At work there's an Anita Leigh that is pronounced "lay".
It's her married name. Her maiden name was Cox :eek:
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At work there's an Anita Leigh that is pronounced "lay".
It's her married name. Her maiden name was Cox :eek:
OK, copied from yellowbook.com:
Anita Mann
100 Dorset C
Boca Raton, FL 33434-3008
I'm not making this up...I met her in college...and this is a name you don't forget.
Years ago, just before vacation, Silverdaughter (at about age 7) decided we should have vacation names.Quote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
We would be the Cola family.
Silverdaugher would be "Have'a Pepsi"...cola
Silver would be "Coca"...cola
I'd be "R C"...cola, and
SilverSon would be "Un"...cola...but we'd call him "Sprite" as a nickname.
The problem: FOR TWO YEARS, she introduced herself to people as "Have'a" and for a while, I was truly convinced she would successfully change her name as an adult ;-) that's my girl!
I once worked with a guy named Jack Goff (say it fast). What were his parents thinking? My dad was a junior high teacher and had him as a student. He said the poor guy was teased constantly.
The counselor at the middle school nearby is named Mrs. Hollopeter. Her husband, Mr. Hollopeter, runs the soccer league. Don't you wonder what they joke about in bed?
Karen
At least she didn't hyphenate when she got married! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by teigyr
Hey, just wait. She's not yet married and having kids of her own! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Silver
Certainly there must be plenty of cyclists out there with daughters named Cadence?
My friend's husband wanted to have a bunch of boys so he could name them:
Hunter
Fisher
Trapper
Skinner
Gunnar
and there was one more but I can't remember it
But instead, they had a girl and named her Katie.
My first college roommate (for one week) was named El Gardo
El Gardo had three brothers:
- El Gringo
- El Julio AND
- Joe Junior
There were from Opelika, Alabama
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Originally Posted by sara
Oh, I actually like that!
My cousin is married to a Storm. He's actually a very laid back guy.
My sister's mother-in-law is named Sky. ( I actually like it)
My dad's middle name is Carroll. I don't know what the origins of that was.
My mother's stepmother's was Eula Mae (deep South)
yeah, my maiden last name/married last name is quite unfortunate. All my life I dreamed that I'd marry someone with a normal last name like Smith or Jones or Adams. But no! Love triumphs! I married someone with a worse last name than my own.
Silver, you're killing us. How can we find out what your name/s is/are
Silver Pepperbottle Pepperbottles?
Silver Fostlegrabber Fostergrabbles?
I mean the suspense is killing me.
Silver Woodcock Cox?
(a coworker of mine has hyphenated her last name which is : Wolff-Howell. )
after being just Howell for years, she had to improve it!! :eek:
Silver Butt Butz?Quote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
This made me think of my SO's college friend. Her name is Salvation (odd but still manageable) but her brother's name is....wait for it....Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Silver
PraiseGod
Now, I understand being religious and all....but really...why his parents named him this I will never know. And yes, he still goes by it (he's in his 20's)
LOL!!!!! Wrong body part!!Quote:
Originally Posted by IFjane
But the real thing will never be as good as what you all have invented!!!!!! I'll PM y'all.
Actually, I'd really like the first name Silver.
Oh, also, I should mention that my initials are E.T. like the movie.
PraiseGod..........Oh my!
so.....does Mr. Silver ever text you when you are on a bike ride, "E.T. phone home" ?? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by silver
Oh no! don't give him ideas. Actually he's never done that. The phone home thing has worn off a bit, but was really big when the movie was first out. And the movie predates cell phones. Jeez, I'm old.Quote:
Originally Posted by IFjane
He does often refer to me as E.T.
Silver Toe-Toes? :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by silver
Cool!
~T~
Do you remember the Glen Campbell song, "Where's the Playground, Susan?"Quote:
Originally Posted by silver
I had to live through that!
My mother-in-law's name is Donnie Lula Mae. I never thought of Florida as "South", but apparently she was raised Deep South.
The other day we saw a brag sticker on the back of someone's giant SUV. You know the kind...The name of the kid and the chosen sport that they excel (or suck) at.
The kids name, I kid you not, was Godly. (I think they don't know how sacrilegious it could be considered by some.)
But can you imagine having a big brother named Godly?
"My brother thinks he's God!"
"Well, as a matter of fact, I AM!"
