Odd Names

[Sinlaeshel]

While creating user accounts this morning, I happened upon a new employee named He Li. I found myself typing the oddest sentence in an E-mail this morning; I thought you people may find it somewhat amusing.

"To avoid this, He’s username will be hli2."

Without proper capitalization, someone may think my grammar skills have totally disappeared on me

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
Parents somwtime fail to see the obvious..I grew up with 2 brothers from the Raper family..

Their names ( I swear) - Kenneth and William (leading to Kenny Raper and Willy Raper )

Lost track of them, but I hope they did not live up to their names..





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[SantaMufasa]

My brother named one of his kids, "Stephen Fox Hunt" and a daugther, "Elisa Treasure Hunt". He obviously thumbed his nose at my "First Rule of Parenting" guidelines (posted 30 Dec 05 14:59). Of course, he could have been even more obnoxious by naming a kid with a middle name of "Snipe" or something similar.

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[jebenson]

I heard the Lemonjello and Orangejello names from a friend whose brother delivers babies in a hospital. The story went that the mother of these two boys was giving birth to her third son and the hospital staff could not wait to hear what the new name was going to be. After the labor and delivery, the nurse asked the mother for a name to put on the birth certificate. The name the mother gave was Nosmo King. The nurses were puzzled - the name didn't sound too bad - until someone pointed to the "No Smoking" sign above the door of the delivery room, which the mother had been looking at during the entire delivery.

The simple fact that so many different people claim to know these kids, and in so many different places, just screams urban legend to me.

I have also heard the Shi Thead story but it was from someone who had supposedly seen a girl in a mall, wearing a t-shirt with the name printed on the back. My friend heard some call this girl's name, and so got the pronunciation. I didn't believe it then, and I still don't.

This one is true: I once knew a girl named Pearly Gates. I felt so sorry for her.


I used to rock and roll every night and party every day. Then it was every other day. Now I'm lucky if I can find 30 minutes a week in which to get funky. - Homer Simpson

 

[SamBones]

The Urban Legend debunking site Snopes.com calls the Lemonjello, Orangejello names an urban legend...

http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.htm

 

[flapeyre]

I did a search on Snopes for Lemonjello and came up with this.

Feles mala! Cur cista non uteris? Stramentum novum in ea posui!

 

[flapeyre]

SamBones beat me to it by 6 minutes -

Feles mala! Cur cista non uteris? Stramentum novum in ea posui!

 

[AnotherHiggins]

->The simple fact that so many different people claim to know these kids, and in so many different places, just screams urban legend to me.

Agreed!

If the first version of "Lemonjello and Orangejello" I heard was true, the twins would be about 20-25 years old now. But they still show up in stories about young children or high school students - sometimes twins, sometimes not. And now with a sibling named Shithead (Even though the name Shithead has been told in other legends unconnected to Lemonjello and Orangejello). To quote jebenson again, it "just screams urban legend".

Of course, there's always the possibility that some twisted parents heard the urban legend and made it come true by bestowing the names on their children. But short of some evidence, I ain't buying it.

Back on topic:

While this also smacks of Urban Legend (and may be), my family tells a humorous story of my late uncle, JD Livingston. Upon entering the Navy, he was prompted to give his full name, not just his initials. But JD was his given name. (That much I know is true.)

Having trouble explaining this, he wound up saying "J" only, "D" only. He was issued tags reading J only D only, which looked quite a lot like "Jonly Donly".

My uncle was quite a joker, so that might have been a fabrication - but he swore it was true.

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[SantaMufasa]

My sister was a customer service rep for AT&T some years ago. She took a call from a fellow in Atlanta that was chuckling as he asked her to please fix his name on his monthly statement. His name on the statement read: "James Beefabob Anderson". He explained to my sister that he typically goes by "James B. Anderson", but to assist customer service representatives to understand his middle initial when asked for his full name, he would say, "My name is 'James "B"-for-"Bob" Anderson'."

No need to explain further, James!

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[SamBones]

In the mid 80's I worked for a company that shall remain nameless. When developing a new report, we would take random samples of customer records to test the report. One day the record for a customer came up who's name was so odd that I've remembered it ever since. His name was Norval Overholt. I always thought that was quite a mouth full.

 

[rosieb]

When I married my husband he was a boring, ordinary Bull, we subsequently discovered that this grandma had been "a little economic with the actualite" on his father's birth certificate and his surname should have been Cherry (I never took his surname, too close to mine) but Rosie Cherry would have been far too much!

Rosie
"There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles." Anonymous

 

[tsdragon]

Rosie: my four basic food groups are: caffeine, nicotine, alcohol and sugar.

Tracy Dryden

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For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[jebenson]

SamBones,

My father-in-law's first and middle names are Norvel Waukeen. The Waukeen is, I am pretty sure, a rural Texas bastardization of the Portuguese/Spanish name Joaquin. The funny thing is, it is a family name - he had an uncle of that name, I believe.

Lest anyone get a bad impression from his name, I would like to say that my father-in-law is one of the smartest people I have ever known.



