Open Editorial: You Named Your Baby WHAT???

Onyx Magazine ^ | March, 2006 | Josephine Hammond

[LA Woman3]

Too funny! Glad its not just me!! : )

[Red Badger]

I went to school with Louises, Shielas, Margarets and a whole bunch of Deborahs...........

[bert]

You jest but....

I called on a company in Nashville summer before last that was Arab owned. The honchos ware all Palestinian. All the workers were Mexican. There was one lonsome ex-sideman and a girl who were Anglo.

It was riot. The Arabs all conversed in arabic and the Mexicans all conversed in Spanish. They had a shop with a fenced /razorwired compound guarded by a big Rotweiler. They put an old Mexican in there and left him. He wouldn't dare go outside. The dog kept him in the shop ans everyone else outside the fence.

The last time I went down there they had a new office with a mural of the Al Aqusa mosque in Jerusalem. There was a new face, a middle aged Saudi and one non face. There was a black Nashville girl receptionist covered from head to toe except eyes and hands. I know she was a local girl because no Arab has a Nashville street accent.

[linda_22003]

.... and the twins, Chlamydia and Condyloma....

[highball]

Have you ever noticed that the Caucasians in this county do not refer to themselves as a hyphenated American? The media does not refer to them as such. Why is this so?

Well, some do. Many Italian-Americans. Also Irish-Americans.

"American" might be listed last, but so long as it comes first in a person's heart, I don't care what they hyphenate it with.

[Range Rover]

From : http://www.baby-guide.com/african-baby-girl-names.html

· Abba (If you like Swedish 70's pop)
· Abiba (Useful to keep the baby from spitting up on the clothes)
· Adamma (Battlestar Galactica)
· Amandla (No, NOT Amanda...)
· Audi (Mid-Priced German Auto)
· Chipo (Lost Marx Brother)
· Corentine (You're sick and shouldn't be seeing people)
· Gaynell (Darnell's "Special" brother)
· Gimbya (Simba's "Special " brother)
· Laquinta (looking for a budget Inn for the night)
Limber (good at Yoga)
Saran (For food preservation)

[Drew68]

I had an uncle named Vivian.

Vivian Campbell, Irish guitar shredder.

[jonsie]

I have a student name Tequilla, I kid you not.

[Chickensoup]

her name was LaShi’quita

What kind of name is that? Klingon?



No, Bannana.

[5Madman2]

We have a heavy Asian Population where I work-took a rpeort one time from a gentleman named Long Wang.

My boss thought I was being the smarta## I usually am and was not amused until I did a database run on the name for him

[CobraJet]

How about a man named Pierce Hyman?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Richard (Dick) Trickle. Man, that one's tough. Good guy, great racer, but the name sounds like a symptom! "Doc, it burns when I pee, and I got Dick Trickle."
"Young man , Don't touch that thing!"

[cjshapi]

There were folks who wanted my parents to name me Shelly Shelly. Thank goodness they didn't!

[subterfuge]

I fought tooth and nail to keep my wife from spelling my daughter's name, Michelle, with one "L".

I won. We have a unique enough last name that we don't need to have FIRST names we have spell for everyone as well.

After a few years of marriage and the wife having to spell our last name EVERY SINGLE TIME, she understood why I didn't want the kid to be MicheLe.

[Little Bill]

There is a tradition in my family, never stick a kid with someones last name as his first, my Grandmother almost violated it with my Dad, Maxwell became Max, my father, my Grandfather stopped that. My daughter violated that, because my son claimed the Max II name.

[Chickensoup]

she refused to change it because she didn't want to shame her mother.


That is a woman with true class.

[Mr. Mojo]

I couldn't imagine doing that to one of my children

Potential problems for their kids are an afterthought (if even that) for parents who do this. It's all about making them feel "hip," "cutting edge," anti-establishment, etc.

[papertyger]

You mean the Hogg sisters. And there was no "eura".

Apocrypha strikes again ;o)

[bert]

Brothers Rayon and Nylon?.....


No they were sisters..... Rayonda and Nylonya

[dljordan]

"Oddly enough, many of them still see the Negro in the room as ‘non-existent’ or invisible, so they talked like I wasn’t even in the room."

BS! They see the black person in the room with a huge neon sign above their head saying "BEWARE, PC MINEFIELD!".