Open Editorial: You Named Your Baby WHAT???

Onyx Magazine ^ | March, 2006 | Josephine Hammond

[Ditter]

I was delivered by Doctor Slaughter and my mother lived.

[Altamira]

Fluffy Applepants!

[cajungirl]

My daughter named her girls and boys as if they would be CEOs of a fortune 300 company.

[antisocial]

Yeah, like Dweezil Zappa

[eyespysomething]

My co-worker was named Leslie Queen.

He changed his names years ago.

[pollyannaish]

I'm glad I'm not the only one. My children have slightly unusual names, but they all had to pass the POTUS/SCOTUS test.

I mean, no offense, but please: Ladies and gentleman, the President of the United States...Pixie Ann Smith or Bubba Smith Jr.

You have to be careful about that sort of thing!

[Don W]

I think that name generator has a very limited loop of names. Of the 6 names I entered, I got Shausha twice, Shuakwe twice, Shawasha, and Shaft.

[TXBubba]

I dunno.... Newt did OK.

Hummm....Father Newt...nope, doesn't work.

[Altamira]

In my family, there was a Cecil, a Hazel, a Minnie, and a Vern.

Ernest Buford? I can't compete with that!

[beaversmom]

How about Madycin

It looks like a new antibiotic.

[Don Carlos]

better than Shebangs

Reminds me of the 50's pop-rock tune that went "She-bang, She-bang, sha naa naa naa naa naa naa, she-bang".

I just dated my self with that one.

[ridesthemiles]

This guy is 100% right.""

Unless you are playing on words, I think JOSEPHINE is a lady.....

[BJClinton]

How fruity. I went to high school with a girl named Penny Nickle. She actually made earrings out of a penny and a nickle.

[beaversmom]

Thanks for the ping. This is the kind of thread I need after all the immigration threads.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

I don't mind it so much anymore, but growing up it was a pain not being an 'Amy'

I've always told my parents that they were years ahead of their time regarding the spelling of my name. Trying to find anything personalized was impossible growing up, and in HS, I decided to to by my middle name for a while. Not that it was much easier; my mom liked the name Danielle, but named me after my dad, whose first name is Donald, hence Ami Dawnielle.

[Little Bill]

Heber, you have to be LDS. My Uncle was Alma.

[Irene Adler]

"Condoleeza just sounds Southern."

To me, it elicits images of condominiums, unfortunately. I can't say I have ever cared for the name.

[TeddyCon]

Ta'quicheawanda is still one of the most 'effed up' names I've ever heard, but that's probably because it was one of the first I'd heard early in this trend of WTF? names.

[AnnGora]

An old guy I work with says he had an uncle named States' Rights. Both of them from Mississippi.