Weird names
There is lady I see on local TV from time to time and I just wonder what her parents were thinking when they named her VAJOYA? :eyebrow: Is that a common name? I don't think I have ever heard of it before.
I think what happened is: when the baby was born, the dad (a sheltered chap) was watching and said Ohmigod, it's coming out of her vajayjay; and by a series of mad coincidences and equally mad misunderstandings, she ended up with the name Vajoya.
According to a TV show, there is a kid getting about whose name is pronounced Absidee ... but spelled Abcde.
Child abuse, this is.
Here we go again... count down to the lemonjello anecdote..... ;) :lol:
That's as bad as Female, pronounced f'mall-ay.
My sis had a client named Placenta. And I've run across several LaTrina's..
If they named the baby Placenta, what did they do with the ... oh ohh.
I even posted a link to the local obit of an infant whose mother was named Felony....
Probably suited her better than Prudence or Charity.
Eena mel (Enamel)
Let's not forget Mr. and Mrs. Asswipe Johnson (It's Pronounced Ahhz Wee Pay!)
I deal with a lot of stupid names. The last one that gave me pause was so stupid I had to check the insurance company's website to make sure that there were really TWO apostrophes involved.
Unfortunately the name is sufficiently distinctive that I am not able to reproduce it here. But the pattern was something like ... Shaw'wannaL'yesha. Yes, with a capital letter where it didn't belong, too.
Had to reduce the font size on the chart label to make it fit, and then just barely.
Rivaled only by the kid whose first name was that of a clothing designer, like TommyHilfiger Lefkowitz. Except it was more absurd that that.
La-Sha
Oh and the dash is NOT silent
So LaDasha
My ex had a cleaning woman and SHE had a daughter named Linoleum.
According to a TV show, there is a kid getting about whose name is pronounced Absidee ... but spelled Abcde.
Child abuse, this is.
I wanted to name our youngest "Qwerty" because it's easy to type.
It's not just a cultural thing. Look at Bob Geldof's kids' names: Fifi Trixibelle , Peaches Honeyblossom Michelle Charlotte Angel Vanessa Geldof, and Little Pixie. And what's with all the trendy suburban non-name names like Hunter, Shelby, Dakota, Madison, Brooklyn, etc? Ok, so they are actual words, but they're no more a name than Linoleum is.
La-Sha
Oh and the dash is NOT silent
So LaDasha
I wonder if she is a descendant of LaDiDa?
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.
I suspect you already know that isn't the real names of these folk!
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/familyphoto.aspMy 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.
I like Rhianne. Why were you named that if your mother hated it?
It was a Grandmother's name, my Dad liked it.
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!
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.
Riiiiiiight. :rolleyes:
[size=1]See, I don't believe you. That's why the eye-rolling emoticon.
And then spudcon fainted.[/size]
Maybe not weird, but...
Am I the only one who finds it annoying when somebody has two first names?
(John Johnson, Ron Paul, William Williamson, etc.)
My name is Yon Yonson
I live in Wisconsin
I work in a lumberyard there
Hey Chode, is your first name Dave?
Hey Chode, is your first name Dave?
No... that's an odd question.
My father's name, however, is "David." Does that help?
oh yes, it helps a lot. So was mine. does that scare you?
My dad was cursed with a terrible first name. So, his whole life even his parents called him by his nickname. That is what everyone who knows anything about him calls him.
Can you guess the nickname? :)
oh yes, it helps a lot. So was mine. does that scare you?
Terribly. :mg:
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Also: Noddy. What a name!
Oh come on, obviously it's Rumplestiltskin. Now, can I get back to my spinning wheel or what?
Rumplestiltskin
Rumplestiltskin
Rumplestiltskin
Candyman - Scary, and pervy.
On opposite sides, I have an uncle named LaVergne, and an uncle named Shirley. My g-mother's name is Willie. And I've worked with two different men named Marion.
Dude I know of legally changed his name to Wolfgang Von Dudenstein.
Dude I know of legally changed his name to Wolfgang Von Dudenstein.
Suuuuure.... Dude you know. Right. ;)
I remenber a school teacher named Ms LEBARS Odile. And I kid you not, she married a guy name Mr CROC Jean.
And on all official papers, she was referred as Mrs CROC Odile.
I swear it is NOT a joke on my part.
No need to say that, although she liked her husband very much, she preferred to go by her maiden name.
A college roommate kept laughing about her HS history teacher, Harry Dickie...
