Whats in a Name?

Aquafina. Now that's a purdy name. I'll cut my own nuts off with a spork if there aren't at least 100 girls named "Cialis."

A guy I used to work with told me once when his wife (a nurse) worked in delivery, someone named their daughter Clamydia because she liked the sound of it and didn't know what it meant.

a couple that goes to out church has a daughter named "Allegra"

I'm not joking

Although my birth certificate says I'm Conrad Buchanan McNair, Junior, I've spent the last 53 years being called "Bucky", so I should likely refrain from throwing stones about names..

grtechguy wrote: a couple that goes to out church has a daughter named "Allegra" I'm not joking

Back in high school, I knew a girl named Allegra.

"Allegro" a musical term for "upbeat" or "happy". I think it's related to that.

Then there was Frank Zappa. He named his daughter Moon Unit and his son Dweezil. Joan Rivers made fun of his kid's names on her show (when she had one) and he really busted her ass hard over that.

I used to date a girl whose proper (given) name was Sunshine. It was on her drivers' license.

And the poor guy in the Columbia, SC phone book named Richard Head. 'Dick' is the common nickname for 'Richard'.

My proper name is Michael. That damn Life Cereal commercial ('He likes it! Hey Mikey!') still follows me to this day.

Stig Schroeder. Ya know, that has a nice ring to it. No kidding, I like it.

He will still have to fight for his lunch money, though.

Messed up parents, messed up kid.

My oldest sister has named her childern:

Hali, after Kelly Ripa's old soap character

John Micle, after his grand fathers(also suposedly OZZY's real name)

Sabatian, after Sabatian Bach of Skid Row

Datsun1500 wrote: And witha quick Google search we find these quotes. , but I actually know a set of twins named Orangejello & Lemonjello. They were born in the late 80's in Kansas City (to a US born, English speaking mom) & I met them while they were newborns in the hospital. ....In addition, there's a Lemonjello (luh-MON-jeh-lo) Wright who's currently living in the state of North Carolina... I remember several years ago my mother, a nurse at a childrens hospital, came home laughing hysterically. She told me of a hispanic couple that brought in their twin sons for surgery. The poor boys were in for years of teasing due to their very unusual names, Oranjello and Lemonjello. About 6 years ago I was the manager in a retail store (Sea Dream Leather in Richmond, VA) . I am not kidding in the least when I tell you that 2 customers named Lemmonjello and Orannjello put in layaways while I worked there. My social worker ex-mother-in-law swore she had Orangelo and Lemongelo as clients in rural Tennessee... One of my really good friends said that Ornajello and Lemonjello were patients at Children's Hospital of Michigan (Detroit) while she was there. Now you say they graduated in Georgia...... Urban Legend.

So, you're suggestion is that because it shows up on an internet search that it is an urban legend?

Whatever.

I would agree that it is unlikely there are 7 sets of such people. Is it possible there is one?

Your assertion appears to be that I am offering misleading information based on your Google searches.

I am simply offering information shared with me from a dear trusted friend who is a 15 year veteran teacher about her own students. Though I never met these people, I trust my source.

Your source is an internet search.

And your approach is offensive to both me and my friend.

Is it possible my info is incorrect? Sure, welcome to the internet.

Is it likely you are stepping on toes. Absolutely.

I've already said it could be life imitating art, and also admitted it was possible my info is incorrect, though I do trust my source.

This is obviously not sufficient for you. What is it you'd like me to say? I don't trust my friend?

If it is a win you are looking for, I concede. You win.

This is REALLY not an argument I feel like pursuing.

cwh wrote: Try being a Charles for 60 odd years. Worse is that my son is Charles and so is his son. Argggh.

Yes that can lead to all kinds of confusion. The only difference between my fathers name and mine was the middle name but the middle initial was the same (he was Otis and I am Owen).

Additionally we both use "Hal" as a nickname. Friends and neighbors always called him "Harold" and me "Hal". But outside of that group things always got mixed up.

On the bright side of things we could some time use that to our advantage. Shortly after I got my drivers license the state changed thier numbering system and our license numbers ended up being different in only one digit. Numerous tickets were nulled because one of us could prove that it couldn't possibily been him since he was at work at that time and had the time sheets to prove it.

AngryCorvair wrote:

16vCorey wrote: My friend Kyle's son is named Phoenix Skullcrusher Kellogg. No joke.

he's still gonna get called Frosted Flake and have to fight for his lunch money every day.

Well Kellogg is his last name, so there wasn't much they could do about that one. Out of all the names to get made fun of in school, that has to be one of the most intimidating. I don't think I'd mess with a kid named "Skullcrusher". And I know all about getting made fun of for a name, my last name is Krietenstein.

wlkelley3 wrote: A guy I used to work with told me once when his wife (a nurse) worked in delivery, someone named their daughter Clamydia because she liked the sound of it and didn't know what it meant.

I heard a similar story. Smacks of urban legend.

