[Jansar]

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1577415/
(...and yours too)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1179402/
(is this a personality trait?)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0794470/
(who's taking a dump?)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1500209/
(i gotta go take a...)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1551263/
(let me clear my throat)

[GoGoReggieXPowars]

Helen Hunt named her new daughter Makena'lei, after a townin Maui.

[dcmacdaddy]

Originally posted by GoGoReggieXPowars:
Helen Hunt named her new daughter Makena'lei, after a townin Maui.

I had a co-worker, an anglo, do something similar with her new daughter. It's some little special place in Hawai'i she went to with her husband and he really liked the name.

I gues it's better than Helen Hunt naming her new son Michael.

[dampeoples]

Well, I shoulda named my kid bucket seats.

[acadian]

Will name my kid "Little F*cker". Great during holidays and special events as well in all around usage, has so many applications;

"Merry Christmas lil'F*cker!!!"
"Happy birthday lil'F*cker!!!"
"What did you do THIS time you lil'F*cker!!!"
"Put down that handgun lil'F*cker..."

....and on and on......

[Gankdawg]

7

[TommyLeeRoth]

I hope that's a Married With Children reference.

[gorickey]

I've heard much worse then "Apple" before (I watched too much Jerry Springer)...so no, it's not weird...

[wdlove]

She has a right to name her child whatever she wants. At least it's a good positive name.

[Sherwin]

I once heard that Sebastian Bach (of rock band Skid Row) wanted to name his kids London and Paris so he could come downstairs every morning and shout "Hello London!" and "Hello Paris!" in gig-opening rock and roll style.

[voyageur]

I like unusual names. As long as it's not too much of a burden on the child. Kids react differently. My name is unusual in the US, and it was kind of fun being the only one with my name in school as I grew up. But some people have told me they would hate to have a name people found hard to pronounce or spell. And I must say it's hard at cocktail parties when I introduce myself.
Maybe we should do as the do in some cultures and wait till the child is old enough to choose his/her own name. Then if they wanted to be Apple or lil'f*cker or just Jane, that would be their own choice. Might lead to an abundance of Brittanys though.

[mitchell_pgh]

While having unique names is interesting, I think it is incredibly typical and overused by the weak minded.

[voyageur]

Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
While having unique names is interesting, I think it is incredibly typical and overused by the weak minded.

Mitchell, my parents weren't weak-minded, they just named me after my mother's sister.

[theolein]

IIRC Frank Zappa took the cake with his child "moon unit". I mean why "moon unit"? Why not bring it closer to home with a name such as "waste disposal unit" (very apt considering the garbage kids eat) or "wall unit"?

[theolein]

Originally posted by voyageur:
Mitchell, my parents weren't weak-minded, they just named me after my mother's sister.

I'm named after, in order of appearance, my grandfather, some Italian buddy of my father and my Greek godfather's second name. As a small kid I could never remember exactly what or how many names I had and remember being embarrassed at school when I once replied with the number seven to the teacher asking how many names I had.

Edit: added the Greek godfather's second name bit, which just goes to show how good I am at remembering names.

A funny case is that when I came to Europe in the 80's not many could pronounce the "th" sound of my name and either called me "Teo" or "Seo", so nowadays I just introduce myself with the Euro pronunciation.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by theolein:
IIRC Frank Zappa took the cake with his child "moon unit". I mean why "moon unit"? Why not bring it closer to home with a name such as "waste disposal unit" (very apt considering the garbage kids eat) or "wall unit"?

moon unit: lunar month.

Whatever.

I thought "Dweezil" was pretty cool, too, though.



-s*

[theolein]

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
...

I thought "Dweezil" was pretty cool, too, though.



-s*

It could have been worse. Frank, in a moment of normal nebulosity could have called him "Offspring" or "child unit" or something.

[voyageur]

Originally posted by theolein:
It could have been worse. Frank, in a moment of normal nebulosity could have called him "Offspring" or "child unit" or something.

or "Chrome Dinette"...

[theolein]

Originally posted by voyageur:
or "Chrome Dinette"...

[GoGoReggieXPowars]

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
I thought "Dweezil" was pretty cool, too, though.

IIRC from his book, that was the nickname he gave his wife's hangnail, or something weird like that.

Originally posted by voyageur:
Maybe we should do as the do in some cultures and wait till the child is old enough to choose his/her own name.

No. The last thing this world needs is more parents shirking their responsibilities. I hate the "Let the child decide!" call that's been becoming more and more prevalent in the last 20 years.

Originally posted by wdlove:
She has a right to name her child whatever she wants.

Maybe, but it doesn't mean I'm going to like it.

Hey, lest we forget Paula Yates' Fifi Trixiebelle, Peaches Honeyblossom, Little Pixie and Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily?

