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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: kosmo vinyl on August 06, 2003, 10:53:00 am
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Here is a prime example of why Al Gore set about creating the internet. Now only do we have websites where people discuss possible baby names, but there is now a site which now takes those discussions and adds in their own wry commentary on them.
I haven't yet worked my way through all of the commentary on the Bad Baby Names sites. But Kosmette spent most of the evening howling at was them. It was so funny that she was snorting at work trying not laugh out loud.
So here's an appropriate to this forum, question from a baby name website and with the commentary from the Bad Baby Names (http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/index.html) website.
I've suggested to my sister that she name her little girl to be - Manchester. She's not sure about it but she's considering. What do you think?
Clever. Like being named Pittsburg or Schenectady. Kid'll grow up to be beaten to death by Liverpool fans.
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the worst baby name i've heard lately is from an old coworker...her ex husband married a runner...they named their baby Marathon.
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bilge
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The ones I hate the most are "Jr, or II, III" etc
"Virgil Duane Wallbanger II" for example. Carrying a family on through the generations is okay, but to give your kid exactly the same as yourself then just put some suffix on the end is just retarded.
I don't know about the schools over here, but giving your kid some stupid name so they will be unique will only get them into fights on a regular basis in the schools I went to...I know...trust me! :mad:
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I always thought Leon was pretty low on the list of baby names...
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So will there be any baby Kosmo's in the future? hmmmm...
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Here is a prime example of why Al Gore set about creating the internet. Now only do we have websites where people discuss possible baby names, but there is now a site which now takes those discussions and adds in their own wry commentary on them.
I haven't yet worked my way through all of the commentary on the Bad Baby Names sites. But Kosmette spent most of the evening howling at was them. It was so funny that she was snorting at work trying not laugh out loud.
So here's an appropriate to this forum, question from a baby name website and with the commentary from the Bad Baby Names (http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/index.html) website.
I've suggested to my sister that she name her little girl to be - Manchester. She's not sure about it but she's considering. What do you think?
Clever. Like being named Pittsburg or Schenectady. Kid'll grow up to be beaten to death by Liverpool fans.
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
I always thought Leon was pretty low on the list of baby names...
Try going to school in a northern (English) industrial town with a name like "Leon"! :eek: I got shoved around a bit until about 13 years old which is when I started to grow and fill out a lot. I got every single one of the little fuckers back, and paybacks are hell.
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A friend of mine worked in a woman's shelter for a while, and one time they had this woman come in who was HUGE Tupac fan. Her two children were named:
Makaveli and Tupacalypse
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I went to school with a girl named Yu Suk Moon
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
So will there be any baby Kosmo's in the future? hmmmm...
let us get married first :)
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As a schoolteacher in Baltimore City Catholic schools, I once had a student named "Babatunde Olawokukoko". I think that was the coolest name. By far the cruelest had to be the little fourth grader named "Harry Bushrod"....though I guess if he had plans of being a porn star, he wwas all set with that name.
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Jermaine Jackson has a baby boy a few years back and named him Jermajesty! That is the worst and most hilarious name I've ever heard.
Oh yeah....and once on some daytime talkshow (Sally Jessie or Springer or the like)they had a guest and the woman's name was Latrina!
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I know I've mentioned these before, but for the benefit of new board members.....
....In the Royal Navy, the working uniform you have a name badge with your rate/trade on it. Anyway, on one ship I was on we had a Radio Elelctrical Mechanic who's last name was "Brandt" so he had "REM Brandt"...he was always piped (paged) to report to the paint shop. We also had a Seaman who's last name was "Staine" so he had to walk around with "Seaman Staine" on his shirt...he of course would get piped to report to the ships laundry on a regular basis. We also had Marine Engineer Mechanic Braine so he was "MEM Braine" and would be piped to report to the sick bay.
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bilge
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She should've named him "orthodontia"
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bilge
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impeccable timing
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Originally posted by chaz:
Jermaine Jackson has a baby boy a few years back and named him Jermajesty! That is the worst and most hilarious name I've ever heard.
