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well-there is a kid at the middle school back in my hometown named Fidel Castro. Plus, I played soccer with a girl named Erin Zona (a certain state ring a bell). This last one I swear to you is a real name and is one of the worst names I have ever heard, but it was on the roster(opposing team against for my sisters basketball league)and they even had the announcers make a correction when to how it looks when the announcers tried to not make it sounds so bad. Her name: Shara Poupie....pronounced Share-a Poopie. Seriously...of all the names...shame on her parents Posts: 306 | Registered: Jun 2003
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With my younger daughter, we had decided on a middle name (after my great aunt) long in advance. But we had a hard time choosing a first name. One option I have always liked for a girl is Ahuva. It means "beloved," it's pronounceable by non-Hebrew speakers, it's short yet melodic . . . I really like the name.
However, after careful consideration, we decided it might be best if we did NOT saddle an innocent child with the name Ahuva Fraida.
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I once worked with a woman who had a friend named Bambi-Joe Schnitker. Now, there's nothing even vaguely obscene about that, there are no comical double meanings, and yet...that is easily one of the top five funniest names I have ever heard. It was probably 13 years ago that I worked the job with Bambi-Joe Schnitker's friend, and thinking of that name still makes me laugh.
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I had a friend in High School whose little brother was named Adam, but his dad taught the child to pronounce it a dam, so whenever this kid said his full name, he said in effect, "A damn Swank" I dunno, the more I think about it I think he just thought about teaching him that, either way its pretty funny.
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The one that bothers me are twins whose names are almost identical. I went to school with twins named Omar and Lomar Brown. I also went to school with a pair of identical twin girls, born in December, named Holly and Christy. Why do people think twin names have to be cutesy?
Someone once suggested to me that it would have been cute if I had named Daniel and Abigail Daniel and Danielle. *gag*
I used to work at a university, and one of the nicest people that ever called our department was a woman named Tucker Slaughter. I just thought that was the coolest name!
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I've got the fun of bothersome initials...B. J. S. ...yes...I always put my middle initial in, for obvious reasons...
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I made sure my kids didn't spell anything. They are NRW, ECW, DWW, ARW. I'm also ARW, and my husband is, yes...WWW
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One of my goals in life is to marry a man whose last name begins with a "B" so that my initials would be KGB.
Seriously, though, the only contribution I have at this time is a kid from my hometown who was a few years younger than me--Rambo Schutz. No joke.
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i've got a stand that i've made clear to my wife. (though she still doesn't agree) if we ever have twins, they will be named Hugh, Lewis, and Dwayne.
i'd also like to name a son Donald and a daughter Daisy, not that i want this many children mind you.
if you knew my last name.. you'd probably agree with my wife... >_>
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Noemon, why is Bambi-Joe Schnitker so funny? I can't even think it, much less say it aloud, without laughing!
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quote:Clamitia - mother saw it on her chart and thought it sounded pretty.
I named my second son Arik Drew. My children were amoung the last born in a large extended family of children with A names.
I absolutely refused to name him Absalom or Ahab and there was already an Abraham. (yuck)
I was young, dumb and under a lot of pressure. I had the name Austin stolen right out from under me, literally, with my first son. I gave birth a month after my sister-in-law and had told everyone of my plans to name him Austin. She named her son Austin. Can you believe it?
I thought Arik Drew was nice considering the alternatives.
Poor kid! I thought I was giving him a strong, Norse Hero kind of name.
When your child asks you "mom, why did you name me that?", you know you messed up.
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My mom's hippie friends, the Bushes, are Thorn, Briar, and Cactus. They all have traditional middle names so they can choose which they like. Personally, I always thought it fit the family nicely.
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my grandmother also new a lady whose name was Minnie...and what do you know...when she got married..it was to a guy whose last name was Mouse. She took his name too. Posts: 306 | Registered: Jun 2003
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I took my mother's maiden name as part of my divorce decree. My maiden name, Helmbock, had already been corrupted into Hemlock far too many times.
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I don't think Isis is that weird of a name.
Also, what's wierd about the names Erin Zona and Ahuva Fraida?
quote: I was young, dumb and under a lot of pressure. I had the name Austin stolen right out from under me, literally, with my first son. I gave birth a month after my sister-in-law and had told everyone of my plans to name him Austin. She named her son Austin. Can you believe it?
I would have named my son Austin anyway. Big deal if he has a cousin with the same name!
There was a girl in my high school who got endlessly teased because of her last name Castendick.
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Actually, my husband thought Xerxes was an excellent name for our second child. All I can say is it's a good thing she turned out to be a girl.
Of course, following the "J" rule in his family produced the name Jerxes...so everyone called her Jerxes before she was born. Hehehe.
quote: I think "me" would actually be funnier than "they"
I went to school with a Korean girl named Mi. No one thought it was funny, as far as I can remember.
Weirdest names I've actually encountered with people I really know:
Sierra Rain- Daughter of a friend David Eagle Bear Rising- Son of same friend...his legal last name is Rising. Luckily for his sister, she has her mom's last name. She'd sound pretty funny with a name like Sierra Rain Rising. Come to think of it, Sierra Rain Turner is pretty funny too.
People, things like the above are what happens when you have a white girl with like 1/16th Native American blood who really wants to be Native American. This is the same girl that scorned my husband for wearing a T-shirt with his tribe name on it.
Her: I can't stand posers like that. He's not even Indian. My cousin: Um, dude. He's half Sioux. Her: No he's not! He, like, Chinese or something!
But I digress. More weird names:
Fanny Schroyer- Last name pronounced like "Shoyer". It took a lot of guts as a child for me to ask if she got teased a lot in school, and did her report card say, "Show Your, Fanny".
"Dear," she said. "Shroyer is my married name."
I'll spare you all the list of weird names in my family. I've shared them before and they're probably in a thread around here somewhere. I'll give the best one, though:
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My mother used to work for a bank and has talked about her favorite funny names she ran across: Olive Grace Brassiere and her husband, Harry, and the best - a very, very wealthy man by the name of Dewitt W. Weewee (the 3rd, no less!). She said she'd get some pretty strange looks from the other customers when she'd greet him "Hello, Mr. Weewee!"
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I went to school with a guy who has the unfortunate name of Wayne Knopff. The p is silent. I remember one time he was called to the office over the PA system and pretty much the whole school was laughing.
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I went to middle school with a kid named Shi Ning Sun
And Mayday-I don't WANT to kidnap your child, I'll just be force to if you name a boy that. I mean, honestly. Artemis, the name of the virgin goddess? On a boy?
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At work, I keep a running list of the most unusual, funny and striking names that come in on our catalog request line.
So far, my favorite, because of it's pure uniqueness was:
Punci (Punky) Biffendorfer.
You know, there just can't be two of them out there, but she still chose to spell it Punci. An interesting gal, I'd be willing to bet.
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