Posted on 03/30/2006 12:41:35 PM PST by twippo
Grandmother named Agnes Serepta, another one named Aurelia Rozella and Grandfather Herbert Nello...kid you not.
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.
Mrs. jimfree encountered a woman named Yvonne. She pronounced it Why-von.
My husband was a little ahead of his time, and I a little behind the times so we both grew up without any of those personalized things.
We were both disappointed when they started showing up.
Ironically, the same thing appears to be happening to our son who is just sick about it. Fortunately it is running about ten years back, so it doesn't matter. I think the same thing will happen to our daughter.
Ethel, Esther, Beatrice, all sorta died out. Good.
Everybody knows of the Greek mythic hero Heracles. Nobody remembers his cousin, Testacles
Huh? I thought DP was double pen.... nevermind.
ROFLOL. Red Dwarf fan, right?
There was a high school girl who played basketball, on a high-performing team in Iowa (she was a strong competitor as well). Her name was Fonda Dix. Same problem.
Dilyn
Kay'Ron
Aziahnna
Marnesia
Djmore Moore (that's just wrong)
A'Kira
Marquis
Ajaylha (how's this pronounced?)
Enphyniti (how sad)
Sheverlay (is this where the poor kid was conceived?)
So.....what do you think of people with the last name Rodriguez, Martinez, Trujillo, Juaqez, Sisneros, Suarez, or Salazar?
Stupid Name #2: A friend of a friend taught in a nearby city's public school system and had a student in her class named "FORMICA". I never saw the spelling of her last name, but it was pronounced just like "DINETTE". Duh...
Madycine could very well also be pronounced like "medicine". I met a girl called Aspirini (from India).
Yes, and I've always loved the name Ashley..for a man...ever since. This may be one of those posts that I need to note again that I am a woman.
No joke. My urologist is Patrick P. Daily ..or... P.P.Daily
My mother's name was Madoris and she hated it.
She named her two sons after English kings.
I think Demi and Bruce also have one named Rumor--after Rumor Godden probably.
I have a cousin named Twig. I did find out his legal name when he got married, but I can't remember it now.
You are wrong. There was no Ura. Ima was real, and a wealthy, Texas philanthropist and society woman. She had three brothers, but no sister, and there was not a child in the family named Ura.
(From "Don't be a Menace to Society II")
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