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.
Good times......
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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.
So tell me how did you come up with Kateen?
And why?
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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.
Most people don't really want the truth.
They just want constant reassurance that what they believe is the truth.
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.
I hate change, it's never for the better.... Grumpy Old Men The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know
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.
