Weird names

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Except maybe as and for Far Eastern car models. Being inanimate, they can't be hurt by it.

Like Harley.

[Pete Zicato]

Originally Posted by Brianna

My ex had a cleaning woman and SHE had a daughter named Linoleum.

With a name like that, people are just gonna walk all over her.

[Glinda]

During my high school years, I briefly attended a private boarding school in Tennessee. The school had been there for ages, with the same southern families sending generations of kids there. Dunno what it is about the deep south, but there were some decidedly odd names:

McIntyre Bridges
Quintin Stimpson
Woody Johnson (really and truly)
Jet Tune and his brother Julian Tune
Holt Hall
Buzzy Wolfe
J. Hill (no name, just the letter) and his brother Moe Hill *snort*
Dickie Park
Casey Jones
Fay Binning (this was a guy)
Lep Andrews
Tuck Hord
Kendall Hayes and brother Knox Hayes
Forrest Ladd (goes by Frosty)
John Hurt (not THAT one!)
Alton Oschner
Hutch Carter
Crit Currie
Minos Fletcher
CHIP MONK!!
Perkins Trousdale
Sputt Hooper

In later years, I once met a young woman named Baretta, and I know a guy who goes by Putt (real name James).

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by Glinda

...I know a guy who goes by Putt (real name James).

Nicknames, I know a guy with the nickname "Tallywhacker". Even his mother calls him this. Knew a guy named Jerg.

[spudcon]

Washeteria?

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by spudcon

Washeteria?

(fake)

[monster]

I like interesting and unusual names. I think people need to be more creative. At camp this week, there were 5 boys named Alex and one girl -out of 100 kids. So when someone says something about "Alex", instead of immediately being able to picture the person and process the information, you had to ask which one. Two even had the same last name so we had to distinguish by grade.

If you create a new name, I think it's helpful if it's either already a word, or is something that's intuitive to spell, and something that isn't inapproriate like Vagina or Toiletbrush but beyond that, have fun! And maybe kid the kid a more normal middle name they can use if they treally don't like being unique.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by monster

I like interesting and unusual names. I think people need to be more creative. At camp this week, there were 5 boys named Alex and one girl -out of 100 kids. So when someone says something about "Alex", instead of immediately being able to picture the person and process the information, you had to ask which one. Two even had the same last name so we had to distinguish by grade.

If you create a new name, I think it's helpful if it's either already a word, or is something that's intuitive to spell, and something that isn't inapproriate like Vagina or Toiletbrush but beyond that, have fun! And maybe kid the kid a more normal middle name they can use if they treally don't like being unique.

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.

[Rhianne]

I suspect you already know that isn't the real names of these folk!

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/familyphoto.asp

[spudcon]

Originally Posted by Rhianne

I suspect you already know that isn't the real names of these folk!

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/familyphoto.asp

That's why the wink emoticon.

[Rhianne]

My name isn't all that unusual but my mother has hated it since I was little and refused to write it, even on school forms - especially with the 'h', she calls me "Ree". Most of my friends call me Annie.

[monster]

I like Rhianne. Why were you named that if your mother hated it?

[Rhianne]

It was a Grandmother's name, my Dad liked it.

[monster]

poor naming protocol there, sorry. But i still like the name.

Both parents should totally love the name, imo ...and don't name a kid after a relative -let them be their own person!

[Clodfobble]

Riiiiiiight.




See, I don't believe you. That's why the eye-rolling emoticon.





And then spudcon fainted.