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Post by Apple on Sept 5, 2014 23:02:52 GMT -5
What are the weirdest real names of people you actually know?
I had a friend who's dad was named Jack Frost.
I also knew a guy named Rip VanWinkle. He was a fun kind of crazy, and his parents, both being teachers, apparently weren't too worried about him getting teased.
My mom babysat for a lady who was going to name her son Nebuchadnezzar because it was a name in the Bible (King who threw three hebrews into a fire when they wouldn't bow to him), and, well, kids will make fun of any name if they want to. My mom convinced her it was a bad idea, that yes, kids will find a way to make fun of "Josh" or "Jim" or whatever, but this was just setting the kid up. I can't remember what she ended up naming the boy, but it was not Nebuchadnezzar.
I know another man named Smokey--not a nickname, his real first name.
My son went to school with a kid who had a really odd name. Can't remember for sure, but I think it may have been Bojangles.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Sept 5, 2014 23:17:26 GMT -5
Hmmm. The only person I can think of is this chick I know that goes by Apple. Who does she think she is? A child of a famous person or something?!  I know people who have famous people's names. Both their first and last. But other than that I got nothing. |
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Post by billisonboard on Sept 5, 2014 23:33:51 GMT -5
There was a little kid in the last town I lived in who was named Kenis. I wonder, were his parents never in middle school?
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steff
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Post by steff on Sept 5, 2014 23:48:53 GMT -5
We have some great odd/old fashioned names on both sides of my family. We got an Ermyl, a Myrla, a Neama (Nee-am-ah), a Lesleve (les-la-vee & male), then the great sing song names...GayNell, Sue-Anne, & Joy Lynn. then there's the good Southern names..Beverly Jean, Barbara May, Dorothy June, & Paula Kaye, Virgil Lee, and of course Robert Wayne, Robert Norris, Robert Gene, & Robert Jesse James. There's a Robert Jesse James on BOTH sides of my family tree.
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Works4me
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Post by Works4me on Sept 6, 2014 2:27:50 GMT -5
Steff - so long as they are not the SAME Robert Jesse James on both sides of the family just try to think how much easier it makes greetings at family reunions. lol
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2014 4:36:29 GMT -5
There was a little kid in the last town I lived in who was named Kenis. I wonder, were his parents never in middle school? I knew an Enos. Nice guy, perfectly Biblical name, but yes, it rhymes with the name of a body part. |
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Post by plugginaway22 on Sept 6, 2014 7:07:07 GMT -5
true story, classmate of DD was Holden Johnston
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Post by TheHaitian on Sept 6, 2014 7:23:50 GMT -5
true story, classmate of DD was Holden Johnston OMG!!! That is so cruel lol! Made me spill my coffee I was laughing so hard. |
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Post by Blonde Granny on Sept 6, 2014 7:26:21 GMT -5
50 years ago I babysat for a little girl named Candy Treat.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2014 7:26:53 GMT -5
Just got a FB post from my flaky SIL (second wife of DH's brother)- their new great-grandson is named Phoequin. No, I DON'T know how to pronounce it!
I should also add that my preppy nephew and his wife named their twins Hudson (boy) and Eveleigh (girl).
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Post by swamp on Sept 6, 2014 7:36:15 GMT -5
Crystal Shanda Lear
jack daniels
kandi barre
mike hunt
imalso know an Amdromeda, and a Dorcas
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Post by zibazinski on Sept 6, 2014 7:41:11 GMT -5
Dewey Dick. My parents said his parents ought to be strung up.
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Post by TheHaitian on Sept 6, 2014 7:45:07 GMT -5
Dewey Dick. My parents said his parents ought to be strung up. I agree! lol! |
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Post by MJ2.0 on Sept 6, 2014 7:57:08 GMT -5
I knew a boy named Sergil in high school.
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Post by teen persuasion on Sept 6, 2014 8:11:28 GMT -5
Madaket
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Post by bookkeeper on Sept 6, 2014 8:21:23 GMT -5
Little boy in our neighborhood is named Cutter. His parents are in the cattle business, but really?
Cut 'em in, ride 'em out, Rawhide! |
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Sept 6, 2014 9:12:08 GMT -5
Forty + years ago, I took Social Security retirement apps from a "Harry Balls" ( no I am not making this up ) and a gent named " London Stanley Bridge." Who could ask for anything more ? They had the birth certificates to prove their names.
I also knew an elderly lady named Precious Love, who was in her 80's . Some people I worked with were making fun of her name, but I told them that it just showed that her mother must have loved her baby very much.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2014 9:14:18 GMT -5
Forty + years ago, I took Social Security retirement apps from a "Harry Balls" My Mom used to work with a Harry Butts. Everyone always thought she should marry the guy. Then they'd have been Harry and Rosy Butts. I know twins named Colby and Cheddar. Yeah...from Wisconsin. |
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Post by teen persuasion on Sept 6, 2014 9:38:58 GMT -5
Geologist friend named her boys Stone, Slate, Clayton, and Colton. The last two often drop the "ton" off the names.
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Post by MJ2.0 on Sept 6, 2014 9:45:21 GMT -5
Omg, how could I forget about the academic advisor in college named Muffin Lord?
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teen persuasion
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Post by teen persuasion on Sept 6, 2014 9:48:32 GMT -5
Muffin Lord? Guess that trumps my advisor: Penny Lipps.
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Nazgul Girl
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Sept 6, 2014 9:56:33 GMT -5
Wow - Muffin Lord. For sure. Yes. Gag. Quite funny.
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Post by alabamagal on Sept 6, 2014 10:13:29 GMT -5
Used to work and go to church with a lady named Dot Staines (her married name)
Used to work with a guy who's last name was Ick. No first name would be good with that.
Another guy last name Annis. I would pronounce with the short A sound, but he pronounced like anus
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Sept 6, 2014 10:16:41 GMT -5
There used to be a lady that I called every so often at Blue Cross whose name was Chlorine Presley. I had forgotten about her. She was pretty cool, too, as long as you didn't mess with her. |
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Post by The Home 6 on Sept 6, 2014 10:53:56 GMT -5
There is a boy in the preschool here named Leonidas. THIS IS SPARTA!!!
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Post by shanendoah on Sept 6, 2014 11:47:35 GMT -5
Brother's prom date: Candy Cane
older sister of a classmate of mine (8th & 9th grades): Anita Boner
girl in high school with me: Cinnamon Coffee
daughter of a friend (first and middle names): Ruthless Destiny (I should add here, I love her name. For those of us who knew her father, and knew his dreams for her, it is the perfect name. And she has grown into an amazing young woman.)
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Sept 6, 2014 12:07:02 GMT -5
My grandmothers' first names were Orpha and Benson Mae. Do those qualify ?  |
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Post by Peace77 on Sept 6, 2014 12:39:39 GMT -5
I knew a lady named Lee and she married a man who name was Lee and so became: Lee Lee.
Last month, I met a lady named Wendy Darling. I guess her parents were Peter Pan fans.
There is a lady I met online named Harvie.
One of DH's students is named Orit.
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Post by busymom on Sept 6, 2014 13:06:51 GMT -5
Back in my office job days, I met a gentleman named Angus. Yes, he was raised in Texas...
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Post by teen persuasion on Sept 6, 2014 13:40:53 GMT -5
Back in my office job days, I met a gentleman named Angus. Yes, he was raised in Texas... Now, Angus makes me think of Scotland. Or MacGyver. |
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