Posted on 01/03/2024 6:19:08 PM PST by 4Runner
George Denis Patrick Carlin was an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and social critic. Regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comedians of all time, he was dubbed "the dean of counterculture comedians"
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And remember folks, George Carlin is NSFW.
Poet. That’s the name my son named his son. I asked him, why did you name him that? He said he was trying to devise a name they couldn’t make fun of. Seriously.
I remember Johnny Cash talking about a boy named Sue.
I had a gf that thought Shatner would be a good name for a boy.
Some years ago, a woman wrote to Dear Abby, or a similar column, describing the troubles her weird name had caused her as she was growing up. She wrote that she changed it as soon as she reached adulthood and signed the letter, “formerly Serenity, now Linda.”
Johnny Cash said that Sue is preferable to Ronald or Jimmy or Jerry or Richard or Hubert.
A Boy Named Hugh--Gene Price (1976)
My husband was named after his grandfather and father. They have the same first name and different middle names. When we were considering boy names, we picked two. One to be like his family’s, and another with a different first name, with the middle that was the family passed down name. Turned out our first child was a boy. I told my husband he got to pick. He picked the different first name with the family name in the middle.
Two years later I learned while I was in labor with our second (a girl that time) that my in-laws were super pissed off about the name my husband chose, and totally blamed me for it.
Now that I have my own grandkids, I don’t say a thing. I know I will love my grandkids no matter what name my kids choose. Each generation does whatever they want.
I can relate to this topic. My parents named me Oggilby. It’s an old family name. As soon as I hit 18 years, I legally changed my first name Biggleswade, after a local lake where I often fished.
That was a mistake. I now go solely by my college nickname, Snavely.
(Just kidding, of course. These names are all pseudonyms used by the great comedian W.C. Fields.)
‘Todd’ is a British family surname; so are some of the others Carlin rants about. In the past, lots of kids were given family surnames as first or middle names, some of them interchangeable male to female. (It’s true of my own family.)
I like Shemp.
His sister was named Wheat. You called her Ann.
The only time their legal names were used, even by the teachers, was when their parents came to school.
Some Baby names sound better suited for puppies or maybe that new Yacht, but never for a person, unless it’s a bad joke/nickname. That’s rarely a good time to argue about it though. The naming parent intends to lay down the law!
I love Alice Cooper. I’ve never heard that one. Thanks.
Marion …..always seemed female to me .
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I’m amazed that Brooklyn has become a popular girl’s name. That sounds more like a nickname for a boxer or a gangster.
Recently, I met a man who boasted about his newborn grand daughter named Aspen, a name that sounds like a painkiller.
We selected names that couldn’t be misspelled, and one knew whether they were a boy or girl. Many people like to name their girls, boys names, not sure why. Also, they try to be creative with spelling. The kid will have to spell their name the rest of their life.
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