The post I just saw made me think of some pretty unusual names. I wanted to know what names that you have come across that make you ask, Your parents named you WHAT?

ex: Cat House, John House (ei: toilet house)- 2 people I really do know. 

I went to school with a boy named Lawrence Pickup, so if you called by the shorter name for Lawrence which is Lawry (or Laurie), he becomes Lorry Pickup, as when at we did not realise this till we had grown older and left school.

I've come across first names such as Precious, Rainbow, Finale, etc.

Well one of my examples is of my sister who was adopted,
When she was her name actually became- Cat in a House
or Catina

My friend, Jesse, had a friend named Tessa Tickle. However, they called her "Tess" for short. Tess Tickle.
'

No joke, My brother went to school with this guy who was a BIG fan of 'Mortal Kombat'.  He got married and had a kid, to which he named Raiden Jr.  Why the Jr.?  Because he himself legally changed his name to Raiden before he had kids and he wanted his son to share his name

He should have named his son Scorpion instead, so that way when he would go to call him, he could just yell "Get over here!" :D

There was a girl in my hometown her first name was Touche' and her middle name was Ole', I think the parents got the name from that 80s song "Lovergirl" by Teena Marie.

There was a girl in my hometown her first name was Touche' and her middle name was Ole', I think the parents got the name from that 80s song "Lovergirl" by Teena Marie.


Either that, or they were big fans of Zorro and other classic swashbuckling films that involved swordfights :D

In my HS, there was a kid one yr. younger than me.

I was a Junior, when he transferred to us, which made him a Sophomore.
His last name was Ophmoore. (We, of course, called him "Ophmoore the Sophomore".

-Which wouldn't be so bad, except for his first name.
Not Jonathan, or James, or John.....but Jack.

-Add the fact that he was the main liaison for the Student Council, and thus, had to see the Faculty once a week.
The poor secretary could never bring herself to pronounce his name, so she always called him "That kid with the Council".

I used to work with a girl, who named her daughter Deja Vu...and called her Deja for short.


This lady that trained us on our computers at my old job...was named, Pepsi. (her real given name at birth).

I went to a school with a Kamika Mino, John Leap-Estep, LaShawn Lumpkins, and a Kimberly Kim (she went by Kim Kim).


My mom knew someone named Ima Bird...and Rita Book. ahahaha.

I have a neighbor who named their new daughter Aurora Dawn.
I call her Dawn Dawn!  ;D

I went to Grade school with Ima Hogg.

I had French classes with a guy named Suey Huey.
He had twin sisters named Fay and Hung.

And, of course, who can forget about Joey Buttafuoco?

The post I just saw made me think of some pretty unusual names. I wanted to know what names that you have come across that make you ask, Your parents named you WHAT?

ex: Cat House, John House (ei: toilet house)- 2 people I really do know. 



How did you know my last name is House?  ;)



Cat

http://youtube.com/watch?v=EtbEiF6Uv2Q

http://youtube.com/watch?v=EtbEiF6Uv2Q


HA HA HA!!

Mistakelina and CondomBusta  ;D ;D ;D

A kid a couple years younger than me in school was named Sterling Silver, my niece is Hannah Lee after Puff The Magic Dragon

I met a guy named "Fortunato" once.

As a pro football fan there is a head coach named "Cam Cameron" and he coaches the Miami Dolphins. There is also a pro football player named "Lofo Tatupo" and he plays for the Seattle Seahawks.

I used to know a girl named Mohana but she calls introduced/calls herself Mona like Katherine Helmonds's character on the 1980's sitcom "Who' s The Boss."

There used to be an NHL player whose name was Slava Peticov(I kinda mispelled his name though.)

I also met a guy named Jens.

i went to school with a girl name Unique
i had a neighbor named Eternal...middle name: Flame
my friend has a coworker named Nipser

I know OF this guy-never met him but his name is Warren Pease.




Cat

Actual headstone in Tombstone, TX:

"Here lies John Yeast. Pardon me for not rising."

Actual headstone in Tombstone, TX:

"Here lies John Yeast. Pardon me for not rising."



