[lenjan]

Some reporter at the Atlanta paper has too much time on his or her hands and has compiled a list of baby names throughout Georgia.

I'm pleased to announce some set of parents there decided to name their little miss or mr. "Badger." Also, "Kenosha." (For those of you unfamiliar, Kenosha is halfway between Milwaukee and Chicago and fondly known as "K-nowhere.")

My other favorites so far are:

Hallah
Ramen
Taco
Guitarist
Writer
Arrid
Bacardi
Clinique
Chlorine
Khaki
Peoria

names list

[nowheretorun]

interesting candy.... i guess 'chlorine' is pretty 'clean' isnt it? i mean, she, or is it he? wouldnt likely be nicknamed 'fat chlorine' ...

kinda rhymes with boring tho... ah, naming.... so much fun....

my name rhymes with 'barrel' ... what fun.. rolling downhill in barrels....

[jbug]

I feel for the kids whose names are IKEA, Saturn(I drive one don't want to name my child after my car thank you very much)..makes me wonder if the kids were named what they were conceived after drinking,eating etc.

Jbug

<font color="purple">...you mean, someone named their kid BUTTERFLY?!
...And then the goverment told this family that they couldn't name their baby girl Metalica? </font>

[splitimage]

In the province of Quebec, up here in Canada the provincial gov't has approval over all names and I can remember a few instances of them rejecting baby names as being unsuitable, as they would later subject the child to mockery. I occassionally feel for the kids of stars who get stuck with really screwy names.

--splitimage

[chalmette70043]

Where i worked at before the storm, we had a regular customer that came in often. She would always write a check. And her first name was spelled As'shole. She pronounced it A-shoal-e.

I always got a kick out of it, but never in front of her.

[Perna]

Watch the Kenosha jokes! My great grandfather was born there! (Sounds like it hasn't changed much since then, 1856? :-)

I still enjoy the story of the maintenance guy at the engineering company where I worked in college whose name was Harry. He was constantly being paged over the intercom and unfortunately his last name was Ferry. I think I'd rather be a "boy named Sue". My favorite though is the story my brother tells of when he was in the Air Force and there was a guy; large, muscular guy; who went by his initials only, P.D. Lastname. No one knew what the initials stood for but something like a day before he was due to get out, someone saw his records, what with all the release paperwork, and his mother had named him Precious Darling!

[recluse1]

OH that is just cruel....PD...must have been a single mom. don't think any father would allow their son to be named Precious, LOL. that is awful for him....but still pretty dang funny.

[lenjan]

We had a neighbor when I was a kid named Harry Bones.

If I had been PD, I would have changed my name the second I turned 18! Poor guy. Mom must have really wanted a girl!

[Perna]

My brother said he was a big, muscular, black man, nice enough guy but not someone you'd want to tangle with. Gee, wonder how that happened; do you supposed elementary school had something to do with it? PD isn't a bad nickname, as long as you can keep people from knowing your actual name. He apparently did well in the service, other guys would ask what the initials were for but he wouldn't tell. Not uncommon, lots of people don't like one of their names or something or go by their initials but usually will tell good friends or something but he would just never tell no matter what. I'm glad for him he was getting out though!

[recluse1]

Anna Freize is one i've heard.

Also used to be a guy at work named Mike Peter and everytime he was paged on intercom it sounded like they were calling for "My Peter". the whole place cracked up everytime.....

[Perna]

Yes, that was like Harry Ferry where I worked where I'd think, "gee, I'm glad I'm not Mrs. Harry Ferry."

My husband is an engineer and his group needed a way to get information on things in the mail without getting on sales people's mailing lists so they created an engineer named Chester Drawers. Everyone knew about it and he got mail, etc. but one day a salesman came to the company and asked was he in/available! So the poor receptionist who knew the joke had to page him over the intercom as if he was a real person. I don't know how she did that and then told the salesman he was "out to lunch" or something

[pachyderm]

James Stephen Hogg (1851-1906; Governor of Texas 1891-1895) named one of his daughters Ima. There is a story that he named another of his daughters Ura, but that is apparently not true:

http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/library/ff_texa10.htm

[bebop]

I knew a girl named Stormy Knight.

[Perna]

My college roommates last name was Rosier and her sister married a guy whose last name was Day. She didn't use her maiden name as her new middle, LOL

[youOme]

my best friend got married, she went from patty hetton to patty peters. Now we call her patty peeeeeeeeeters...haha