Strange Names

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-09-26 12:09pm

There was this crazy guy who named his daughter "Neurona H2O"

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-09-26 12:10pm

Col. Crackpot wrote:it is very similar to Spanish, to me it sounds like drunkin Spanish.

I hope no Portuguese people heard that...

BTW - anyone remember the Simpsons episode where we met all Cletus Delroy's children?? He has over 10 children, and he must have ran out of good ideas at a point as evidenced by the fact that one of his sons is named Q-Bert.

WarriorclanX wrote:I live in a city where blacks are the majority and most of those kids have pretty stupid names like laquisha and junk but the worse and stupidest is in my high school there was a kid with the name 'Abcd' his parents couldn't think of any name when he was born, I mean it isn't that hard to think of a name (or make one up) but the lazziness of those parents is just beyond words....

Somebody actually named their child ABCD??

Good gosh. In Denmark, there's some laws about which names you can give your children - this prevented a gas station clerk from calling his son "Esso" IIRC. There are some downsides of this but that's tolerable.

However, Laquisha isn't that bad a name - sure, it sounds weird, but it has a nice ring to it.

LadyTevar wrote:Although many 'old-fashioned' names are making an appearance in the 2000's, such as Emily, Norma, Edith, and Lucy/Lucille.

I thought that Emily wasn't an "old-fashioned" name. Sure, it's slightly Victorian, but it's not as old-fashioned as the other names you listed.

(It seems like you depends on where you live. For example, names such as Nicoline or Jeanette might seem like "new" in Denmark or Sweden but I bet they aren't in France and Belgium!)

beyond hope wrote:There are only two names I dislike

Trent and Rent

Prep and wigger names

Rent?? Somebody actually called their child that?

Tasoth wrote:My friend is going to make his son's life a living hell:
Jack Kinkopf.
Say it loud and say it fast.

Shouldn't you take puns in consideration before naming your child?

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-09-26 01:11pm

Saul. Yeah, I always thought that was a pretty strange name.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2003-09-26 01:19pm

Wasn't there some guy in the UK who changed his name to Playstation 2?

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-09-26 01:51pm

Stormbringer wrote:
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:BS: I'll question my own fucking opinions myself, thank you very much. I don't need a snivelling cunt like you trying to label me as a racist or ignoramous to do it for me.
Spanky, considering your own penchant for screaming "racist!" over any little matter I'd can the self righteous attitude right now. You're one of the worst people on this bored for unjustified accusations of racism. So just kindly sit down and save us the hypocritical lectures.

Perhaps, but I don't bait people into it like BS does.

EDIT: I don't have a "penchant for screaming 'racists' over any little matter," Storm. Stop taking single examples of incident and applying them to my overall behavior: it makes you look like an accusational witch hunter. I know what incident you are probably refering to, and I realised that snipe against was unwarrented and apologised for making it, but you can't use such an example as I have only occasionally said things that resemble such.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-09-26 02:26pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:
Robert Treder wrote:
Spanky The Dolphin wrote: What? Why beat up a girl because her name is Morrigan?
I wouldn't beat her up, just punch her a little. If she was good-looking (and not your daughter), I'd use her stupid name to flirt with her. But I'd have to punch her, at least a little, on principle.
Why? That's what I was asking in the first place? What the fuck is wrong with naming a girl Morrigan? I think it's a lovely name.

BS: I'll question my own fucking opinions myself, thank you very much. I don't need a snivelling cunt like you trying to label me as a racist or ignoramous to do it for me.

It's just Galic for Goddess of Death and Battle.

Hmm, I went to school with a Herne (Celtic version of the Grim Reaper, lord of the wild hunt) and with a Lucifer (no they were not related)

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-09-26 02:27pm

I know that. What I don't know is why Robert feels he is somehow obligated to impart physical violence upon a girl just because her name is Morrigan.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-09-26 02:32pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:
Stormbringer wrote:
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:BS: I'll question my own fucking opinions myself, thank you very much. I don't need a snivelling cunt like you trying to label me as a racist or ignoramous to do it for me.
Spanky, considering your own penchant for screaming "racist!" over any little matter I'd can the self righteous attitude right now. You're one of the worst people on this bored for unjustified accusations of racism. So just kindly sit down and save us the hypocritical lectures.
Perhaps, but I don't bait people into it like BS does.

EDIT: I don't have a "penchant for screaming 'racists' over any little matter," Storm. Stop taking single examples of incident and applying them to my overall behavior: it makes you look like an accusational witch hunter. I know what incident you are probably refering to, and I realised that snipe against was unwarrented and apologised for making it, but you can't use such an example as I have only occasionally said things that resemble such.

Here's a novel idea: Shut the fuck up and move on with your goddamned life already!

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-09-26 02:34pm

Stay out of it. What the fuck do you care, anyway? It's not your thread or your part of the conversation.

I'm fucking tired of Storm taking single occurances and broadening them into blanket statements concerning my overall behavior.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-09-26 02:36pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Stay out of it. I'm fucking tired of Storm taking single occurances and broadening them into blanket statements concerning my overall behavior.

ohh please. you are a self rightous anal retentive moralistic nitwit with a ludicrusly high view of yourself. Storm is right. just shut up.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-09-26 02:36pm

Propably gotten his ass kicked in dark stalkers too many times...

