Course, whites don't get off the hook, either. The commander of the Pearl Harbor fleet on Dec. 7 was named "Husband."
Can you imagine that poor wife at dinner parties? "I'd like to introduce my husband, Husband." "Glad to meet you, meet you."
And, no joke, I went to HS with a retarded girl named Pigg. Her idiot parents named her . . . Ima. I kid you not.
Probably fans of Ima Hogg the daughter of one of Texas governors. She never married so she never got a chance to change that name.
I'm sure it was a family name, like his mother's maiden name, but it still needed more consideration.
The City Administrator in Washington, DC is named Robert Bobb. Now, his parents knew what his last name would be when they named him. It's not like a woman's name that might change with marriage. What were they thinking? Bob Bobb.
There were very wealthy sisters in Texas many years ago, whose last name was Hogg. Their father must have hated them; he named them Ima and Ura.
I'm totally not making this up.
I went to college with a guy named Lance Spear. Again, no joke.
Did you and the retarded girl named Ima Pigg both go to school on the short bus? ;9)
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.
Sadly, this is not unique. I knew a woman who worked for the Pigg sisters of Texas, Ima and Eura. Apparently they were quite aged, and filthy rich from old money.
"And, no joke, I went to HS with a retarded girl named Pigg. Her idiot parents named her . . . Ima. I kid you not."
One of our famous Texas govenors was named Pigg. He named his daughters Ima, and Youra.
Did you go to Los Angeles Westchester?
I went to 2 kids who got ribbed unmercifly, one was named Happy New Year and the other was Merry Christmas.
The strangest part was they were both in the same class.
And, no joke, I went to HS with a retarded girl named Pigg. Her idiot parents named her . . . Ima. I kid you not.
I also knew an Ima as in Imogene Pigg too. She taught business at the university I attended and also had a PhD in Economics.
Gov Jim Hogg back from when in Texas named his daughter Ima.
How about Major Major from Catch-22? And if you want some strange names, look at the Senate and the Congress. John Kerry? Oh wait, that's a strange person, not a strange name.