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.
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Oct. 8, 2009 10:50 a.m. RX Reven' Reader
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Oct. 8, 2009 10:50 a.m. GameboyRMH SuperDork
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.
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Oct. 8, 2009 11:04 a.m. petegossett Dork
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?
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Oct. 8, 2009 11:13 a.m. Keith PowerDork
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.
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Oct. 8, 2009 11:16 a.m. RX Reven' Reader
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.
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Oct. 8, 2009 11:32 a.m. walterj Dork
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...
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Oct. 8, 2009 12:02 p.m. cwh Dork
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.
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Oct. 8, 2009 12:13 p.m. GameboyRMH SuperDork
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
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Oct. 8, 2009 12:23 p.m. grinch77 Reader
My dad had a friend in high school named Rusty Butts that had to suck.
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Oct. 8, 2009 12:26 p.m. Autolex HalfDork
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!)
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Oct. 8, 2009 12:45 p.m. monark192 New Reader
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.
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Oct. 8, 2009 1:09 p.m. DustoffDave Reader
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.
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Oct. 8, 2009 1:17 p.m. spdracer315 Reader
I have a good friends whos last name is "Stonebreaker" Now, you need to be a tough guy with that last name like that.
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Oct. 8, 2009 1:28 p.m. RossD HalfDork
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".
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Oct. 8, 2009 1:36 p.m. mad_machine UberDork
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
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Oct. 8, 2009 1:55 p.m. 16vCorey SuperDork
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.
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Oct. 8, 2009 2:16 p.m. stuart in mn SuperDork
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.
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Oct. 8, 2009 2:20 p.m. Wally UberDork
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.
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Oct. 8, 2009 2:49 p.m. Keith PowerDork
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.
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Oct. 8, 2009 3:32 p.m. 16vCorey SuperDork
Another friend of mine has the middle name "Wiley". Not as cool as Danger or Skullcrusher, but still pretty cool.
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Oct. 8, 2009 3:46 p.m. RossD HalfDork
Robert S. Mcnamara's middle name was Strange.
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Oct. 8, 2009 3:46 p.m. oldsaw Reader
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.
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Oct. 8, 2009 3:58 p.m. Dr. Hess PowerDork
Don't forget Ima and Ura Hogg.
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Oct. 8, 2009 4:09 p.m. RexSeven Dork
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."
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Oct. 8, 2009 5:00 p.m. Keith PowerDork
RossD wrote:
Robert S. Mcnamara's middle name was Strange.
Thelonious S. Monk's middle name was Sphere.
