westcoast362
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I had a job at the WMCA when I was in high school. There was a weight lifter there named General Allen Pancake. Allen being his middle name.
On naming children - are parents insane?
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K38
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I feel like I got off easy with being named for the president - Dwight
What is worse are some of the last names I've seen. Kind of hard not to offend some of your family if you change that.
DLB
What is worse are some of the last names I've seen. Kind of hard not to offend some of your family if you change that.
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ADash
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What would she do with MY family name? (Alan Dash). Would she spell it Alan -?
This Dash don't be silent, but her dash DO be silent!!!
beemerrider
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I concur with the author of the original post and thank him and all other posters for the great laughs. I've heard of mother's so unprepared at childbirth that they name there child after something they see in the delivery room, i.e. "Oxygen".
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I'm sure everyones heard the old joke about size 6 7/8 McFadden. I overheard a conversation with a clerk one time and when it was my turn, asked the clerk about the gent who'd been in front of us. Dacron Polyester can't recall the last name.
When I started working at my current employer, they had a real interesting collection of names. Wish I'd written some of the better ones down. I do recall someone continuing the classic name tradition from the 19th century: Octavius Augustus Smythe IV. Dunno what his buddies called him.
When I started working at my current employer, they had a real interesting collection of names. Wish I'd written some of the better ones down. I do recall someone continuing the classic name tradition from the 19th century: Octavius Augustus Smythe IV. Dunno what his buddies called him.
TNDixieGirl
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There's a realtor in this area named Christine "Chris" Christmas.
Not her parents fault though. She married into the Christmas family.
Not her parents fault though. She married into the Christmas family.
Forester
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We used to have a NH US Congressman by the name of Richard Sweate. He really did use the first name of Dick. I kid you not.
I have taken care of a Tinea ( fungus). Her whole family showed up in the ER, you would have thought it was guvmint cheese day. Her mother and siblings all had names taken from Scrabble. One of the other nurses that I work with said she took care of a Shi-thead(YEP)and a Placenta. Thats all folks
BarbC
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You can't forget Dick Trickle.
Andy Taylor
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I once had a job applicant who's first name was Cookie. She cried when I told her she didn't meet the minimum qualifications (not because of her name). This was for an armed security position in a casino. I think it was for the best that she looked for employment in a different field.
I worked with a Mary Christmas, she too married into the name! She went by Mary C at work. Really, what's the likelihood of being named Mary and coming across a guy with the last name Christmas and liking him so much that you marry him?!
Alpo
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Chris, a real nice feller, used to come into the range. I found out, when he was buying a gun that his name wasn't Christopher. It was Christian. Christian David Orr. When I saw what he wrote on the yellow sheet, I asked him if his mama like fancy dresses.
Y'all aren't making fun of my kids, Triple Lock and Hand Ejector, are ya?
Just kidding.
Just kidding.
Andy Taylor
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I would really feel sorry for the kid who had to go through school with the name "Hand Ejector"
No offense Lee
deadin
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I had to scan all 8 pages here before posting to make sure someone hadn't already posted it..
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A mother was sitting on the couch reading a book when one of her children walked up to her and said, "Mummy, why is my name Petal?"
The mother replied, "Because when you were born, a petal fell on your head."
The next baby walked up and asked, "Mummy why is my name Rose?" she replied,
"Because when you were born, a rose fell on your head."
The last baby walked up to her and said, "BLAS CLAFLAS YIFRASSAM TASSM POONNFFFIINRTY." The mother replied, "Please be quiet, Refrigerator."
(Lifted from another forum)
A mother was sitting on the couch reading a book when one of her children walked up to her and said, "Mummy, why is my name Petal?"
The mother replied, "Because when you were born, a petal fell on your head."
The next baby walked up and asked, "Mummy why is my name Rose?" she replied,
"Because when you were born, a rose fell on your head."
The last baby walked up to her and said, "BLAS CLAFLAS YIFRASSAM TASSM POONNFFFIINRTY." The mother replied, "Please be quiet, Refrigerator."
reddogge
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My friend is a partner in an insurance agency and a man was applying for insurance over the phone. When asked his first name he replied (phonetic spelling first) "Le MON zha lo". My friend asked him to spell it and it was L-E-M-O-N-J-E-L-L-O. His mother named him Lemonjello!
norad45
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Back in the early '90's while working for AT&T I came across a residential customer's account whose name was "Asta Le Penis." It wasn't a joke either as the bills had been paid promptly every month since the phone company had split up in 1984.
CW Spook
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When I was a kid in the 50's, we had an old man in town named Magnus Horatio Albertsen. MH had a son, about my dad's age named Roscoe Ulysses.
Walter Rego
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I worked with a woman named Gena. Her husband was named Eric. They named their baby Generic. God's honest truth. I remember some years ago when working retail I was making out a receipt for a customer and his first name was Sir Eric. And he was a third too. He told me that I "gots to put those three "eyes" after his last name" because he was Sir Eric the third.
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