Are these people Lancrastrian?

I read this in a local paper and my brother confirmed it. One of his co-workers had a son, he and his wife named the boy Marvelous, with such a long first name they chose a short middle name from their culture, their last name is Mai.*

When this kid fills out forms asking for his full name , last name first, he will be putting down- Mai, Marvelous Ho.

My question is, have you encountered names like this? And how long before the kid changes his name?

My brother says the dad is a great guy, I hope the boy thinks so eventually.

* yes it does rhyme with Thai

I've seen a few weird ones here in oz, there is a politition named Richard Head, there's a footballer named Wayne Kerry, and in our local paper I saw a story about a couple that didn't realise their mistake untill too late.
They had their first child, a boy, and named him Justin.
When it came to choosing his middle name they decided on Casey. (I think that was the childs grandfathers name)
It was about a week later that someone pointed out, when combined with their last name, his full name was Justin Casey Roots.
Highlite this line if you don't get it. [color=white:a666d18c95](just in case he roots)[/color:a666d18c95]

[quote:cfb3216d65]When this kid fills out forms asking for his full name , last name first, he will be putting down- Mai, Marvelous Ho.[/quote:cfb3216d65]

Or maybe he should put down- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Parents should sometimes just be taken and put out of their misery.

Ophelia Dick (my character in the Werewolf game) was a student that my art teacher taught...

I also had a friend in school who's name was Melanie Hooker...which got some razzing but her aunts name was Gay Hooker...

I know for a fact that people live in Slovenia (I saw their documentation when I worked at a bank office) with our equivalents of the names: Daffy Duck, Strawberry Raspberry and Living terror. I realize some don't sound like names, but that's just because of translation. All names are normal, just the combinations suck.
Violation of human rights is what I'd call it.

OK, everyone who reads this thread: [b:6c51b0ad4c]TAKE NOTE[/b:6c51b0ad4c]

Think before you name your child. It will prevent embarresment and ridicule to the child later in life, and your subsiquent homicide as well. Face it, they will have a valid reason to do so.[/b]

Well I had email the other day and the guys name was Matric exemsion Mabula.

Martic is our grade 12 and exemsion means you can go to univerisity...

[quote:ff0127db72]I know for a fact that people live in Slovenia (I saw their documentation when I worked at a bank office) with our equivalents of the names: Daffy Duck, Strawberry Raspberry and Living terror. I realize some don't sound like names, but that's just because of translation. All names are normal, just the combinations suck.
Violation of human rights is what I'd call it.[/quote:ff0127db72]

In Serbia and Montenegro, people also give their kids names like:
Strawberry, Chery, Deary, Cheerfully, Flower ...
They also sound ridiculous because of translatation.

I know a guy called Justin Casey! (Casey is an Irish surname) I remember in my work in Australia a few years ago coming across people with the surname D’eath- which seemingly is quite a common Asian name!

No, the names the usually make me grin are the ones in which Parents don’t seem to have ANY imagination whatsoever. I’ve personally met Dermot Mc Dermot and Cormic Mc Cormic! Perhaps it would have been OK a couple of hundred years ago as ‘Mc’ means ‘son of’ in Irish, so you could see how that would work- but really what were those folks thinking?

I remember watching (under pain of torture) a ‘made for TV movie’ (I really hate them) a few years back and when the credits rolled one of the main characters (a woman) was called Micki Dickoff – which was funny at the time

what I hate is when people take no thought beyond ' i like the way it sounds'

You pointed out that 'mac' or 'mc' is Irish for 'son of'
there's a family next door who have named their daughter MacKenzie. I just hope the poor kid never visits Ireland...

Yes, O' is similar it means son of (sort of) as in O'Neill or O'Reilly.

I also find the (predominately American) use of the name Tyrone as a first name (e.g. Tyrone Power - movie actor from years ago). Tyrone is name of the county were I'm originally from. It’s from the Irish Tír Eoghain which means ‘The land of Eoin’ or ‘The land of Owen’.

