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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2014 2:07:19 GMT
There is a dentist named Dr. Payne and a doctor named Dr. Heal (I went to school with 2 of his children and I asked if their dad was a doctor and they told me he was...)
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Post by SabrinaM on Oct 29, 2014 2:11:33 GMT
Seriously, it was a joke. Lighten up. My friend works in a family court and hears all kinds of names. Why you think NO ONE could possibly have that name is beyond me. Did you ever think that people hear that and then decide it would be great to name their kid that? Geez. It's still not sinking in READ THE SNOPES ARTICLE There is no record of anyone with that name. No birth certificate, no social security, no court record with that name. IT IS AN URBAN LEGEND. In our society we keep records. If someone had that name a record would exist. And BTW, it's annoying when you mess with the quoted the way you do so the author of the quotes doesn't show up. Why do that? You are very easily annoyed and get righteously indignant about the silliest things, I've noticed. Bowel movements, teens watching porn and now names. ?? |
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Post by myshelly on Oct 29, 2014 2:21:16 GMT
It's still not sinking in READ THE SNOPES ARTICLE There is no record of anyone with that name. No birth certificate, no social security, no court record with that name. IT IS AN URBAN LEGEND. In our society we keep records. If someone had that name a record would exist. And BTW, it's annoying when you mess with the quoted the way you do so the author of the quotes doesn't show up. Why do that? You are very easily annoyed and get righteously indignant about the silliest things, I've noticed. Bowel movements, teens watching porn and now names. ?? I'm not sure why you would take my posts on the teen porn or the BM thread as being indignant. They don't read that way to me at all and I didn't feel that way. |
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Post by Dani-Mani on Oct 29, 2014 2:25:13 GMT
As much as it comes up here, is expect it to be in the top 100 baby names... |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2014 3:36:20 GMT
When I was a teacher I had a student named "Asswad" (don't remember the exact spelling). And yes . . . he was one!!! And his "brother" ashcan worked at our local Winco. Some names don't translate well. Blahdina is my most favorite barista. I am sure her name must mean something else then Little drab. |
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Post by Olan on Oct 29, 2014 3:56:41 GMT
My DH's uncle was named Royal King. The first boy I kissed was named Royal. He was a Jr. |
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Post by kristalina on Oct 29, 2014 4:11:38 GMT
There's a substitute teacher at the Jr. High my girls went to named Richard Licter . dick Licter.
I do business with a guy named Dick Ryder.
I also know a guy with the last name of Turnipseed. It was just weird to me.
I met a lady named Queenie once.
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Post by k8smom on Oct 29, 2014 4:48:17 GMT
My ex husband grew up in Pasco WA and knew of a coach named Dick Hair. (Google it, it was his real name, poor fella.) I went to grade school with a boy named Bill Boner. He recently sent me a friend request on Facebook and is now Bill Bonner. Good call. I work with a lady named Kimball, and people tend to think her name is Kim Ball. My little sister's name is Summers Aryn and when she was born and my parents named her that (hippies in the 70s) I almost died of embarrassment. People teased that it sounded like a fem-hygiene product.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2014 4:48:46 GMT
At the hospital in Elmira was Dr good and if he was not on call, you got Dr goodenough.
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Post by k8smom on Oct 29, 2014 4:51:02 GMT
My DH's uncle was named Royal King. The first boy I kissed was named Royal. He was a Jr. Hey! Royal was my paternal grandfather's name and my father's name was Roy. We toyed with the idea of using it for our son as a middle name, but it sounded too pretentious. |
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Post by ComplicatedLady on Oct 29, 2014 4:52:05 GMT
The strangest one I'm remembering right now is Sir Braden Something Something. His first name was Sir and he had three middle names. I can only remember Sir Braden because that's what they were calling him at the time. He was just an innocent baby when I knew him. He has to be at least 12 by now.
