a mescan guy named Pero and another named Rb, spelled just like that.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
How about Samoan, you know from AMERICAN Samoa? Worked with a Fiafia and a Salupu.........and that's just their first names. You should see their last names
Lady I knew had a daughter named Jacqua. Huh? Caucasian as they could be.
Bob, the black dude I worked with, sobered up, quit doin' drugs and chasin' wimmins that weren't his and he became Shahid.
I've run across some kids, the product of my generation, with the Nature names for lack of a better terminology......Summer, Sierra, Storm, Aspen, and such.
I've always wondered why certain folks name their kids the way they do, then I look at where my family came from and I'm sorta bummed we don't have many named Seamus, or Felice, or any of the other semi weird Irish or Italian names.
If a person wants to name their kid Peanutbutterricekrispytreat........who am I to comment?
This is the greatest country around..............America.............
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
Met a kid with the first name Aero last name Smith. Figured both his parents were fried.
Met two half brothers with the same first and last name. Same age and everything. They just discovered each other a year or two prior. The father must have had a huge set of balls. He bred two women at the same time. Then convinced them to name their kids the same thing without the other woman finding out.
As an elementary principal in the Mississippi Delta, you should have seem some of my student rosters. They would make a computer spell check go crazy, especially some of the AA names. A few of my favorites: Mercedes and Porche Edwards. Nova Caprice Watkins. We secretly called their mama Heavy Chevy. The family was big GM fans. Kuriyaki Smith was not Asian. I suspect they ate Chinese buffet and were inspired by Teriyaki sauce. Female student first name Nosmoking; pronounced Nos Mo King. Said to have been “borrowed” from a No Smoking sign in the hospital. Had named Formica; pronounced For Mic I Ca. And of course all the Roots inspired African names. Still see some on the evening news- arrested. Others have done well and I see some have become nurses, CNAs, social workers, teachers. Just saw one last week driving a fine Dodge diesel. He was a welder. Some are self employed. One was a logger with his father, Pietro Blackmon.
I heard a story once, from a teacher iwho started out in LA, Oakland, SF or some such hippy haven back in the day.
Kindergarten - all her students had name tags for the first few days until she could memorize their names/faces. One kid's tag read "Fruit Stand".....so..... ok, ok.
Kid had a puzzled look on his face all day long whenever she called on him or talked to him, using his name, as is appropriate.
Came bus time, she flipped the tags over to see their stops.
"...aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one." - Paul to the church in Thessalonica.
Went to school with a guy named Pecker Mobely, he was from a family of 9 kids, real smart kid, got killed by lightning while riding a bike, good guy. Rio7
When I was teaching at the High School I was careful to ask "How is your name pronounced?" when I wasn't sure.
Occasionally a student had a name spelled as usual but pronounced differently than usual, okay, whatever.
It was very much like the Key and Peele video of taking role call in class..
"Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them. You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend." Isak Dinesen
Went to elementary school with a Joy Ann Love, parents were hippies. Later worked with a great guy that went by ‘Pep’ because his given first and middle names were Precious Babyboy. Had a guy in my platoon at basic whose last name was Partz. He was an E1. At the first roll call the senior DI called out “Private…. Ohyouhavegottobesh!ttingme” He got several nicknames.
Had a teacher friend who got her roster for the school year, elementary school, went to put names on desk. One was Sh*thead....but pronounced (Sha-teed)
Nurse in a children hospital told me some funny ones she ran across.
Acura Legend (a-cure-a la-jon) was how they pronounced it.
In the 70's knew a gal whos name was sunshine. She said that her parents allowed her to name herself when she was about 4 or 5. I do high school sports announcing and have run across a lot of different names and spellings, but recently had a new one. ABCDE, pronounced AB-C-D-A. I ask the coach if that was her real name and he just nodded his head and said yep.
Writing from the gateway to the great BluMtns in southeastern Washington.
Just remember, "You are the trailer park and I am the tornado". Beth Dutton, Yellowstone.
My senior year of high school I went to prom with a nice girl who had recently broken up with Cody White Bear.
At the time CWB was a scary dude.
White Bear seemed to be a common surname when I was in North Dakota. The long winters must have made that image a common thing during the vision quest. All I can come up with.
