How many people in your family thought it might be clever to name their child "Jack"?
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Having grown to manhood bearing a first name that is also the name of a candybar and the first half of the name of a cartoon cat, let me tell you: it is a dangerous game you play, for in those years, the man with the mockable name has heard every possible play-on-words involving his name multiple times, and has spent innumerable hours in thought perfecting every possible comeback.
Try having a name that when you tell people they think you joking or lying to them.
My name reminds folks of window dressings, spurring the inevitable: 'Hang around' or 'It's curtains for you!' and to add insult to indignity, everyone spells it wrong!
THERE AIN'T NO 'A' IN MY LAST NAME!
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My name reminds folks of window dressings, spurring the inevitable: 'Hang around' or 'It's curtains for you!' and to add insult to indignity, everyone spells it wrong!
THERE AIN'T NO 'A' IN MY LAST NAME!
Could always be worse...
I went to school with a Lacy Sheets. That boy had issues
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Try growing up with a first name that gets turned into a dog breed ("Dain" -> "Great Dane") ... that's if it is heard correctly ... over the years, I've also learned to answer to "Dave", "Dan", "Dean", "Dale", etc. Still disturbs me when my name gets turned into "Dana" ... damn those X-Files!!!!!! ;)
My name reminds folks of window dressings, spurring the inevitable: 'Hang around' or 'It's curtains for you!' and to add insult to indignity, everyone spells it wrong!
THERE AIN'T NO 'A' IN MY LAST NAME!
Could always be worse...
I went to school with a Lacy Sheets. That boy had issues
I should wonder why?
I knew a Wendy Darling in college.
I've also known several people who went by their middle name because they hated their first name so much.
I also have people doubt me when I tell them my name, but at least it's unique.
- Ashavan
I myself had the fun of being named Shannon, where everytime ya went anywhere people always ask, where is she or no sir, we need to speak to your wife...sigh
Also I have a cousin who named his poor, poor child heavenly rain, He has set that child up with a fine name for a porn star, stripper or scented candle
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I myself had the fun of being named Shannon, where everytime ya went anywhere people always ask, where is she or no sir, we need to speak to your wife...sigh
Also I have a cousin who named his poor, poor child heavenly rain, He has set that child up with a fine name for a porn star, stripper or scented candle
I had the ignominy of being named Brooks as my birth name. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania? No problem. Moving to Austin, Texas in the mid 80's? Big problems. I quickly moved to my middle name, Robert.
Decades later, things really just hit the fan and I get to PICK my name. Mikhaila Danielle Burnett.
Just call me M, it's easier.
I like the name Mikhaila, and really I don't mind my name now days...so hard to get folks to understand it was a male name to start with anyhow. But when I was in school I had to "teach" a few the hard way
Did he roast your chestnuts, or just nip your nose a little?
A Lawyer? Definitely "Roasting Chestnuts."
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I like the name Mikhaila, and really I don't mind my name now days...so hard to get folks to understand it was a male name to start with anyhow. But when I was in school I had to "teach" a few the hard way
Thank you. I've started having to just use nicknames as no one can hear it and spell it, or see it and say it. Fluffing annoying.
And yeah, I took my share of lessons in the 'don't be different' department. I was the proverbial runt of the litter and was 4'6 until I was 16.
I work with a girl named Candace Sweet. Its her married name so at least the parents aren't to blame.
Some nice german once:
Pornschlegel (thats porn-drumstick in english)
Dr. Hubertus Muckenhirn (Dr. Midgebrain)
Biertümpel (Beer-pond)
Georg Georg (First and last name)
and an Italian with the beautiful name: Mario Vulcano
and a female with the last name Maggy Geil (Maggy Horny)
Biertümpel (Beer-pond)
Heh heh . Yoinked ...
Places in 'possible Dwarven names' file
I met a guy named Thorin once. I began to ask, "Oh, like the character..." The look he gave me let me know in no uncertain terms that if I finished that sentence I was dead to him. And I wouldn't even think Thorin in one of the more popular "hey, let's name our kid after this guy" names.
One of my best friends in high school had the last name of Pfau (rhymes with "how", the p is silent). Not one anglo he ever met got it right the first time.
I feel for y'all with the odd/unique/punnable names. Of course, this is coming from a high school English teacher who named his last daughter Juliette...
This is almost too remarkable to be true.
I remember reading through the high school baseball box scores spring of my junior year in high school and I saw the most surprising name listed in the box score of a Raceland High School ball game. Mike Hunt.
Yes, it is true. That was over 22 years ago and I still remember it. Wait, maybe I shouldn't have let that last bit of information slip... :-)
I feel for y'all with the odd/unique/punnable names. Of course, this is coming from a high school English teacher who named his last daughter Juliette...
Evil.
I feel for y'all with the odd/unique/punnable names. Of course, this is coming from a high school English teacher who named his last daughter Juliette...Evil.
It would be more disturbing if he had a son named Romeo also.
Evil.It would be more disturbing if he had a son named Romeo also.
Even I'm not that evil.
Even Evil has standards.
Even Evil has standards.
"Since when? I did not get the memo!"
Even Evil has standards."Since when? I did not get the memo!"
Here is an example of "Even Evil has Standards."
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Whack, whack, whack!
I have a friend named Richard Beever. We call him Dick.
Many years ago my co-worker had to show me this name in the phonebook:
Good, B.J.
She lived on
And I'm not kidding. He's a great Doctor. Not a gynecologist if that was what you're thinking. Fate missed the punchine I guess.
Many years ago my co-worker had to show me this name in the phonebook:
Good, B.J.
She lived on
** spoiler omitted **
Oh gods thats so damned funny
lol
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I met a guy named Thorin once. I began to ask, "Oh, like the character..." The look he gave me let me know in no uncertain terms that if I finished that sentence I was dead to him. And I wouldn't even think Thorin in one of the more popular "hey, let's name our kid after this guy" names.
Met a guy named Torgar Torgarsson once. He was from Texas.
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John Thomas.
That's all I have to say.
I know a guy named Peter Johnson.
My brother-in-law was this close to naming his (yet-to-be-born) daughter Daytona Max (destined to be a NASCAR driver apparently). Now he's changed it to something "elven". *Sigh* I worry for that kid.
Myself, I apparently have the same name as a semi-famous comic book artist.
My wife is pregnant. When we were discussing baby names, I said how I'd always liked "Malcolm" for a boy's name, and she said she'd always liked "Zoe" for a girl's name. And then we realized. Mal and Zoe. There's no way we're going to be able to convince people that we didn't choose those names because of Firefly. >.<
Met a guy named Torgar Torgarsson once. He was from Texas.
I never realized the Ulfen made it as far south as Texas.
Warning: The following anecdote is rated PG-13, for suggestive hyphenated naming.
One of my best friends went to high school with a girl who had the most unfortunate hyphenated last name I've ever heard. Her name was Mary Gibbs-Head. I didn't believe him until he pulled out one of his old yearbooks and showed me. Poor girl.
How many people in your family thought it might be clever to name their child "Jack"?
What an incredibly bizarre question.
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At the grad school I work at, one of the profs is named Duke Stump. His wife, who decided not to take his last name (he doesn't blame her), has the last name Supple. Their kids are Supple-Stumps.
The guy with the official "Coolest Name in Town" (as declared by our local AM radio station) is named Konstantine von Kruzenstern (sp?).