fountainhouse
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posted on January 23, 2001 08:38:50 PM
I went to grade school with a girl named Candi Disch, poor thing.
This thread reminded me of the old SNL skit making fun of the names parents give their kids. Some of them were hilarious, like Gyna-Lotrimin, Chlamydia, etc.
For some reason, I'm also reminded of a news article I once read that reported that a large number of prison inmates have unusual first names.
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mybiddness
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posted on January 23, 2001 08:49:07 PM
The funniest name I ever came across was an eBay customer named Lacey Good-Fuchs. I was really glad that I saw that in email instead of over the phone or in person.
Sometimes I really wonder why people don't change their name.
I have a sis who spells all of her kids names with very unusual spellings. Then she gets mad when I can't remember how to spell them.
Not paranoid anywhere else but here!
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SkorpioGal
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posted on January 23, 2001 08:51:54 PM
Hello, all!
I was a teacher, and I can tell you that I encountered some VERY interesting (if difficult to pronounce) names...
Let me think:
Twins: Emerald and Forest Green,
Sterling Silver,
I had THREE girls called Unique in ONE class,
Twins: Male and Female (pronounced Mah-lee and Fe-Mah-lee),
and, no, I am NOT kidding about this one, I was TERRIFIED to even GUESS how to say it:
Syphillis (pronounced Sih-FELL-is)
Ahhhh....how I longed for the days of classes full of Michaels, Christophers, Jennifers, and Ashleys.....
Imagine: and you thought a teacher's job isn't ALL that demanding!
---SkorpioGal :P
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ours4you
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posted on January 23, 2001 08:56:52 PM
This is one of the funniest threads I have read recently.
Peter Handler, this is funny!
Phuk Eu, I am giggling!!
When I was about 12 years old a friend of mine had a dad named Richard and we would absoluty just crack up when ever her mom would yell for "Dick". I don't know why but at 36 it is still a little funny.
I guess I am quite easily entertained so PLEASE keep this thread going!
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victoria
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posted on January 23, 2001 08:58:10 PM
During the early 80's, there was some race friction on the unit I was stationed at.
The entire unit was required to attend diversity training.
I want to be clear that the Coast Guard is ethnically diverse, as was my unit. There were only 12 women and about 150 men.
There were 10 1st class, which I was the only female. We 1st class got along pretty good, not friends, but cordial.
Some of us were hanging around the outside of the building before training was to start, having a smoke. Almost all of us smoked. One of the guys, Moses, an engineer, was a rather muscular black man, 6' 8" 200lbs to my 5' 8" 120 lbs. As the instructor passed us to get into the bldg, Moses says to me "Give me a light, Honkey". Which I do. Should I mention that I'm blonde?
Anyway, the instructor (tells me later) that he knew our crew was in big trouble, when people felt free to act like that in uniform, in public.
Any of you you've ever served, know that it's pretty normal for people to address each other by last names. My name was Honkey.
Maybe you had to be there.
That's not my name anymore but I considered it better than my maiden name which was 13 letters long and unpronounceable if you had ever seen it written. All the consonants in the middle were silent, but most people tried to say them anyway, and ended up swallowing their tongues.
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zeldas
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posted on January 23, 2001 08:58:35 PM
Back in Grade school I had two friends by the name of
Lana Fingerhut &
JoAne Schmuckler
OOps I hope I can saw that on AW but they were legitimate names honest!
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bunnicula
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posted on January 23, 2001 09:08:42 PM
There was a woman in one of my college classes whose name was Bunny. I ask you. Now, she was blonde, blue-eyed, gorgeous & had a <ahem> *well* endowed figure. Add all that to the name "Bunny" and you can imagine some of the stuff she had to put up with. Many people automatically assumed she was an idiot. She told me that lots of guys assumed she was "easy." She ended up legally changing her name when she hit 21.
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ubiedaman
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posted on January 23, 2001 09:10:31 PM
Michael Hunt used to play pro ball for the MN Vikings...he would get REAL p**sed(monerate me) if he was called "Mike"
Keith
I assume full responsibility for my actions, except
the ones that are someone else's fault.
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even59
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posted on January 23, 2001 09:18:27 PM
Oh My GAWD Syphilis?????!!!
And Ms. Honkey that is a HIIIlarious storey!!!
3???? Uniques????
I always get annoyed when mommies and daddys give their twins the rhyming names...bad enough they make the poor little tykes wear the same clothes like little book-ends.
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even59
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posted on January 23, 2001 09:20:09 PM
I'm not kidding..it was Peter Handler Liquors...big huge sign on his store...and doesn't a peter boyle sound juuuust a bit painful????
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nutspec
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posted on January 23, 2001 10:19:17 PM
Senator Dale Bumpers from Arkansas named his poor girl - - Bonnie
Bonnie Bumpers
GAD
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cmbtboots
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posted on January 23, 2001 10:24:12 PM
Can you imagine going through life with the name Dick Butkis (SP????) Good thing he is a big guy.
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even59
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posted on January 23, 2001 10:26:33 PM
Speaking of liquor...
I can't remember where I heard this but apparently in the 1850's or there abouts there was a saloon in Wyoming or somewhere that had signs above the front door saying:
Liquor in the front.
Poker in the back.
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bunnicula
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posted on January 23, 2001 10:27:43 PM
One of the men in my bowling league has an interesting last name: Assman. Now, *he* must have had an interesting childhood...