No people will tamely surrender their Liberties when knowledge is diffusd and virtue is preservd. On the contrary, when people are ignorant, and debauchd in their manners they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of Invaders. Samuel Adams
Somebody said Injun names don't count, but I gotta bring this one up. "Board Ruffey", yes that's what the cemetery marker says. I inquired of some old timers about it, and there was a confirmed story about Board. Around 1928 he became bedridden, helpless. It befell his nephew to care for Board, which was ok for a few days but the young nephew soon got a bellyful of Board messing the bedding. In a fit of rage the nephew struck Board repeatedly in the head with an axe. The town constable arrested the nephew, tried and convicted, he lived out his days in Folsom.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
My now ex-wife worked in a neonatal intensive care unit in Philadelphia. They had a ton of [bleep] Kintes and at least one Atari (mother met father in a video arcade).
They also had to keep a mom from naming her new daughter Gonorrhea (pronounced Go Norea). She'd seen it on her medical chart and thought it sounded like a great name.
I used to announce for the state track meet. I'd "collect" interesting names. Bianca Rockett. Still holds records. Chaquita. Pronounced Sha quit a. A four girl relay team. Lakeisha, Lakeesha, Laquisha, and Laqueesha. Walter Patons kids, Jerod and Britney, strangely normal. I've got dozens written down.
Knew a guy while I was in the Navy, named Rich Nickel. His sister was Penny Nickel. Knew another redneck who had Bobby Joe on his Birth Certificate. Not Robert Joseph. Girl working at a truck stop was Tifney. I guess they wanted Tiffany spelled phonetically. GA cop turned truck driver said he arrested a mother and the daughters names were La mon ja low and Or an ja low. When he asked for spelling it was Lemonjello and Orangejello.
Some is Good---More is Better----Too Much is Just Right
I always wonder where or how blacks come up with these atrocities of names for their kids. My wife’s mom friend. Who was morbidly obese got knocked up by a black dude. The sons name was J-son
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All of them do something better than the 30-06, but none of them do everything as well.
I once had a boss named Guy. He had two brothers Hy, and Ty. Guy named his son Ky. Ky's middle name was briefly Ode, and you guessed it, last name Hunt. At that same time, my roommates name was Thor. He had a brother Lars and two sisters Ingrid and Astrid.
I once had a boss named Guy. He had two brothers Hy, and Ty. Guy named his son Ky. Ky's middle name was briefly Ode, and you guessed it, last name Hunt. At that same time, my roommates name was Thor. He had a brother Lars and two sisters Ingrid and Astrid.
When I was a yout - had a friend named Jed. No big deal right?
His brothers were Ned, Ed and Fred. Dad's name was Virgil. No idea how it ended up like that.
A young girl at school was L-A, pronounced Ladasha.
I read a very similar news story about a near identical name to that. The mother had named her daughter "La - A". The news story was all about how angry the mother was that nobody would pronounce it correctly when they saw it and, even worse, since it was pronounced "Ladasha", she was angry that nobody spelled it correctly when told her name. I was thinking as I was reading the story "how can this be a surprise to this woman?".
_________________________________________________________________________ “Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
Knew a guy while I was in the Navy, named Rich Nickel. His sister was Penny Nickel. Knew another redneck who had Bobby Joe on his Birth Certificate. Not Robert Joseph. Girl working at a truck stop was Tifney. I guess they wanted Tiffany spelled phonetically. GA cop turned truck driver said he arrested a mother and the daughters names were La mon ja low and Or an ja low. When he asked for spelling it was Lemonjello and Orangejello.
I worked in a camp in upstate Wisconsin a couple of summers with a woman named Penny Nickel. We called her "Sixcent".
My wife had to go to college to learn how to spell her own name.
My mother in law taught her to spell it differently than what is on her birth certificate. The college admins caught the discrepancy and made her resubmit documents using her real name.
Registrar at wife’s school had child with an unusual name. Registrar asked child’s mother if it was a family name. She said no she got it from a book she had read. Mom pronounced the name "Shi-theed." It was spelled Sh*thead! Hasbeen
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A guy I worked with named his daughter Joplin because his wife liked Janis Joplin. We nearly got in a fist fight when I told him my honest opinion of the name choice.
Registrar at wife’s school had child with an unusual name. Registrar asked child’s mother if it was a family name. She said no she got it from a book she had read. Mom pronounced the name "Shi-theed." It was spelled Sh*thead! Hasbeen
LMAO ! 😂😂😂
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
Popped a guy once back in the day for possession and sale of cocaine.
His name? Diarrea. I chit you not. No wonder the poor bastard turned to a life of crime. Had to be pure hell growing up with that name.
Was he running when y’all caught him ? 😬
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
Also worked as a principal with Choctaws on the rez. Had a kid with no first name on his BC. The mother and kid were released from the hospital before they decided on a name. NO NAME JEFFERSON was on the kids BC when he entered kindergarten. My guidance counselor helped to get that change. Big headache but the counselor’s mother worked for Social Security and helped sort out this mess along with tribal lawyer.
