"It's better than a maff name like Dorothy"
Posted on 03/30/2006 12:41:35 PM PST by twippo
Michael Hunt?Oh,sure,I knew him.Had a cousin named Jack Meioff!
Oh, God. My name is Susan and my brother's name is Bobby.
In the early 1980s, when I was a reporter at an OkC radio station, the OkC Police Department's Public Information Officer was Major Berry. The "Major" is his given name, not his rank at the time. When he did achieve the rank of Major, Major became Major M.T. Berry, for some reason. He later served as OkC Police Chief for several years.
On a personal note, my middle name is supposed to be Edward, same as my father's first name. But, a typing error left it Edware on my birth certificate. And, that error has been replicated on my Muscogee Nation membership card.
A buddy of mine was in the Air Force with a guy whose name was pronounced "Pizzums". He asked the guy how his parents came up with the name. Pizzums said, "after my Mom's favorite book in the Bible".
Psalms.
"named my son Jody Wayne after the book, and added the Wayne in case he wanted to use it instead , which he never did"
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
I'd rather Dick Trickle than
Galloping Knobrot!
Cameron is an Irish name.
Just what I was gonna say, my favorite of all, John Wayne Gacy, who was a Chicago building contractor, just as I was, and whose case broke just before we moved to Arizona from Chicago. I knew there was some kind of "Wayne" trend with murderers/killers, that list just proves how extensive the trend was (or still is?)
"It's better than a maff name like Dorothy"
Apparently, she was a single mom that scraped and scoured and did the best she could to make sure her kids had a better life. She got her kids educated and out of poverty and into the middle class, so she at least she got that right.
"Majestic Mapp [and] his older brother, Scientific Mapp."
That reminds my of a bike messenger I knew years ago. He was a black fellow from, I think, the Caribean, anyway not an American by birth. His real given name was "Mozart" and he had a brother named "Beethovan" or some such. A really sweet guy, don't know if he had any musical talent.
Didymus is a Biblical name.
I had a student once named Yersinia.
My maiden name wasn't four letters, but it was common. My married name I must spell out constantly. The worst part is, it is an English name, spelt just like it sounds. It's just not that common of a name. If it was Polish or Slavic or something I wouldn't mind so much.
good to hear from you - hows it goin?
Why not a doobie?
Well, Michal is a female biblical name.
A friend of a friend named his first child Gray Wolfgang. My hand to God.
My mother's name is Susan and we call my best friend Bob. (That's not his birth name, and it's a long story that probably no one would find funny.)
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