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People with ill-considered names
San Antonio Express-News ^ | 01/29/2010 | Source: “Bad Baby Names,” by Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback; http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/2363

Posted on 01/30/2010 8:30:05 AM PST by Responsibility2nd

• Fever Bender (born 1856)

• Leper Priest (1929)

• Cholera Priest (1830)

• Rubella Graves (1814)

• Typhus Black (1897)

• Hysteria Johnson (1881)

• Emma Royd (1850)

• Kathryn E. Coli (1894)

• Mumps Sykes (1891)


TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: babynames
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To: Responsibility2nd

We have several generations of men in the next county named 5/8s. And the youngest one is in school over there. I used to work for the electric company and that was one of the first things they showed me. They didn’t want to embarrass anyone when the dad came in to pay his bill.


81 posted on 01/30/2010 9:25:14 AM PST by mom aka the evil dictator
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To: Responsibility2nd

Our neighbor was Rick Shaw.


82 posted on 01/30/2010 9:25:17 AM PST by EverOnward
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To: aruanan
You look like you have the same weird hobby I have. For years these oddball names fascinated me. About three years ago I started putting them on a spreadsheet. To date I have over 3,000 and counting.
What astounds me is that you would think you've seen them all, but every day you find another.
83 posted on 01/30/2010 9:25:39 AM PST by Recon Dad ( USMC SSgt Patrick O - 3rd Afghanistan Deployment - Day 102)
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To: WWTraveler

Bob Newhart played Major Major Major in the movie. He didn’t meet a good end in the book.


84 posted on 01/30/2010 9:26:04 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Bill Lear, creator of the Lear jet among other things, named his daughter Shanda ...she was not happy.


85 posted on 01/30/2010 9:26:29 AM PST by Imnidiot (THIS SPACE FOR RENT)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Served in the Army with a Sergeant Major - so he was Pfc. Sergeant Major.

Then a few years later I had a woman working for me whose name was Fannie Aiken. Honest!


86 posted on 01/30/2010 9:26:40 AM PST by DelaWhere (Better to be prepared a year too early than a day too late.)
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To: chasio649

78 posts. I knew this thread would go downhill.


87 posted on 01/30/2010 9:26:41 AM PST by goseminoles
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To: arasina

Jack Mehoff

Connie Lingus

Willie Peter

Joe Dumas


88 posted on 01/30/2010 9:28:12 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (usff.com)
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To: mad_as_he$$
I absolutely love it!
89 posted on 01/30/2010 9:28:39 AM PST by Recon Dad ( USMC SSgt Patrick O - 3rd Afghanistan Deployment - Day 102)
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To: Recon Dad

That list came from the local news, watching college football, and name tags at a local WalMart. I keep a Word document on my desktop so that I can amend the list quickly and easily.


90 posted on 01/30/2010 9:29:42 AM PST by JustaDumbBlonde (Do not wish doom on your enemy. Plan it.)
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To: DelaWhere
Served in the Army with a Sergeant Major - so he was Pfc. Sergeant Major.

I knew an Air Force captain named Rich Kidd. Or, if you preferred a more swashbuckling approach, Capt. Kidd.

He was an interesting character....

91 posted on 01/30/2010 9:29:50 AM PST by r9etb
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To: Responsibility2nd

let’s see here....

I went to Elementary school in Pennsyltucky with a boy names Mike Hunt and a girl named Krystal Dick.

While I was in Iraq I met a Navy guy by the last name of Swallows. Seaman Swallows. *rimshot*

But he did exist.


92 posted on 01/30/2010 9:30:07 AM PST by MikefromOhio (Fides et Audax)
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To: Responsibility2nd

We (FD) used to run down to the jail for a prisoner who got incarceritis named Conan Jungleland (Smith or whatever). Cops said they had been dealing with him since he was 8 yo. You would think, with a name like that, he would have been a better actor...


93 posted on 01/30/2010 9:30:53 AM PST by Clay Moore (Roaches, predators, and thieves typically work under the cover of darkness. So it is with congress.)
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To: DelaWhere

I was in the Army with a guy named Harry Pitts. Growing up, I had a neighbor named Minnie Butts.


94 posted on 01/30/2010 9:32:38 AM PST by weston (As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Dated a girl in college named Davalou. Her mom wanted a girl named Louise and dad wanted a boy named Dave.


95 posted on 01/30/2010 9:34:45 AM PST by Clay Moore (Roaches, predators, and thieves typically work under the cover of darkness. So it is with congress.)
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To: mkmensinger

I had childhood friends of Joy and Hope — identical twins. This was back in the day well before ultrasound. The story is the first baby was born and the mother named her Joy because she was so happy to have a healthy baby girl. When number two was born the mother named her Hope, because she hoped there weren’t any more.


96 posted on 01/30/2010 9:34:49 AM PST by FourPeas ([F]or hostility is a relation and an enemy is not a total stranger. C.S. Lewis, Perelandra)
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To: Recon Dad

Yup, Went to high school with a Mike Hunt. We always laughed when the principal called him to the office.

He, as well, preferred being called Michael.

Also worked with Dick Upright, who preferred being called Richard, but as construction workers go, we always opted for the shorter version.:-)

No pun intended.


97 posted on 01/30/2010 9:34:58 AM PST by FarNorth
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To: Disambiguator

We had a politician in Raleigh named Candy Tongue.

Our Sec. of Labor is Cherie Berry.


98 posted on 01/30/2010 9:40:45 AM PST by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

Can I ask where these names came from?


99 posted on 01/30/2010 9:41:46 AM PST by Recon Dad ( USMC SSgt Patrick O - 3rd Afghanistan Deployment - Day 102)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I went to school with a Pete Moss and Bertha Butt.


100 posted on 01/30/2010 9:45:09 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Marsha Coakley's been teabagged. Populists Hugo Chavez and Hussein Obama are next.)
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