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