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Parents: Please think carefully before naming your children.

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Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
What's wrong with Chase? I'm not a fan of the other three names you listed, but see nothing wrong with Chase.
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It sounds so artificial and inhuman. Like a name you'd give an android
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Yeah, agreed. Remember the George Carlin bit on names? It was very funnny.
 
Some of these are definetly fake. But THIS one is true, I swear! I went to high school in Fayetteville NC with a guy named Hillary Gaylord. He absolutely HATES his name...
 
Originally posted by: niall
Another one on the class roster had a first name of "Derrick", probably a variation on the fine Darick; but to be spelled like a petroleum extractor machine is not very flattering, especially coupled with the unfortunate last name of "Papillon", aka Butterfly...
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I am now going to start an Iron Butterfly tribute band called Petroleum Butterfly. 😛

Actually "Papillon Derrick" isn't a bad name for a band....
 
Originally posted by: KDOG
Some of these are definetly fake. But THIS one is true, I swear! I went to high school in Fayetteville NC with a guy named Hillary Gaylord. He absolutely HATES his name...
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Yes, people named Gaylord do exist, as do men named Hillary and Leslie.

Parents: do not give your children women's names or anything with "Gay" or "Homo" in it.

EDIT: Your male children that is.
 
my best friend is from turkey and her name is shafak but it is pronounced "sha-fvck"
i like saying shafak n' me

i also knew a tomas thomas in highschool.. apparently it was his dads, grandfathers.. etc. name too.
 
Back in college, one of my professors had a student named Female. She grew up thinking her name was Fe Mah Lee and didn't realize, until she was 18, that her mother has simply not named her and the nurse had written Female on the chart.
 
Originally posted by: gsaldivar
When I was in HS, we had a dumbass sub calling roll and mispronouncing everyone's name.

He came to a girl named "Regina", and pronounced the "e" as "uh".

😀
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mulva?!?
 
I have a guy who calls into our tech support line, he first name is Zoltron, no kidding! Another guys name is Richard Seamann, poor guy!
 
A guy who works in a different department where I work legally changed his name to Mostamazing Mostbeautiful. I was told it was to get back to his roots. We are to call him Most for short.
 
Originally posted by: Doggiedog
In Japan the government has final say as to naming your kid.

There was this one case where someone wanted to name their child Unko, which in Chinese characters means lucky girl. But the spoken word unko means sh!t.

He tried fighting the government for years but they kept denying him.
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Japanese actually reformed their main character "alphabet" (such as it is, kanji to be specific) quite some time ago, but when they did, they eliminated some characters that were used in some names. The parents were forced to rename their children in order to register them with the government since the characters for their names were no longer accepted in government documents. Weird.

How about ANY name with a strange punctuation mark? Like Cam'ron?
 
I have the best one here... I knew this guy in chinese class, his first name was Kent, and his last name was shît... yes it was S H I T, some weird chinese last name....
So his name was Kent Shît.
Sad... everytime a teacher calls out his name, they need to swear...

There was this other guy, who's last name was Kok, which is pronounced like cock. During the graduation ceremony, when the announcer called his name, everyone burst out laughing..
 
I knew a guy named Deiter Yatz. But no, he wasn't German. He was a south-Georgia cowboy-hat wearing redneck. I still haven't figured that out. And I came acroos this guy the other day named Ricky Godowns. Yes, go-downs. My apologies to any Godownses out there. I just thought it was a little odd.
 
I used to work with a guy called Colin Crawford Snodgrass, you'd have thought with a name like that he'd be a posh/middle class jerk but he was actually a down to earth cool working class guy... he just had a really stupid name!!

Mind you he did open a surf board shop in a town smack bang in the middle of the country about 200 miles from the nearest body of water and 400 miles from the nearest surfable water!!!

Mnementh
 
Originally posted by: rahvin
I lived a couple blocks from Ben Dover. Poor kid, dumb parents.
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Hey! Ben is my first name and my nickname is Dover. Most people in college thought my last name really was Dover! Could be the same situation.
 
Went to school with a guy... his older brother was named:

Abraham Lincoln Fish



Felt sorry for the older brother.


Cheers, :beer:
PCM
 
Originally posted by: virtualgames0
I have the best one here... I knew this guy in chinese class, his first name was Kent, and his last name was shît... yes it was S H I T, some weird chinese last name....
So his name was Kent Shît.
Sad... everytime a teacher calls out his name, they need to swear...

There was this other guy, who's last name was Kok, which is pronounced like cock. During the graduation ceremony, when the announcer called his name, everyone burst out laughing..
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Yep, I've known a few Chinese folks from Vietnam with the last name of Kok.



Cheers, :beer:
PCM
 
Originally posted by: fw3308
If you want to see a really strange long name try Jarome Iginla's FULL name. He is the star winger and captain of the Calgary Flames. Jarome Arthur-Leigh Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis Iginla. Now that is a mouthful!
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That reminds me of Basketball star Akembe Motumbo (sp?). His true african name consisted of about 8 (estimate) really hard to pronounce names.
 
Oh, I forgot one. There is a girl that works at the local McDonalds drivethrough. The name on her nametag (and it isn't a joke) is Shonuff.
 
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