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Brand names: Some Americans are naming their children after consumer products
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| 11/15/03
| Gene Edward Veith
Posted on 11/08/2003 3:43:15 AM PST by rhema
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To: rhema; dighton; aculeus
I read this story to my children, Nike and Beemer, and they agreed that some of these names are pretty outrageous...
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posted on
11/08/2003 4:53:33 AM PST
by
general_re
("I am Torgo. I take care of the place while the Master is away.")
To: BunnySlippers
Don't laugh - at the school I teach in we had a set of twins named Orangejello and Lemonjello. They were pronounced Awngjalow and Lamonjalow. We also had "Fa ma lee" (Female); the parents thought the hospital had named their daughter for them. This year we have Hermajesty. Before you ask - yes this area is in serious need of a new source of genes; and no I am not from here.
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posted on
11/08/2003 4:54:21 AM PST
by
MissEdie
To: ovrtaxt
The people who named their baby 'Del Monte' are allowed to vote! They are probably multi-generational lifetime entitlements receipients (ahhh... "clients" to the multitude gainfully employed in that industry) as well.
To: rhema
This is horrible. I'm glad people weren't doing this when my little Abercrombie was born!
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posted on
11/08/2003 4:54:49 AM PST
by
Sender
To: rhema
The trend I've noticed these days is to give your kid a last name as a first name--Garret, Connor, Mason, Taylor, etc. I guess it's better than the '80's when everyone was giving their kids names that started with 'J'.
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posted on
11/08/2003 4:56:22 AM PST
by
randog
(Everything works great 'til the current flows.)
To: Xenalyte
Do you remember seeing the Olsmobile car commercial where the kid realizes for the first time why she is named "Aurora"?
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posted on
11/08/2003 4:57:15 AM PST
by
JZoback
To: Fzob
Had a child that was stuck with that one last year! We also have an Allegra and a Ford.
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posted on
11/08/2003 4:57:16 AM PST
by
MissEdie
To: Xenalyte
My all-time favorite is the little girl my sister-in-law taught..."Oprylandria."
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posted on
11/08/2003 4:58:10 AM PST
by
Ulysses
To: rhema
Meet my daughter, Clorox.
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posted on
11/08/2003 5:00:02 AM PST
by
paulklenk
(DEPORT HILLARY!)
To: rhema
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
William Shakespeare
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posted on
11/08/2003 5:12:33 AM PST
by
The Louiswu
(I am a - 40-something White, Republican and proud of it!)
To: Larsen E. Whipsnade
That baby was born in Pennsylvania decades ago. I knew the nurse that was in the DR. Can there be two Placentas?
The Loreal name is probably from the movies and cartoon and the many dolls on the market and not the hair products.
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To: paulklenk
I worked in the insurance industry for awhile and some of the names that passed my way were:
Rose Bush
Polly Parrot
Susie Sunshine
Nimrod Buber
Merry Noel
Holly Bush
I suppose these aren't as bad as some names but can you imagine any parent who would name their kid Polly Parrot?
To: rhema
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posted on
11/08/2003 5:19:44 AM PST
by
P.O.E.
To: Qwinn
Still, I think the two worst names I actually ever encountered in my -own- life were both last names for girls that I knew. One poor girl was named Updegrove, which lends itself to about 10,000 different horrible distortions. One open to less creative manipulation, but potentially even more damning, was a girl with the last name of Suchavich. >>>
Once knew a girl whose last name was Schitmaster.
She, I have it on good authority, now uses her husband's last name. No hyphenation for her....
To: rhema
There was a guy from the Philadelphia Eagles, a halfback (but he might have been a defensive back) named Siran Stacy. His mother named him after Saran Wrap, no joke...JFK
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posted on
11/08/2003 5:22:06 AM PST
by
BADROTOFINGER
(Life sucks. Get a helmet.)
To: rhema
Ok then, what about Dweezel or Moon Unit?
R.I.P Mr. Z.
5.56mm
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posted on
11/08/2003 5:22:43 AM PST
by
M Kehoe
To: The Louiswu
The Bard did have a way with names, he did. Shakespeare aficionados ought to consider giving their offspring monikers like Touchstone, Pinch, and Dogberry.
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posted on
11/08/2003 5:23:41 AM PST
by
rhema
To: rdb3; Khepera; elwoodp; MAKnight; condolinda; mafree; Trueblackman; FRlurker; Teacher317; ...
I know this doesn't lend itself to race on the surface, but I've seen my share of "creative" naming that falls in this category within the black community.
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posted on
11/08/2003 5:23:44 AM PST
by
mhking
To: Ronly Bonly Jones
Remember Johnnie Cochrane's brother, Rolonza Philectron Cochrane, who was shot in L.A. two years ago?
Lessee, I think I'll have a whole brood of kids and name them after my stock portfolio: American Movil, Aeropostale (that fits), Best Buy (so does that), Cray, Rofin-Sinar, Bradley, Hovnanian, and Symantec.
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