Helltown Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 My husband knew a lady in WA. Becky Guzzler. She was in the Navy. Oh dude! No way! She was enlisted?!?!?! Officer or enlisted it's horrible!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 Hmm.. people I"ve known with odd names... phew..so many. Julie Caesar who I went to school with. Autumn Wheat, one of my sister's friends (not a stirpper incidentally) Kandi Kane, the girl next door..seriously..and my bro had such a crush on her Major Battles, owned a music shop in the town I grew up in Bryan O'Brien, friend of my father's Randy Johnson, *snickers*.. went to church with him Crystal Jewel, schoomate And my own mother's first and middle name is... get this.. Bonnie Clyde. My grandma swore it had nothing to do with the notorious bank robbers, but somehow I just can't help but to believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastman Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 A teacher named Cinnamon Lane. A teacher? Really? Hasn't there been some research that indicates women with names like Cinnamon, Candi, and Mystique are more likely to end up as strippers? So it sounds like she beat the odds. Just to let you in on a little secret, strippers don't use their real names. "Mystique"s real name is probably something like Michelle, Heather or Jennifer (three of the more common stripper real names) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaintByNumbers Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 >>> However, my brother in law topped that quite easily with one of his students. I will spell it phonetically for you shi theed (one word two syllables). >>> That name is mentioned in the Freakonomics book. The author examined birth records and catalogued high vs low economic class, white vs black, etc names. Talks about how the popularity of names cycles as lower classes start using high class names and of course the high class names change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokingwreckage Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Freakonomics is fun, but deliberately uses poor analysis to broaden the spread of possible assertions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M. Eversberg II Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 I think Lucien is a suitable name for a boy, don't you? Though the final names will fall to my wife, as she did most of the work. M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayin Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 In all seriousness, I AM thinking about giving my next kid (if it is a boy) a strong Greek name, and start some sort of tradition... Achillies. I dare you. For a strong, male, Greek name, I've always been partial to Theron. It means "hunter." My second male cockatiel was Theron Damian. I've always liked that name, but I seriously doubt SD would go for it for our next child. Theron. I like it. I actually like Hunter as a name, too. I've always liked unusual names. Must be why I married a guy named Aubrey... (derived from Germanic Oberon, the king of the elves. Think about that next time you meet a little girl named Aubrey, as it seems to have become a popular female name!) Names for our potential gremlins have been picked out for years boy: Gryphon Vanyel girl: Zoya Rain Don't ask me where Gryphon came from, but we both like it. And we can just shorten it to "Grif". Vanyel came from Mercedes Lackey's Magic's Price trilogy, he is the main character, and still one of my favorite "heroes". Plus, I like how similar it is to a common name, but is still different. Zoya is for the mother of a Russian family that my husband did a sister-cities exchange with in high school. Unlike the rest of the exchange students, who were housed with wealthier Russian families (so their standard of living would be fairly similar to the States) he ended up with a relatively common family. They lived in an apartment building, and each floor had one bathroom that *everyone* shared, as an example. When the sister-cities people found out, they where a bit aghast and offered to find better accommodations for Aubrey, but he refused. He wanted to see how people lived in Russia, and the family he was with were wonderful. Since then he has always wanted to name his daughter Zoya. Rain comes from me. For some strange reason, I really like it as a female's name, and always wanted to name my daughter Rain. Strange names I've encountered: Gaylord and Gunnar (kids in my highschool) Trout Fishing In America (serious. One of my husband's friends had his name legally changed to this) a Mr.& Mrs Roach (customers) Dairy Hill (a rather well endowed young lady in my stepdad's highschool) Phuc Yu (husband's high school friend) Neil Downs (friend) Merri, Kerri, and Terri (siblings in my college) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fieldarchy Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 My husband knew a lady in WA. Becky Guzzler. She was in the Navy. Oh dude! No way! She was enlisted?!?!?! Officer or enlisted it's horrible!! Yes however if she was enlisted in the Navy at some point she was a seaman. Seaman . . . (fill in the blank with the last name here) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgtriplec Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Michigan has a running back from Ohio named Mister Simpson. Bubba is very common throughout the South, but I've never met one that it was his Christian name it is a nickname generally. I knew a JEB once, James Edward Beauregard. I also knew an EBO, Elijah Baker Olsen. I knew a girl named Chiquita, pronounced Chee-qwet-tuh. She was often heard muttering, "I ain't no #%&^#%$ banana. My son's name was too long for a SS card but was put in its entirety on his birth certificate: Roman Gabriel Cherokee Christian Counterman thus RGtripleC. I figure he has enough names that he can find something he likes: Roman, Romy, Gabriel, Gabby, Gabe, Cherokee, Christian, Chris. Strangly though he is generally refered to as Sweetpea or Bean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurityThruFire Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 My husband knew a lady in WA. Becky Guzzler. She was in the Navy. Oh dude! No way! She was enlisted?!?!?! Officer or enlisted it's horrible!! Yes however if she was enlisted in the Navy at some point she was a seaman. Seaman . . . (fill in the blank with the last name here) D'oh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helltown Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 My husband knew a lady in WA. Becky Guzzler. She was in the Navy. Oh dude! No way! She was enlisted?!?!?! Officer or enlisted it's horrible!! Yes however if she was enlisted in the Navy at some point she was a seaman. Seaman . . . (fill in the blank with the last name here) Just at one point then she could've turned into an Airman, Fireman, Constructionman, Hospitalman, or Dentalman... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dilvish the Deliverer Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 Ah, but in bootcamp it doesn't matter what you rate will be. Everyone is a seaman recuit, shortened to "seaman". My friend Tom Flood had a rough time. LOUD COMPANY COMMANDER VOICE "SEAMAN FLOOD! 8 COUNT BODY BUILDERS, SELF DESTRUCT, BEGIN!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankthedm Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 I had a shop teacher named "Richard Wunderlich". What's unbelievable is that is not even unique {check google]. Who the hell names thier kid Dick when the last name is pronounced Wonder-lick?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helltown Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 I know There was a Seaman Recruit Burstin in my division. Naturally, the guy gave new, revolting definition to Silent But Deadly. The guy actually got sent into the courtyard just about every night for ripping one and grossing out the RDCs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M. Eversberg II Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 I would pronounce it Wonder-litch to be honest. M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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