I knew Richard Cummings. Guess what we nicknamed him.
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Or, What Not To Name Your Children.
- We've had lots of great ideas for What Not To Name Your Children, but of course, can't think of any right now; maybe other people can come up with some, or maybe we'll remember some & write them here.
I used to have a customer called Patricia Mycock - we were warned never to shorten her forname to Pat. She was supposedly married to a guy called Paul, but no idea if that last bit is true or not.
Hm...howabout Ben Tover? And his brother can be Neil Tover!
why is this a wiki? No really, why? Seriously. I don't know... neither do i..NOR I.. me neither. because we can have multiple personalities all represented by one webpage!
I want to name my son Thor Danger. My fincée won't even budge on Danger... I mean, shit, it's a middle name, so he can just ignore it if he wants, and if he likes it, well, he can actually say "Danger... is my middle name." Feh. Women.
Would she prefer something like Smedley Darlington Butler? Heh, hard not to be Jaded when your name is Smedley Darlington Butler. Except, you know, Smedley Butler was a no-bullshit hero. Go ahead. tease a Marine about his name. Find out what happens.
I just lost an attempt to name my daughter Catalyst Sphere Harrison.
There's always the fictional example of a popular British detective from the '30s: Peter Death Bredon Wimsey. He must have had an unusual branch in the family to get a name like that. (On occasion he liked to go by the name "Death Bredon".)
Or how about Ikea, Paprica, Caramel, Bambi, Fire-Lily, Skylark or Tame? Also, don't forget about Moon Unit Zappa or her little sister Diva Thin Muffin Zappa. And of course their brother Dweezil.
I heard a story about a high-school girl, after giving birth to a baby girl was asked by the doctor what the newborn's name was to be. The mother immediately said "Hennessey." A bit surprised, the doctor asked why she was to be named after an alcoholic beverage. The mother answered that as far as she knew, Hennessey was the true father.
A girl in my high school was a member of the quirky Knight family. Her name: DayeAnn Knight. Her aunt's? Mid Knight. At the same high school was an assistant basketball coach, Darryl Jockey (pronounced Yockey). Unremarkable, until he married a woman named Terry. Poor Terry Jockey.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0DE0DC1539F932A35753CA9619C8B63
BULAWAYO JOURNAL; In a Land of Homemade Names, Tiffany Doesn't Cut It
I was thinking about how "All Cops Suck" would look on a driver's license.
Definitely should not be named Willie Stroker :Stroker? I hardly know 'er!
A high school classmate of many moons ago was named "Theta Alpha".
There's that Asian couple who tried to name their baby "@". Care to wage on the identity issues that kid would have? Like Prince, without the cocain and money.
There was an article in the Sun a while ago about a Mr and Mrs Peacock who named their son Drew and didn't notice what was wrong with it until it was too late.
I used to work with Slobert Red, and when I was a Truck Driver I met a lot lizard who called herself Candy Cain, but I'll bet that wasn't her real name. Boobies. Hey I didn't write that. Or did I and suffer from Tourettes?
Apparently, there's also a Dick Assman in Canada. And don't forget about Moxie CrimeFighter Jillette, the daughter of Penn Jillette (of Penn and Teller fame).
You could name your daughter Elly Vator.
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I don't understand the Drew Peacock problem? Andy Peacock? Andrew Peacock? A. Peacock? Cockadoodle doo? OOOOoohh okay I'm just slow. DROOPY COCK!!! Whoot that is fun. I feel naughty editing this page since I don't know you people and just happened upon this page by accident. As far as name suggestions go, since I saw the movie "Children of Men" I've been partial to the names "Froley" and "Bazooka".
I had a boss whose last name was Bell. He wanted to name his twin sons Taco and Liberty.
or "immaterial"
I heard of these folks who wanted to name their kid 'superman'. I also have always entertained the idea of naming my child Seven, or Soda.
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Or the parents with last name Daub who named there child 'Zippity Doo'
For a pair of boy & girl twins: Charleston & Charlatan
Or, Testing Wuntutre
I have some friends whose last name is Merchant. They joked that they wanted to name their first two Retail and Wholesale.
Last name "Knight"?
Why not have a
Jedi?
Ka-ka (pronounced "Kadashka"). Seriously a real kid's name. WTF are parents thinking?!
I have a friend who is called Chisel. It's not his birth name, it was a name he used in an online game, and so many people started to call him by it he decided to have his name changed by deed-poll (in the UK). There was a move afoot to start to call him hammer as a nick-name on the game, but was quashed by his wife.
I knew a Chinese couple that named their daughter Ping 127.0.0.1.
There's always Shanda Lear, named by the guy who started Lear jets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Lear.
Sarah Tonin
Shirley Eugest
Thursday Next then you can "Meet Thursday Next"
Great name for an author: Frederick Page-Turner (who wrote some pretty darn boring books)
There's always the guy with the most badass name in the history of names. His parents must have been comic book geeks. Or maybe they were just trying to give him a headstart in life:Batman Bin Suparman(links must be approved)
Simpsons Style: Hugh Jass, Amanda Huginkis, Joey JoJo Junior Shabadu?
My sister went to school with a girl called Tara Mc Adam
I went to school with Wayne Kerr. And I knew Richard Richards, who was a complete ....
Although I don't know either of them personally, I have seen the names Brick Mason and Florida Orange