I once saw something written on a stone:

Here lies Ed, dead.

I have no idea who Ed was-could have been a cat, or some other animal. I doubt he was a person.


Cat

I get a lot of flak for the spelling/pronunciation of my daughter's name (spelled Micah, pronounced Meeka)

But working for a uni, you see a lot of strange names.  I was working on this huge report and had to go through pages of pages of students' names.  The one I will never forget:  Precious Unique Johnson

There were also a lot of:  Queen, Porsche' (with and without the "s" and/or accent), Lexus, and the ones that were 17 letters long that only a parent could pronounce.

I had a great great grandmother who's name was pronounced as mine is but the spelling was very different as well.

They pronounced it- Melissa

But it was spelled- Malice

That one always has cracked me up!

I have a friend,his name is Robert Klein.

I have a friend,his name is Robert Klein.

The comedian?

The comedian?


No a friend of mine whom I've known for almost 12 years.

No a friend of mine whom I've known for almost 12 years.

Does he look like this?
http://www.robertklein.com/images/new%20bios/robertklein_bio.jpg

Does he look like this?
http://www.robertklein.com/images/new%20bios/robertklein_bio.jpg


This Robert Klein is handicapped.

I knew someone named Mercedes but she pronounced it Mers a dees as opposed to Mer Sa dees.



Cat

My husband told me about a mother who came into the Dairy Queen to order a cake for her triplet sons' birthday.

The names she wanted on the cake were Hunter, Archer and Fisher.  ::)

I had a great great grandmother who's name was pronounced as mine is but the spelling was very different as well.

They pronounced it- Melissa

But it was spelled- Malice

That one always has cracked me up!


I knew a girl who called herself Malice.  Her real name was Mary Alice.  If you're going to be a skanky punk chick, Mary Alice just won't do!

I went to school with a kid named Kilo.  His father was a dope dealer, you see.  Never met his dad.  By the time we knew Kilo in the third grade, his dad was in the federal pen.  I always figured if the guy just went ahead and named his son Gram it would be less of a burden on the boy!

I went to Kindergarten with a Zebadiah Kellogg-Rowe.  Zebadiah is a perfectly straight OT name, though not common.  It was just the way the syllables of the three names bounced along that made it sound so funny!  Funny thing is, 20 years later my brother ended up in college with the same "Zeb."

My sister went to high school with a Hope Kant Cooke.

My friend Shad Smith used to tell people when he was born his father opened the Bible and named him the first name he put his finger on, which happened to be Shadrack. Shad confided in me that his story was bogus, it was just fun to tell.

It is true that Texas governor James Stevens Hogg named his daughter "Ima."  However, her sister "Ura" is an urban legend.  You can find this on snopes.com.

It is also true that Bill and Moya Lear, the Lear Jet Lears, named their daughter "Shanda."

A Dudley Dudley (D) was state representative, 1st district, in New Hampshire circa 1972-1984.  Also from New Hampshire, representing the 2nd congressional district 1991--1995  was our illustrious Republican congressman Dick Swett.  When I heard that name, I pictured and elderly gent who aquired the nickname before the slang was commonplace, but than I saw he was born in 1957.  So he went to high school and college in the 1970s with the name "Dick Swett."  He's either very dumb or very courageous.
No, his sister was not named "Constance."

Speaking of Constance, you might hear of an actress named Constance Cummings, but she wasn't in the kind of flicks you're thinking of for she died in 2005 at the age of 95. 
http://imdb.com/name/nm0191870/
If I were that family's lawyer, I would have advised the estate to trademark the name to keep some aspiring skinflick starlet from snagging the name, but there was no such foresight.  A little sleuthwork turned up the name in a 2007 adult video, "Spanking Curiosity."
:-[

My sister went to high school with a Hope Kant Cooke.


I love this one. It is great!!!!
This is the whole idea behind this thread.

I knew a kid in Speech & Debate named Harry Bush.

Melissa's 2nd Great-grandmother (Malice Barnes) was born in 1845. Died 1921.

