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Parents: Please think carefully before naming your children.

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Originally posted by: eLiu
Originally posted by: yukichigai
Originally posted by: nietsni3
sorry, i still dont figure out what is wrong with LaZanya?
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It is phonetically identical to "lasagna", a tasty italian tomato and cheese pasta dish.

P.S. One of my friends (a little weird, she was) wanted to name her future daughter "Meridian". It sounds nice, but it means "divider". Y'know that raised curb between two directions of traffic on a street? That's a meridian.
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No, it isn't. That's a median. A meridian is a bar of longitude...for example...the prime meridian that runs through greewich (sp) england
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Welcome to a page ago.
 
Heres some names I've run across

Mai Ho
Dick Delong (Was a woodshop teacher at my school)

Freedom
America
Extasy

Camry
Lexus
 
All of the below is 100% true.

I once had a customer whose first name was Ufuk- His bill even had a line on it "Attn: Ufuk" :Q

My wife has twin girl cousins named Zenith and Zephyr.

And my personal favorite- coworker with last name Binns- daughter's middle name is Mercedes.
 
Originally posted by: insite
And my personal favorite- coworker with last name Binns- daughter's middle name is Mercedes.
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See, I don't mind the odd middle names; that's perfectly reasonable. It's not like the kid is forever branded with that appearing on every roll sheet for their entire educational career.

My mother's middle name is "Lou". Sort of odd for a woman's first name, but as a middle name after "Linda" it works out fine. (A little southern though 😛)
 
Originally posted by: Fausto
Originally posted by: NFS4
**True story**

A guy I used to work with in Burlington went to Alamance Community College (ACC). During his first day of shop class, the teacher was calling out the roll. He went through the names until he just stopped dead in his tracks. He stared at it, scratched his head and looked up and said:

"Sh!t head??"

This black girls answer back quickly, "It's Sha-theed [the way it's supposed to be pronounced]"

He said the class just burst out into laughter.
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Hmm....I've heard many variations of that story. Kinda like the Lemongelo/Orongelo twins whose mom really like Jell-O.
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What's wrong with that?
 
Originally posted by: yukichigai
Originally posted by: insite
And my personal favorite- coworker with last name Binns- daughter's middle name is Mercedes.
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See, I don't mind the odd middle names; that's perfectly reasonable. [/i])
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But it will appear on every official document (diploma, drivers license, school records, medical records, etc.)- but I agree that it would have been much worse as a first name.

The worst thing was when her mother told me, I laughed out loud because I thought she was joking 😱
 
Originally posted by: tkotitan2
What's wrong with people giving their kids unusual names?

~Titan
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unique is good, but a lot of the names people give their kids are retarded.

Basically, if it sounds like something naughty, the kid's going to have a tough time all the way through college.
 
I went to school with a guy called Czaba Czabo (I know that's spelled wrong, but whatever)

You pronounced it: Chubba Chabbo.
 
There was not one, but two "Long Dong"s in the science department when I was at school at the Univ of Alabama.

I've heard "Quintasha", "Quineesha", yada yada yada.

For some reason, a wacky cousin of my wife has the nickname of 'Nookie'. I told my wife I was never call her cousin that. One day, I finally had to say something about the meaning of her nickname and she didn't realize what it meant. It was just something she had been called forever. Ugh.
 
My assistant principle in Middle School was named Mike Hunt. he is now principle at the school closes to us at their high school, so yes, that is a real name.

MIKE
 
Originally posted by: LemonHead
Originally posted by: CPA
A guy at my company has the name Richard Long, but when you get an email from him it comes from Dick Long.
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So in Outlook when sending mail to him does it list as: Long, Dick?



:Q
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Yep.
 
My brother's friend was a teacher in Detroit. SHe had the following students:

first name: Asshol.e (minus that .). It was pronounced Ash O lee

Or how about Orangejelo and Lemonjelo, pronounced Or ON ge low and Lem ON ge low
 
Originally posted by: speed01
Originally posted by: NTB
Originally posted by: speed01
When I was in school we had the Hammer family... Two boys and a girl.... The girls name was Beverly which was fine, she was in the same grade as me but her brothers were older so they were obviously in higher grade levels. Care to guess their names???


Speed
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One has to be Jack; I'm trying to think of what the other might be...

Nate
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Right you are.... He was the younger of the 2 boys, the oldest was..........Armand......Sure felt sorry for them in high school....

Speed
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My guess was going to be 'MC'
 
Originally posted by: Strangone
Originally posted by: speed01
Originally posted by: NTB
Originally posted by: speed01
When I was in school we had the Hammer family... Two boys and a girl.... The girls name was Beverly which was fine, she was in the same grade as me but her brothers were older so they were obviously in higher grade levels. Care to guess their names???


Speed
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One has to be Jack; I'm trying to think of what the other might be...

Nate
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Right you are.... He was the younger of the 2 boys, the oldest was..........Armand......Sure felt sorry for them in high school....

Speed
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Haha, that's awful. I'd change my name in a heartbeat if my parents hated me that much. 😉
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I don't get it?


In Nigera, people are named after days or attributes. Like I knew people named 'Sunday' or 'Friday' and girls named 'Patience' and such. It's pretty common over there.

To the other poster, 'Ramdas' is a pretty common Indian/West Indian name.

Also I have a good friend named Osama. Nice & smart guy....he's sh!t scared to visit the US though.
 
Originally posted by: Achtung
Originally posted by: Chu

I think I got a worse one. A close friend of mine in 1st to 4th grade was named 'Jyhad.' None of us knew what it ment at the time. He must have LOADS of fun with that name these days. He is of middle eastern decent, but his skin is so dark that most people assume he's african american.

-Chu
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Man, reminds me of the kid I knew in high school named Osama... gotta wonder if he's had it legally changed by now.
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Last year my roomate's name was Osama, and he was from Pakistan. Must have had a ton o fun getting through O'Hare - and I know all the pakistan students got lovely letters from the INS sometime last year. They were all trying to figure out the cheapest way to get to Indy without cars from West Lafayette for their interviews or lose their visas 🙁

-Chu
 
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