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Some Parents Regret Names Of Kids
KSAT.COM ^ | 03/05/2008

Posted on 03/05/2008 9:08:01 AM PST by Responsibility2nd

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To: Responsibility2nd
Lady to boss, "I know that the IT rule for email is to use the first initial and last name but couldn't an exception be made?"

Boss to lady, "No."

Boss's thought, (Man, that Brenda Utthead is a real whiner."

;^)

101 posted on 03/05/2008 9:37:52 AM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: Slapshot68
Yeah gotta go with your ex on that...I’m a III and my dad was rooting for naming my son the IV. I told him that unless we’re monarchs of some rich kingdom I don’t know about, there won’t be a IV. Slapshot68IV doesn't really roll of the tongue anyway.
102 posted on 03/05/2008 9:38:49 AM PST by Fundamentally Fair (Experience Change!)
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To: napscoordinator

When I was a foreman I noticed that one of my painters was named Toby Thyme. He said his middle name was something like Robert but I had access to his file.


103 posted on 03/05/2008 9:39:10 AM PST by cripplecreek (Voting CONSERVATIVE in memory of 5 children killed by illegals 2/17/08 and 2/19/ 08)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I knew a kid in school whose name was Eric Rice. He had a brother and a sister and their names were all varied scrambling of their last name. Eric, Ceri and Riec. I thought that pretty cool.


104 posted on 03/05/2008 9:40:03 AM PST by Slapshot68
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To: Slapshot68

Are you sure that Orangejello and Lemonjello is not just an urban myth?
I ask that because I have seen that example used over and over again in many other forums like Topix,etc and I know you yourself didn’t make all those posts.
Just seems weird to me.


105 posted on 03/05/2008 9:40:19 AM PST by Riverman94610
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To: ctdonath2

“I always suggest “Zerubbabel” as a good, yet oddly unique, Biblical name.”

As is Abishai. My husband always thought that would make a great name for a basketball player. We didn’t use it with either of the boys.


106 posted on 03/05/2008 9:41:19 AM PST by swmobuffalo ("We didn't seek the approval of Code Pink and MoveOn.org before deciding what to do")
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To: Responsibility2nd

There was a story on the news here in Detroit about some guy that saddled his kid with the name Lion King _____ (whatever his last name was)

The news story was about the free tickets he got when the Lion King play was in town.


107 posted on 03/05/2008 9:41:47 AM PST by cyclotic (Support Scouting-Raising boys to be men, and politically incorrect at the same time.)
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To: Riverman94610

“Are you sure that Orangejello and Lemonjello is not just an urban myth?”

Probably...but given the weird names out there, it’s definitely believable.


108 posted on 03/05/2008 9:42:27 AM PST by Slapshot68
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To: Slapshot68; null and void

I’m with you Slapshot.

I’m a III and my son could have been a IV. To name our son, we reversed my first and middle names.


109 posted on 03/05/2008 9:43:24 AM PST by RedRightReturn (Do you know how to catch wild pigs?)
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To: Arrowhead1952

Oh man, the thread has veered way off the PC reservation.

“Avoids Heavy Lifting”

“Always Falling Down”

“Big Stick up her Butt” (what Hillary’s name translates to)

“Swims Like Brick”

“Pees Like a Girl”

“She who makes Eyes Bleed”


110 posted on 03/05/2008 9:44:28 AM PST by Secret Agent Man
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To: cyclotic

I got one for you...my wife (she’s a teacher) had a kid in her class named Aigner, pronounced “An-yay.” However, when the kid wrote it down, he spelled it out “Etienne Aigner” which of course is the fashion designer. So my wife said, “Well isn’t your name Etienne?” and he insisted no, it was “An-yay.”

So, yes, basically his mother was so stupid that she thought the entire name “Etienne Aigner” was pronounced just “An-yay”


111 posted on 03/05/2008 9:44:52 AM PST by Slapshot68
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To: Responsibility2nd

I can’t find the article I read a few years ago but it was a good one regarding ethnic names and how, with such names, they’re probably not working at IBM. It wasn’t a racist article, just factual, I think from Larry Elder.

One Cosby quote: “Those people are not Africans; they don’t know a damn thing about Africa. With names like Shaniqua, Shaliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap, and all of them are in jail.”


112 posted on 03/05/2008 9:45:03 AM PST by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: null and void

Or Tro-Jenz.


113 posted on 03/05/2008 9:45:33 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Rightly Biased
I made a graphic a while back based on Social Security data:

Unfortunately, it's now out of date. It was still below 1000th place in 2003, but was 809th, 883rd, and 982nd for 2004, 2005 and 2006, respectively.

114 posted on 03/05/2008 9:45:46 AM PST by Sloth (Senator He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, D - Illinois)
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To: Slapshot68
I knew a black lady who had a set of twins and called them Orangejello and Lemonjello. No lie.

Sure you did.

115 posted on 03/05/2008 9:45:51 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: RedRightReturn

“To name our son, we reversed my first and middle names.”

That was a good idea. Unfortunately, my son would’ve been saddled with the first name, “Frederick.” I love him too much to have done that to him. ;)


116 posted on 03/05/2008 9:46:06 AM PST by Slapshot68
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To: ctdonath2
Knew a guy with middle name of “R”. That’s it, no abbreviation, nothing missing, just “R”.

There is a street in Detroit named "John R." Guess the guy liked obscurity.

117 posted on 03/05/2008 9:46:23 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Responsibility2nd
Some would even pay people to help find a name.

I should get into that business --- "Let's see...how about...Michael?"

That'll be $200 please.

118 posted on 03/05/2008 9:46:29 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: ctdonath2

Like Harry S Truman.

No period after S

S stood for .....

Look it up It’s just Harry S Truman.


119 posted on 03/05/2008 9:48:01 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: null and void

“I know two Rolands.”

Do they deal in hard calibers and hot lead?


120 posted on 03/05/2008 9:48:04 AM PST by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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