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Post by mom2tah on Oct 29, 2014 5:16:50 GMT
We had a little boy at my school named Luke Sky Walker.
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Post by bothmykidsrbrats on Oct 29, 2014 5:35:47 GMT
I grew up with the sisters, Sunday and Cinnamon Sugar, DS has a friend named Mystery Paine, and both of my kids have friends that have the same first and last name, for different reasons. One to carry on a family name, and one was given his mothers maiden name as his first name, and then adopted by his maternal grandparents in 2nd grade. Both are given the choice to go by their first and middle name, instead of their name x2, and both decline (7th and 10th graders). I worked with a guy named (Thaddeus) Tad Bright III. He prayed he would have only daughters.
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Post by azredhead on Oct 29, 2014 6:03:14 GMT
When I was in college, I went to a dentist whose name was Dr. Dencher. I always wondered if he chose his career path because his name seemed to predetermine it. Maybe. I had a podietrist named Dr. Foote. I asked and he said his name definitely had a role in choosing his specialty. I was just thinking of FIL former podiatrist with the same name, his spelling though did not have an e. That's the only one I can think of at the moment. |
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Post by zella on Oct 29, 2014 8:10:40 GMT
Regarding the idea that there is a record of all names. Yes, but I'm not sure it's accessible. The SSA lists the top names given to babies. They have recently started giving the top 7000. But there are many other names given to babies; when they are very unusual the names aren't released by the social security administration. I don't know of any other source for all names.
I've personally known the following.
Anna Mull (a baby I cared for in a postpartum unit)
Misty Rayne (first and middle; my ex's niece)
Sisters named Honestly and Heavenly (friends of my daughter, and I was friends with the mom)
Bambi Stagg (worked tech crew in a play I was in; her father was an ass, and thought his daughter's name was funny).
Oh. One more. Didn't know this person myself, but her mom PROUDLY posted her name frequently on a baby name board.
Bahlee Nackhole
Say it a few times. You'll get it. Maybe.
Stupid woman.
Edited to add: Oh my word! Bambi Stagg still has that name, and she is a lighting technician for the Arizona Opera Company. Wow! It's funny, because she did lighting on the show when we met, and she was only 17 at the time; I guess she found her calling at a young age. I also found another, much younger, Bambi Stagg.
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Post by gar on Oct 29, 2014 9:17:52 GMT
You are very easily annoyed and get righteously indignant about the silliest things, I've noticed. Bowel movements, teens watching porn and now names. ?? I'm not sure why you would take my posts on the teen porn or the BM thread as being indignant. They don't read that way to me at all and I didn't feel that way. And pasties  Maybe there's something in your writing style that gives that impression, since I'm not alone in that thought  I'm not having a dig - I was wrong and you were right in the pasty thread but the feeling was the same. |
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Post by bumble on Oct 29, 2014 10:09:15 GMT
I met a Gene Poole (pronounced "pool") just last week.
I know kids named Patience, Bishop, Admire and Treasure.
Oh, and I've known of a Dick Bone for a long time.
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Post by SuPeaNatural on Oct 29, 2014 11:44:37 GMT
I know 2 Pheonix's and a Halcyon (all boys aged under 6). Pheonix I've heard a few times before, but Halcyon is a first for me.
A teacher of mine at high school was Dianne Young (nickname Di). I hope she didn't. |
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Oct 29, 2014 11:51:05 GMT
I work as a store assistant. A couple of weeks ago there was a small girl running amok, climbing on shelves and swinging on the till gates. Her mother was shouting at her "Nevaeh. Nevaeh. Nevaeh stop that. Nevaeh come here. Put that down Nevaeh." It just went on and on. I wouldn't have known the name unless I'd read it on the net.
