Amusing names 1

[addy]

Not 100% sure if this post is relevant to this board but anyway, has anyone come across people with amusing names? Genuine cases only.

The reason I ask, I got an email from my friend yesterday who had to make a phone call to a Mr Hugh Deeney.

Now there's a guy who could get out of any situation.

 

[j0ckser]

My first name is John, but with several other Johns in the immediate family, she started using Jock (my family has Scottish ancestry). When I give my nickname, people from the UK amlost always spell it correctly; those with Canadian background usually have some garbled version of Jacques - assuming I am from Quebec. Very frustrating

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[SantaMufasa]

...people from the UK amlost...

Jock, I believe the correct conjugation is are lost. <grin>

Mufasa
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[j0ckser]

The "she" (previous) is my mother. My oops, sorry.

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[j0ckser]

'nother oops, sorry. amlost=almost.

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[Lunatic]

I feel sorry for this kid:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/06/21/name.child.ap/index.html

Title of article:
Pair told not to name son '4real'

Need I say more?

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[SantaMufasa]

New Zealand authorities have blocked a couple's bid to officially name their new son &quot;4real,&quot; saying numerals are not allowed.

Someone in the New Zealand Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages must have been smoking funny cigarettes to declare that &quot;numerals are not allowed&quot; in names. We have a very good Kiwi friend that had no problem having his birth name registered with a two numerals in his name...He is Thomas Edward Craighead Edrington IV.


Perhaps there is a Kiwi prejudice against Arabic Numerals, while they favour Roman Numerals. They better hope that Al Qaeda doesn't find out about Kiwi bigotries.

Perhaps some Kiwis need to loosen up a bit.

Mufasa
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[Stella740pl]

If no compromise has been reached by July 9, the baby will be registered as "real," officials say.

Can they register him as "foreal"? Stil, poor child.

 

[Dollie]

Just as bad as poor little Espn...(pronounced es-pin)

I just hope mommy and daddy got a little something something for their baby-naming efforts...

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
Santa..Not to defend New Zealand but:
The Rule was stated as

names beginning with a number


not just numbers in a name...




To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

 

[gbaughma]

The jokes start already....

"Hey! I got new baby pictures!" "For real????"

(as he's a teen)
"Hey, baby, wanna make out?" "Are you for real?"

"And in the news today, at the age of 98 years old, 4real is dead... for real."



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[Gooser]

I ride the Sounder train into Seattle, the station is in the international district. My co-worker, whom I commute with, often has to stop at the Wells Fargo bank down there. The manager at the bank's name is Richard Wang.

--Gooser

 

[flapeyre]

Gooser, I take it that Mr. Wang does not go by a nickname?

Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas.

 

[Gooser]

I don't know. I just see the name placard on his cubicle and chuckle to myself. What a redundant name.

--Gooser

 

[AnotherHiggins]

When I was young, my dad was friends with a guy who worked for WANG computers (Wikipedia link). His buddy gave my dad t-shirts for me and my sisters. I'm not sure if the alternative connotation of that word wasn't yet widespread, or if we were just young and innocent, but for whatever reason, none of us knew that "wang" was a funny word. I guess my dad was just too much of a 'square' to know.

Anyway, long story short: me and my sisters at around the ages of 10, 13 and 17 respectively all had - and wore - t-shirts that said:

I WANG​

I wish I were making that up.

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Related story - slightly off topic:

At around the same time as the story above, my family went white water rafting on the French Broad river in the NC mountains. Individually of each other, I got a shirt that said, "I survived the French Broad!" and my sister got a shirt that had a picture and simply said, "The French Broad". Luckily we were 'with it' enough to catch that right away and were always careful not to wear the shirts at the same time.

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[Gooser]

I was stationed in Asheville for a while. Beautiful mountains, but expensive housing market for poor military folks.

I never quite understood what they were getting at when they named things "French Broad."

--Gooser

 

[SantaMufasa]

I never quite understood what they were getting at when they named things "French Broad."

To understand, you may have to wait until you visit the Grand Tetons.<giggle>

Among the other amusing place names that I have encountered include the "jokes" that the Spanish played on us unsuspecting Yanquis:

Manteca (a little town an hour due east of the San Francisco Bay of San José, California) is Spanish for Lard (How romantic).

Los Banos (southwest of Manteca) is Spanish for The Baths.
El Cajón (in SoCal) is "The Drawer" or "The Box".
Alcatraz "Pelican"
Boca Raton "Rat Mouth"
Fresno "Ash" (or just "half-ash" for those that have been there.
La Brea "Tar"
...and my personal favorite joke on the Yanquis:
Back in settlement days, the sheriff in San José kept a pretty tight chain on vice in his town. When he would catch a "Lady of the Evening" plying her trade, he had her shipped off to the "Red Light District" way out in the boondocks, affectionately called "1000 Whores", which, in Spanish is "Mil Putas". Today, that part of town is known by its more politically-correct, non-descript variation, Milpitas.

Then, while I lived in the UK, I enjoyed the Founding Fathers' senses of humour:

Cock Pond, Tyttenhanger, Pratt's Bottom, Titsey Park, Tittensore, Herbert's Hole, Thong, Twatt, Wetwang, Little Willey, Penistone, Clitheroe, Nasty, Ugley (which together caused a stir when the headline read, "Nasty Man Weds Ugley Woman"), Piddle Valley, Scratchy Bottom, Slack Bottom, Lilley Bottom, Nether Wallop and in Ireland: Muff and Boobyglass.

And for streets: Cock Lane, Cock Hill, Cockfoster, Dick Turpin Lane, Titley Close, and Cockbush Avenue.

In Pennsylvania, we have Blue Balls and Intercourse.

In Tennessee, we have Running Knob and Thumping Dick Hollows.

More later, but I must rush to an appointment.


Mufasa
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[Gooser]

In Tellico Off Road Vehicle Park in NC, there's a Peckerwood Ridge.

--Gooser

 

[Gooser]

I just saw this one in an article in the P-I, Whisky Dick Mountain.

--Gooser

 

[AnotherHiggins]

[continuing off topic....]
I used spend a fair amount of time in Washington, D.C.

There is (or was, at least - I haven't been in quite a while) an amazing beer bar in Dupont Circle. For those of you not in the know, Dupont Circle is the 'gay neighborhood' of D.C.

There is a fountain in the middle of the traffic circle that is the hub of Dupont Circle. The fountain has a small plaque which announces after whom the area is named.

None of my D.C.-native friends could believe that they had never noticed that the area is named after [red]Rear [/red]Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont.

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[MCuthill]

Mufasa....

I noted that the order of your Pennsylvanian items was in the proper order at least....

In Pennsylvania, we have Blue Balls and Intercourse.

~hangs head in shame~



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