There is a children's author named Louise Butts.
I wonder if her nickname is "Weezie".

In my HS, there was a kid one yr. younger than me.

I was a Junior, when he transferred to us, which made him a Sophomore.
His last name was Ophmoore. (We, of course, called him "Ophmoore the Sophomore".

-Which wouldn't be so bad, except for his first name.
Not Jonathan, or James, or John.....but Jack.

-Add the fact that he was the main liaison for the Student Council, and thus, had to see the Faculty once a week.
The poor secretary could never bring herself to pronounce his name, so she always called him "That kid with the Council".


Oh My!  Poor fellow, can you imagine the damage done to carry a name like that?

My first husband was always sensitive (and grouchy!) to have his last name as Fuchs.  I didn't really see the problem since his first name wasn't anything abnormal.  I tried to rent a videocamera at a video store, and the clerk wrote the last name as "fuc%s", She apologized profusely and explained she had just filed away a big stack of porn videos prior to filling the paperwork (by hand) for my rental of the camera.  My (then) hubby got all angry and stormed out and left me at the store to finish the paperwork while he drove off to get himself a milkshake to "calm himself down".  People make mistakes, ya know?  Nothing to blow a gasket over.

My high school boyfriend said he knew a guy whose name was Mike Hunt, which doesn't sound bad until you run the name all together.  ;D

My high school boyfriend said he knew a guy whose name was Mike Hunt, which doesn't sound bad until you run the name all together.  ;D

Melissa also knows one, who lives in her home town.
He has a brother named Harry K.

In this part of the world, it is rather common to name a boy Cock. I've actually got a co-worker with that very first name.


I also know of a couple who named their boy Brant. Not funny, of course, until you realize that it's pronounced exactly the same as "brand", the Dutch word for "fire". I never understood why people do such stupid things.

I went to school with a Mike Sass.


"Would Mike Sass please come to the office?", we heard one day over the intercom.

I used to work with this guy who used to tell us about a crazy lady he once worked with.  Her name was Donna Dayawana ;D

i mentioned "sarabeth snuggs" and "betsy butters" on this board more than once, i think. actual people, yup.

An old friend of mine went to school with a guy named Ham Berger.

Ham apparently married his high school sweetheart- named French Frye.

I guess now she's French Frye-Berger.

An old friend of mine went to school with a guy named Ham Berger.

Ham apparently married his high school sweetheart- named French Frye.

I guess now she's French Frye-Berger.



You're a filthy liar.

One of my middle school chums said that he once went to a summer program with an exchange student from Saudi Arabia named...

...Phocka Fandadef.

Yes, just like it sounds.

I am not a filthy liar, but he might be.

You're a filthy liar.

:D ;D ;D

You're a filthy liar.


I would not be the liar....if anyone is, it would be my old friend.

(Who, incidentally, is no longer any friend of mine.)

Overhere you can name your kid whatever you want.. for real.

I have a neighbour whose name is Oceano Atântico which means Atlantic Ocean.

And of course there's a man in Brazil whos name is Um Dois Três Oliveira Quatro,translates to One Two Three Oliveira Four :o

i sort of like "atlantic ocean." :D

i sort of like "atlantic ocean." :D


No  :P

No  :P

lake superior? that's what i'm gonna call my kid. or "petunia."

My high school boyfriend said he knew a guy whose name was Mike Hunt, which doesn't sound bad until you run the name all together.  ;D


I know a guy named Michael Hunter, he gets really annoyed when he is called Mike.  His wife goes by BJ and won't tell anyone her first name.  Yes, she prefers to be known as BJ Hunter.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4u2ZsoYWwJA&feature=related

oh god, i had to stop it in the middle because i was stifling too much laughter, my head was about to explode like in scanners.

I know a guy named Michael Hunter, he gets really annoyed when he is called Mike.  His wife goes by BJ and won't tell anyone her first name.  Yes, she prefers to be known as BJ Hunter.


I used to work with both a guy named Mike Cox and a guy named Dick Luce (pronounced loose).

