Posted on 03/30/2006 12:41:35 PM PST by twippo
Case in point - Picabo Strait, outstanding down-hill olympic ski babe of a few years back. She was the child of hippie ski-bum types, and was named after a town south of Sun Valley, Picabo, Idaho. I think they tried to cutsie her name into peek-a-boo.
Cute.
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When naming your child you should always consider the possibility, no matter how remote, that he or she may be nominated to the Supreme Court one day. That is the standard I recommend. This author makes some good points, but let's not forget, a lot of white parents are giving their children stupid names these days too.
"but those names are better than a few i've run across lately: vodka, tequilla, kahlua, and erotica are some. these are GIVEN names, not nicknames."
My sister's neighbor (black) has a kid named "Courvoisier". Maybe that's what Momma was drinking the night the kid was conceived, I surmise.
That reminds me... the Edsel.
There is a woman named Debra Clapp and is a doctor at a local clinic. She is a gynecologist and obstetrician.
This explains why Amherst College admitted Shainique Tishnuanna Ibrahim Tubman LaBlackua with a 530 SAT over National Honor Society Member John Hayden Smith, who had a 1520 SAT.
"It was the overall quality of her resume' and her devotion to diversity," stated Admissions Director Muhammed Combustable Arafat...
The alternative spellings are bad, but then, there are certain names that (IMHO) are just bad news no matter how they are spelled: Brandy or Brandi, Candy or Candi, Duane or Dewayne, etc. I think if you're white and you get one of those names, you're condemned to work at a - er, "gentlemen's club" at the truckstop or to get arrested for making meth in your singlewide.
Are you speaking from experience seriously, or do you like your name being spelled differently?
I have a common name, although from a slightly earlier generation and no one can spell it either...so who knows!
Back in 1971 I met very tall black student at SU and his name was pronounced Lemonjello...not sure how he spelled it though.It's foggy, but it may have been his last name.
Parents mustve been a Johnny Cash fan.
Quite British, Vivian. The feminine version is "Vivienne".
"Don't forget Mercedes."
Mercedes is a very common Latin name. Translates to "Mercies".
I think it's pretty.
It's pronounced "PORCH-mun-kee".
...and no, I'm not trying to be mean or provocative.
I think that I qualify as an "average white guy". My reaction to these gawdawful "African" names is to automatically assume that the person with that name was raised in public housing in the ghetto. That he or she went to a ghetto school and that they have less education than a lima bean. I don't see Condoleeza Rice when I see "Quieshianiquita"; I see an ignorant n****r. I see someone who's unemployable. I see someone who's going to pop out a dozen kids on welfare. I see every negative, racist stereotype you can imagine. And for all I know, Quieshianiquita could make Rice look like the village idiot. But, we'll never know because her mother cursed her with that ridiculous name.
I don't know if it's true or not, but I had a conversation with a guidance counselor years ago that claimed that one of her students had given a child this name.
I saw a black waitress in Thousand Oaks, CA, whose mother probably wanted to name her "Portia". But she named her "Porsche". I'm not making this up.
Just call me "Poopsie Gorillatush." Sadly, it fits, LOL!
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