Of course along with the strange inner city names, over here in california we have the "Brand Name" trailer trash kids.

You know Harley Davidson <lastname>, Jack Daniels <Lastname>, Ford <model type*> <Last Name>

* since I knew a Mustang, a Thunderbird and one or two others....

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2003-09-26 02:39pm

OK THAT'S FUCKING IT! IT'S TIME FOR A GROUP HUG!!! Come here Spanky. Storm. Crackpot. HUUUUUGGGGGG!!!

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-09-26 02:39pm

I went to High School with a girl named Anne Pancake. Coolest person you'd ever want to meet, too.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-09-26 02:42pm

Frank Hipper wrote:I went to High School with a girl named Anne Pancake. Coolest person you'd ever want to meet, too.

too bad you weren't straight. you could have covered her with some creamy man-syrup.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-09-26 02:43pm

Lucifer was pretty damn cool too. His brother named after another Archangel was the scum bucket....

I think Mike would aprove.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-09-26 03:19pm

------I'll be giving the clues for this round of the 25,000 dollar pyramid-----

Your car door....
the windows in your house....
A bank vault...
This thread....

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2003-09-26 03:23pm

Chardok wrote:------I'll be giving the clues for this round of the 25,000 dollar pyramid-----

Your car door....
the windows in your house....
A bank vault...
This thread....

Open!

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-09-26 03:36pm

Perhaps, but I don't bait people into it like BS does.

EDIT: I don't have a "penchant for screaming 'racists' over any little matter," Storm. Stop taking single examples of incident and applying them to my overall behavior: it makes you look like an accusational witch hunter. I know what incident you are probably refering to, and I realised that snipe against was unwarrented and apologised for making it, but you can't use such an example as I have only occasionally said things that resemble such.

On the contrary, you've accused me on an ocassion where you later admitted you were wrong. You've called people racist and went after them on several occassions for using the term Japanimation. You've also made accusations of racism on a number of ocassions relating to dicussion of Japanese culture. It might be limited to discussion of things japanese but you've got penchant for being over-eager to label people racists yourself.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-09-26 04:06pm

The cake for dumb names goes to Paula Yates and Bob Geldof with the cracking Heavenly Haralda and the other daughter was called something even stupider that i won't even try to spell. Propesctive parents really should be forced to do some kind of exam before they are allowed to breed.

Incidently my mother and older sister are called Beatrice, which is unusual.

BTW Hamel take back the Trent comment before me or Einy are forced to do our duty as diehard NIN fans and murder you to death.

*EDITED BECAUSE LORD POUNDER IS PISSED AS A FART*

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-09-26 04:47pm

The Yosemite Bear wrote:Propably gotten his ass kicked in dark stalkers too many times...

Of course along with the strange inner city names, over here in california we have the "Brand Name" trailer trash kids.

You know Harley Davidson <lastname>, Jack Daniels <Lastname>, Ford <model type*> <Last Name>

* since I knew a Mustang, a Thunderbird and one or two others....

All this talk of American children with outlandish and strange names makes me wonder.... aren't there laws about which names you may give your children??

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-09-26 05:01pm

Simon H.Johansen wrote: All this talk of American children with outlandish and strange names makes me wonder.... aren't there laws about which names you may give your children??

No. None at all.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-09-26 06:56pm

LadyTevar wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote: All this talk of American children with outlandish and strange names makes me wonder.... aren't there laws about which names you may give your children??
No. None at all.

I say a minor should be legally allowed to change their first name if they can present proof that it has given them ridicule, rather than having laws on what a child can be named. That way, a kid doesn't have to go through the first 18 years of his life because their idiot parents named them after a beer, car, something seen on an acid trip, or movie character.

I haven't seen any bad first names, but I have seen some funny last names, probably becuase the family has had the name for centuries and they don't want to dishonor the family and change it or something. I've seen "Getsoff" (Okay, Richard Getsoff, but to what), for example.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-09-27 02:28am

LadyTevar wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote: All this talk of American children with outlandish and strange names makes me wonder.... aren't there laws about which names you may give your children??
No. None at all.

So this means that a sports car enthusiast is free to name his daughters Matra, Lagonda and Espada??? (points for guessing which cars I'm referring to!) And that a Tolkienist can name his children Galadriel, Radagast and Fingolfin??

(One of my friends actually bears the nickname Frodo. But's that's not his given name)

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-09-27 02:58am

In the US you can name your child anything you want as long as it is not obviously insulting or obcene.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-09-27 03:16am

Simon H.Johansen wrote:So this means that a sports car enthusiast is free to name his daughters Matra, Lagonda and Espada??? (points for guessing which cars I'm referring to!) And that a Tolkienist can name his children Galadriel, Radagast and Fingolfin??

Sadly, yes. A vegan couple in California named their kid Tomato once. I'm sure they thought it was a brilliant statement