Riiiiiiight. :rolleyes:
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And then spudcon [COLOR=DarkRed]farted[/COLOR].[/SIZE]
Fixed it for ya. That's why I farted.
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.
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).
...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.
Oh, and a guy I know has these names in his family, all sisters, btw: Leota, Ioma, Lamonia.
Also four brothers whose names and nicknames run, from oldest to youngest: Mickey, Rickey, Dickie, & Goober.
Masculine-turned-feminine names.
Yeah, we get it, you wanted a boy... get over it, already! :p:
I wanted to name our youngest "Qwerty" because it's easy to type.
I hope cooler heads prevailed.
It's not just a cultural thing. Look at Bob Geldof's kids' names: Fifi Trixibelle , Peaches Honeyblossom Michelle Charlotte Angel Vanessa Geldof, and Little Pixie. And what's with all the trendy suburban non-name names like Hunter, Shelby, Dakota, Madison, Brooklyn, etc? Ok, so they are actual words, but they're no more a name than Linoleum is.
Mr. Geldof demonstrates how disadvantageous a disadvantageous given name can be.
I am waiting for the eventual manifestation of a little urban girl named -- Apostrophe. Even if her daddy goes around saying, "Yep, she was about that big when, etc."
"Homegrown country names," however pleasant the sounds strung together may be, do not suit my sense of the fitness of things. Every given name out there at least at one time actually meant something. Miscellaneous syllables do not.
Except maybe as and for Far Eastern car models. Being inanimate, they can't be hurt by it.
Except maybe as and for Far Eastern car models. Being inanimate, they can't be hurt by it.
Like
Harley.Not as weird as many mentioned, but I did know a lady called Desley.
Bless her, she had to spell her name and/ or tell the story of it every time she met someone new.
She once joked about wearing a badge which said "Yes, it is unusual"
Aha! A little internet research tells me it is popular in Australia - as a boy's name.
I always understood it to be a Welsh female name.
Names with similar statistics to Desley include Draco, Martian and Pakistan.
From here (
Baby Name Guesser)
So someone looked me up on teh Internets. And found someone with the same name as me with a very different spouse. And was horribly shocked when they met my husband.
Hello?? There are a kazillion people with my name... in India. And my surname is common, too. And guess what? A whole bunch of Indians have broadband.
Just because you've never met someone else with my name...
Yesterday on Wait-Wait-! Don't Tell Me! (radio show) a caller was named Patience Waite.
a-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
A woman who entered a pie baking contest on TV was called Rain Goettis (pronouced "Goddess") - I was instantly jealous and covet that awesome cool name. I don't know if she was born a Goettis or married into the tribe - either way, it's sooooo freakin' cool.
Shared an office with a guy surnamed Buckridge. Alas, when his parents divorced, his dad remarried a woman (with daughter) surnamed Buckeridge. Imagine trying to enroll one Buckridge (one E) and one Buckeridge (two Es) in anything. Tiresome.
President of my college - Seymor Hyman
Client at an old job - Delight Cox
Library patron at another old job - Ufuk
Another client at the same job as Ms. Cox - Lucky Wang
All real, named at birth names.
Buu Ea
pronounced boo- yah
booyah!
O.M.G. I can't believe I forgot this guy.
Herb Lord.
ETA: A few days ago I saw the name Wendy Beaver (Wendy is a Native American, btw). Now, in my neck of the woods, when we say 'Wendy', it comes out 'Windy'. I lol every time I say her name in my head: Windy Beaver.:lol2:
FWIW: I've read that the name Wendy is recorded nowhere in history before the story about Peter Pan.
I had a friend named Windy. Also one named Stormy, although they didn't know each other...
One of my kids has a friend called Marley Beaver. Poor thing.
I had a friend named Windy. Also one named Stormy, although they didn't know each other...
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.
FWIW: I've read that the name Wendy is recorded nowhere in history before the story about Peter Pan.
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.
FWIW: I've read that the name Wendy is recorded nowhere in history before the story about Peter Pan.
Nope.
J. M. Barrie did not invent the name Wendy for his 1904 play Peter Pan, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (the book form of the story, Peter and Wendy, was published in 1911). He did popularize it, though.
[...]
But we have absolute proof that there were earlier Wendys, thanks to the just-released 1880 U.S. Census and the 1881 British Census (available here). These documents show that the name Wendy, while not common, was indeed used in both the U.S. and Great Britain throughout the 1800s. I had no trouble finding twenty females with the first name Wendy in the United States, the earliest being Wendy Gram of Ohio (born in 1828). If you include such spelling variations as Windy, Wendi, Wenda, and Wandy the number triples.
