Open Editorial: You Named Your Baby WHAT???

Onyx Magazine ^ | March, 2006 | Josephine Hammond

[stainlessbanner]

Orangello and Lemongello are urban myths. If anyone personally knows folks with these names, I'd love to hear it.

[The Grim Freeper]

Madycin. My doc just wrote me an Rx for that. Have to take one every morning for the rest of my life.

[Skooz]

http://www.fadetoblack.com/namegenerator/

From now on, you will all refer to me as Shuakhwe

No. I don't know how to pronounce it.

[petercooper]

Infiniti. Celica. Armani. Timberland. Nautica. L'Oreal. Del Monte.

[BenLurkin]

Don't forget Mercedes.

[csvset]

How about Jackson Ace Blumenthal ?

No, they're not African Americans.

Hollywood movie industry types.

[texasbluebell]

Oprah's mother misspelled her name at birth -- it was supposed to be Orpah, a biblical name, but it got a little mangled.

[astounded]

I know of a "Nosmo King", which was taken from the "No Smoking" sign in an inner city hospital in Chicago. No joke.

[Chickensoup]

No, no, I like people with screwball names. That way you know there's a problem before you get too close

ROTFLMAO!!

Choking even!!

[colorcountry]

Fonda and her last name is Peters.

I had a friend named Sharon Cox.

[papertyger]

I almost wrecked when a comedian on the radio refered to his daughter "Clymidia Champagne."

[Rakkasan1]

G.Will.Liquor

[redhead]

"Her last year teaching, my mother collected the weird names. She had a Nien (pronounced "nine"), a Lashonda, and a Mushwanda (pronounced "Mashonda")."

Nobody, but NOBODY beats Utahns for goofy names. I went through the phone book in St. George and wrote down all the resounding beauties. Wish I still had that list.

[BenLurkin]

Shoe walk wee

[eyedigress]

Hilarious...

[ErnBatavia]

That used to be an old joke....name 'em out of the medicine cabinet.

[texasbluebell]

Yes, only half wrong! It's a good story the other way though!

[Snickersnee]

The commander of the Pearl Harbor fleet on Dec. 7 was named "Husband."

Among upper-class Americans in the late XIX Century it was common for the male firstborn to bear the mother's maiden name as his first name -- esp. if the mother's own father was rich! Think how your mother's maiden name would sound as your first name! It works with WASPs but that's about it.

[MiHeat]

Pa-ja-me after reading the torn out pages from the wards catalog in an outhouse.

[MeanWestTexan]

http://www.fadetoblack.com/namegenerator/

I am "Shaft."

Even Brother Farakan knows this Jew is cool.