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Weird Personal Names

Notables from this week's local babynames:
DeeAnnia Louetta and Briannia Sibbielynn, twins.

Also, it's been done before, but it doesn't make it much less weird:
Zachary Espn.

I'm seeing a lot of girls named "Cadence" these days. Is this a big trend?
 
In the book "Auntie Mame" a social climbing arriviste has renamed himself "Jules Mont d'Or". One of the characters delights in pointing out that mont d'or means mountain of gold--or gold berg. Yep; he was plain old Julius Goldberg before both Frenchifying and de-Hebrewcising his name.
 
I'm a huge fan of car racing and have spent many days at the local race track. Years ago, there was a local racecar driver by the name of Will Barrow.

While his name isn't that odd... it's hilarious when announced over a loud-speaker to a crowd of 20,000 people. When announced, his name sounds just like "Wheelbarrow".... not exactly a name that brings to mind *speed* and great *driving skills*

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And in last place, coming around turn three... Will Barrow.
 
And P.J. Bonk bonked his ma on the napper.

Fairhope assault case brings charge of attempted murder

Patrick Joseph Bonk accused of savagely beating his mother

Thursday, March 10, 2005
By DAN MURTAUGH
Staff Reporter

Police charged Patrick Joseph Bonk on Wednesday with attempted murder in an attack on his mother, who was severely beaten in their Fairhope home.

Bonk, 20, was booked into the Baldwin County Corrections Center on Wednesday, where he awaits a bond hearing to be held Friday, a jail spokesman said.

Police say Bonk repeatedly hit his mother, Patricia L. Hellebusch, 57, over the head with a 5-foot-long galvanized steel pipe just after lunch Tuesday.

Hellebusch was taken to the University of South Alabama Medical Center, where she remained in critical condition Wednesday, a hospital spokesman said.

The incident occurred inside Hellebusch's home in the Plantation Pines sub division in north Fairhope, Police Chief Chris Browning said.

"He just wanted to be left alone," Browning said when asked about a motive in the crime Bonk is charged with. The chief would not elaborate.

District Attorney David Whetstone said the case is part of a disturbing trend of violent family situations. He pointed out a recent case in Monroeville in which a jury found Timothy Jason Jones guilty of killing his parents, Dr. Tim Jones and Nancy Jones.

"It's not unusual to have great tensions in a family, and sometimes those tensions break out into violence," he said.

On Tuesday, Browning said Bonk told investigators he had dropped out of the University of Michigan three weeks ago and moved in with his mother and stepfather, Charles Hellebusch, who had recently relocated from Michigan to Fairhope.

On Wednesday, University of Michigan spokeswoman Julie Peterson said she could find no record of a Patrick Bonk ever being enrolled in the school.

Browning said Bonk, originally of Saginaw, Mich., had started working at a video store in Daphne since he arrived on the Eastern Shore.
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I used to deal with a dutch company where one of my contacts was a guy called 'Dick'.
Not that funny I grant you, but my other contact at this company was his brother 'Cock'.

I'm not too sure if anyone outside the UK will get why this is amusing (if only slightly) but here, both names are slang for penis.

Perhaps their parents were porn stars???
 
I met someone the other day called Quinton Bimson.

Not rude I know but it just sounds funny.
 
I see a lot of funny names in my job as fines administrator for the courts. (Dont all shoot me at once now hahahaha!)

One i remember is Richard Houlder. Think about it. We laughed about that for ages!
 
I'm a nurse in a large public hospital in Texas, and boy have I seen some weird names.

Some of my favorites:

ShaMonica
Sunshine Day
De'Bruie (yes, prounced like "debris")
Shevette
Sativa
Precious Promise
Bronco Billy (it's on his birth certificate like that - not a nickname)

and sets of twins named:
Clone and Drone
Lemonjello and Orangello (Leh-MON-je-lo and or-ON-jeh-lo)

...and NO, I am not kidding !!!!
 
Mummy said:
I've recently come across a man named Seren Dipity
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You are, of course, having a laugh? :shock:

That can't possibly be real...
 
amusing names

i know there's a thread for this but i can't find it anywhere.

anyway, the new chief of securicor group 4 is called Nick Buckles.
 
I was talking to a guy last night who claims to know a woman called Hazel Snayzell, and another called Ivy Green.
 
ted maul said:
cheers. i thought the mods would have moved it by now.
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If you post here you can let us know if there are any threads/posts that need moving, we can then get around to it a lot quicker ;)

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and sets of twins named:
Clone and Drone
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that is just damn weird! the poor children...
 
I'm off to hear this person speak tomorrow- Del LaGrace Volcano

Can't wait. 8)
 
and sets of twins named:
Clone and Drone
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that is just damn weird! the poor children...[/quote]

Worse yet -- and this is absolutely true, I cared for this infant myself -- a baby born to 2 schizophrenic street people. They named their baby "Us".

He was promptly removed from their custody....and one assumes, renamed.
 
Some odd ones from this week's births:

Girl named Anistyn (I presume pronounced as in Jennifer from "Friends")
Boy named Ashton Steven Tyler (Tyler's the double middle name, not the last name)

And a boy named Bo Ty.
 
Our regional daily has a weekly section for horsey people (owners, riders, etc, not just racing): I noticed today it is edited by a Ms. Annabel Groom!
 
I used to know someone who had a friend called Arthur Chicken.
:lol:
 
I hope I haven't mentioned this already (did a search, found nothing), but ages ago, when I worked in England, one of the managers was called Michael Michael. It took me long to realize that both his first name AND his surname was "Michael". Before that I had thought it was more like "Michael who?" "You know, Michael Michael", the same way as "Trish Trish" in Vicky Pollard sketches in Little Britain.
I guess the story behind the name was that he's originally Greek and has "translated" his name (like George Michael did). Strangely, both his first and his surname both translate in the same way in English.
We had a couple of amusing situations when angry customers demanded to know his name (so that they could call the head office and whine). The customers thought he was taking the piss out them and sometimes just stormed out.
 
Or maybe its just that his surname was michael and he had sadisticly humourous parents, like Major Major Major Major in Catch-22.

I'm greek and i've considered translating my surname (my parents, one of them being English and envisioning that we might move to England at some point, had the foresight to give me a first name that was used in both countries), but unfortunately i don't like the english translation.
 
i'm sure I've said it before but when the other half worked on tech help at ntl he had a woman called Olive Olive phone up. He also had a Mrs Kunt but thats another story.
 
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