Posted on 03/30/2006 12:41:35 PM PST by twippo
I always think of "that" Ace when I hear of an Ace. Maybe that's why I'm not crazy about the name. 'Course, I also think of Peter Criss when I hear the name Crissy. Oddly enough, I'm not a huge KISS fan, either.
Falling on the floor laughing!
Oops. I mis-stated myself. Her name was Ima Hogg, not Pigg.
LOL, great, I love this place. Only on FR can you get, not only a ghetto name generator, but a Mormon name generator. This is my Mormon name: Jessamina LaDonna Josephrania, how cool is that? I got the "ladonna" for a little bayonne/brooklyn thang, and Joseph is all over the place in my family. Most amusing!
Scout is hardly unheard of. It's a surname, and that makes it fair game.
Same goes with Apple.
I just made the comment that I did because it's all about criticising people's names and not actually finding out about the person. Plus these threads are just more popular for whatever reason. I live in a very mixed neighborhood and am used to hearing all kinds of names. Now there are also a lot of hispanics and yes you're right. When this immigration thing gets going, you will see a lot of profiling. I just know too many young black professionals who have been profiled this way and not with far out sounding names either, just names like Tammy and Andre. Sheba is a nice biblical name :-)
Yeah but River Phoenix actually changed his name to that
Was orginally River Bottom (true story)
I have a good friend who's name is Bruce Fairey...wanna guess where he lives?
Hint: Tony Bennett left his heart there.
I tend to often refer to Bruce as "The Tragically Named One", and he'll often reply as "TTNO"
What scares me is the Mormon name generator doesn't change my name......and I was born a Mormon.....How does it know?
Are you serious? LOL
Speaking of tragic names.
Gay Talese comes to mind.
Her name is Makeda after the the Queen of Ethopia who is assumed to have been the Queen of Sheeba.
Poor kid has an hispanic surname too. She tells everyone she's a blaxican. haha
Pronounced "Bruth"?
Crueler than Richard Smoker's parents? (He doesn't acknowledge his first name. He was just "Smoker.")
Daniel ("Vlad") arrived two days before his due date. I've never had one go overdue.
Hang in!
All the real Africans I know have normal Biblical names, like Benjamin, Jacob, Esther, Ruth, Joseph, and Samuel. Some are called Faith, Grace, Claude, and Charity. A few have decidedly British names, like Steven Richard. The only unusual one in among my African friends is Laurina, which is rather lovely--it was used in this country (among whites) in the nineteenth century. None of this "Quashonda" crap is African at all.
But you've chosen for her an actual name (I know, any name can be come 'actual' after a while like all the De'Andre's), not a bunch of scrabble tiles thrown at the board, different for diffent's sake. Like Inspektor Pilot or Apple or CoCo (named for her mother, COurtney COx) or spellings for 'uniqueness' like Dez'rae or McKailah. There is a difference.
How about Female pronounced Fa-ma-lee?
"No, tragic naming is what Dr. Gonorrhea did after he discovered an interesting bacteria one day."
hehehehehe
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