[theolein]

Originally posted by voyageur:
or "Chrome Dinette"...

"Tupperware"?

[Turias]

I know someone who just had a son and named him Zyzik.

Poor kid.

[theolein]

Originally posted by Turias:
I know someone who just had a son and named him Zyzik.

Poor kid.

That's Kyrgyz for "Pisses ice blocks in a hot steam bath".

[Turias]

Originally posted by theolein:
That's Kyrgyz for "Pisses ice blocks in a hot steam bath".

If only the parents had known!

[mitchell_pgh]

Originally posted by voyageur:
Mitchell, my parents weren't weak-minded, they just named me after my mother's sister.

I didn't say they were weak minded, but people that go out of their way to say "look at me, look at me, I named my kid L337! are either weak minded or starved for attention. Being named after someone is common.

I feel sorry for these poor bastards that have to go through life saying "My name is L337 Haxor!"

[tooki]

The worst names I have ever seen are:

- LaTrina Williams (chick who murdered her own kids in DC a couple of years back)
- Chlamydia (no, I am not joking, I saw it in a magazine)

My mom joked that the last one should have a brother "Herpes," "Granny Gonorrhea" and "Aunt Syphilis" .

tooki

[voyageur]

Originally posted by theolein:
"Tupperware"?

Naugahide....
Barcalounger......

[theolein]

Originally posted by voyageur:
Naugahide....
Barcalounger......

The list is endless. You and I should write a book called "Creative names for modern children"

[tsuki]

apple is cool...
we had a friend whose last name was appleton but she liked to be called apple and it totally fit her..(no she wasn't shaped like one)she was hot .

now "dell"...that would equal "little f*cker"

[stevesnj]

Rob Morrow named his son 'Tu' yes that's right...his name is 'Tu Morrow'

Originally posted by Gankdawg:
7

"Seven? Yeah, I guess I could see it. Seven. Seven periods of school, seven beatings a day. Roughly seven stitches a beating, and eventually seven years to life. Yeah, you're doing that child quite a service."

- Jerry, in "The Seven"

[ryju]

Originally posted by Gankdawg:
7

*whistles*

Mug, how 'bout Mug, Mug Costanza!

[Zoom_zoom]

I once knew a Japanese girl called Apple, she was very nice, she went to the "international School" here in australia, so when they came out from Japane they gave themselves different names..

Her friends were Fanta and coke (I'm not kidding!)

[Jansar]

They just keep getting better and better...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0145245/

[thePurpleGiant]

Originally posted by Zoom_zoom:
I once knew a Japanese girl called Apple, she was very nice, she went to the "international School" here in australia, so when they came out from Japane they gave themselves different names..

Ah Apple. Such a sweet girl, to think I nearly forgot about her. Also amusing for me were 'Sunmmer', 'Autumn' and 'Spring'...Neve rmet any of those chicks called Winter though..

[Jansar]

Originally posted by thePurpleGiant:
Ah Apple. Such a sweet girl, to think I nearly forgot about her. Also amusing for me were 'Sunmmer', 'Autumn' and 'Spring'...Neve rmet any of those chicks called Winter though..

Winter's considered a "bad" thing though, since it's not common for someone to like winter...

However, I can definitely picture a hot girl being named either one of the other three seasons.

(Actually, you can picture the Phoenix family...the same family of Joaquin Phoenix from Gladiator fame, since he had a brother River, and still has two sisters, Rain and Summer)

[Oisín]

I find this all quite amusing... In all of Scandinavia, there are pretty strict rules (especially in Denmark) for what you can name your child. You'd never be allowed to name anyone Apple, much less many of the other odd names in this thread...

Two of my friends here in China, however, are called Listen and Answer. They chose these names themselves (obviously, since they're Chinese). I met a guy here once who had looked his name up in a dictionary (not knowing English) and named himself accordingly. But I begged him to change it, because I felt so stupid talking to someone who happily introduced himself as "Strong Lubricant"

[Sherwin]

Hmmm... I'm also reminded of the guy who took a dislike to his bank and legally changed his name to "Mr. Yorkshire-Bank-Are-Facist-Bas**rds". Yorkshire Bank had to print his new name on his cheque books, cards, etc..

[:XI:]

Originally posted by Zoom_zoom:
I once knew a Japanese girl called Apple, she was very nice, she went to the "international School" here in australia, so when they came out from Japane they gave themselves different names..

Her friends were Fanta and coke (I'm not kidding!)

Did coke get up your nose?

[boardsurfer]

the middle name of my soon to be nephew will be Effin.

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Go ahead, try it.

[Eriamjh]

Go ahead. Name your kid "Jesus" ("Jee-Zuss" not "Hey-Zeus) and see how people react.

I'm sure every kid growing up thought his name was Jesus Christ at one time or another.