[maxelson]

"Sven". Always loved that name. RIght up there with Oskar. I mean, yeah, so you go through a little crap in Jr High and your freshman year in HS... but, you know, when you hit college and your name is Sven or Oskar, honestly, who's cooler than you?

[daimoni]

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[denim]

Originally posted by GoGoReggieXPowars:
Some moron on that Utah Baby name site name a BOY "Estrus."

It could be worse. Imagine screwing a woman named that. You'd be a guy in Estrus.

[SimeyTheLimey]

Originally posted by denim:


It could be worse. Imagine screwing a woman named that. You'd be a guy in Estrus.

But only once a year, right?

[denim]

Originally posted by SimeyTheLimey:
But only once a year, right?

Depends on the species. Dogs and cats do it much more often, for instance.

[maxelson]

Originally posted by daimoni:


That's right. And my Oski is cool right now!

Yeah, that's right. Rub it in, Rastus...

[Tigerabbit]

Originally posted by denim:
Er, is it yours?

Umm, around here, a statement like that is grounds for justifiable homicide.

There's a junior at the OU Meteorology School named Stormi Weathers, or so I'm told. Supposedly, she has a sister named Sunni, but this part may-or-may-not be true. The guy telling me this was trying to convince me that the Weathers also have a son named Partly Cloudy, but I'm not buying it.

[GoGoReggieXPowars]

Gale Weathers was a character in the Scream movies.

I've heard about "Stormi Weathers" before, sounds like a typical urban legend.

[SimeyTheLimey]

Originally posted by denim:


Depends on the species. Dogs and cats do it much more often, for instance.

Not my cat. Snipped!

[thunderous_funker]

I worked with a guy named Harry Mount. He understandably went by Bill.

Couple of big families in northern Arizona had a big merger wedding. They are well known families but it was the first inter-marriage of the clans, AFAIK. Every paper bodly proclaimed the impending nuptials of the Schnebly-Shnerples. True story, I swear.

Girl in high school named Truly (first name) married a man with the surname Huish, thus becoming Truly Huish. Both names adverbs, how fun!

[Worst. Episode. Ever.]

Originally posted by GoGoReggieXPowars:
The lead actress on "Two Guys, A Girl, and a Pizza Place" is named Traylor. WTF?

My wife's maiden name and my son's middle name is Traylor.

It is a fairly unusual name, and one that is constantly mistaken for Taylor, Tailor, etc, which peeves my wife to no end.

[xi_hyperon]

I used to work with a lady whose granddaughter's name is Pebbles. That's not a nickname, it's her legal name.

Currently I work with a Richard Cox. We always joke that he's got the perfect name if he were in the porn business.

[bighill]

A friend of mine has a boy in his high school music class named Tarnch. Poor kid.

I had a female bus driver growing up who's ID hanging in the front said: "Welcome aboard, your driver's name is B. Polite"

[BRussell]

There are some great Indian names. I knew a girl named "Daylight Horse Capture." Best name ever.

Then again, I knew a guy named "Big Wind Windyboy." I can only imagine why you'd be named that.

[eep!]

{remembering Beavis & Butthead�}

'Magic Johnson' Huh, Huh�

hey, Beavis�

[phantomdragonz]

Originally posted by Simon X:
Mmm, stupid names?
Well, there's Mike Hunt.

my family has the last name of Hunt...
seriously... but there is no Mike (I asked) ther actually quite famous in the sailing world....

P.D.

[OwlBoy]

"Mike Hunt, come here right now!" hehe

I always found the name Shena (SP?) weird. an aunt of mine has twins, boy and girl named Dakota and Brekota (Prolly spelt those wrong too).

I also hate it when people spell my Firty name with an i.

Its Bryan Bortz, not Brian Bortz, damn it!

-Owl

[Footy]

Originally posted by SimeyTheLimey:
I once met a guy in England called Richard Head. But my all-time favorite was a guy in U.S. Army jump school whose name was Pvt. Legg. Unfortunately, you have to know jump school to know why that is so bad.

Was his first name Dirty and middle name Nasty?

40 logged.

[Patrick]

I really can't understand people using last names as first names. That's all I can say here, because it's late and I've become delirious from laughing too hard at the rest of this thread.

[Drizzt]

Originally posted by Patrick:
I really can't understand people using last names as first names. That's all I can say here, because it's late and I've become delirious from laughing too hard at the rest of this thread.

Well.. hear that than..

My name is Robert Pelletier, my mother's name is Claudette Robert and my father's name is Gilles Pelletier..

