And she named them all Dave?

Letty wrote:

Portal Star. If you're rich you can be named Ima S**t and get by with it, especially if you're big contributor to a college or museum.

If you had a name like that, you'd probably sound it out differently, say that it's foreign: ee-meh shee, like all the Onions who call themselves 'Oh-nigh-on'

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Lord have mercy, folks. It is amazing how important our names have become to us. I still believe that the only thing we truly own is this life are our names and our birthdays.

You're right, drom. There was a family in Virginia who had the name of Penas, and they pronounced it PeNAS. Don't blame 'em.

Then there is the association factor. I had two advisors in college and grad school, both named Dr. Short. I hated the first Dr. Short and respected the other, but it took me a little bit to break the link. Isn't that odd?

Good morning from Florida

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A friend of a friend who worked as a labor and delivery nurse told of a new mom who named her twin sons, Lemonjello and Orangejello. Since I don't know her I can't swear this is true, but I did just google the two names, and apparently there are a lot of them out there!

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Hey, Kirsten, (I like your name) Good grief. Sounds like those two may have been a result of a Mom not quite recovered from the anaesthesia.

My sister tells this for a face. A very uneducated woman named her baby placenta previous after hearing the ob/gyn man talk about it. That's sorta sad.

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Wonder how many baby "Vagina's" have been christened?

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Regina Vagina. Not bad if pronounced Regina VaGina. Love it, Kirsten. One of my sister's playmates wanted to be christened Flora Dora Autry. She didn't have much imagination.

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Letty wrote:

... A very uneducated woman named her baby placenta previous after hearing the ob/gyn man talk about it. That's sorta sad.

Poor child! That's even worse than calling a child Lemonjello. To think that they'll have to live with that name for sixteen years at least! Well, I'd lie, say it was an Italian name, pronounced 'plachenta.'

Everyone: would you choose a different name for yourself, if you had to start life again but could choose your own name?

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Drom, that's a great question. I'll answer first. No, because my name is connected to family history and I like it that way. Now had that history been infamous..well.....................................

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The capital city of saskatchewan is regina, pronounced ree-g(eye)-na
A couple of years ago, I worked for an oil company, I had to order parts for all our properties. One day I called a company in Texas.
The lady on the other end of the phone needed info, company name, address....

'the cities names?'
'regina'
'pardon me, '
'regina, saskatchewan'
'Listen, I don't appreciate your attitude, if you don't stop being crude I'm gonna hang up, so what is the name of the city?'
'Regina, Saskatchewan'
Click!

It took three subsequent phone calls to explain that this was no joke at her expense.

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Thanks, Letty!

I changed my surname, but this was not because I disliked the old name, but for security reasons. The weirdest name change that I have ever witnessed was back in the days when my mother owned bars. She still did, until a few years ago when she decided that it was all getting too much. Anyhow, I remember coming home for Christmas-- I think that it was '95, and there was this loyal nutcase of a Liverpudlian, a barman, who was staying with our family for lack of anywhere else to go. He lived in my mother's cellar. His father had named him 'Kevin' after Kevin Keegan, and being a Swindon fan, he hated this name. He changed his name, spontaneously, to Mike Stone Cold: he said that he got the first name from the movie, Bad Cops or something, with Will Smith, and the surname from a pro wrestler!

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Ceili, sounds like some of the customer reps that I deal with on the phone; however, I didn't realize about the pronunciation of Regina.

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Ceili wrote:

The capital city of saskatchewan is regina, pronounced ree-g(eye)-na
A couple of years ago, I worked for an oil company, I had to order parts for all our properties. One day I called a company in Texas.
The lady on the other end of the phone needed info, company name, address....

'the cities names?'
'regina'
'pardon me, '
'regina, saskatchewan'
'Listen, I don't appreciate your attitude, if you don't stop being crude I'm gonna hang up, so what is the name of the city?'
'Regina, Saskatchewan'
Click!

It took three subsequent phone calls to explain that this was no joke at her expense.

Oh no! This reminds me of when I was trying to target prospective customers for a karaoke company, run by a Mr. John Buttock.

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I don't know why it swayed from the latin pronunciation, but it did. I gave her a little history lesson that day too, but in a little different terms. :wink:

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Drom, what an intriguing life you have led. Tell us more about it when you feel the time is appropriate. Your mom certainly was warm-hearted to Mike Stone Cold. That sounds more like a rap artist's moniker.

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I will, when it's more apt, really; I didn't like living over pubs at all, but there were many interesting characters...

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I worked with a family of 13 and I was just sitting here thinking--gosh, what were their names? Turns out, all very simple-Richard, Mary, etc probably a good idea--my grandmother always went through everyones name till she got frustrated enough to say-hey you.
I wouldnt change my given name, Ive grown to like it for the most part, there were times as a kid though it was hard and I thought about it.

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My parents gave me a real true Dutch name. I dont like it a bit. When I was a kid, I used to use my second name, instead, until I realised it was just as lame. When I was in high school and I wrote poems (yes ... <blushes> ... wait, it gets worse) I used the pseudonym Victor Chmara. Thats the main character from a Patrick Modiano book (Villa Triste, I believe). Err ... yeh. Well, I still do like that name. If it hadnt been a character in a book, Id go for it in a second life, like Drom asked.

drÃ²m_et_rÃªve wrote:

The weirdest names that I've seen were when I was 'Commissar for protests' for some socialist party about a decade ago. There was this Communist couple, and they had twins and a girl. They named the girl Eliot, after 'George Eliot,' and the twin boys Trotsky and Lenin.

Hehheh, thats funny. You were in some Trotskyite party?

I remember reading some examples of how, after 1917, lot of Russian parents would name their children Socialist names. Like, a contraction of the initials of Marx, Engels and Lenin, for example. But I cant think of what those names were exactly. Would have to look it up.

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A friend of mine was born in Uganda, her parents were Canadian teachers. They had a house boy, (not my words) he loved all things western. When he and his wife had a baby, they named the little tyke Jesus Christ Mercedes Benz.

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LOL!

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there was a young man called Dave
who lived in a very damp cave
next door was a girl called Bea
and she lived in a monkey tree

Dave in fact was the missing link
He had B.O. and gave off a stink
Bea was hard to categorise
and by and large not very wise

these 2 young things began to date
and what is more they got along great
they went to the movies or out for the day
over the hills and far away

after a while Bea said hey
I think a baby is on the way
Dave said oh my gawd are you sure
Bea said yes, I'm gonna have babies galore

In the fullness of time Bea gave birth
laying on a bed of nice fresh earth
and she had 7 hairy baby gorillas
they were all called Goliath and ate tortillas

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And she named them all Dave?

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