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I really never understood why parents have to name their kids something "distinctive", or spell it differently than has been traditionally done for generations...

Black folks do it, but then again, I rack that up to a racial identity crisis... as my son so eloquently puts it, "its people who want to be different than everybody else... just like everybody else..."

Case in point, I was taking part of the Scout Council's Annual Merit Badge workshop they hold each year at Spring Break...I've done this for 10 plus years....teaching Eagle Required Merit Badges...

each year it never fails...these are kids from parents who are either second generation hippies with grandma and grandpa first generation hippies...always are openly democrats and Obama Voters.... you see them pick up their kids most of the time in a Prius or a Subaru...

I teach 4 classes each year... the two winners of the Hippie Kid Name this year are:

Timmeee.. yes with 3 "E"s... one parent is a psychologist from the Bay Area.. folks are divorced.. mom's milking dad for all she can get... kids so zoned out on mood modification drugs its ridiculous... I read his name off as 'Time' from the registration list...which he slowly responds, in a drug fuelled fog... that's Timmy man.. not time...17 years old..and future democrat...

The number one winner, lives out in the area of the county where there are tons of hippies, that have been there from the 60s.... much more normal kid than "Time"... 15 year old, that seem pretty well grounded...

from the registration list, I had to ask how to pronounce his name...pretty straight forward, but you'd never think a parent would name or spell their kid's name like this...

ToeKne.. so I spelled it out and asked whose name was it... this boy raises his hand.. I was expecting maybe he was some sort of immigrant or something.. he responds "here"...

I asked him how to pronounce his name.... He responds "Tony"...

kinda reminds ya of that old Johnny Cash song.. A Boy Named Sue, don't it...

Dang, I guess I'm old school naming our daughter Lauren Lee.

Sme of the names nowadays are way past crazy but hey, it's not my kid.

I just don't see Scouting and being judgmental going hand in hand..

I still say that little colored girl had the most distinctive name. La-A

Pronounced LaDasha. The dash is NOT silent.

laffin'

Intelligence is largely genetic.

I chose a fine name for my 1st daughter. They even made her a nice 1911 and put her name on it. Kimber will appreciate it when she gets a little older.

I think that goes

The dash don't be silent.

It's just bad to have a name like that and have poor customer service skills.

My wife was given an attitude at Target. She asked for the manager and tried to read the name tag.

"Shade", it read.

My wife referred to her by name and said Shade.

The girl corrected her and said, it's "shaw-day"...

If I said you were really a great guy... you'd find a reason to argue with me over that also....but then, you're from Orange County, so I can see where none of this would be an issue for you...

but since you refer to the Campfire as the Freak Show, what are you doing here anyway?

That's redundant.

At least she wasn't "Shih-teed" spelled $hithead.

Guilty. I named my daughter with a classic first name, but gave her the middle name Rebekka. At least few people see it, and no one mispronounces it.

Steve.

This is the first thing that came to mind when I saw "Timeee."

I can't also help but think of the episode of "Always Sunny in Philadelphia" when the bar was named after a lady called "Shadynasty." Depending on how you read it, can be Sha-Dynasty or Shady-Nasty.

I'm all for a unique name, especially since kids nowadays will grow up using social media and web-searching for everything. A unique name like Sansa Smith could certainly help your kid get found in a job search versus Sarah Smith. When you start abusing elementary school spelling basics though, that's crossing the line.

On the flip side of this, I do know of a person whose parents chose to customize the spelling of her rather generic name (Emelay, or something like that). She got fed up of everyone misspelling it (or actually just spelling it the traditional way), so she legally changed it to the traditional spelling, Emily.

My boys are named Will and Wade. Pernounced wheel and wahday. Mostly by spanish speaking folks.......

For the longest time, I thought my name was Dammit Boy.

My Dad was always asking me "Dammit Boy, what are you going to do next"?

Reminds me of the story of twins born to a black family. The Uncle was allowed to name them.

When asked what he named the girl....he said "Denice". That's very pretty, what about the boy.....he said "Denephew".

I prefer old names. My daughters name is Lillian.

I like that!

Oranjello comes to mind. From all I can gather, it's an ethnic name, given after a midnight visit by Bill Cosby, maybe.