If your birth name was Marijuana Pepsi would you change it?

[SSSnail]

So this one time when I was in Malaysia on business trip and went to the bar and had a few drinks with this beautiful girl at the bar who turned out to be a flight attendant for Malaysia Airline and she said her name was Ray and I was like "WTF!!??" and then she laugh and said it's short for Raeyline and I was like "OK" and then...

 

[aircooled]

trying to say marijuana leads to coke??

No. Just two great tastes that taste great together.

 

[destrekor]

Saša is short for Aleksandar (Alexander), in Serbian/Bosnian/Croatian. It is in Russian too, but then it would be spelt 'Sasha', due to the lack of latin alphabet. If that makes sense.

I think in Russia it is never formal name, just as a nick name, but in ex-YU it can be your proper name.

Same with Misha. Well, how IS that spelled in English?
I actually like that name. As much as I dislike so-called feminized names for males (being that my name is Michael... growing up, as soon as kids learned that Michelle is a common french name for Michael, they thought they should call me that. lol), something about the name Misha just has an awesome quality to it. I guess it helps you don't hear Misha at all as a name or nickname for ladies, so even the seemingly feminine diminutive nature of it due to the sound, it doesn't have that connotation, at least not entirely. Some would still think it's feminine even though I've never heard of a girl called Misha.

First time I ran into someone named Misha, it was before I knew it was a short form of Mikhail (russian Michael, obviously ), and I was a little baffled, but didn't think of it as feminine then either.
Personally if I ever go to Russia I'll demand to be called Misha.

Oh, and googling Misha proved it was correct (in Russian text: Миш&#1072, I came across what Michael means: "Who is like God?". I am intrigued by the included question mark. And I also even more enjoy my name. I knew it was in the Bible, but being one who doesn't believe in such fairytales, it makes me bear a large smirk. I am smirking. :biggrin:

 

[wwswimming]

I'd hit it, I guess.

me too.

but not as the same time as you.

she looks like a more friendly version of Condoleeza Rice.

i used to know a bank teller named Psychedelic Bloodgood. She was a teller at Home Savings in San Francisco. Once I cyberstalked her on a free info-space type service. actually had her address and phone number and everything.

Can you imagine if they ran for President ?

"President Psychedelic Bloodgood and Vice President Marijuana Pepsi"

 

[VirtualLarry]

Wait, did the state take her away from her parents when she was young? I read about another account of some parent that gave their kids white supremacist names ("Hitler"), and the kids got taken away from them by the state. Apparently, they claimed that naming their children that was child abuse.

 

[Locut0s]

I find that a cool name actually. Whether I'd feel the same growing up with it is a different matter. That would depend a lot on the family environment I grew up it. If it was supporting and loving, and I have no reason to see why her's isn't, then hell yeah I'd keep it. However I might use a shorter version of it in day to day usage, probably Mary or something. Otherwise it would get tiring explaining it all the time. But it would be a fun conversation piece.

 

[SagaLore]

I'd change it to Mary Jane Cola.

 

[Iron Woode]

I have an exGF named Angel Dust.

 

[tfinch2]

Ikea intercom lady: Mrs. Areola you're needed in Small-land.

Just about everyone around me who heard it burst into laughter.