Bill Lear, who invented the Lear Jet, named his daughter Shanda, as in Shanda Lear
She was a bright girl. It was so sad when she hung herself.
:sweat:you killed me with that one shaw :lol: :lol:
She was a bright girl. It was so sad when she hung herself.
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. :)
we have got this guy from South India working for us. He's named:
"Kinnera Srinivasa Ravishankara Kumara"
Better than Michael Bolton at least...
I rather enjoyed paging Mr Supakit Charnvanichborikoran at the library where I worked.
The Straight Dope says no, although they agree it gave a major popularity boost to what was a pretty uncommon name at the time.
Nope.
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.
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. :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.
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?
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.
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.
Ran across a student's name today: Uniqua.
I'd kill my parents.
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 ^
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.
Flapping Cunt. That's my Native American name.
thanks. thanks a lot. hot morning coffee out my nose and onto the puter screen.
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I think she might be related to two-dogs-fucking.
thanks. thanks a lot. hot morning coffee out my nose and onto the puter screen.
[COLOR="LemonChiffon"]good job![/COLOR]
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.could you maybe spell it backwards for the curious? i'm thinking emae-caf no hyphen?
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.
Flapping Cunt. That's my Native American name.
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.
:)
from
AP, via YahooNews
HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii woman's last name is a real mouthful, containing 36 characters and 19 syllables in all. And it's so long that she couldn't get a driver's license with her correct name.
Janice "Lokelani" Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele is in the midst of a fight with state and local officials to ensure that her full name gets listed on a license or ID card. Her name is pronounced: KAY'-ee-hah-nah-EE'-coo-COW'-ah-KAH'-hee-HOO'-lee-heh-eh-KAH'-how-NAH-eh-leh.
The documents only have room for 35 characters. Her name has 35 letters plus a mark used in the Hawaiian alphabet, called an okina.
So Hawaii County instead issued her driver's license and her state ID with the last letter of her name chopped off. And it omitted her first name.
The 54-year-old Big Island resident wrote her mayor and city councilwoman for help, but the county said the state of Hawaii computer system they used wouldn't allow names longer than 35 characters.
Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele got the name when she married her Hawaiian husband in 1992.
He used only the one name, which his grandfather gave him. The name came to his grandfather in a dream that also told him he would have a grandson.
Her husband died in 2008, but he had similar problems when he was alive, she told The Associated Press.
The name has layers of meanings. One, she said, is "When there is chaos and confusion, you are one that will stand up and get people to focus in one direction and come out of the chaos." It also references the origins of her and her husband's family.
Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele was compelled to bring attention to the issue after a policeman last month gave her a hard time about her driver's license when he pulled her over for a traffic stop. She wrote Honolulu television station KHON for help, and her story started getting more attention.
"I said wait a minute, this is not my fault. This is the county's fault that I don't have an ID that has my name correctly," she said.
The police officer suggested she could use her maiden name.
"I said, how disrespectful to the Hawaiian people because there's a lot of meaning behind this name. I've had this name for over 20 years. I had to grow into this name. It's very deep spiritual path," she said.
Caroline Sluyter, state Department of Transportation spokeswoman, said Thursday the state is working to increase space for names on driver's licenses and ID cards.
By the end of the year, the cards will allow 40 characters for first and last names and 35 characters for middle names, she said.
Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele, who practices shoreline fishing in the Hawaiian tradition as a profession, said she's happy the publicity about her situation has prompted many people to have badly needed discussions.
"If you're going to require people to have picture IDs to identify them, they have to be correct," she said.
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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Ok, you're colored.
What do ya expect, with Velcro name tags?
Myself, I separated the humor out, and, just enjoyed that.
Please to note his rank...
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.
has anyone heard, is Mike Hunt still in contact with Jenny Talia?
Yeah, I think this qualifies.
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Is it me, or, does he look like a young Jet Li?
Rly?
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Yes really.
About 11,300 results (0.39 seconds)
Or he doesn't want his mom to know he's playing pro and not in law school. :haha:
Just sold glasses to Douglas Kirk
Looks great in the phone book!
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I wonder if the burglary charge has dampened his normally sunny disposition.
Bud Beiber is more like it. Fag.
Bud Beiber is more like it. Fag.
What do you mean by "Fag."?
I don't think Mr. Weisser (post #131) meets Jim's criteria for manliness.