Of course this may not seem strange to most of you but it would be like talking to someone who has the same first name as your home town!

In our home language (Afrikaans) you can also get really horrible names especially family names - those that are handed down from generation to generation.

Ask Smoking Gnu why his initials are a L M.
Therefore I'm glad my mother decided not to punish me with the afrikaans family names and name me Cynthia after my great grandmother who was from England.

But then surnames can also be a source of pain.

In afrikaans we have some really hysterical ones....
I'm sure the German and Dutch people will understand but I will supply some translations as well.

Baard - beard
Baas - boss
Ombika - Pig
Goeieman - Good man
Swartbooi - literaly black person
Skrywer - writer

And the list is endless ...

My brother had a friend who had the initials S.A.D.

jolly guy actually

You have a problem with my initials?
You have a problem with my name?

You come and say it to my face why don't you! :evil:

I just remembered I also have student whos name is Phil Wild... The best porn name ever!

I also remember when I was on data entry at a stock broker a client whose name was: The Duc Phu (Phu=poo).... I giggled for a very long time in a very boring job.

I was talking to an American professor the other week and we were joking about some of the American names that sound made up and he mentioned a few like Shanyssa, Shequonda and Shetonka but then he said someone introduced their daughter to him as Pajama (pronounced Padge-amma, rhyming with gramma)... Apparantly they'd taken it out of a Sears catalogue and the kid was Pajamas... For crying out loud you can wear her to bed...

I tell you parents should be shot!!!!

Does anyone els see something familliar here?

Maybe this is where TPratchett gets the names of his caracters from, the sheer abundance of seemingly stupid and embarrising names present in our own little world!

I knew a boy named Pappillon, he has twin sisters, their names were Colony & Destiny.

I know a girl named India.

My father was called Zohar for many years in the clult. I always liked that name. Zohar. It sounds like something out of 'The Ten Commandments" with Charlton Heston as Moses and Yul Brenner as the bad pharoh Ramses.

"I am Zohar, son of Gideon"

His best friend was named Elkhanna. Zohar and Elkhanna. Great names.

One of my fathers students was called "Henny de Haan" which translates almost to "Chicken(y) the Cock" (Cock being the male chicken, not the other thing).

My girlfriends name was going to be "Agripina" (Which translates in portuguese to "Flu-like")
Her dad went to register her name, took pity on her and lied to her Grandmother that the office didn't accept it. Now her name is Anabela.

I have heard the names "Cybille In de Broek" and "Aarsman".
Translations: "See buttocks in pants" and "Arseman".

Ah of course, Mr Uitenbroek's last name (One of my dutch colleagues) translates to "Out of the pants"

An engineer I dealt with at BSL when I was ordering parts was called Mike Hunt. Poor fella but you would have thought he'd have wanted to be called michael or maybe even micky to stop the joke.

A friend of mine has a young daughter called Geneva - I did ask her once whether that was an earlier example of the (claimed) reason that the Beckhams named their son Brooklyn - place of conception - but apparently she's never been there - it's just that she and her ex-husband liked the sound of the name. Actually, it's probably lucky that the "place of conception name" idea has never really caught on - how many people could end up being called "Round-the-back-of-the-bus-shelter-after-the-pubs-closed-on-Saturday-night"?

A friend of mine was so sure she was going to have a daughter, she and her husband just couldn't think of a boy's name. Her mother said she really should have one just in case, he is called Justin Casey but he almost was named Justin Case.

There are tons of little girls named MacKenzie in the states, even one of my neices is a MacKenzie. I'm not sure how this came to be a popular name except maybe because of MacKenzie Phillips. I have heard that another popular girl's name came from the movie "Splash", Madison is practically every other girls name right now, but before Darryl Hanna's mermaid no one even thought of it.

I know a guy called Jasmine here .. never heard of that as a man's name before.

I know a guy in my hostle called Damien...
:evil:

My baby cousin's name is Mungo Oberon... One could mark that off as a one-off naming blunder were it not for the fact that my Auntie named her next son Myles... Mylo for short no less.