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debbielennon
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posted on January 23, 2001 10:47:46 PM
There's a doctor in town by the name of Wahba W. Wahba. I'm afraid to guess what the middle W stands for...
All I can think of when I drive past his office is downtown Julie Brown saying "wubbawubbawubba".
Oh--and a personnel rep I used to work with had the unfortunate name Liz Hore. Man, I hated paging her in the store!!
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xlhgrl
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posted on January 23, 2001 11:17:56 PM
I don't know anyone with a weird name, but there is a bar/hotel up here called Skinny Dick's Halfway Inn.
[ edited by xlhgrl on Jan 24, 2001 12:04 AM ]
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mrssantaclaus
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posted on January 24, 2001 12:17:37 AM
I have an employee named Pete Rose
Had a friend in school named Jimmy Stewart. Was adopted and became Jim Jones.
But my favorite -- the Lear family named their daughter Krystal Shanda.
Krystal Shanda Lear
and ....
In the home of Penguin fans ....
My cat's name is
LeMeow (pronounced Lemieux)
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Shadowcat
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posted on January 24, 2001 03:42:54 AM
Many moons ago, I knew a couple guys with the names Christopher Columbus and Tim Conway(I am not making this up). Well, one night, Chris and Tim were out cruising and they were stopped by a police officer. When the officer asked their names, they told them. The cop didn't believe them-in fact, he thought they were being smart alecks(not his word, according to my friends)-and hauled them in to the station. Their parents had to go down to the station, birth certificates in hands, to prove their children's names were what they said they were.
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Meya
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posted on January 24, 2001 03:54:46 AM
I remembered some more names from High School...
A girl named Crystal Champagne
Another girl name Princess Diana (which was odd enough at the time to have a first name of Princess, but became real funny later on) She did get married, Diana was her maiden name.
Last summer when we took my Dad to the Cleveland Clinic, the whole family was there the first day in the Cath Lab waiting room. There were tons of patients sitting around waiting for their names to be called. They did page a Ben Dover, first saying it Benjemin Dover, then the girl said Ben Dover.
My brother in law started chuckling, and pretty quick all 9 of us were losing it, including my parents Pastor. 
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zeldas
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posted on January 24, 2001 04:39:13 AM
and then there are the dentists called
Dr. Fillmore, Dr. Mangle, Dr. Ken Hurt,
Dr. B. Sick, Dr. Watamaniuk (what a
maniac), Dr. Lipp; Dr. Carey, Dr.
Nervo, Dr. Pulley., Dr. Hurt, Dr.
Brilliant; Dr. Ohno, Dr. Sweet, Dr.
Crownover, Dr. Yankum, Dr. Mantooth,
Dr. Les Plack
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roxw
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posted on January 24, 2001 06:15:58 AM
MICHAEL TORRES.... Okay it only took me 30 minutes to finally get that one! I am hysterical!!!!!!
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roxw
I'm learning to laugh! 
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truesmom
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posted on January 24, 2001 06:33:18 AM
I went to high school with a girl named Diamond Antoinette Sparkler. She just went by Di. I met a girl at college who was named Muffy Buffer, and a guy named Dirk Spearchucker.
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hellcat
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posted on January 24, 2001 07:38:14 AM
I feel so dumb...I have said "Michael Torres" over and over, as fast as I can...and I just don't get it...
Could someone please help me?
Beth
Madness takes a toll. Please use exact change.
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snowyegret
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posted on January 24, 2001 07:52:08 AM
Hellcat, I don't either.
But, I speak Spanish. Different pronunciation?
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mauimoods
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posted on January 24, 2001 08:14:19 AM
Beth...remember the Seinfeld show where he was trying to remember his ex girlfriends name that rhymed with DOLORES????
Im sitting here busting up, spraying coffee all over my monitor from imagining you folks hollering loudly MICHAEL TORRES over and over...and then MIKE HUNT. Imagine what the neighbors are thinking
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even59
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posted on January 24, 2001 08:45:06 AM
As my own dear Dad once said...it rhymes with smerpes....in this case it rhymes with... hmmm yes poor Dolores...
And on a personal note my own dear Aunt is named Alice Olive...and sees nothing funny about it!
I saw a grave stone for a family, one was named
Oda Erba and her brother was called Albert Edgel.
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noteye
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posted on January 24, 2001 08:57:09 AM
I used to know a lady named FONDA SNOW - if I remember right, she said she wasn't - fond of snow, that is.
noteye
A sad Texan once commented "I Wish it would rain, not so much for myself, I have seen rain before. But, for my 10 year old son."
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helnjoe
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posted on January 24, 2001 09:44:38 AM
When I worked in a department store I had a customer named Betty Hoar. I died everytime I had to say "Thank you Mrs. Hoar."
even59: THAT is too funny about your mother.
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hellcat
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posted on January 24, 2001 09:47:36 AM
Oh.
I get it...oh my.
Dum de dum dum.
Thank you...Beth
Madness takes a toll. Please use exact change.
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stusi
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posted on January 24, 2001 02:56:41 PM
i used to know a guy named Matthew Lipschitz. He didn't like the name so he had it legally changed to Robert Lipschitz. But seriously, i used to work with schools years ago and came across the following children's first names: Yourroyalhighness and Eliotness...
[ edited by stusi on Jan 24, 2001 02:59 PM ]
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