Oh yeah....and once on some daytime talkshow (Sally Jessie or Springer or the like)they had a guest and the woman's name was Latrina!
There's a local TV reporter, I think on Fox channel 5, with one of those self-esteem albatross names but I can't recall it and their website is foxed up. Many of you probably know which one I'm thinking of.
I recently came across the last name "Ashpole". Ya gotta have some damn strong pride to keep a name like that.
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Names I have run across:
Candy Poon (chinese restaurant name on the Time magazine subscription)
Richard Holden, went by Dick. Was our customer who held weekly meetings, so my boss would say "Have to go to my Dick Holden meeting".
Went to high school with a family whose last name was Hill. Kids were Bunker (boy) and Brittney, hers was livable, his must have been a nightmare.
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Originally posted by MaLo:
the worst baby name i've heard lately is from an old coworker...her ex husband married a runner...they named their baby Marathon.
Someone at my office is going to name their kid Strider...ah, to each their own
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If I ever became the father to twins boy/girl I would call them "Denise and Denefou" :D
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For any of you who have kids or are thiking about it, how far in advance did you determine the name?
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I think it's a better idea to give PETs the freaky/funny names...like I always dreamed of having 2 dobermans named Romulus and Remus (I actually have enough pet names lined up to fill a whole barn)
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
For any of you who have kids or are thiking about it, how far in advance did you determine the name?
We could not agree on a name for the baby..especially if it was a girl. What we ended up doing was picking two names and then agreed to decide when he made his appearance. It was either Quinn or Rory (Rory being my choice) and when we saw him he just looked like a Rory...it's weird how that happens but it's true.
Had he been a girl I think the name would've been Dena because that was the only name that one liked and the other didn't hate.
And Celeste is right, we came up with some great future pet names during the process.
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We know this chick who actually wants to name twins Eli and Lily if she had a boy and girl...and she is aware of the pharmaceutical company...I just couldn't do that...
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Originally posted by Celeste:
I think it's a better idea to give PETs the freaky/funny names...like I always dreamed of having 2 dobermans named Romulus and Remus (I actually have enough pet names lined up to fill a whole barn)
One of the coolest names for a dog that I've heard recently was a German Shepheard called Mozart.
I'd like an English Bulldog and call him Winston.
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But you'd have to change the bulldog's name to Nextel starting next year...
Originally posted by mankie:
Originally posted by Celeste:
I think it's a better idea to give PETs the freaky/funny names...like I always dreamed of having 2 dobermans named Romulus and Remus (I actually have enough pet names lined up to fill a whole barn)
One of the coolest names for a dog that I've heard recently was a German Shepheard called Mozart.
I'd like an English Bulldog and call him Winston. [/b]
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Originally posted by mankie:
]One of the coolest names for a dog that I've heard recently was a German Shepheard called Mozart.
I'd like an English Bulldog and call him Winston.
yeah, those are good...for some weird reason, more than one person in my life has told me they knew a German shepherd named the same as my real name (not Celeste) must be the German thing...growing up, we had a (short)tradition of naming our German Shorthaired Pointers German names...our first was called Hildie and our second was called Otto...my brother's is called Muller...but now the family has a rat terrier named Wesley, so that tradition broke!
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
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But you'd have to change the bulldog's name to Nextel starting next year...
So now Nextel has the NASCAR thing, does that mean we'll see all the rednecks with Nextel phones attached to their jeans by a chain, and stickers of that boy pissing on T-Mobile and Sprint phones on the back of their trucks?
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I don't know about that, but I read that AT&T was going to fork out 15 million to sponsor Jeff Burton's car for a year, but NASCAR refused to allow it because of their deal with Nextel. NASCAR teams are hurting for sponsor money. Could end up that they don't get enough entrants to fill a 43 car field.
Originally posted by mankie:
Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
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But you'd have to change the bulldog's name to Nextel starting next year...