I'm kinda glad that my parents called me Adele. They were going to call me Gwenevere.

[quote:1188e3f38c="Smoking_GNU"]I know a guy in my hostle called Damien...
:evil:[/quote:1188e3f38c]

I know two guys called Damien, one of them could be an advert for gluttony and the other could be the devil if he wasn't forever trying to be a lepracaun.

[quote:9c92f1b048="Electric_Man"][quote:9c92f1b048="Smoking_GNU"]I know a guy in my hostle called Damien...
:evil:[/quote:9c92f1b048]

I know two guys called Damien, one of them could be an advert for gluttony and the other could be the devil if he wasn't forever trying to be a lepracaun.[/quote:9c92f1b048]

There you go. Morphic resonance right there.
One of my friends is called Abraham, by the way.

The surname Dick is fairly common in Scotland, much to the amusement of smutty schoolboys af all ages.

My female friend who had this surname took the brunt of all the jokes that can be levelled at a girl who has the surname Dick, all the way through school and university, until she met and got engaged to the love of her life

She was happy to change her name when she got married of course.

Pity his surname was Cox......

There is a politician called Godlover Fucky

[quote:fedcd1ea64="sleepy_sarge"]The surname Dick is fairly common in Scotland, much to the amusement of smutty schoolboys af all ages.

My female friend who had this surname took the brunt of all the jokes that can be levelled at a girl who has the surname Dick, all the way through school and university, until she met and got engaged to the love of her life

She was happy to change her name when she got married of course.

Pity his surname was Cox......[/quote:fedcd1ea64]

Are you making a joke or are you serious??!

I have a male cousin called Kylie. The family were living in Australia at the time and his mother liked the sound of it. I believe it's an aboriginal word. Of course after Kylie Minogue it's forever classed as a female name.
He prefers to be known as Ky now

[quote:be55b868a5="Smoking_GNU"]
Are you making a joke or are you serious??![/quote:be55b868a5]

Serious!

I've heard tales of people who know a "Norman Conquest" or an "Erskine Ferry", without actually meeting them, so have no way of knowing the truth (although as Wodehouse's Berite Wooster says.... "There's some rum work done at the font eh Jeeves?")

but this girl has been a friend for most of my life.

[quote:56f4f7b109="sleepy_sarge"][quote:56f4f7b109="Smoking_GNU"]
Are you making a joke or are you serious??![/quote:56f4f7b109]

Serious!



but this girl has been a friend for most of my life.[/quote:56f4f7b109]

Hey love's blind....

[quote:913d630de6="jaccairn"]I have a male cousin called Kylie. The family were living in Australia at the time and his mother liked the sound of it. I believe it's an aboriginal word. Of course after Kylie Minogue it's forever classed as a female name.
He prefers to be known as Ky now [/quote:913d630de6]

I have a friend called Kylie who is australian - she told me that her name meant something like 'to come back' in Aborigional- seemingly it was used in association with the Aborigional hunting/ weapon of war- the boomerang.


I've just thought of another name. I used to be in contact with a guy in computer support of a company I used to work in: His name is Pac Mann!

I remember once seeing on the credits at the end of blind date a man who's name was Phil Weedon, i'm still wondering to this day what exactly he was trying to wee on.

When I first saw the name of this thread I thought the question was asking wether these people were from Blackburn or that area....

[quote:60d5d9ce42="Electric_Man"][quote:60d5d9ce42="Smoking_GNU"]I know a guy in my hostle called Damien...
:evil:[/quote:60d5d9ce42]

I know two guys called Damien, one of them could be an advert for gluttony and the other could be the devil if he wasn't forever trying to be a lepracaun.[/quote:60d5d9ce42]

lol, hummm....I wonder which one is which.