How about Big Dick Johnson? ;D

I went to school with Adam Adams.  My mom had two insurance clients named Robert Roberts and Spencer Spencer.

I also knew a girl named Floret Flower Bloom, and another one named Melody Medley.  You can't make this stuff up.

My mom once had a Manager named Buford Amos.

I use to know a Dick Richards. ;D

I used to chuckle at the nicknames certain guys with the last name Hyman get (I've seen at least 3 of those nicknames in the credits of various cassette/cd booklets.)  The nickname in question?  Buster.

I used to chuckle at the nicknames certain guys with the last name Hyman get (I've seen at least 3 of those nicknames in the credits of various cassette/cd booklets.)  The nickname in question?  Buster.

I wonder if he's related to my HS buddy (see earlier post in this thread)?

I know OF this guy-never met him but his name is Warren Pease.

Cat


Hey Cat – I found this post in the weirdest way.  I was looking for an old article of mine from 2001 and somehow landed here.  I figured I'd better defend my parents' sanity and sense of fair play. 

Even if the family name had been "Pease," they'd never have stuck a kid with "Warren."  They were better people than that.  Others weren't so lucky; there have been quite a few real Warren Peases over the years. 

But in my case, Warren is my wholly owned digital subsidiary and only exists within the broadband spectrum of the publics airwaves.  He's just my feeble and probably useless attempt at retaining a scrap of anonymity in the age of Total Information Awareness.

Part of that totality is the brand new "Will Snitch for Food" program the FBI and local law enforcement are apparently setting up in and around Minneapolis in preparation for the GOPiggies convention.  The idea is to recruit an army of snitches who look, talk and act in ways the feds think would allow them to infiltrate various groups who will be there to protest the convention and the slime buckets who'll attend it. 

The feds say these snitches will feed them a continuous stream of information, allowing hordes of robocops to take over the protest sites before the protesters even arrive.  And where is this information going to come from?  It's genius on meth.

Seems they're going to send these rats to stake out communal potlucks featuring vegan food.  Why vegans?  Simple:  Scratch a vegan, find a terrorist.  It's well known that people who won't eat any meat or meat byproducts are inherently anti-American left wing radicals, terrorist sympathizers and enemies of the GOP (which all mean the same thing these days).

Have a look here if you haven't already seen this tale of truly jaw-dropping stupidity, a federal initiative that could be taken seriously only in BushWorldtm.

But the timing's sure right now that nobody's got any money, and therefore no food because most of us are too dumb to feed ourselves these days without help from various intermediaries -- like Costco or Safeway.  So there's probably no end of takers for positions that even the skankiest gutter hypes would have gagged on just 10 years ago.

I like how this Sgt. Eric Swanson guy has his thumb right dead on the pulse of the counter culture zeitgeist.  I mean, who among us would have even thought of “vegan potlucks” as hotbeds of sedition?

But that's why we're just screwing around in boring, repetitive, minimum-wage, dead-end McJobs, while Sgt. Swanson has himself a high-paying, high-status career as a campus cop.

This kind of idiocy plays a much more serious role as another checkoff item in the long list of credible precursors that form the roadmap to the subtle but steady growth of our fascist national security state.

But that doesn't mean it isn't hilarious.  Can you imagine how this piece of pure nonsense that only complete morons could support got past the BS filters and entered into the realm of groupthink consensus?  I mean, some group of jackasses actually must have sat around a conference table for a couple of hours, watching as some enthusiastic maniac pitchman presented this scheme.  I'm willing to imagine they signed off on it just to shut this idiot up.  But maybe not.  Maybe they actually fell in love with the idea.

It's probably impossible to ever find out whether they OKed the project because the pitchman was a hell of a good talker, because they just wanted to get rid of him ASAP, or whether they actually believed this lunacy would work as described.  No matter; the program's in place and snitches are being recruited and trained in the art of extracting confidential information regarding seditious actions from vegans at potluck group meals.

I've found that the single, indispensable asset necessary to survive this amazing eight-year side trip into the land of the tiny brained people is a sense of humor -- particularly the ability to laugh at yourself.  Without that, I'd be institutionalized by now -- in a prison, hospital or asylum.

