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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: *Laura* Date: 03 Jun 08 - 08:30 AM There was a teacher at a school near where I live called Gail Gale - it was her married name though so she could have not used it! And she continued to use it after her divorce. A teacher of mine (first name Pebbles) names her son Bede. When I told my friend her response was "What!? but the kid's got to go to school!!!" It could be worse than Bede but you'd have thought growing up being called Pebbles was enough to get you to name your kid John. Also have had an orthodontic surgeon called Doctor Skinner, and also Miss Attack. Very reassurring! |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Slag Date: 03 Jun 08 - 03:49 AM I knew a fellow in the Air Force by the last name of Clapsaddle and another of German extraction, last name Ditterlizzi. I went to highschool with a Dusty Rhodes and another young lady, Sandy Poole. In JC I met Sandy Beech. Ronald Glappenski was just known as "Glapp". Of the football player variety I always liked Balldinger! Villapiano was interesting but rather mundane when you translate it: Littleton (or "Little Village"). Names can make you or break you. Johnny Cash (and Carry?) demostrated this with the song "A Boy Named Sue"! |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: GUEST,Mary Date: 14 Feb 05 - 12:58 PM My name is Mary Allen if I had $1 for each time Ive been asked "Are you shy Hairy Mellon?" Id be a millionair. |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Chris Green Date: 11 Feb 05 - 08:02 PM I went to school with a boy called Michael Wankling. I assume he's changed it by deed poll since then! |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Joybell Date: 11 Feb 05 - 07:34 PM At Harvard the residences (called houses) are named after past presidents of that university. As: Dunster House, Adams House etc. There is no residence named after poor old President Hoare. |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Ebbie Date: 11 Feb 05 - 07:31 PM In Juneau Alaska there is a prisons' official with the last name of Buttcane. Neighbors of my family when I was a kid with the name of Fruck went to court and had it changed to Foster. I have a musician friend with the name of Peter Zug. I have never dared ask him if he knows German. |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 11 Feb 05 - 07:26 PM I worked with a Richard Head, and a James Riddle (Jimmy riddle being cockney rhyming slang for a piddle (piss)). There was a story going around about the film star Diana Dors. Before she was famous enough to need a change of name for the sake of a lasting career, she used her real name, Diana Fluck. According to this story, she was to be introduced at a function by a man who was so nervous about her name, that he had rehearsed for the best part of eight hours. Stepping up to the mike he said, with great confidence, I would now like to introduce our guest of honour, please give a warm welcome to Miss Diana Clunt. Can't vouch for it, but if it ain't true, it oughter be. DT |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: ranger1 Date: 11 Feb 05 - 07:09 PM My last name is Bill. I wish I had a nickel for every time someone asks me if my dad is Mr. Bill. and they all think the're the first person to come up with it. Before I was born, my parents joked that if I was a boy they were going to name me either Buffalo or Dollar. When I was in high school, I was being heavily recruited by an all-male military college that had my first and last names switched. and so it goes... I went to school with a girl named Cricket Kimball, a boy named Michael Hunt, siblings named Thor, Leif and Sunshine Erickson and I used to work with a kid whose first and middle names were Justin Thyme. There was a dentist in the town where my high school was named Dr. Toothaker and we used to have a vet named Dr. Ketchum. |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: GUEST,mini mouse Date: 11 Feb 05 - 06:16 PM At skool my mate was Gary Boldy (a type of buiscuit)!! and his sister Anna married a chap called Dinn becoming Anna Dinn (a type of pain killer).I worked with a Mary Land, and dated a Mike Horn. These silly names are all around us. |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: GUEST,mistershimmen Date: 28 Jan 05 - 10:48 AM There is a Principal in a school on the isle of man called..... Mr Shaw Twilley clicketh here if ye dont believe me |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: GUEST,mistershimmen Date: 28 Jan 05 - 10:39 AM There is a Principal in a school on the isle of man called..... Mr Shaw Twilley Click here if you don't believe me. |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Teresa Date: 28 Jan 05 - 03:49 AM I knew a couple twenty years ago whose surname was Kase. They hadn't had kids yet, but they joked that they'd better not name their son Justin. There was a librarian at my high school whose surname was Hollowpeter, an anglicized Dutch name, I believe. She even joked about it, though I know the ribbing got old after awhile. teresa |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: JennieG Date: 28 Jan 05 - 01:36 AM My mother's maiden name was Mavis Davis, she was born in the mid 1920s when Mavis was a popular girl's name. I