BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii

Subject: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: GUEST,Dazbo at work
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 06:16 AM

See here

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: GUEST,Joe
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 07:50 AM

I noticed that this morning, anyone fanciy adopting the name 'sex fruit'?

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: Becca72
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 12:39 PM

Sounds like these people need to have cats, not children.

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: Zen
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 02:04 PM

It seems that the name "Number 16 Bus Shelter" has been allowed!

Zen

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: gnu
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 02:10 PM

Becca... no... medication.

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: Becca72
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 03:04 PM

That too, Gnu.

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: GUEST,Fossil in NZ at work
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 04:30 AM

People here in Nz come up with some doozy names for their kids. My most unfavourite so far is a 6 year-old who goes under the name of "Daemon Lucifer". Pray for him.

And then there's the one I saw today - a nice young lady whose first names were "My Love". Pray for her, too - by the time she's 20, how many jokes will she have heard?

Makes you wonder about the mentality of parents who'd do that to a kid. I call it a form of abuse....

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 04:33 AM

There have been some equally weird names in history - mainly taken from the Old Testament - how would you fancy being called Nehushta? I found it in an 18th century parish register, she was a daughter of David and it meant 'snake maiden'.... very odd in the middle of rural sheep country!

An article in the Metro freebie newspaper stated that 'Zebeedee' had been disallowed in 1999. They should have checked their Bibles.

I feel for the poor child... her parents should have been dissuaded from naming her that at her registration.

Of course, this now begs the question, where does it come from? Is it a song or a character from a play?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: Paul Burke
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 05:15 AM

A friend got divorced, and changed her surname - from Kazcynski to Doboszynski. Upon which my brother remarked, affecting a braw Scots accent, "The only guid Pole is a deed poll".

I got enough stick for my own surname at school, so the kids have their mother's name.

Another friend-of-a-friend named his daughter Sweetie Pie Elektra Violet.

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: DMcG
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 05:23 AM

From thissite (and I heard it on BBC Radio 4 not long ago, so there!)

Somewhat earlier, Cromwell's parliament had been nicknamed "the Barebone's Parliament," due to a particularly notorious member, Isaac Praise-God Barebone. Praise-God Barebone was a deeply religious preacher, and he named his son Hath Christ Not Died for Thee Thou Wouldst Be Damned Barebone. The son later changed his name to Nicholas Barbon.

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: Becca72
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 11:35 AM

And I thought it was rough being constantly asked if I was from Sunnybrook Farm...sheesh!

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: Irene M
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 11:53 AM

I don't see the problem with Number 61 Bus Shelter, myself. If people will insist on naming their progeny after the place of conception (I am thinking of "Brooklyn"), then it is perfectly reasonable.
I am, of course, on the lookout for "Back Seat Of A Ford Mondeo", or the less likely "Back Seat Of A Mini"(in which case, check out the parents to see if they are midgets or contortionists!)

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 04:12 PM

Well that will mean there would be thousands of 'seedy motel rooms', quite a few 'drunken parties' and possibly a 'Outside privy' lurking around the world.

Probably in Arkansas.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 05:07 PM

Why would anybody do that to another person? I don't get it - anyone remember Homer Simpson going through the awful nicknames trying to come up with a name for Bart?

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: frogprince
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 10:56 PM

I had a co-worker whose relatives (somewhere in the South) named their daughter "Calvary Jean", as in Calvary where Jesus was crucified.

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: Alice
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 11:24 PM

Becca, you from Sunnybrook Farm, me from Wonderland. Annoying, isn't it?
Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: quokka
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 02:11 AM

Funny that they allowed twins called Benson and Hedges but disallowed Fish and Chips - maybe this would have been okay if they'd spelled them 'Fush and Chups' !

-I'll get my swag, waltzing away now....

Quokka

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: Becca72
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 06:13 AM

LOL, Alice. And every person thinking they were the first to come up with it, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 01:44 PM

Some folks my wife knew in her hippie days wanted to let their child choose his own name when he was old enough, but the authorities insisted on a name for the birth certificate. So, they named him "Oil Can, Son of Dan", but never actually used the name. They just called him "Boy" until he got old enough to tell them he wanted to be called "Jason", whereupon they had his name legally changed.

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: GUEST,Dazbo at work
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 06:12 AM

Apparently in the 1600s it was fashionable to open a bible randomly, stab at the page with a forefinger and name the child where the finger pointed, I wonder if any child went through life being called Jesus Wept Smith?

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 07:33 AM

Genesis 19:24.... Makes 'Jesus Wept' sound quite appetising.

If you thought being from Sunnybrook Farm, Wonderland or Green Gables was bad... when I was young a new book by Helen Cresswell came out...

Being nicknamed 'Lizzie Dripping' was bad enough but my never-loving sister shortened it to 'Izzdrip'.

I was so glad when she emigrated, I only get called it once every 12 years now. And that's 12 years too soon.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: GUEST,Dazbo at work
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 08:18 AM

Don't have a bible at work so tried it with a dictionary. I would be called Clock and various colleagues would be Chink, Gastropod and Nickel-Silver

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 08:22 AM

Only a London A-Z street index here.

I now wish to be known as 'The Imperial College of Science and Technology' or 'Impy' for short.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: GUEST,Dazbo at work
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 10:01 AM

Out of interest did you use the road maps or the index or both?

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work still
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 10:47 AM

The maps. Opened a page at random, stuck in a finger and now I'm an Imperial Institution!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: GUEST,Dazbo at work
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 10:58 AM

Well, Impy and Clock it is then:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: Becca72
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 11:25 AM

All I have here @ work is a Radiology terminology book. From now on I will go by Myocardium.

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: Wolfgang
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 11:55 AM

And then there was the father who wanted to give his son completely normal and common names, only 11 of them, the first names of the players of his local football team.

And then there are still German parents who call their sons by the common Christian name of Ignatius or Ignaz, not aware that the common short form for Ignaz/Ignatius since centuries is Nazi.

And there was the man who called his boy Sue.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: DMcG
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 12:02 PM

I named one son Matthew Simon and his sister Maria Ruth. The result is he gets letters to 'Ms McG' and she gets ones to 'Mr McG'. Tricky, naming people, isn't it!

Subject: RE: BS: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 12:20 PM

So...there was this guy who went to court and told the judge he wanted to legally change his name.

"What is your current name?", asked the judge/

"Valigrunageous Johnson", the guy admitted.

"Oh..well, I see what you mean", agreed the judge. "What do you want to change it to?"




"Steromptiflus Johnson".



(very old joke...many variants in story and names)