CAJUNLAWYER
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"On Naming Children-are parents Insane?"
To answer your question..."YES".
To answer your question..."YES".
On naming children - are parents insane?
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HOUSTON RICK
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Many moons ago, a beautiful young lady of color in my crew when I worked in New Orleans went by Sunshine and would never tell us her real name. Her paychecks and documents had Sunshine on them. We finally decided it must be her real name, we later learned after her violent death at the hands of a lecherous stepfather that her addict mother had named her "Virgina" - after the state.
sipowicz
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I had a feeling my first date with Sheila Blige was going to go well...and it did.
Alpo
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Did you misspell Virginia (in which case, I don't get it) or did her mama misspell Virginia
I know a young man who's mother's name is Jackie and his father is Eddie. He is Jaed. Ja Ed.
Went to school with a feller named Lloyd Gainer. When we bought our name cards, to go with our graduation announcements, I saw his. Sir Lloyd Linwood Gainer III. Now, I don't know if that was really his name, or if he just thought that was cool, but that's what his cards said.
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Gatofeo
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I had no idea that my post would be so popular, and hilarious. I'm pleased at the response.
I should also add another name.
When I was growing up in Spokane, Washington I mowed the lawn for an old man named Gay Lust.
No kidding! His first name was actually Gaylord, but he went by Gay. Nicest guy in the world, though.
One spring, when I was 18, I told him I was getting too old to mow lawns and now had a full-time job.
He said if I'd mow his lawn the rest of the summer, he had a wartime Walther P-38 pistol to give me -- and he'd give it to me now.
I leapt at the deal!
I still have that gun. It's in like-new shape. He gave it to me with a shoulder holster, two magazines, and two original boxes of German cartridges (16-round boxes).
Alas, the barrel was not the same serial number as the rest of the gun, so I've fired perhaps 500 rounds through it over the years.
Gay Lust and his wonderful wife, Alice, died about 20 years ago, when they were in their 80s. I'll always think fondly of them.
But what a name to give a kid!
Of course, the word "gay" when he received it meant happy or delighted, and had not yet taken on sexual overtones.
Still, his parents must have figured that Gaylord would be shortened to Gay at an early age, becoming "Happy Lust."
Ack!
Proof that this naming madness is very old, indeed.
I should also add another name.
When I was growing up in Spokane, Washington I mowed the lawn for an old man named Gay Lust.
No kidding! His first name was actually Gaylord, but he went by Gay. Nicest guy in the world, though.
One spring, when I was 18, I told him I was getting too old to mow lawns and now had a full-time job.
He said if I'd mow his lawn the rest of the summer, he had a wartime Walther P-38 pistol to give me -- and he'd give it to me now.
I leapt at the deal!
I still have that gun. It's in like-new shape. He gave it to me with a shoulder holster, two magazines, and two original boxes of German cartridges (16-round boxes).
Alas, the barrel was not the same serial number as the rest of the gun, so I've fired perhaps 500 rounds through it over the years.
Gay Lust and his wonderful wife, Alice, died about 20 years ago, when they were in their 80s. I'll always think fondly of them.
But what a name to give a kid!
Of course, the word "gay" when he received it meant happy or delighted, and had not yet taken on sexual overtones.
Still, his parents must have figured that Gaylord would be shortened to Gay at an early age, becoming "Happy Lust."
Ack!
Proof that this naming madness is very old, indeed.
fiasconva
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I thought in an urban school system for 28 years. There isn't enough space here to list some of the names I encountered. There is no limit to the stupidity some of those parents.
bubbiesdad
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Originally posted by BarbC:
You can't forget Dick Trickle.
That sounds like something you catch.
InolaOK
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Ya gotta asplain this one to the common folk.
sw44spl
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where I work at when some people call in to check for bond info on their kids they cant even spell the odd names they gave them.that is so very very sad in many ways.my friends wife is a 5th grade teacher and had a brother set named lemonjello and orangejello.
HOUSTON RICK
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Her momma named her Virgina because she thought that was how Virginia was spelled. Her grandmother, who principly raised her, named her Sunshine.
charlie sherrill
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We've got our Jeremiah Johnson. His Momma named him after the movie. His stupidity is astounding. He's one of the biggest thieves I've ever dealt with. He can't keep a job because he'll steal the equipment from his boss that's needed to do the job. (three times that I know of) Another strange one got his name when his flower power mother came back from California with him. Part Free (the first two names on his birth certificate) Knight quickly became known as "Bubba." He's a full time burglar and part time thief when he's not in jail.
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Gatofeo
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Full time burglar and part time thief ...
Unfortunately, I see many of the younger generation in such an occupation. They want it all NOW but don't want to work for it.
I have no sympathy. I save my sadness for those more deserving.
I can't abide a thief. A thief is as low as an animal abuser. Anyone who will abuse an animal will abuse a child. Anyone who will abuse a child will abuse a woman, old man or anyone else incapable of defense.
Unfortunately, I see many of the younger generation in such an occupation. They want it all NOW but don't want to work for it.
I have no sympathy. I save my sadness for those more deserving.
I can't abide a thief. A thief is as low as an animal abuser. Anyone who will abuse an animal will abuse a child. Anyone who will abuse a child will abuse a woman, old man or anyone else incapable of defense.
Sven
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One of my partners at work has had a number of foster kids come through their home. The latest brother and sister they decided to adopt. The little girl's name is Whisper Rain (I think she's 3), and the boy is Raven Jericho and is 8. They thought about changing the little girls name, but. . . I can't remember what their birth-mother's name is off hand, but it was some hippy-sounding name, too.
I also know a boy named Parker Hale, and his sister Beretta. I suggested if they have another boy naming him Carl Gustav
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I also know a boy named Parker Hale, and his sister Beretta. I suggested if they have another boy naming him Carl Gustav
DrewW
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I have a neighbor whose last name is Head, I was working on his farm a couple of years ago cutting tobacco and met his brother Richard, but he didn't go by Richard, Rich, Rick, or any of the more normal names, instead he went by Dick so he was know to most people as Dick Head.
CAJUNLAWYER
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I represented a guy once in a possession of cocaine case. His name-Heroin K******. 
I missed this thread last time out-I was emeshed in more important things at the time
I missed this thread last time out-I was emeshed in more important things at the time
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Mickey D
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Truth is stranger than fiction, and in this case it wasn't even a given name, but a surname. When I was 10 or 11 years old, I knew a fellow at summer camp whose surname probably originated with the fairly common German surname Fuchs. I kid you not - it rhymed with and ended the spelling like one of our web-footed friends. I doubt that he had any problem with it in camp (a YMCA camp in the Bible Belt); I certainly wasn't aware of any. But I can't imagine that he didn't change it before he got to high school. I always figured his parents were immigrants and didn't know any better.
If someone told me about it and I hadn't been there myself, I wouldn't believe it.
If someone told me about it and I hadn't been there myself, I wouldn't believe it.
681ismyfavorite
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i work in the projects, ive heard all the "names" baby mamas name their kids.....nothing surprises me.
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