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RX Reven'
RX Reven' GRM+ Memberand Reader
10/8/09 10:50 a.m.

What probably happened was the mother overheard the doctors saying stuff like…oh, I think I see Chlamydia, do you see Chlamydia…yep, yep, that’s definitely Chlamydia down there…and the mother thought naming the kid was part of the service.

GameboyRMH
GameboyRMH GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
10/8/09 10:50 a.m.

Another tip for parents: When trying to give your child a unique name, say out loud in a gruff sci-fi villain voice: "I AM (NAME), DESTROYER OF WORLDS!" If the apostrophe in the name didn't tell you you were DOING IT WRONG, this should.

petegossett
petegossett GRM+ Memberand Dork
10/8/09 11:04 a.m.

I just dealt with a woman named Judythe, of course all I could think of is "Judy the what???"

I have a customer named Sandy Street, I've been tempted to ask her if she really had to think about agreeing to marry her husband...

I just noticed a high-school science teacher with the last name Pusey. I'm sure it isn't pronounce that way, but maybe one of the qualifications of being a high-school teacher is a last name that won't be endlessly heckled and ridiculed by the students?

Keith
Keith GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
10/8/09 11:13 a.m.

A friend of mine named his son Jerrick Danger Wingerter. Big thumbs up for "Danger is my middle name - no really, it is, here's my driver's license", but seriously, Jerrick? You're going to give your kid a made-up name that's going to get turned into Jerk in about 5 minutes on the first day of school? I'm gonna say it was his wife's idea, she has that kind of mind.

Did you guys know that Per has a brother named Thor? How cool is that? You don't mess with Thor in the playground.

I wish my name worked in Gameboy's DESTROYER OF WORLDS test.

RX Reven'
RX Reven' GRM+ Memberand Reader
10/8/09 11:16 a.m.

My name is Joe DeWorte...now come boy, don't church it up, your name is Dirt, that's what your daddy named you, Dirt.

walterj
walterj Dork
10/8/09 11:32 a.m.
Per Schroeder wrote: I'm torn on this subject. My name is unusual for the land of the fat and plenty, but common in northern europe. So is my boy's. It's both helped and annoyed me, but I probably wouldn't be the same person if my name was Steve. Per (pronounced like a pair of shoes.)

Which ones? Crocs? :)

...sorry... had to...

cwh
cwh Dork
10/8/09 12:02 p.m.

I have a lot of customers in Trinidad, which is a very culturally diverse country. One young engineer is Shivanand Nandlal. Took a long time figuring out how to say that. Lindy Chu Chong is there too. Many more bizarre names there.

GameboyRMH
GameboyRMH GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
10/8/09 12:13 p.m.

Who was it on here that mentioned a boy by the name of Phoenix Skullcrusher Kellogg? I'll never forget that I don't know how that will go later in life, but it's gonna rock at least up to college level

grinch77
grinch77 Reader
10/8/09 12:23 p.m.

My dad had a friend in high school named Rusty Butts that had to suck.

Autolex
Autolex HalfDork
10/8/09 12:26 p.m.

My momma was an ER nurse for a while, then a pediatrics nurse for a while... she had a whole list of them....but this one is EASILY the best I have ever heard.

This lady was doped up when she got off the ambulance, (in labor) Mary King was HER name... they wheeled her in the er doors and down the hall... high as berkeley on morphine...

Guess what she named her kid?

Nosmo....

after a sign she saw on the way in the door.... (I am sure you can figger out what the sign was.)

She now works as a risk manager for a large hospital... she had a lady with two kids come in to file a complaint about her hostpital stay. The kids were really nice and calm, until she asked them their names; one named E'Eshawne and the other named Lizashqua. everyone in the office was busting up lauging...

(talk about inventive naming conventions!)

monark192
monark192 New Reader
10/8/09 12:45 p.m.

There was an Allistair Dick at my high school - in the formal convention of PA annoucments it meant that "Will A Dick please report to....." was sometimes heard over the school speakers.

DustoffDave
DustoffDave Reader
10/8/09 1:09 p.m.

I have a Vietnamese friend who's name is Phuc Dang. Needless to say he prefers his Americanized name of Mike.

A friend of mine's last name is Back and he always gets a rise out of his wife when he jokes that he's gonna name a future son Harry or a future daughter Eileen.

spdracer315
spdracer315 Reader
10/8/09 1:17 p.m.

I have a good friends whos last name is "Stonebreaker" Now, you need to be a tough guy with that last name like that.

RossD
RossD HalfDork
10/8/09 1:28 p.m.

I went to high school with a lot of Hmongs and one family had cool names. Two of their sons were named Goodson and Newlife. We called Goodson, "Goodie".

mad_machine
mad_machine GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
10/8/09 1:36 p.m.

Friend of mine has the middle name of "woodstock". He was named for where he was conceived, not after the bird from Peanuts.

It does not help that both his parents had taken the BAD acid while at that concert

16vCorey
16vCorey SuperDork
10/8/09 1:55 p.m.
GameboyRMH wrote: Who was it on here that mentioned a boy by the name of Phoenix Skullcrusher Kellogg? I'll never forget that I don't know how that will go later in life, but it's gonna rock at least up to college level

Yep, that's my friend Kyle's son. He's five or so right now, and he is a bad ass.

stuart in mn
stuart in mn SuperDork
10/8/09 2:16 p.m.
slantvaliant wrote: I had a co-worker named Bruce. HIs middle name was Wayne. Care to guess the middle name of his brother Clark?

I went to high school with a guy named Clark Kent. He was mild-mannered and wore horn rim glasses.

Wally
Wally GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
10/8/09 2:20 p.m.
alex wrote: Funny, here I thought all those...performers...had stage names. Turns out, some of 'em are destined for the pole when they're born. '...aaaand over on stage three, it's Candaaaay.'

That's my mom's name. I met a guy at a car show a few years back. His daughters were named Toni and Jackie Stewart.

Keith
Keith GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
10/8/09 2:49 p.m.

A friend of mine has the last name Martins. When she was pregnant, I suggested naming her kid either Doc or Aston. Unfortunately, it was a girl.

16vCorey
16vCorey SuperDork
10/8/09 3:32 p.m.

Another friend of mine has the middle name "Wiley". Not as cool as Danger or Skullcrusher, but still pretty cool.

RossD
RossD HalfDork
10/8/09 3:46 p.m.

Robert S. Mcnamara's middle name was Strange.

oldsaw
oldsaw Reader
10/8/09 3:46 p.m.
Per Schroeder wrote: I'm torn on this subject. My name is unusual for the land of the fat and plenty, but common in northern europe. So is my boy's. It's both helped and annoyed me, but I probably wouldn't be the same person if my name was Steve. Per (pronounced like a pair of shoes.)

I know what you mean.

My first name is Steve and I wouldn't be the same person if my name was Per.

Dr. Hess
Dr. Hess SuperDork
10/8/09 3:58 p.m.

Don't forget Ima and Ura Hogg.

RexSeven
RexSeven Dork
10/8/09 4:09 p.m.

No mention of NASCAR driver Dick Trickle yet?

My ex-girlfriend was part Vietnamese. She had a cousin named Dung.

My best friend's last name is Condon. Yep, one letter off. His Army buddies call him "Rubber."

Keith
Keith GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
10/8/09 5:00 p.m.
RossD wrote: Robert S. Mcnamara's middle name was Strange.

Thelonious S. Monk's middle name was Sphere.

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