Poorly educated woman in labor sees a word in a hospital, thinks it looks exotic and would make a good name for her soon-to-be-born daughter. Asks the nurse how it's pronounced.

"Oh that's pronounced 'Guh-NOR-ea'..."

16vCorey wrote: My friend Kyle's son is named Phoenix Skullcrusher Kellogg. No joke.

Poopshovel, I think you're about to be out-rednecked!

On some talk show (Dr. Phil?) there was a mother who named her daughter Chlamydia, she "heard it somewhere" and thought it was "such a beatiful name"

Also if you're politically incorrect enough to laugh at pseudo-African names, you'd get a kick out of the the local newspaper's cutest-baby-photo competition. The ones I'll never forget are a brother and sister pair, Jakebo and Jakeba, but it's just a frickin' goldmine of comedy. Some of the names have so many apostrophes, they seem that they should be pronounced in Klingon, speaking of which, many of the names would also work nicely for a sci-fi villain. I do feel sorry for the children though.

I really don't mean anything racist by it, I just laugh my ass off when people give their children stupid names, although there is some added funny in people trying to make up names that sound like they're from another language and failing horribly. I deal with real African names fairly often, they're nothing like the things these parents make up.

Now hippie names...those are good. A cousin of mine marri- uh, "life partnered" a man who is named after a tree. I wish I could tell you which tree but I'd give away his identity. They had a son who is also named after a tree, but I must say it's a rather feminine tree name.

I've met two brothers named Jupiter (Just went by "Jay") and Sol. Hippie naming strikes again!

In high school I knew a guy named "Danise" (he said to pronounce it like "Da Knees")

I also laugh when parents name girls after the current chart-topping pop divas...women named Shakira are going to be a walking punch line in the future, with all the Britneys and Ashleys and Christinas laughing at them.

GameboyRMH wrote: I've met two brothers named Jupiter (Just went by "Jay") and Sol. Hippie naming strikes again!

I'm going to have to say that 'Jupiter' is not a hippie/sissy name. Jupiter=Zeus [Samuel L. Jackson] 'As in, shove a goddamn lightning bolt up your ass, Zeus!'[Samuel L.]

Sol... eh. Kinda hippie, but not stupid. If it were really hippie it would have been "Sunshine". At least Sol has some dignity.

I once meet a lady who had to change her last name, she showed me her fathers business card, it was Dichhoff.

Datsun1500 wrote: Here is the issue. My Wife has a friend who is a teacher also. She had a set of twins, with the same name, in first grade about 3 years ago. Here in Maryland. Would I trust her, yes. Do I think she is repeating a story, yes.

And the St. Louis, MO, public school records from the early '80s, because I heard the story there in 1987-88 from a friend's mother, who was a teacher in that system. I've heard it since then from another source - my kid's 3rd grade teacher here in Delaware.

svrex, nobody is calling you a liar. Certainly I'm not. I'm just saying it's way too good a story, heard from way too many places, to be true.

Now, on to some real names I know personally:

A dorm-mate of mine from college's middle name was "Fingulfin". I saw his driver's license myself.

When I was a kid, we went to the EAA Fly-In at Oshkosh. There I happened to meet Bill Lear of LearJet fame, and his daughter "Shanda".

My sister had a friend named "Ona-Kai-Lynn" for no reason we were ever able to discern, since both of her parents were from New Jersey.

A contractor I worked with on several houses named his first daughter "Aryan". Seems they thought they were naming her "Orion" after the constellation/star, and were confused about the spelling. That one's gonna leave a mark in today's world.

Oh, and the guy running the Baltimore County L&I department in the mid '90s was named Julius Cesarini.

MitchellC wrote: My greatest challenge is getting people to not call me Mitch.

Why, Mitch? What's wrong with that?

Zabasearch has a Peter and a Rae Lemonjello. And there's a Lemonjello Snarfblat living in Tempe, AZ. No Orangejello's.

Careful, Hess, or I'll send Obama on you.

Meanwhile, someone, somewhere in the mother country...

"Ay chap, I 'ear that yanks name their kids Randy of all things."

"Bloody 'ell! Milk in yer tea, mate?"

MitchellC wrote: Careful, Hess, or I'll send Obama on you. Meanwhile, someone, somewhere in the mother country... -- "Ay chap, I 'ear that yanks name their kids Randy of all things." "Bloody 'ell! Milk in yer tea, mate?"

Speaking of which, a few years ago when he was going for some kind of record and was all over the news, am I the only one that chuckled every time a news anchor said "Randy Johnson"?

Former head of the World Anti-Doping Agency is named Dick Pound.

Then there's the all time 'bad name' winner (loser?):

Dick Trickle.

I bet he had to constantly whoop ass all through school.

SVreX wrote: Former head of the World Anti-Doping Agency is named Dick Pound.

I know a guy named Richard Hair.

SVreX wrote: Former head of the World Anti-Doping Agency is named Dick Pound.

I worked with a civil engineer in Maryland named Richard Butt.