out was a disaster.) I go by Mia, now, and am hoping to change it legally in a few years, once I've settled into my married last name.

Anyway, on the "horrible names" front, one of my cousins is named Justus (pronounced Justice, except my grandparents usually call him Eustice.) His parents find it amusing that every time he eats "Justus is served." Justus's little brother is named Dante'. I asked my aunt why the apostrophe was there, and she just said it "looked nice." :rolleyes:

On the other side fo the family, parents Jay and Teresa named one of their sons Jayson, another Terrence, and their little girl is named Jareesa.

My cousin named her little girl Alyssa (i think i spell it wrong even though she's 5). I find it cruel because I'm always thinking people are calling to me (Melissa), then feel stupid because I answer, and then feel sad because no one does wants to talk to me. :lurker:

now THAT deserves more than a simple rolling of the eyes. geez. Not only cruel namage, but flagrant abuse of punctuation.

Grammar nazi?

better than grammar torturer.

They wouldn't be fans of Lord of the Rings, would they?

Dante isn't cruel nameage.
I've known two Dantes. It's a perfectly acceptable Italian name.

The apostrophe is abhorrent of course.

I don't think so, I think they're just a little weird with their naming. Their first son, who I failed so mention, is named Niño -- as in "boy." He goes by Nino, now.

I thought the name itself was all right, though I don't think it quite "fits" the baby. The apostrophe is just... awful. Most of the family leaves it off in writing, and I imagine little Dante' will as well, when he gets older.

'xactly.

Yea. Me and my friend are arguing about naming her baby after a star trek character, after she made the gaffe of giving it a muslim name. I will leave the names out to protect the innocent. (me) (from her)

Pilau's brother is called Dante (aka Dan, Dan-the-man, Big Brother Dan and Dante-burger).


When I was a kid I hated my name (Danielle). I hated how it sounded in the bolton accent. Also, it wasn't a name you heard much back then, and anything unusual is hateful at that age :P I always envied two of my friends at primary school: Colette and Fiona. They sounded delicate and feminine but cool. Danielle sounded too round and clumsy to me.


Of course nowadays I hear that name everywhere.

I had to laugh... a friend from Brooklyn, NY, named Phyllis, always wanted to be Danielle. Maybe it's the accent thing, but it could be the, greener on the other side, thing too. ;)

I have a friend named Dan who wants to be Danielle, too.

Surely if she didn't know it was a name Muslim parents gave their children then other people wouldn't know either? I might just be reading it wrong (I don't know the name after all) but it hardly sounds like a gaffe to me. I know a couple of white women called Aisha. That's an acceptable Muslim name.

Well it sounds like a gaffe to me, especially when my friend is not muslim, and doesn't want to be stopped with her baby in airports trying to get on planes. Other people do know. There are large databases with names in them. Just because she doesn't know something doesn't mean other people don't. And too often they think they know something that they don't as well.

Aisha is a nice name. I've known a couple of them and neither were Muslim.

Aisha is a nice name....I haven't known any.

:eek:

racist/religionist much?

lol! Yea I think it's a gaffe. I don't want my friend's baby to get stopped at the airport trying to come and see me. mmmm'kay? And I have every right to think so. Look at the undue speculation at obama right now. Don't name your kid Hussein. I have no issue with Muslims outside of their hatred of women (which is not exclusive of just Muslims),written right inside of the Koran, which I read. So get off your trip. I will check any name against the watch list if I damn well choose.

The fact that I am scared of the name being Muslim because of my country more than theirs, says a whole lot.

mmkay.

Now this is giving me bizarre images.

Airport security: You're free to go, but your child will need to submit to questioning.

In stark, white interview room, somewhere deep in the bowels of the airport:

Airport security: How long have you been a Muslim?
Friend's baby: Da da. Goo goo goo.
Airport security: Have you been to Pakistan or Afghanistan lately?
Friends baby: Puts fist in mouth. Drools on fist. mm mm. Da da. Giggles and smiles
Airport security: Holds up picture of Osama Bin Laden Do you know this man?
Friend's baby: da da goo.
Airport security: Are you saying this is your father?
Friend's baby: ga ga goo goo.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...terrorist.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/09...s-detains.html

ga gaa TSA.

Aisha has been a popular black girl name ever since the Stevie Wonder song. I don't think it'll raise a lot of red flags at this point.

Aisha isn't the name of her friend's kid, that was just mentioned at some point as a name which is sort of Muslim but widely accepted.

Both your links are about children being detained at airports because their names match those on security lists. The first happens to be a Muslim name. Yes it's ridiculous - I'm not defending it - but his name was the same as a deported man who was not allowed to enter the country again. That's just bad luck. Unless your friend also has a Muslim surname I'm pretty sure her child won't have the same bad luck. Then again I worked with a woman who called her daughter Rosemary. Lovely name. Her surname was West - I'm no longer in contact with her, but she probably regrets the name slightly now. Just bad luck.