So now Nextel has the NASCAR thing, does that mean we'll see all the rednecks with Nextel phones attached to their jeans by a chain, and stickers of that boy pissing on T-Mobile and Sprint phones on the back of their trucks? [/b]
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
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I don't know about that, but I read that AT&T was going to fork out 15 million to sponsor Jeff Burton's car for a year, but NASCAR refused to allow it because of their deal with Nextel. NASCAR teams are hurting for sponsor money. Could end up that they don't get enough entrants to fill a 43 car field.
Wouldn't bother me if NASCAR went away completely...it's not like it's real auto racing anyway? Although it's the biggest spectator sport in the country I believe.
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Originally posted by Sir HC:
Names I have run across:
Candy Poon (chinese restaurant name on the Time magazine subscription)
A Washington Post small business column once held a "Worst Business Name Contest". The winner was a Chinese restaurant called the Poo Ping Palace.
Here's a web page (http://www.interestingideas.com/roadside/names/names.htm) with more interesting business names.
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There was a Foo King Chinese place on Georgia Ave right by Silver Spring. Not sure if it is still there.
Always wanted to go there and then I could compare any future Chinese meals as being Foo King good or not.
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I don't see where any other auto racing in the world is as exciting as NASCAR. Sure, grand prix and indy cars may go faster, but from what I've observed, there is very little passing that goes on with those cars. To me, racing is about passing, which is what NASCAR features.
NASCAR is racing on one of it's two road courses this weekend. And there's likely to be little passing. Yawn. Sure you can wine ahout the cars only going in circles, but there's ten times as many passes on an oval than a road course.
Originally posted by mankie:
Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
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I don't know about that, but I read that AT&T was going to fork out 15 million to sponsor Jeff Burton's car for a year, but NASCAR refused to allow it because of their deal with Nextel. NASCAR teams are hurting for sponsor money. Could end up that they don't get enough entrants to fill a 43 car field.
Wouldn't bother me if NASCAR went away completely...it's not like it's real auto racing anyway? Although it's the biggest spectator sport in the country I believe. [/b]
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
[QB] I don't see where any other auto racing in the world is as exciting as NASCAR. Sure, grand prix and indy cars may go faster, but from what I've observed, there is very little passing that goes on with those cars. To me, racing is about passing, which is what NASCAR features.
NASCAR is racing on one of it's two road courses this weekend. And there's likely to be little passing. Yawn. Sure you can wine ahout the cars only going in circles, but there's ten times as many passes on an oval than a road course.
Opening it up to cars other than American would make it a lot more interesting, but then Americans would never win a race if that happened so that's not going to happen....oh, and a right turn once in a while would help.
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Originally posted by Sir HC:
There was a Foo King Chinese place on Georgia Ave right by Silver Spring. Not sure if it is still there.
Always wanted to go there and then I could compare any future Chinese meals as being Foo King good or not.
Let's not forget the "Cluck You Chicken" places that seem to be on every block on GA ave on the way to the 930.
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In Porstmouth, England there's a pub called the "Fawcette Inn" named after some Admiral Fawcette or something like that. With the local Pompey accent though they say the "Force-it Inn" which always got a giggle.
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On the South (west) side of Chicago, there is a restaruant called the "Beefstro"...a play on "Bistro"
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Keeping the cars American made is part of the NASCAR tradition. And much about NASCAR is about tradition, for better or for worse. Allowing in foreign made cars would be much worse to NASCAR than that designated hitter is to baseball. I know, I'm speaking Greek.
Originally posted by mankie:
Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
[QB] I don't see where any other auto racing in the world is as exciting as NASCAR. Sure, grand prix and indy cars may go faster, but from what I've observed, there is very little passing that goes on with those cars. To me, racing is about passing, which is what NASCAR features.
NASCAR is racing on one of it's two road courses this weekend. And there's likely to be little passing. Yawn. Sure you can wine ahout the cars only going in circles, but there's ten times as many passes on an oval than a road course.
Opening it up to cars other than American would make it a lot more interesting, but then Americans would never win a race if that happened so that's not going to happen....oh, and a right turn once in a while would help. [/b]
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Keeping the cars American made is part of the NASCAR tradition. And much about NASCAR is about tradition, for better or for worse...
as much as I hate smoking...I'd prefer they kept it The Winston Cup, too...
hey, then to bring this thread back to baby names what if we name our first child Winston in memory of the cup?