Karen
p.s. (My son has never had the "honor" of a brag sticker on my car, because I don't want any average stranger knowing all the names of my kids and where they can find them on any given Saturday--at the ballpark. :eek: And then with a kid named God?? please.)
Well at least anybody standing next to him is clean. 'Specially if his last name is Ness.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuckervill
Heh-heh-heh. Shouldn't be too hard to find in these parts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duck on Wheels
Down in the Pine Bluff school system there's a young lady named "Sh'iThead", pronounced "sha-THEED..."
My friend the history teacher down there was calling roll the first day of class when he came to that one, and stopped to ask, "Miss Smith, just how do you pronounce your name?"
Tom
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Originally Posted by Duck on Wheels
Excellent!
K.
OMG! I just figured this one out:eek: :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by PscyclePath
That's absolutely unforgivable for the parents to have done that:(
Is her sister's name La Trina?
Too clever :DQuote:
Originally Posted by zencentury
Met a "Unique" today running the cash register at the drug store. Had to restrain myself from shouting, "Hey, I heard about your name on my bike club forum!!!"
Uh, yeah....
Ummm..Remind me not to read this thread while eating lunch..:o
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand couple is looking to call their newborn son Superman -- but only because their chosen name of 4Real has been rejected by the government registry.
You have to get permission to use a name? I didn't know that. Hope some NZer's can explain.
it probably explained in the article. There IS a number in the rejected name.
In Australia the registrar can reject names for certain reasons. Have a look at the link below:Quote:
Originally Posted by silver
http://www.abc.net.au/canberra/stories/s1987769.htm
There's a book called Freakonomics, which I highly recommend, that has a whole section on names (and naming data). A couple of highlights:
A woman named her daughter Temptress, didn't know what the word meant. This came up at the daughter's hearing on prostitution charges.
A man named his son Winner, thinking this was a sure way to guarantee success for the child. Later, he named a subsequent son Loser. The book says something along the lines that Winner's most impressive acheivement was the length of the list of crimes he'd been charged with . . . Meanwhile Loser went on to become a well respected sergeant (or detective) with an overall contented life. His friends and coworkers had a hard time calling him Loser, I think it said he went by Lou or some such thing.
There is also a nice list of unbelievable names taken from public records, including things like Doctor, Lawyer, etc.
There is a tv reporter here whose name is "my miracle" and my son had a classmate called "miracle". A friend of mine called her (6th and last) Malachi ("my angel").
My neighbors are 3 generations living together. Grandma, my age: Josephine.
Daughter; my son's age; Cassandra. Baby son; Ananais. And I hear them calling him and talking to him, carefully pronouncing all the syllables.. and I wonder; what are they going to call him in the school yard??
Anna? Annie? Nias?
ps, didn't mean to imply there were no men in the house, there are but they have boring names!
Robbie (Predictor-Lotto) McEwen's son is called Ewen!
I like the name Anais for a woman(and i like Anais Nin) Hopefully he'll go by Nais (like in mayonnaise)
Ewen McEwan. It makes me dizzy to see it written. Michael? Mick?
At least it's not Euan McEuan!
I have just read the whole of this thread for the first time, and two pages later I am still smirking about this one, Dream!Quote:
Originally Posted by Livin the Dream
Seriously? I missed this... just goes to show that Kiwis can be dorks too! (I can say this cause I am one - a Kiwi that is - hope i'm not a dork! :p )Quote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
Great thread!
I'll have to collect some of the ones from the Bay and post them here.
We would have liked to name our children in Scots Gaelic (their blood lines are about 3/4 Highlander), but settled for English equivilents...
Seoniach, Ruaridh, Donachidh for example - they would have been sentenced their whole lives to saying... its said like this... its spelt like that...
I've only gotten to page three of this thread but I had to post. Three of the children I taught Sunday school to Were named priest, priestess, and Furious. They also had a brother named... Edward.
This may be tmi but we have a running joke that if I'm pregnant (and I want to be) we'll call our child Parker because of how it was concieved.
Yep! "Hemi D":D :D :D :D
We'll be posting more from the Sunday Paper in about 12 hours!:eek:
I just found this on the 'net at babyfit.com. A forum discussing unusual baby names...someone posted:
Female (pronounced fuh-malley). Her mom thought the hospital had named the baby for her when she was born.