Anyway, Cat, that's a hell of a long-winded rant when all I wanted to do is say hi and save my parents' posthumous reputation.  See you on DU.

wp

i went to school with a girl name Unique
i had a neighbor named Eternal...middle name: Flame
my friend has a coworker named Nipser

Hey Cat – I found this post in the weirdest way.  I was looking for an old article of mine from 2001 and somehow landed here.  I figured I'd better defend my parents' sanity and sense of fair play. 

Even if the family name had been "Pease," they'd never have stuck a kid with "Warren."  They were better people than that.  Others weren't so lucky; there have been quite a few real Warren Peases over the years. 

But in my case, Warren is my wholly owned digital subsidiary and only exists within the broadband spectrum of the publics airwaves.  He's just my feeble and probably useless attempt at retaining a scrap of anonymity in the age of Total Information Awareness.

Part of that totality is the brand new "Will Snitch for Food" program the FBI and local law enforcement are apparently setting up in and around Minneapolis in preparation for the GOPiggies convention.  The idea is to recruit an army of snitches who look, talk and act in ways the feds think would allow them to infiltrate various groups who will be there to protest the convention and the slime buckets who'll attend it. 

The feds say these snitches will feed them a continuous stream of information, allowing hordes of robocops to take over the protest sites before the protesters even arrive.  And where is this information going to come from?  It's genius on meth.

Seems they're going to send these rats to stake out communal potlucks featuring vegan food.  Why vegans?  Simple:  Scratch a vegan, find a terrorist.  It's well known that people who won't eat any meat or meat byproducts are inherently anti-American left wing radicals, terrorist sympathizers and enemies of the GOP (which all mean the same thing these days).

Have a look here if you haven't already seen this tale of truly jaw-dropping stupidity, a federal initiative that could be taken seriously only in BushWorldtm.

But the timing's sure right now that nobody's got any money, and therefore no food because most of us are too dumb to feed ourselves these days without help from various intermediaries -- like Costco or Safeway.  So there's probably no end of takers for positions that even the skankiest gutter hypes would have gagged on just 10 years ago.

I like how this Sgt. Eric Swanson guy has his thumb right dead on the pulse of the counter culture zeitgeist.  I mean, who among us would have even thought of “vegan potlucks” as hotbeds of sedition?

But that's why we're just screwing around in boring, repetitive, minimum-wage, dead-end McJobs, while Sgt. Swanson has himself a high-paying, high-status career as a campus cop.

This kind of idiocy plays a much more serious role as another checkoff item in the long list of credible precursors that form the roadmap to the subtle but steady growth of our fascist national security state.

But that doesn't mean it isn't hilarious.  Can you imagine how this piece of pure nonsense that only complete morons could support got past the BS filters and entered into the realm of groupthink consensus?  I mean, some group of jackasses actually must have sat around a conference table for a couple of hours, watching as some enthusiastic maniac pitchman presented this scheme.  I'm willing to imagine they signed off on it just to shut this idiot up.  But maybe not.  Maybe they actually fell in love with the idea.

It's probably impossible to ever find out whether they OKed the project because the pitchman was a hell of a good talker, because they just wanted to get rid of him ASAP, or whether they actually believed this lunacy would work as described.  No matter; the program's in place and snitches are being recruited and trained in the art of extracting confidential information regarding seditious actions from vegans at potluck group meals.

I've found that the single, indispensable asset necessary to survive this amazing eight-year side trip into the land of the tiny brained people is a sense of humor -- particularly the ability to laugh at yourself.  Without that, I'd be institutionalized by now -- in a prison, hospital or asylum.

Anyway, Cat, that's a hell of a long-winded rant when all I wanted to do is say hi and save my parents' posthumous reputation.  See you on DU.

wp



Well, since you mentioned Minneapolis, I don't think you are the Warren Pease that I was talking about. Anyway, welcome to the boards. You may be interested in this section:  http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?board=20.0



Cat