don't know what her parents were thinking of at the time. There is also supposed to be a local family with the surname of Dick, who have a daughter named Ophelia. But that could be an urban legend. Cheers JennieG.......who, thank goodness, has a respectable name! |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Georgiansilver Date: 27 Jan 05 - 04:44 AM I think we should all be pleased that "Brooklyn" Beckham.....conceived in Brooklyn..was not conceived in:- Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll-llantisiliogogogoch! Best wishes. |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: dianavan Date: 27 Jan 05 - 02:31 AM I know of a child named Suitcase. Don't know the last name but you gotta wonder if the parents have any parenting ability what-so-ever. On the other hand, if the last name is Brown or Jones and he grows up playing the harp or something, it might be alright. BUT HE'S JUST A BABY!!! |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: GUEST Date: 26 Jan 05 - 09:53 PM I know a couple who havs just had their first baby and decided to lable the waif Harrison Carey the poor mite is already being called Hari Cari |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Georgiansilver Date: 26 Jan 05 - 07:12 PM I went to school with a guy called Richard Head and we called him "Dick" as is the English way! I wonder how he copes with it now at 56 yrs old as it was not an impediment then....in 1959-64. Dick-Head now is a bit sort of risque. Best wishes, Mike. |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 26 Jan 05 - 06:38 PM Not for me... |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Cool Beans Date: 26 Jan 05 - 10:39 AM There was a Royal Paine in Providence RI and he had the temerity to name his son Royal Paine Jr. I can attest to having seen their names in the Providence telephone book. A teacher friend had an exchange student from the Philippines named Jose Cobangbang. To this day, I sing "Makin' Whoopee" substituting "Jose Cobangbang" for all the words. When you get to the bridge, sing "Jose, Jose Cobangbang. Jose Co-bang-bang-bang." Guaranteed to brighten your day. |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Bill D Date: 25 Jan 05 - 06:12 PM many years ago on a TV game show..(Groucho Marx??) I saw an interview with a young woman whose name was Selador Tulip Poinsettia Crockett...she explained that she was a decendant of Davy Crockett, and her father had read that 'cellar' and 'door' were the two 'prettiest' words in English...so Selador...and his favorite flowers were...yep... I can't find any reference to her now, but she did at least get on TV with the moniker. |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Little Hawk Date: 25 Jan 05 - 05:12 PM Children have a wickedly cunning ability to find ways to make fun of people's names...almost any name. Still, one has to wonder at parents who set a kid up with a name guaranteed to make his or her life at school miserable. I think anyone burdened with a troublesome name should have the prerogative to change it, children included. Thinking back...we had a kid at school named Rick Witter. He was called "Dimwitter" a lot. It figures. We had another kid named Francis Bassett. He was called "Francis Bastard" a lot, but NOT to his face, cos Francis was one mean customer. He looked like the young Steve McQueen and was inclined to punch people in the nose first and look for explanations later, if at all. |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Azizi Date: 25 Jan 05 - 04:49 PM Well I also know a Dr. Payne. And I had a girl in my high school whose name was Merry Christmas and a boy whose name was Noel. I can't recall his last name but it wasn't Christmas. There was also a girl in my school whose last name was "Funk". As you can imagine, she suffered because of that last name... My daughter is a 2nd grade teacher. This year she has a boy in her class whose first name in "Mister". None of the children appear to think that there is any thing strange about this name. By the way, his nickname is "Man Man". I also knew a woman whose last name was "Lee". She named her daughter "Love". Though people tried to talk her out of it, my niece named her new born daughter "Beautiful". Hopefully she will be physically attractive. Even if she is, I'm afraid she will catch hell because of this name... Oh well, she can do what I did. I changed my name and it wasn't 'silly' at all-I just thought that "Deborah" was much too serious and not at all a good fit for the person I had become to be. I also felt that I had grown away from the nickname "Debbie" also. Of course, as you can well imagine, when I visit back home my mother and the rest of my relatives still call me "Debbie"... |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Mr Red Date: 25 Jan 05 - 03:53 PM Well my name is rarely a barrier - face to face. However the paranoic in me feels sure that when applying for jobs, my name labels me as foreign which before PC put me at a disadvantage and now we have positive discrimination I fail as soon as I go through the door. Too English for too many generations (we don't mention the Scots connection too loudly). And if you have an unusual name there is no hiding place - "It wasn't me - it was another Mr Red!" just doesn't wash. So you can turn it around and become