I know this is illogical of me and my friends, but we're in agreement that if a kid has a superlative name, it makes bad behaviour seem worse than it is - please note! LOL
Initials are something to consider too. I went to school with a Frances Thomas. It was only years later that it came out that her middle names were Ann Russell. Yeah, I wouldn't have admitted that either. Poor girl.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Oct 29, 2014 12:05:56 GMT
Oh I forgot. I worked with a Roger Cox who called his son John Thomas, and also a Bernie Dick. My DH worked with Richard Head (one of the bosses and quite defensive about it) and Michael Hunt. Not at the same time. My mother was a midwife and once talked a new mother out of calling her baby Kimberly Clark. She had seen the name "somewhere" and thought it was pretty. Yes dear, you saw it on the sanitary-ware dispenser in the bathrooms.  |
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Post by farmdpea on Oct 29, 2014 12:21:06 GMT
King David (last name) Lyrik (lyric, I suppose?) Jehovah Sparki , Princess Heaven has kids now (with her last name), and their names are unusual as well. I want to say she has a daughter named Angel Heaven, but I'm not positive. |
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Post by oldcrow on Oct 29, 2014 12:22:44 GMT
I've read about a doctor and he had the very unfortunate last name Death. Apparantly he insisted it was pronounced Deeth. (I read it in an old book about true crime, so this doctor lived around 1900a.d.) There is a surgeon in the city I used to live in with that name and he pronounces it Deeth. |
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Post by KikiPea on Oct 29, 2014 12:26:18 GMT
We went to look at the new Mustangs last night and the salesman's name was Chayne (Pronounced Shane). We had no idea until he handed us his card. Different, for sure.
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Post by giatocj on Oct 29, 2014 12:27:38 GMT
My dad had an uncle named Rebel (LOVE that name!), and my grandmother's middle name was Patch (no one knows why or where it came from). I wanted to use that for my DD's middle name as well, but Gram pitched such a fit because she hated it so much, that I went with Lyn instead  |
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Post by Nanner on Oct 29, 2014 12:59:00 GMT
The strangest I've personally met was Remember.
I did know a family whose sons were John, Don, Ron and Shawn, though. And their last name rhymed with the first names
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Post by KikiPea on Oct 29, 2014 13:01:10 GMT
I also went to school with a Star and a William Bill. In daycare, I had a Gray. He was a sweety and I loved his name.
Not too odd, but I also had a girl in daycare named Payton.
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Post by lbp on Oct 29, 2014 13:01:48 GMT
I worked in collections for years and have came across Chaquita Cheese Princess Cinderella Harry Butt Monday Morning and his brother Tuesday Morning live down the road from my aunt and uncle. Two very colorful characters who love to wear red and lime green suits! And the girl at Subway last week was Tokhknee. She pronounced it Tawny. Oh and my great aunt was named Precious. She was never officially named and her family just called her "Our Precious" so when she went to get a Social Security number she just used Precious as her name. She didn't have a middle name either. My family is full of horrible names. My grandfather was Oakley Homer. On almost every census record it is listed as Oklahoma. His brothers are Charles Quarles, and Toby Obidiah. |
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Post by bc2ca on Oct 29, 2014 14:24:54 GMT
Bambi Stagg (worked tech crew in a play I was in; her father was an ass, and thought his daughter's name was funny). My sister went through k-12 with a Hart Buck and I still remember when we all figured out his name was "deer deer". |
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Post by 4mom on Oct 29, 2014 14:28:29 GMT
I think that all kids should have unique names, but some are just over the top.
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Post by melanell on Oct 29, 2014 14:41:02 GMT
There is a dentist at the dental practice I go to who's last name is Coffin. I figure it was a good idea for him to go into dentistry and not the medical field with a last name like that. DH's family tree has some Coffins on it. My son jokingly refers to my family history work as working with "dead people", so when I work on that branch I tell him I'm working on dead people & Coffins. |
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Maybe there's something in your writing style that gives that impression, since I'm not alone in that thought 
I'm not having a dig - I was wrong and you were right in the pasty thread but the feeling was the same.
