On naming children - are parents insane?

[Jim Shugart]

In the mountains of East Tennessee, an uneducated family wanted a Biblical name for their daughter. They decided to open the Bible at random and let God guide their hands. Soooo.....the kid got named Psalm CIV -- pronounced 'Pis-em siv'. My mom grew up with her.

- Jim

 

[TNDixieGirl]

can't understand the cutesy names like Candy...

Nothing "cutesy" about it. I have a sister named Candy. Her given name is Candace.

 

[LTC]

Who's on first....

LTC

 

[walnutred]

I wanted to name my daughter Concertina Flechette. We compromised on Angela Elizabeth. Now my daughter is 16 and thinks it would have been cool to have the more distinctive name. Says she would have gone my Connie or Tina a enjoyed the reaction from the few people who knew what her name meant.

 

[feralmerril]

I have a friend that swears he has a cousin from a redneck family in lousianna that is nammed "He".

 

[mtgianni]

I heard of a fella in Idaho named Faquad S'Haad. I'm sure that you can guess the local pronunciation.

 

[2Loud4You]

My dad screwed with my name a little. Both of my parents agreed on Chadwick and to call me Chad but my dad and his mother decided that adding an "e" would be great. Now my friends call me Chadwick-e or wick-e (sorry, the dash DO be silent the way I have it written).

 

[Glitch]

I went to high school with a gal named Barb Dwyer. Poor kid--her parents should be shot.

 

[Indiana George]

Cute little 5-year old in my grandson's pre-school class named Africa.

Pronounced: Ah-free-ka.

 

[mroyal98]

Well, you can't really choose your last name (unless, of course you legally change it), but we have a new person at work who's last name is Newcomer (not kidding). Can you imagine how many smart*ss puns they get? I think I would have serious thoughts of changing that one.

By the way (btw), I'm kinda guilty to the topic of this thread. I named my daughter (now 20) Trisa pronounced like Lisa. Oldtimers seem to have a problem with it, but Trisa loves the name and carries it well.

 

[Big Rich]

Originally posted by LTC:
Who's on first....

LTC

What's on second, and I don't know's on third!


All huor aside, I handled a call in our dispatch center, the patient's name was Dastanie.

Yep, I spelled it wrong, I spelled it Destiny.
Silly me.

 

[Gatofeo]

Man, am I glad I started this thread!
It's had me laughing and groaning, second-to-second.

And as for what I originally wrote:
"I know one family with at least one boy in each generation with the middle name of G'sell, because a general named G'sell saved an ancestor's life in battle."

To the poster who guessed: Nope, not Klingon! (Yer parents name you Smar-Tazz?

)

Supposedly, G'Sell was a general under Napoleon Bonaparte, or so his family story goes. It's been carried down the family name for 200 years. I don't know if it's true, but it's a good story.

 

[Mickey D]

My first wife had an aunt named May June August. Kid you not.

 

[Bassamatic]

C'mon now. Are you gonna tell me that if your last name was Crockett...that you would not name your son Davy.

What could be cooler than to go through life as Davy Crockett.

 

[Mickey D]

What could be cooler than to go through life as Davy Crockett.

Being named Sonny.

 

[sammi357]

I'm thinkin...the ONLY name to go with Crockett would be "Boone."

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...I went to junior high school with a guy named Tim Dick...I didn't know him real well...after one year his mom moved the family to Detroit (from south Denver) after his dad was killed in a car accident. He went to college in Michigan...got caught and convicted selling drugs...spent some time in prison...got out and found his true calling in a comedy club doing stand up. From there he moved on to Hollywood...and by that time had adopted his first and middle names as his stage name...yes Tim Allen Dick had become Tim Allen...of Tim the Tool Man Taylor fame...

 

[Big Rich]

A friend of mine, whose last name is Johnson, named his son Jeremiah. A fine young this lad is.

But whenever a certain Robt. Redford film comes on, this lad is nowhere to be found.

 

[Raider]

I went to high school and dated a girl named Honey Lou. She hated for people to address her as Honey. I called her Hon. Had a girl in my home room named Cherry Redd; mean tempered gal.

 

[dave b]

Texas governor Jim Hogg had a daughter named Ima