Or Jim's gay for Beiberhair.
IDK.
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Hehehe. Louis is hilarious. America's finest standup comedian.
I started typing up odd quotes from the vid but then realised I was wanting to quote the entire thing - and like - you've already done that.....
Somewhat embarrassingly, Gwynne Shotwell, President and Chief Operating Officer
announced today's (6/28/15) SpaceX rocket not well shot.
In the same vein,
Lee Bright, State Senator (R) in South Carolina, shows his BINO (Bright In Name Only) credentials in this fiery speech on the floor of the senate chamber to open the debate on the subject of removing the Confederate Battle Flag.
He doesn't talk much about the flag, but he does preach about gay marriage. Bright is not bright.
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look at the sword appearing to protrude from the speaker's left shoulder in the still from the video
WOW.
Sorry to be so naive, but I had no idea that an elected official in the Senate could actually stand up and talk about sin, God, the Devil and "deviant" behaviour regarding gay marriage. I really didn't realise.
Preachers, council officials, African leaders (not being racist, but homophobia is rife in African politics), Russians (ditto). But this is America. Y'all have laws against this kind of thing. You taught the world about acceptance of the individual.
I guess it swings both ways. And I don't mean Lee Bright.
Yes but one of the most important laws we have is free speech.. even for assholes.
When I wrote "could" I meant it in the context of "could actually hold those views and say them and not be hounded/ laughed at/ pilloried/ immediately removed from public office by popular opinion".
Although your response would still apply.
I suppose the best test of a liberal/ truly democratic attitude (both terms used in the wider sense) is listening to someone trash your opinions and not acting on the urge to suppress them.
STATE Senate it is, which means that he was elected in a legislative district that is 1/46th of South Carolina, or about 90,000 voters. State senators and representatives can be counted on to deliver this sort of crap and is always why they don't graduate to higher office.
Ah, thank you.
I wondered why it didn't seem as grand as I always pictured the Senate.
While everything UT said was true, that should not construed to mean that shit doesn't go on at a federal level also.
It's no accident that the only two professions where the person's spouse is as much a fixture as the person themselves are pastor and politician.
...free speech.. even for assholes.
In fact, I think that's exactly how it's worded.
Should be.
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Screw you guys, I'm outta here. 'Bout to get mah drank on.:drunk:
Later taters.
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Limberbutt McCubbins
A candidate for president. :facepalm:
Let’s get two things straight about next year’s presidential election. The first is, quit whining about all those Republican candidates. Seventeen is nothing – there are already at least 459 officially registered presidential candidates. (A couple more could have signed up in the time it took you to read this sentence.) And second, not one more word about how everybody who’s running sounds the same. Are you kidding? You can vote for an anarchist or a socialist or a prohibitionist, a vermin (really, that’s his name, Vermin Supreme) or even a deity. You can vote for a cat. (Slogan: “The time is meeow!”)
“We’ve certainly heard from an ample number of candidates from a broad political spectrum,” agrees Christian Hilland, a spokesman for the Federal Election Commission. These are determinedly diplomatic words from a guy who spends his days sorting through paperwork filed by candidates whose platforms include stuff like giving every American a free pony and turning Alcatraz Island into a temple of New Age music and light shows.
Sifting through the presidential declarations filed with the FEC is a rewarding journey through, depending on how you see it, either the richness of American political diversity or the crumbling fault lines of American mental health.
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COULDA gone in the 2016 Elections thread, but... not really.
More at the link.
You can vote for a cat. (Slogan: “The time is meeow!”)
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I kid you not... one of the divers at tonight's meet was called Trunks. That was his FIRST NAME.
Trunks Levueuve or something like that. Apparently it wasn't his given name at birth, but they changed it when he was very young and it is his legal name.
I'd love to know the backstory that caused them decide to make that change.
Maybe something along these lines:
What do you think of the name Trunks for a baby boy?
Dragon Ball: 15 Things You Didn’t Know About Trunks
Toriyama continued this pattern with Bulma’s family, where, odly enough, every character has a name pertaining to underwear. The name Bulma is a play on the Japanese pronuncation of “bloomers”, her older sister is named Tights, and her father’s name is Dr. Brief. That’s right, their family name is Brief. It sounds silly to say that Trunks is just a synonym for boxers, but it still beats the name given to his sister. The daughter of Vegeta and Bulma is named Bulla, which translates to bra.
A former state senator from South Carolina died Mar 6.
His name was
Tom Turnipseed.