I used to rock and roll every night and party every day. Then it was every other day. Now I'm lucky if I can find 30 minutes a week in which to get funky. - Homer Simpson

 

[RCorrigan]

There was a Randy Farquar as well as a Randy Gobble -user name gobbler !! - in the company directory of the last company I worked for !!!!

I walked passed the Clare Street Walk-In Medical centre earlier (Dublin City Centre) and there is a large sign outside declaring that ----

Dr. Chii Chii Lee (G.P.) is in today !!!!!!!!!

<Do I need A Signature or will an X do?>

 

[Stella740pl]

jebenson,

My father-in-law's first and middle names are Norvel Waukeen. The Waukeen is, I am pretty sure, a rural Texas bastardization of the Portuguese/Spanish name Joaquin.

I am not so sure. While Joaquin is a Spanish/Portuguese form of an old Hebrew name Joachim/Jehoiakim, Waukeen just screems Native American roots. Some google search found some evidence of this or possible other origins.

Check those links:

http://www.behindthename.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquin

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=Wekeen

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=Waukegan

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=books/fr/chondath

http://www.stanford.edu/~frimicc/D&D/gods/waukeen.html

http://www.forgottenkingdoms.com/deities/waukeen.shtml

http://www.bsa-gyc.org/sections/districts/Waukeen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waukeen

http://www.electricearl.com/campi-25.html

You can find in them some interesting quotes:

Jack "Waukeen" Cochran (Jackie Lee to many) ... was proud of his American-Indian heritage and in the 1970's he adopted the name "Waukeen."

Waukeen is the fictional goddess of coins and wealth in the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting of Forgotten Realms. Waukeen or The Merchant's Friend, rules over deals done above and below the table. She believes that merchantile trade is the best road to enrichment. She frowns upon destroying good trade goods, and favours those who propogate no malicious rumors that could harm someone's commerce.

The Church of Waukeen: Better known for sponsoring adventuring companies that present a reasonable prospect of returning a profit and promise a minimum twenty-percent tithe to the church, the church of Waukeen, goddess of trade, money, and wealth, is also known to sponsor mercenary companies.

Wau·ke·gan   A city of northeast Illinois on Lake Michigan north of Chicago. A major lake port, Waukegan is also an industrial center. Population: 69,392.

Wekeen
We-keen  The meadow pipit. [Prov. Eng.]

 

[nicksims]

My wife and I had a bit of a disagreement on the naming or our one and only daughter. I quickly made it clear that under no cirumstance would I allow any such nonsense to be had with my daughter's name (to know me is to understand that most stuff doesn't really bother me so the gruff, fatherly "NO" makes me laugh).

What did the loving mother or our daughter want the middle name to be? Guess. Go ahead. Guess.

Yep. That was it. I'm not kidding. She wanted our daughter to entertain people all her life with the middle name, "Guess". So when people ask, she could respond, like most children, with the challenge- and in my opinion a lifetime of annoying conversations. And were she to become a teenager with this ball and chain, I can just hear the screaming of how could you do that to me! I just wasn't going to allow her to start life with a title embedded in the ridiculous. My daughter is now just over 4, has a beautiful name, and won't be saddled with inane introductions.
Nick

 

[jebenson]

Had our child been a girl, my wife wanted to name her Vena (after her grandmother) Gaye (after her best mentor). Having been a teenager at one time, I was able to come up with about 10 variations on that name - most of them lewd, crude and/or hurtful - in under a minute. Luckily we had a son, so problem averted. Whew!



I used to rock and roll every night and party every day. Then it was every other day. Now I'm lucky if I can find 30 minutes a week in which to get funky. - Homer Simpson

 

[AnotherHiggins]

nicksims: Good for you!

I tease my fiancée by telling her that I want our first child - either male or female - to be named San Luis Obispo. You know, like the city in California. It is just really fun to say. Plus, it would be nicely juxtaposed with my decidedly German last name.

*sigh* maybe it would have worked out if I had found a nice Latina girl. Oh well.

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[bassguy]

I have another odd name for you.

My Name is

Tal McMahon

I am american and my family has been for generations. Story goes my parents liked the name "Talbot" but had the forsight to see that "tal-Butt" would be a difficult 3rd grade. For this I thank them. Also i get 5 minutes of small talk in an introduction with very little effort. "... no its not short for anything.....Tal like 'Al' with a 'T'.....No not 'Tom McMahon', 'Tal McMahon'...

just a tidbit

bassguy

 

[BoxHead]

While visiting my father he was showing me the area and we were talking about this and that. The conversation turned to names and he explained that my middle name was 'David' because with the first name 'John', my initials would be J.D. He hoped it would inspire me to follow in the footsteps of J.D. Rockefeller.

We nearly drove off the road laughing when I explained I always thought my initials were cool because they were just like J.D. Salinger.

I think we both immediately understood why there had been so many disagreements over the previous 42 years.





John

 

[CRilliterate]

I think pretty much every name can be bastartized (I just learned this word here somewhere) adding SHm - like Vena-SHMena, Steve-SHmeve etc, so why bother - name those kids anything - it will get screwed up anyway. I just realize you can't add SHm to my dd's name - Clare. HAHA!