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Originally posted by chaz:
Oh yeah....and once on some daytime talkshow (Sally Jessie or Springer or the like)they had a guest and the woman's name was Latrina!
I've known plenty of girls named Latrina. :roll: After teaching for many years in the Inner Shitty, I've seen many a weird name! I think the saddest was one of the multiple spellings of Donta. (There must be at least 10 of them.) This poor kid was in Special Ed and I think he was the smart one in the family after meeting his mother and finding out the origin of his name. Ms Dingbat wrote it out for the birth certificate and spelled it something like Dotynae. His teacher had to correct me because I would always say it as it looks. Then I had the pleasure one day of meeting this woman. No wonder this poor boy had problems. One of my favorite classes ever! I miss those boys. If we had more classes like those, we would be so much better off.
Oh, and then there was the totally messed up kid who always had loads and loads of snot running down his face. Another Special Ed case. Think it may have been an inbreeding kind of thing. This class was tough with really whacked out kids and this one was difficult to settle down to work of any kind, let alone use any art supplies without complete messes, dangerous results or just a total waste of extremely minimal supplies. One day I kept hearing all period, after various kinds of trouble, "Bill Clinton did it! Oh! Look what Bill Clinton did!" (Better yet, it was at the height of the Clinton impeachment hearings.) I thought this was a little too astute for these kids and then found out that this kid Bill's last name was Clinton. (Believe it or not, sometimes it's hard as shit to get some kids names in schools when you are the 'Resource' or 'SPAR Teacher'. Yet more insanity in the school system.-But that's another story.) Anyway, I thought that this was funny as anything and felt so sorry for this kid having that namesake.
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I just remembered another name related funny story;
When I went to my wife's association convention I met some of her co-workers obviously. I met one black dude who shook my hand then said, "you're white!" with a surprised look on his face. When he explained it made sense. When we got married my wife kept her own last name, "Jackson" she had mentioned me at work "Leon"...so the black bloke had assumed she had changed her name and so married "Leon Jackson"..How black does that name sound? I guess you had to be there to see the look on his face to get the full humor of the story.
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My aunt works in a small town hospital and use to know of a local who worked there named Purdy Outhouse. Wonder if any of those Latrinas are part of his family?
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A friend of mine claimed to know twins named Noway (I dunno the actual spelling) and Jose. I couldn't believe it be he seemed really really serious about it.
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Well at my first job someone went to a baptism for a kid named Andre. But how was it spelled? Ondrej. Boss asked her if he thought if she knew how to spell Andre and the answer was no.
My mom works for the WIC program here and she always asks how a name is spelled because there is often no correlation between the phonetic and the actual spelling. One woman though wouldn't name her child for 6 months until the child came into a name. That made sense to me.
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So you married a black woman?
Originally posted by mankie:
I just remembered another name related funny story;
When I went to my wife's association convention I met some of her co-workers obviously. I met one black dude who shook my hand then said, "you're white!" with a surprised look on his face. When he explained it made sense. When we got married my wife kept her own last name, "Jackson" she had mentioned me at work "Leon"...so the black bloke had assumed she had changed her name and so married "Leon Jackson"..How black does that name sound? I guess you had to be there to see the look on his face to get the full humor of the story.
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
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So you married a black woman?
No, but I do got my bitch and our inner-city love child...bro'!
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Originally posted by mankie:
No, but I do got my bitch and our inner-city love child...bro'!
Your vernacular (like your musical taste) is a bit dated.
love child = shorty
my bitch = my shorty's momma
bro' = dawg
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Originally posted by mankie:
No, but I do got my bitch and our inner-city love child...bro'!
Your vernacular (like your musical taste) is a bit dated.
love child = shorty
my bitch = my shorty's momma
bro' = dawg [/b]
analog to the bone, that's me. :D Maybe I should change my user name to "retro" or "timewarp" or something.
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