That was original wasn't it?

[SimeyTheLimey]

Originally posted by SimeyTheLimey:
my all-time favorite was a guy in U.S. Army jump school whose name was Pvt. Legg. Unfortunately, you have to know jump school to know why that is so bad.

Originally posted by Footy:
Was his first name Dirty and middle name Nasty?

40 logged.

Yes, that's the one!

I'm jealous of your log. I only have 8. Some PERSCOM weenie decided they needed me to ride around in Bradleys.

BTW, by any chance were you in jump school when DZ, the airborne-qualified dog was there? That would be in the mid, to late 1980s. I missed him by a few months, but I can just picture all the legs having to go to parade rest for a dog!

[daimoni]

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[DBursey]

I once informed a new vice president that I'd chosen to delegate critical field work on a large civil project to Mike Howes, a technician in my employ.

The VP was initially impressed with my farming abilities, and subsequently disappointed to learn that said technician was not salaried in dairy feed.

[ReggieX]

Originally posted by daimoni:
I have three first names. Or is it three last names... or three middle names?

But they're all pretty good.

Same here! And as I said, all 3 are as British as a bowler hat.

[roger_ramjet]

Originally posted by L'enfanTerrible:
While working at a garden center this summer, I made the nametag "Guyrod" and my friend James was "Manlance" because he didn't want to be "Bonner"..

How'd you like to be named "Manlance"?

Wish I was named "Manlance"... Shoulda been too.

[roger_ramjet]

Originally posted by BRussell:

On a related note, I just found out this weekend that my wife is pregnant.

Congratulations!

[BRussell]

Originally posted by roger_ramjet:
Congratulations!

Thanks. I'm still in denial about it though, and probably will be until there's a baby actually in front of me. I actually asked her not to take the test so I could stay in denial about it for a while longer. But she ignored me and did it anyway.
:o

Then there were two lines on the little test, and I said "I don't know, that line doesn't look very distinct. Are you sure?"
:o

[boardsurfer]

Manlance is freakin hilarious!

This is no joke, I knew a guy in highschool who's FIRST name is Trout Fishing in America <last name>. Cant remember his last name. He went by Trout.


Ouch...

[IUJHJSDHE]

Always remember, Name your kids for the kids of the kids not for yourself, and always use popular names. Your kids will thank you later on

[Tigerabbit]

Originally posted by BRussell:
Thanks. I'm still in denial about it though, and probably will be until there's a baby actually in front of me. I actually asked her not to take the test so I could stay in denial about it for a while longer. But she ignored me and did it anyway.
:o

Then there were two lines on the little test, and I said "I don't know, that line doesn't look very distinct. Are you sure?"
:o

"You know as well as I that if a woman is gonna, she's gonna, and the only thing you can do, son, is co-operate with the inevitable." - Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

The second line not being very distinct doesn't mean anything. My first test wasn't, and I have a beautiful little girl to show for it. Anything for a second line is sufficient to indicate pregnancy.

The part about being in denial and not seeming real is normal since you're not the one carrying the baby. Miranda has said a couple of times, "When do we have to take her back to her real parents?"

[BRussell]

Originally posted by Tigerabbit:
The second line not being very distinct doesn't mean anything. My first test wasn't, and I have a beautiful little girl to show for it. Anything for a second line is sufficient to indicate pregnancy.

Yeah, that's what she told me, but I was still skeptical.

The part about being in denial and not seeming real is normal since you're not the one carrying the baby. Miranda has said a couple of times, "When do we have to take her back to her real parents?"

I have a three-year-old, too, and when we left the hospital my wife said something like "you mean they're going to let us take her home?"

[Agent69]

I just met a little baby named "Haze".

[Sven G]

Another second name used as a first name: Vannevar Bush (the inventor of the first web-like interface, the Memex, in the '40s-'50s).

"DeForest" and "Vannevar", sofar; wasn't there also an actor/actress named "McLean" as first name...? I'm not sure, however...

[Kay Autic]

I've seen a post on a Star Wars board (TheForce.net) about a couple who were such huge SW fans they named 4 of their kids after Star Wars characters!!

If I remember correctly:
Anakin Lucas (he is like 11years old I think, so named before Ep1 came out---must suck now though!)
Leia and Jaina (twin girls)
Talon Karrde

jeezus, these kids gotta have the crap beaten out of them every day! At least two of the names aren't from the movies (they are in the novels), but still....is this some twisted form of child abuse?!

My kiddo is named Brenna. It's Irish (which we are not) and it means Raven-haired (which she is not!). Missed it both ways!