I went to college with a guy called Wayne Kerr which was still amusing for most of the 2 years, and there was a girl I knew a few years ago who was called "Theresa Brown" (Trees-are-brown) and she got married to a guy called Green.. ! (Trees-are-green) :lol:

~B:wink:B~

[quote:d608f0b4fd="Rincewind"][quote:d608f0b4fd="OmKranti"][quote:d608f0b4fd="Electric_Man"][quote:d608f0b4fd="Smoking_GNU"]I know a guy in my hostle called Damien...
:evil:[/quote:d608f0b4fd]

I know two guys called Damien, one of them could be an advert for gluttony and the other could be the devil if he wasn't forever trying to be a lepracaun.[/quote:d608f0b4fd]

lol, hummm....I wonder which one is which.[/quote:d608f0b4fd]

Actually, I [i:d608f0b4fd]could[/i:d608f0b4fd] be an avert for gluttony. People could look at me and say 'I don't want to end up like that skinny fuck, I better go eat some pie' and then there on board the fat train.[/quote:d608f0b4fd]

My Uncle was known as Kel, his real name was Edward... The story of how Edward became Kel is as follows...

Edward had the same name as his father so to distinguish young Edward was called Ned... An aunt use to call him Neddy and then one day she started calling him Ned Kelly, which then everyone else shortened to Kelly, and then one more iteration of shortening to Kel.

I was 20 when I found out my uncles real name and it took another 2 years to find out how Edward becomes Kel... but their you go. They even wrote Kel on his headstone bacouse no one knew his real name when he died.

Spiky, that reminds me of the story about my sister-in-laws name. When she was born her parents had chosen a name but they didn't have a chance to relay the information to the nurses.

It was a difficult delivery and she was born with an abcessed lung, it was a Catholic hospital and so was given an emergency baptism, my father-in-law had been at the hospital but had left just at the wrong time. The nuns chose to name the baby Katherine Ann, the same name as my mother-in-law's older sister.

When Mom McGough woke up she was somewhat horrified to find out her baby had been given that name, she didn't have much love for her sister at that time, but the nuns told her what was done was done and the only thing they could do is add the name they really wanted to give their baby to the birth certificate.

The weird part of the story is that Linda didn't find out what her real name was until she took her birth certificate with her to get her driver's license. It just never came up I guess.

My uncle Jere and his wife had a hard time deciding on what to name their son, it took them a few weeks to decide on Jeremy(one of the most popular boy's names at the time). When his sister was born she went by the name of Sequel for a couple of months before they named her Jessica(also a very popular name). When Jaqueline came along her name was waiting for her, complete with Thomas as her middle name (after our great grand father).

Jessica has a three year old boy now, his name is Sky River. His father's given name is Tojz. I do not know how to pronounce it or what language it's from, but maybe Sky won't mind being Sky, considering he might have been a junior.

[quote:43f43a6e66="TamyraMcG"]
It was a difficult delivery and she was born with an abcessed lung, it was a Catholic hospital and so was given an emergency baptism, my father-in-law had been at the hospital but had left just at the wrong time. The nuns chose to name the baby Katherine Ann, the same name as my mother-in-law's older sister. [/quote:43f43a6e66]

I understand it only happens under serious circumstances, but I do quite like the idea of an emergency baptism. I wonder if they get to wear reflective dog collars?

[quote:1ecb998b36="Orrdos"]Stupid names?

Ahah!

The one perk of my job is getting to laugh at peoples funny names.

The following are actual customers that have phoned up me or one of my colleagues:

Mr. A Hole

Mr. Hornyball

Mr. Growcock (those two phoned up one after the other)

Reverend Banana

Reverend Bushshagger

Guisseppe Cunto

Sparky Fuckier

Shady Pishbin

Jesus Christ

Churchill Onabanjo

Mr. Jelly



There's many, many others as well [/quote:1ecb998b36]

>falls off chair laughing< :lol: They're unreal.

But... Jesus Christ? Wow! Was He having problems with His electricity meter? I hope you didn't hang up on Him. Or blaspheme.

