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    Default Silly names.

    Okay, sometimes you encounter people and when they tell their name you sometimes don't believe them, they seem to fit them to well or they have really strange names and stuff.

    Now do you guys know any people like that?

    I for example knew a kid who was called Remy, now you Enlish probably don't know but this a name that only men who are over 80 or so normally have.

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    I am one of those people. My mom decided to name me after my grand fathers. Maternal (first name) then Paternal (second name). Those names are Lawson and Reuel.
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    Personally I hate funny parents, those parents that think it's cool to give the kid a name that rhymes. Or parents who call their kid John Johnson or something.

    Mind you it can be worse like the Dutch Pop Idol winner who named here child ... wait for it ... Beautifull, I mean come on, you don't do the kid a favour when she goes to school.

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    Where I used to work someone named their daughter Evie Poppy, which is just silly.

    There was a program on the tele the other night about kids with eating disorders, anyway one of them was a boy called Tron.
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    I think it's sort of a new trend back to flower power days where parents called their kids silly things like 'Star' or 'Brooklyn'. They don't actually realise that kids will always be kids and are bound to pick up on it at school.

    I met a guy once called August August. Now, why would anyone do that? A girl from Canada called Chritchley, as a first name. Don't know what got into the parents.

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    my entire family has a name that begins with R...
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    The half-sister of a friend of mine calls her kids after cars and motorcycles. She has Chevy, a Harley and a Cheyenne. You Anglo-Saxons may regard Harley and Cheyenne as (somewhat) normal but here in Belgian they are just child trauma's in the making.
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    Now that are some silly names. Who on earths calls a kid chevy, crich...err something and evie poppie?

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    heheheh Well Cheyenne is pretty common across the globe but Chevy is just weird...

    weird names are oke when they have a meaning though...

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    Any name that can be translated into something dirty containing an appendage of the human body.

    For example my Highschool Math Teacher's name was Dick Beaten.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Stranger
    but Chevy is just weird...
    You mean like Chevy Chase?

    I just had one of those enlightening moments - saying "Chevy" like the car gives the name a whole new meaning. Duh, sometimes I can't see the forest through the trees.
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    Hm... someone I knew worked for Richard Head.


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    Orb, you remind me that during my working teenage years (long, long time ago), there was a manager where I worked name Richard Hair.

    My wife's first job out of high school was working in the administrative office of a nursing home. Part of her job was to page various staff members over the PA system. One day she had to page a Dr. Nipple. She found it very difficult to keep the laughter out of her voice during the page.
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    I know a kid named Justice. Seemed kinda weird to me.

    Someone else I know is Johnson. He said when he had a son he would name him Harry Johnson.
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    Some celebrity named their son Moonunit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rythmic
    Some celebrity named their son Moonunit.
    Frank Zappa named his daughter Moon Unit, and his son Dweezil. Too many drugs...
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    The father of Manchester United's Neville brothers.

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    Jason Lee named his Kid Pilot Inspector.

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    One of my ol' school teachers was named Offa Whitecliff. I kid you not.
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    I encountered some silly names in my short career:

    Ann Zonderman = Ann who has no man
    "Johan Anus" = John excretory opening at the end of the alimentary canal
    de Heer Onbekend = Mister Unknown

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    Quote Originally Posted by AndresTheCunning
    "Johan Anus" = John excretory opening at the end of the alimentary canal
    Surely pronounced Yo-Han Anus? That's a stroke of genius.
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    a bus driver who had his name on the front window- Ahhas Rhammer
    a tv reporter in like Colorado or something i saw on the internet- Willie Stroker
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    "Anu Saukko", common name in Finland.

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    I have a friend named Sayhand...his last name is Ladaman.
    I once knew a kid named buddy...thats just weird, as that was my dogs name.

    I have a hispanic neoghbor name Mario.
    Another one named Benjamin Jerry Porter...just look for the humor in that one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by drone
    Frank Zappa named his daughter Moon Unit, and his son Dweezil. Too many drugs...
    Hey nothing against Frank Zappa you hear me!!! And certainly not in a thread started by me! It's like posting in a thread of beirut adn telling him Pink Floyd sucks, which I ofcourse don't agree with.

    Edit: Mario actually is a real Italian name, I know someone with that name too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gertgregoor
    Hey nothing against Frank Zappa you hear me!!! And certainly not in a thread started by me! It's like posting in a thread of beirut adn telling him Pink Floyd sucks, which I ofcourse don't agree with.

    Edit: Mario actually is a real Italian name, I know someone with that name too.
    He wrote some great stuff, I'm not dissing his music. But to call his kids that is just mean.
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    One of the strangest two names I came across were Romeo and Juliet. Nothing wrong with each individual name, but considering they were brother and sister just seemed very strange
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    Just glanced through the LA Weekly, and one article the reporters name is Hauser Johnson.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gertgregoor
    Hey nothing against Frank Zappa you hear me!!! And certainly not in a thread started by me! It's like posting in a thread of beirut adn telling him Pink Floyd sucks, which I ofcourse don't agree with.

    Edit: Mario actually is a real Italian name, I know someone with that name too.
    I know...its just the fact thet he is HISPANIC!!!

    I still think Benjamin Jerry Porter has evil parents.

    New ones!

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    People make silly names silly... don't try too hard.

    That said, I don't really think it's wise to name a kid something that will probably get them picked on; they live w/ the name, not their parents, and they really ought to consider that when they're choosing a name...


    Anyway, a girl I went to highschool w/, and college now, is named Y Mae and her brother Y Paul, as in "why mae?"

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