Side note: congrats Tigerabbit on the new baby. I noticed you are in Norman. I live in Edmond, just moved here from Stillwater last year (GO POKES!). It's nice to see the "other" mac user in OK!!

[denim]

Originally posted by Sven G:
wasn't there also an actor/actress named "McLean" as first name...? I'm not sure, however...

McLean Stevens, MASH IIRC he was Col. Blake.

[7Macfreak]

Originally posted by BRussell:
There are some great Indian names. I knew a girl named "Daylight Horse Capture." Best name ever.

Then again, I knew a guy named "Big Wind Windyboy." I can only imagine why you'd be named that.

i think most native american/indian names originate from a special character or skill they might have while they're growing up,, or from something 'special' they did.

anyway.. i met a guy named "Chance" on my recent trip to FL.. beat that!

[SimeyTheLimey]

Originally posted by 7Macfreak:
anyway.. i met a guy named "Chance" on my recent trip to FL.. beat that!

Was he a gardener?

[agentz]

There's a British Touring Car production class driver called Mark Fullalove. Oh and there's another listed as John B&Q but I'm fairly sure thats not his real name

I do email admin for around 25000 kids and young people and you want to see some of the names that I come across. If I remember I'll trawl through our database and dig up a few of the better ones. Thinking about it, I really should create a 'stupid name' flag in the management DB.....

[starman]

Mulva?

Mike

[ironknee]

I think oprah is a mean name to name a kid, she'll always hear"oh, like winfrey!"

I think the name Jesus is not a good choice, especially if the family is not spanish speaking

If you name your kid Bambi, you've destroyed their lives, especially if it's your son

but seriously, I once knew a kid named richard shite, not joking

[kaceygones]

Originally posted by micha schraven:
I frown an eyebrow when people name their children after actors or artists. Like in the hayday of 90210, someone named her twin Dillon and Brandon. That's right : Luke Perry and Jason Priestly..get over here!

Pamela Anderson Lee's boys are named Brandon and Dillon.

Originally posted by OwlBoy:
I also hate it when people spell my Firty name with an i.
Its Bryan Bortz, not Brian Bortz, damn it!
-Owl

My stepson's name is Brian and he purposely spells it with a "Y" because he hates it when other people accidentally switch the I and the A which makes the spelling "Brain."




Growing up, my next door neighbor was a OB nurse and she told us some funny stories about the names women gave their babies.
One mother who was still a girl herself, called her daughter Female (pronounced Fa-mall-ay) Jones. She though the hospital had named her baby girl for her.
Anther one named her baby "Condom." She didn't know what it meant, she just saw it written on a box in a checkout line and liked it.

Now that's pitiful.
kacey

[clod]

Originally posted by kaceygones:
Anther one named her baby "Condom." She didn't know what it meant, she just saw it written on a box in a checkout line and liked it.

Now that's pitiful.
kacey

That has gotta be one of the all time worst names!

[Tigerabbit]

Originally posted by Kay Autic:
My kiddo is named Brenna. It's Irish (which we are not) and it means Raven-haired (which she is not!). Missed it both ways!

Side note: congrats Tigerabbit on the new baby. I noticed you are in Norman. I live in Edmond, just moved here from Stillwater last year (GO POKES!). It's nice to see the "other" mac user in OK!!

I'd rather be called "raven-haired" than "short heavy club" (Shillelagh/Shalaylee) any day.

Thanks.

Actually there are a few here, but not many, and an disproportionately high number of them are musicians. I don't know of any official MUGs (Mac User Groups) around here, maybe there are some up your way.

BTW since you're new to the area, be VERY careful at Boulevard and Covell. There's at least one fatality per year at the railroad crossings at that intersection.

[Knof8]

Sadly one day at work I came across the name of Precious Angel for a little girl.

[Aragorn]

Ok, all these are real and have been personally witnessed.

Stone Z

January La Tuesday

Nosmoking (No smoking)

Ba-na-na

And the worst one you could ever come across.

It is pronounced Shith-eed. But spelled S-h-1-7 head

No lie.

[Sven G]

Originally posted by Aragorn:
It is pronounced Shith-eed. But spelled S-h-1-7 head

Well, in more "classical" times there was this dude:

Copronymus.
_
"So Constantine V was surnamed (718, 741�775). "Kopros� is the Greek for dung, and Constantine V. was called Copronymus: Parce qu�il salit les fonts baptismaux lorsqu�on le baptisait."

... That is, as a baby he suddenly shitted when he was baptized, in poor words.