kids names

smoothshaver · Post by **smoothshaver** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:09 pm

RJ wrote:I think the rules should include checking the initials for embarassing new words. For instance, Francias Anthony Gillespie might find himself the butt of a few jokes.

I've read that Sir Arthur Sullivan - of Gilbert and Sullivan - eschewed his middle name (Seymour) for that very reason.

notthesharpest · Post by **notthesharpest** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:13 pm

What about Gilbert? His middle name was Schwenck!

Edit: I think I spelled it wrong the first time.

D.Irving79 · Post by **D.Irving79** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:20 pm

and WHY has no one mentioned the race car driver dick trickle ?

Trumperman · Post by **Trumperman** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:54 pm

I knew a guy from New Jersey named Frank Footer. (swear to God!) He may be in the Lyndhurst phone book as far as I know.

Regards,

Bill

rustyblade · Post by **rustyblade** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:54 pm

D.Irving79 wrote:and WHY has no one mentioned the race car driver dick trickle ?

Not sure who wins, him or Dick Pound of the Olympic committee.

D.Irving79 · Post by **D.Irving79** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:26 pm

rustyblade wrote:
D.Irving79 wrote:and WHY has no one mentioned the race car driver dick trickle ?

Not sure who wins, him or Dick Pound of the Olympic committee.

wow. just wow.

hahahahahaha.

i_shaved_something · Post by **i_shaved_something** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:03 pm

There's a gynecologist here in the DC area named Harry C. Beaver.

i_shaved_something · Post by **i_shaved_something** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:12 pm

Ambrosia wrote:i sometimes give my goldfish stupid names...

What have you named your goldfish?

jww · Post by **jww** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:07 am

All three of our children have quite traditional names using standard biblical spelling. It sometimes causes a bit of angst for our daughter as her name is spelled r-e-b-e-k-a-h. She usually gets cca instead of kah. She has no issues with our shortened versions of her name:
Bekah - friends of ours had a Rebekah and called her Bekah, and we liked that.
Becks - after a certain once-great footballer who lined up in the #7 shirt for our beloved United - given her by a friend of ours from Bournemouth England. He was a fan - and it's stuck over the years.

MrSmooth · Post by **MrSmooth** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:15 am

There is an orthodontist office I used to drive by in Albuquerque... he is still there I believe... Dr. Ken Hurt.

I used to laugh every time I'd drive by.

Then there are normal names, I knew a guy, "Donald Robert Lastname the 2nd."

He was from the South. His family all called him Don Bob Two.

D.Irving79 · Post by **D.Irving79** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:31 am

MrSmooth wrote:There is an orthodontist office I used to drive by in Albuquerque... he is still there I believe... Dr. Ken Hurt.

I used to laugh every time I'd drive by.

Then there are normal names, I knew a guy, "Donald Robert Lastname the 2nd."

He was from the South. His family all called him Don Bob Two.

hahahahaha

this sort of reminded me of a childhood friend named ritchie horn. we used to call him dick trumpet and he used to get REALLY mad.

Post by **ichabod** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:00 pm

jww wrote:All three of our children have quite traditional names using standard biblical spelling. It sometimes causes a bit of angst for our daughter as her name is spelled r-e-b-e-k-a-h. She usually gets cca instead of kah. She has no issues with our shortened versions of her name:
Bekah - friends of ours had a Rebekah and called her Bekah, and we liked that.
Becks - after a certain once-great footballer who lined up in the #7 shirt for our beloved United - given her by a friend of ours from Bournemouth England. He was a fan - and it's stuck over the years.

A couple down the street from us just had a baby boy and named him Beckham. I can't remember if that's the first or middle name, but it's definitely one of the two.

jww · Post by **jww** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:48 pm

TorzJohnson wrote:
jww wrote:I actually have 4 given names -- it's a long story, but suffice it to say that my maternal grandmother had royal aspirations.

I hated my name as a child and more-so as a teen. Now that I have become older, wiser, and curmudgeonly, it's less of an issue. The bigger problem for me personally is the spelling of my name, which is frequently incorrect. It drives me nuts when people see my name in a signature in an email and still insist on mis-spelling Wendell. How hard is it to copy and paste, really??

And then, there's the neighbor who has lived beside us for 10 years now - he somehow got my name as Weldon -- and still cracks the horrible Well Done, Weldon puns every now and then. And this despite my wife shouting my name outside extra loud when he is in his yard.... Oh well, such is life.
You know, Weldon, those people who spell your name wrong probably thought you spelled your own name wrong and were "correcting" it for you.

Very funny ...... really, it is!

jww · Post by **jww** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:50 pm

ichabod wrote:
jww wrote:All three of our children have quite traditional names using standard biblical spelling. It sometimes causes a bit of angst for our daughter as her name is spelled r-e-b-e-k-a-h. She usually gets cca instead of kah. She has no issues with our shortened versions of her name:
Bekah - friends of ours had a Rebekah and called her Bekah, and we liked that.
Becks - after a certain once-great footballer who lined up in the #7 shirt for our beloved United - given her by a friend of ours from Bournemouth England. He was a fan - and it's stuck over the years.
A couple down the street from us just had a baby boy and named him Beckham. I can't remember if that's the first or middle name, but it's definitely one of the two.

Interesting - I certainly wouldn't have come up with Becks (or Beckham) as a name, but it's good as a nick-name/term of endearment.

Lyrt · Post by **Lyrt** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 5:29 am

I have a Japanese first name, an Italian middle name and a German last name.

drumana · Post by **drumana** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 6:02 am

One of my music books is authored by Dick Hymen

Also, my high school music teacher's name was Staff Horne

... AND, this is hard to believe but tis' true, my gym teacher's name in high school was Jim Sok.

notthesharpest · Post by **notthesharpest** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:02 am

Lyrt wrote:I have a Japanese first name, an Italian middle name and a German last name.

I'm happy to hear that, as long as your parents are one Swiss and one Japanese, or something like that, and not both Turkish.

jww · Post by **jww** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:40 am

GA Russell wrote:I have felt for years that it is a form of child abuse for parents to give their children names which are made up words. It requires the child to spell his name for everyone for his entire life.

Jukkie · Post by **Jukkie** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:22 pm

My geography and english teachers in highschool used to make fun of this rich and spoiled girl named "Hope". Her parents obviously wanted to live in a Disney movie by naming her that, and all the teachers thought she, and her parents were completely pathetic.

My english teacher especially made fun of the name, asking constantly "What were your parents thinking? Hope for what? Are you going to bring us world peace? Don't worry class, you'll all do fine on next week's test, because we have Hope. And if you don't, we'll have to lose Hope, sorry Hope."

notthesharpest · Post by **notthesharpest** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 5:40 pm

(slightly off topic)
We have a town with that name.

"When you know you're beyond Hope, turn right."

SMF

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