somewhat extrovert. The penny dropped one teenage day when someone was denegrating my name and out of the blue I asked "SO you're jealous then" - caught him by surprise and taght me a handy lesson. |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: TheBigPinkLad Date: 25 Jan 05 - 03:08 PM My brother had a house-boy in Zambia called Spider Tembo. Spider had a brother named Pi-R-Squared. I exchanged email with a woman who works for the federal government of Canada: Moysten Cumming. Thank goodness I don't have a silly name .... |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Chip2447 Date: 25 Jan 05 - 01:56 PM Car dealer here in town: Richard Head. Nascar racing driver: Dick Trickle. Patients at hospital where I used to work: Ivanna Mann, Anita Hooker, Mike Hunt (again). and as a Chip, I've heard them all, Chip, Chimp, Chump, as well as the ones mentioned above. Chip2447 |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 25 Jan 05 - 01:08 PM My step-daughter will be having her first child, which the ultrasound says is a boy, this spring. Her husband's name is Truette (pronounced True-it) and the kid will be a namesake. They have already decided that since actually calling the kid Truette would be confusing, they'll shorten it to "True". Do they not understand that this kid will go through his formative years being called "False" by thousands of little pea-brained snivelling shits, each of whom will think it's an original joke on his part? Well, I guess they'll just have to find out on their own. |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Jim Tailor Date: 25 Jan 05 - 12:44 PM another collector of odd names here. A family friend had the given name "Rosie" which was fine until she married Mr Dick. Introducing someone named "Rosie Dick" before a church congregation of hundreds is dicey enough. Just try to hold back the laughter -- both yours and the congregation's. My brother-in-law (the preacher) compounded the problem. In spades. To the congregation he introduced "a long-time family friend, Rosie Peters". other odd names in my collection: Verle Bevilaqua Overton Hookey Pardon Elisha Tillinghast |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Leadfingers Date: 25 Jan 05 - 12:33 PM Dont know about silly names , but A Stammer is an impediment . |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Dipsodeb Date: 25 Jan 05 - 12:02 PM Silly name has definitely impeded me today. I done a google search for a Lorraine Ham who is a healer in Somerset.. I spent ages going through lists of recipes for quiche lorraine LOL Obviously the Ham and the Lorraine were enough to do it. I gave up in the end. ~Debs~ |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: GUEST,Noreen Date: 25 Jan 05 - 11:32 AM Guest, I am sorry to tell you that Mary (known to us as Giac, otherwise known as Mary Giacomini) whose post you are interested in, died not long ago, on November 11th, 2004. (email sent) |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Little Hawk Date: 25 Jan 05 - 11:12 AM Well, it's not that hard to get a legal name change. Thank God. |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: GUEST Date: 25 Jan 05 - 10:45 AM would the person "Mary" who posted the short blurb about Hugo P. Cook get in touch with me: lrtilley@alltel.net. I am doing research on the man to determine if he really took a pic of the wright bros. first flight or if he was a phoney. You must have known him to know that much about him. please respond
-Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Schantieman Date: 19 Nov 02 - 12:56 PM And then there was the fellow who drove his car into a ditch. The first on the scene were a Mr & Mrs Ball and a Mr & Mrs Smith. Fortunately he was pulled out by the Smiths. S |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Schantieman Date: 19 Nov 02 - 12:54 PM I teach a boy whose surname is Mountain - and another (in a another class, unfortunately) who's Mohammed. Two consecutive surnames is a class a couple of years ago were James and Last - but none of them had heard of him. Oh yes, our rowing coach a few years ago was a Mark Nutter. More when I remember them. I might even look through my old mark books! Steve |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Genie Date: 19 Nov 02 - 12:40 PM SeanM, His name is actually Dick Butkus (as in "butt cuss"), but I'm sure he got called "butt kiss" a lot! Chet, the Male ("molly") and Female ("famolly") names, as well as the Orangejello ("Orahnzhelo") and Lemonjello ("Luhmahnzhelo") names are, as I understand it, names that have been given new babies by immigrants with limited English, sometimes abetted by hospital staff. Obstetrics staffers in Cook County Hospital in Chicago even used give new mothers "baby names" such as "Encopresis" when asked for suggestions. (They probably suggested names like Ovary, Vulva, and Enuresis, too.) On the other hand, my grandmother, when working as a nurse midwife, once talked a woman out of naming her daughter Urine ("Yoo-reen")! When my brother's son was born they considered naming him Christopher, but I reminded them that he'd end up being called "Chris," so "Christopher Pratt" would end up being "Crisp Rat." I went to school with Dick Cox and Anita Bath. Later there was a guy named Allcock in a Women's Studies class I team taught. (He dropped the course.) Other amusingly named people from my past: |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 19 Nov 02 - 11:58 AM There's a Doctor in Stamford, CT whose last name is Warmflash. I always wondered what he treated.. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: sian, west wales Date: 19 Nov 02 - 11:56 AM We only had one dentist in my town so, like it or not, we all had to go to Dr. E.C.Butcher... sian |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: GUEST,Baillie Date: 19 Nov 02 - 11:44 AM ...When I was at school the Teacher who taught the carpentry class was called Mr. Wood, and the Cookery teacher was called Miss Fry! |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: GUEST,Geordie Date: 19 Nov 02 - 09:22 AM I went to school with a chap who had the last name Paine, his firsy name was Bowden. Also had twins in my class at one time..Evan and Ealinor..Evan and El....honest |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: GUEST,Mergetreud Dinglewhacker Date: 18 Nov 02 - 11:10 PM Silly names are no impediment. And who's to say what's silly? |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 18 Nov 02 - 10:11 PM We had a family in my home town, last name of Katz, who named their two kids Tom and Kitty. Ecccchhhhh! Jerry |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: GUEST Date: 18 Nov 02 - 10:01 PM An impediment...I can see some names being that for sure. When I was in hospital having my oldest son, who is now 19, there was this woman there with the last name Lair. She had a daughter, and called her...would you believe?...Chrystal Shanda. I always remembered that and I bet that girl has had unusual battles with her name. Charlie Pride would've loved it perhaps but I am sure that is about all who would. Glad my last name is Murphy |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: boab d Date: 18 Nov 02 - 08:04 PM My first name is Dylan and the Sh*t that i used to get at school was dildo. Now to a 9 year old child that's cool but when your friend comes to the door and asks your dad is Dildo coming out to play dad gets prety annoyed, telling me to stop using it(didnt know why). Now though even my dad calls me Boab strange as no-one else in civvy street does |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 18 Nov 02 - 07:53 PM There was an extremely successful writer of children's books, named Wanda Gag. No question mark after it. My first year in college, there was a very snooty easterner from a well to do family whose last name was Bates. I never did learn his first name. Out of deference, everyone called him Master. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Just Amy Date: 18 Nov 02 - 06:38 PM Dr. Busch the dentist had a daughter named Rose and no one in my hometown in Illinois thinks that is weird. My friend - last name Young - married a guy named Cox and they almost (true story) named their son Harry (Young Cox). A girlfriend's married last name is Chips and when she was pregnant we all suggested she call him Buffalo, Potato, or Chocolate. My ob/gyn was Dr. Brilliant - just the kind of doctor you want to go to. My friend in college had the last name of Scheidecker (shit spreader). My cousin in Worchester, England was named Bufford so I don't get why catspaw thinks that is weird. Finally, my aunt and uncle were driving in the country (again Illinois) and my uncle asks my aunt to read the name on the mailbox. She said what sounded like "I don't know" but what she really said was "Otto Knoll." |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: GUEST,Gherkin Boomthwistle Date: 18 Nov 02 - 05:50 PM Certainly not. I have risen to become chief handsworter in the largest knoutswaddling factory in the north. G.Boomthwistle |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: GUEST,Michael Hock Date: 18 Nov 02 - 03:32 PM Don't call me "Mike" under any circumstances - years of this has driven me to the edge. My folks can't have known, can they? |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: mack/misophist Date: 18 Nov 02 - 11:00 AM To insert an element of seriousness, studies have been done in the US that show very strongly that boys with "unusual" names have more social problems than the rest. The ones who can kick ass become athletes, a few become comedians, the rest have to suffer. A hundred years ago it was unacceptable to taunt some one for their name. It normally reflected badly on the taunter. Today it seems mandatory. |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: DMcG Date: 18 Nov 02 - 09:05 AM My wife works with a 6 foot 6 Caribbean, built in proportion to his height. His name is Hyacinth. Apparantly it is not rare where he was born, but in the UK it is a little out of the ordinary. |
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Subject: RE: Are silly names an impediment? From: Giac Date: 18 Nov 02 - 08:11 AM Iva Hardgrave, P. A. Bean. Hugo P. Cook (who made a career of selling photographic prints of a shot he said he made of the Wright Brothers first flight. Had a penchant for very, very young housekeepers at his mountain cabin. If the age disparity were pointed out, he'd loudly disclaim, "No co-habitation here, it's all right, no co-habitation!" He did make quite good elderberry wine. Mary |
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