There was a thread over on classicairsoft.net on funny names… so I had to share mine…
Lesseee…
* The Dr. that delivered me was Dr. Butt. (at the ripe old age of 7, I didn’t believe my mom until she showed me my Birth Certificate…)
* I went to Highschool with a girl who was born in the USA to first-gen immigrants from (someplace in) West Africa… “Faboomie Kaboomie Atafumi”.
* My H.S. GF’s Father had a best friend who was named (not unusually) Chevy. It was unsurprising that he grew up being into cars. Chevrolet’s – also unsurprising. What slayed me was the day I was at Lynette’s house and Chevy came over, daughters (Ages 7 and 5 in 1986) in tow…Chevelle and Chevette.
* Also in the mid 80’s, there was a Dentist’s office on Watt Avenue in Sacramento on my way to the Hobby Shop I used to go to – “Dr. Pain, D.D.S.”
* I had a friend in Oregon that I met initially as a user of the BBS I was running (This was back in the day when you would actually call the BBS with your modem, not this Internet “BBS” software stuff.) I thought for SURE it had to be someone using a fake name/user handle, as this person typed out “Mikalina Wiswall” as their name…Turns out her dad (Irv) ran the computer lab at Linfield College, and at Cornell before that.
* When I lived in Florida in the mid-90’s a Friend of my girlfriend’s met a guy. Her name was Rhoda. His family was Dutch, and their last name was Byck. She married him anyway.
* I work at Denver International Airport, and over the Paging and Information System, I occasionally hear names that…well…they must be fake…right? “Amanda Huggenkys”, “Heya or Luka Likaman” (Anyone here a MadTV fan?)…and many others… I really should write them down. 🙂
* A friend of mine in Colorado Springs has a fairly straightforward name – John Ford. However, *HE* had a girlfriend in H.S. who was named Mercedes. She, on the other hand, did *not* marry him anyway. However, he always said that there is proof in that story that you *can* fit a Ford inside a Mercedes with a little perserverance and some flowers. =)
However, he always said that there is proof in that story that you *can* fit a Ford inside a Mercedes with a little perserverance and some flowers. =)
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
My high school sweetheart’s mother was a grade school teacher and I’ll NEVER forget the day she came home and said she had a child in her class named “Vagina.” And pronounced like the anatomic body part. She said she tried to pronounce it Va-geena and the little girl corrected her. What kind of mother names her little girl Vagina?
The same kind that sees those VW commercials and thinks, “Fahrvernugen… that’s a *pritty* name…I’m gonna name mah child Farfignoogen!”
Or perhaps the same kind of people (West Virginians) that named their child “William 5/8 Smith”.
Oh, and I forgot one… I’ll edit my original entry.
My Home-Ec teacher was Mrs. Potts, my Tech Ed/Wood Working teaching was Mr. Beaver.. and my English teacher was Mrs. Kitchen, but she subbed in Home-ec on occasion.. and my Choral instructor was Mr. Sang.
That was aaall in 8th grade at the same school.
One of the best doctors I ever went to was Dr. Katz, of the partnership of Katz, Ball, and Buster. And yes, they put them in that order on the letterhead.
Went to school with a pair of twins, LB and BB. It wasn’t until high school graduation that we found out the letters stood for Little Boy and Big Boy. (Now *that* took some imagination for Mom!)
Another high-school friend, Boo-boo. He was an unplanned pregnancy. Yup, he had baggage.
Those are just a few I remember of the top of my pointy little head. LOL