Most of my work has been in Human Resources. Below are some of the ones I remember. I had a sheet that I saved assorted names in along with how to pronounce as it is a matter of respect to speak a persons name correctly. Sure wish I could find that now. There were some real tongue twisters I wish I could remember.
Worked for male Colonel in the Army whose first name was June.
Jesus pronounced hey zoo
A man named Celeste - pronounced C Less
Growing up there was a local family with the last name Screws. Went to school with one of the daughters. As I remember she and her family were all good people. Solid citizens. Unfortunately she was constantly being bullied/harassed about her name.
A local family of lawyers with the last name Law
A local family with the last name Blows
Knew a family with the last name Missouri
Knew a family with the last name Brazil like the country
Women named:
Queen
Mercedes - Mer C Dees - Mer as in mercy C as in the letter C and Dees as in the plural of the letter D
Lexis
Lexus
Baby Girl
Precious
Almond
Sky
Santana
Aroma
Angel
Angle
Archie
Augusta
Beautiful
Beauty
Berklee - like the famous music school in Boston
Chablis - like the wine
Candy
Kandy
De’efay pronounced Day E fay
Cat
Charity
Princess
January
China
Conyers
Chyna
Cookie.
Corvairy pronounced Core vary
Yale pronounced Ya Lee - kinda like Ali
India
Ivory and Ivoree
Jazz
Laquanda pronounced La quan da
Shawntay
Shortee
Stormy
Paris
Trip
Regal
Viola - her parents were both classically trained professional orchestra violin players
Men named:
Christmas - never knew Mr Hill to be teased about his name
Artist - pronounced Ar Teese
Pizant - you guessed it -pronounced piss ant
Boogie
Pilot
Columbus
Paris
Montana
Othello
Orlando
Tre - pronounced tray
Trip Day
I’m sure there are many more that I do not recall at the moment.
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Oldest son was in last yr of med school, doing his obgyn rotation at an “ inter city “ hospital. Delivers twin boys for woman who craved orange and lemon jello throughout pregnancy. She named them Oranjelo and Lemanjelo. Later same week delivers twin girls, one right before midnight. One right after. She names them Tadaya and Tamara. True story
My boys are Gunnar (pretty tame) and Steyr - definitely raises some eyebrows and a few knowing nods from my gunshow pards.
“I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love, and it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.” John Steinbeck
I worked with a black guy and his first name was Adolph. Another woman I worked with named her kids Rye and Sorrel after strains of grass. Her husband was named Timothy and his sister was Thistle!
Wife had a kid in kindergarten named Female. Mexican parents pronounced it like "tamale". Turns out parents were too dumb to write a first name for the kid on the birth cert, so the hospital just put Female on the name line.
My first name is Reon. It was a gift from my paternal grandmother. Mom had picked out “Jody” for a boy, but The Old Man sided with grandma. She said that I was named for her favorite school teacher, Reon Taylor when she was young. Dad said that Reon was an old boyfriend! Who knows, but I like it. It sure beats the heck outta Jody! A few years ago, I was contacted by a lady from California, named Reon Monson, wanting to know the background on my name. I wrote back and told her the story told here. She wrote me back that she had researched the name, finding 15 others sharing this name. Nine male, 8 female. That sorta surprised me. Hell I considered it a masculine name, but I guess sorta like Dale and a few other shared first names, so who knows? My younger brother’s name is Gue. I was learning to talk when he was born, named Lyle Drew, I said Lyle Gue. Dad and my older brother picked it up, and so did everybody else! Mom is the only person in the world who called him Lyle Drew! His wife calls him Gue, his paycheck is payable to Gue Oldham! 7mm
"Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is." � Wesley Pruden
My best friend’s name is Cardinal. His mom named her kids after birds. I asked him which one was named buzzard. Lol Knew of a girl named KC. A guy named WT. a guy named Adams Valero. Girl named Andee. A girl named Utahna. Guy named Nokio. Jokonda Chilo Milasinovic Sabra First name Shepherd
I have a cousin who named her daughter Echo. Yes, my cousin was a 60s hippie and lived in Washington State then in Maine.
In the 60s when schools integrated, twin girls were in my class, Imogene and Ernestine. If you would look at them they would say, “why you lookin at me fo”?
I grew up knowing Harold Butt. Maternal grandmother was Reola Lenora - sister Eula - another sister Nellie. Paternal side - one aunt named Tilda. Several more odd names over the years that I don't recall.
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