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...
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 just don't see Scouting and being judgmental going hand in hand..
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?
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.
Worked with a white guy back in the early 70s during the summer down in No Georgia....Butch woke up with a hangover and on a honey moon with some ugly gal he had met a week or two before...
but she had everything most morons in No Georgia wanted in those days.. she put out... before he could get it annulled, turns out she is pregnant and has a daddy who owned a 12 gauge and wasn't afraid to use it..
so they stayed together and he had a little girl.. which he named Chevelle.....we use to ask him what he was going to name the next kid if it was a boy... which his response was "SuperSport"....
then he'd finish with, you know what a "Super Sport" is? a guy who carries monogrammed rubbers in a flip top box...
of course this was in No Georgia the summer they filmed Deliverance, about 25 miles to the East.. and most of the background characters were actually locals....so it shows what we had to work with down there...
My wife and daughter were in the office going over intern applications. My wife asked why would some folks would name their kids such strange names and my daughter Kateen turned and just looked at her.
Went to school with a JoyAnn Love, but that's about the weirdest in my experience. Parents were hippies. Go figure. Named Mine Emma and Caleb. Pretty basic, but unusual at the time.
I was told my boys names were 'different'. They're name Langdon and Gunnison. We decided we wanted some interest in their names without being to abstract. I think we've done that.
The names in the OP are just out there. Simple names, messed with quite a bit. And from now until eternity, anytime their name is called, you can be sure they will be goofed up. I don't get that.
I can not recall at the moment but one of the Scandinavian countries has a nationally approved list of names that children can be named. No exceptions. It was a big issue a few years ago when there was a legal challenge to the law. Never did hear how it turned out.
The names have a much larger impact on hiring decisions that one might expect. After more than 30 years of doing human resources work including being a full time recruiter - parent that give their kids unusual and/ or strongly ethnic names are doing their kids no favors.
Many many moons ago when my kids were young my wife babysat several kids, I always made fun of the kids and their names. One of the kids was named Satchel so I called him Breifcase, another was named Kendal I called her 10w30, 10dubya for short. The kids all loved it, the parents not so much.
A year or so ago I ran into 10dubya and she remarked how much fun it was over at Miss Laura's house.
I have always felt sorry for the kids of these parents that think up "unique" spellings when they name their kid. For the rest of that kid's life they're going to have to stop mid sentence and phonetically spell out their name to every single person that needs to know it. Certainly not a huge deal, but a totally unnecessary inconvenience created out of complete silliness by parents that didn't think things through.
My wife and daughter were in the office going over intern applications. My wife asked why would some folks would name their kids such strange names and my daughter Kateen turned and just looked at her.
Years ago got to a new job and I'm going through a list of employees that I needed to work with. I got to, Amy Kim and thought what's the last name...the worst part of it was Kim was a "he"...guess dad wanted him to be tough.
The recent stealing of gender names really bugs me, too. Since when was Peighton, and talor, and...etc...all girls names!? We were super careful in picking names for our boys because of this...and now I worried some girl will be in his school class with some goofy spelling of Tyson!
It's been 40 years ago, but I went to HS with a guy named Lundon England. Spelled slightly different from the city. He was once sent to the office by a substitute for refusing to give her his real name in class.
My son graduated with a kid we all knew just as Bo. Right before receiving his diploma his real, full name was called out. Eboneezer Moses ****** the 10th. Talk about pressure to keep up the family name.
I also taught 30 years and ran across quite a few unique names. Most aren't really that bad, but some are unique.
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".
That one reminds me of the Mexican Firefighter that had a set of twin boys. When asked what he named them he said "dis one is Jose, and dis one is Hose B".
My son Jim and his wife Lisa were going to name their kid Holden Cash M________. Turned out to be a girl so they named her Maria in honor of her great grandmother.
My father was in the insurance buisness for years and swore this was true. Insuring a family and the daughter was named Fee-mal-ee'....spelled Female.
When he asked about the name he was told by the mother.....we didn't want to name her that but when they brought he to us after the birth she was wearing a braclet with her name already on it....Female, Johnson.
Guess it's not as bad as the senator named Hogg....who actually named his daughter "Ima".
Then there was the man....last name Lay....who named his daughter "Easy". Said he figured she'd get the nickname sooner or later and just made it official.
When i worked at the Pentagon there was a AF Brig General there named Richard C Head. and he was bald as a cue ball and had a perpetually red complexion. i scheeit you not. and he lived up to his nickname too.
My boys are named Will and Wade. Pernounced wheel and wahday. Mostly by spanish speaking folks.......
My oldest boy is named Kender Reid goes by Reid, youngest Matthew Ryan but wanted to name him Wade but the wife wouldn't go for it on account of a guy we grew up with named Wade. He is a dumbazz, but has a cool name. Reed is how I wanted to spell it. Reid and Wade, sounds good. Wade is a good strong name. If I ever have a daughter I'll name her Rolanda or maybe Shanequia. cause I got a feva, jungle feva.
It was certainly a role of the dice, but he has turned out to be an all-American bad azz. Crazy smart, and he's a terror on the football field. He's beloved by his teachers, neighbors, and family.
A dad couldn't ask for more from a kid. Still though, in retrospect we are damn lucky he didn't turn out to be a socialist that loves ribbon-twirling or some damn thing.
The whole mess here in Louisville (random violent acts one Saturday night last month), started when some punk 14yo. named Mc'Quale starting picking on a drunk bus rider and got killed for his trouble.
I'm GUESSING it's pronounced McCauley, but who the Hell knows?
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