[quote:2fa180c1d2="Delphine"]But... Jesus Christ? Wow! Was He having problems with His electricity meter? I hope you didn't hang up on Him. Or blaspheme.[/quote:2fa180c1d2]

Reminds me of a time we booked a friend for a golf tee time in Indonesia...they asked his name, we said chris, when we got there, it was written as christ...the jokes continue...

My brother went to school with a kid named Long LeCock.

I went to school with a girl whose last name was Hoo. Her Dad's name was Yoo.

My good friend, Maya, married a guy whose last name is Pinis. We went to the wedding with baited breaths, but the couple's last name never got mentioned ONCE!

[quote:805a7bd7bc="mowgli"]My brother went to school with a kid named Long LeCock.

I went to school with a girl whose last name was Hoo. Her Dad's name was Yoo.

My good friend, Maya, married a guy whose last name is Pinis. We went to the wedding with baited breaths, but the couple's last name never got mentioned ONCE![/quote:805a7bd7bc]

Thats just not fair... It wasn't the swimmer Misty Vagina marrying Mr Pinis was it? Cos that'd be gold

In France (and I'm pretty sure in some other countries too) there are restrictions in what you can call your children. Forenames must come from a list of saints or otherwise accepted names.

One couple wanted to call their daughter Fleur de Marie, and were sent packing by the registrar. Fleur was ok, Marie was ok - but joining them together was just too much for the French legal system.

A flurry of court actions ensued, when the compromise "Fleur-Marie" was suggested to, and rejected by the parents.

It went all the way to the European Court of Human Rights. The whole story, plus the judgement is at the link below It is too big I think to be clicked, so cut and paste it if you are interested.

The strange character that shows up - on my screen at any rate - is meant to be an e with an acute accent above

http://www.coe.int/T/E/Legal_affair...w_and_children's_rights/Judgments/Guillot.asp

Absolutely But seeing my Mom trying to read the wedding invitation for the first time was almost worth it!

[quote:816ef5af30="Rincewind"][quote:816ef5af30="mowgli"]
My good friend, Maya, married a guy whose last name is Pinis. We went to the wedding with baited breaths, but the couple's last name never got mentioned ONCE![/quote:816ef5af30]

I'd of asked for my money back. You got conned.[/quote:816ef5af30]

A host of a talk show here bears the name Guy Pinnes. I think he's quite tired of the jokes he hears every time ho goes abroad.

And his first name translates as 'Ravine', by the way.

There's plenty of Jewish names that translate to names that, in another language, just don't sound like names. They make perfect sense in the parent language as names, but just don't work when one considers their meaning.

In any case, it's no worse than calling a boy Ray, which would translate to Keren in Hebrew, which is girl's name.

[quote:44b3d8cec7="Roman_K"]
There's plenty of Jewish names that translate to names that, in another language, just don't sound like names. They make perfect sense in the parent language as names, but just don't work when one considers their meaning.
.[/quote:44b3d8cec7]

Like what?

The opposite, I suppose, would be to skip the translating part, and just take your name abroad "As is", but then you might be stuck with a name that sounds extremely unmelodious, once you strip it off its meaning. For example, Liubov is a popular Russian girls' name, because it means "love" but in any other language it just sounds... ick!

(Likewise, "Bred" is a Russian transliteration of "Brad" and it means "delirium". My grandparents had a LOT of fun with that one! )

And Misty Vagina?....!!! You gotta be kidding!

[quote:cfa298995d="mowgli"]
And Misty Vagina?....!!! You gotta be kidding![/quote:cfa298995d]

LOL well...I follow swimming and never heard of her...on the other hand there IS a swimmer called Misty Hyman which is almost as good....

Edit - damn quotes

[quote:4bca32764f="sleepy_sarge"][quote:4bca32764f="mowgli"]
And Misty Vagina?....!!! You gotta be kidding![/quote:4bca32764f]

LOL well...I follow swimming and never heard of her...on the other hand there IS a swimmer called Misty Hyman which is almost as good....

Edit - damn quotes[/quote:4bca32764f]

Thats the one I was thinking of. Stupid brain.