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To: kaylar
There was a kid on my neighborhood named Dick Hunter. And I knew someone who went to school with a Vietnamese kid named Dic Lic.
86 posted on 12/28/2002 7:11:35 AM PST by AppyPappy
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To: AppyPappy
LOL...now, Appy Pappy, who's gonna believe THAT?!

PS JUST KIDDING! :)
87 posted on 12/28/2002 7:12:27 AM PST by summer
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To: AppyPappy
I've always wondered if there really was a Richard Weed or a Michael Hunt running around out there.

Regret is the only true weird black name I know of personally, but once at a job, we all got to discussing weird/unfortunate names people give their children. One of my black coworkers said she personally knew an Aquanetta. That wouldn't be too bad a name, if Aquanet the hair spray did not exist.

Just a few years ago (1996), a pregnant woman at yet another job mentioned that she knew she was going to have a girl, and that she intended to name her Keisha, pronounced KEY shuh. Her reasoning? "It's original, and she won't run into a lot of people who have that name too." This woman was white, BTW.

Bad baby names are funny for those who don't have to suffer them, but they can truly blight the victim's life. I believe that at least one little boy died because of his...unfortunate...name. His given Christian name was Stonewall Jackson "Whatever", and he was born in the 1980s. His parents called him Stoney. Sadly, little Stoney had some birth defects, fairly mild, but requiring surgery. The hospital allocated such surgeries on a 'triage' basis: Likelihood of the person's life expectancy and functioning being greatly improved if s/he got the surgery; severity of defects-and the education and intelligence of the parents. Little Stoney did not get the surgery and he died before his third birthday.When his parents learned that children with a less positive outcome prognosis and more severe defects had been granted the surgery ahead of him, they sued. Although my source book (I think it was the book Playing God in the Nursery) did not speculate, I believe that the doctors bumped Stoney down because they just assumed (possibly subconsciously) given his name, that his parents were too stupid and ignorant to provide him with proper aftercare, and that a child with a name celebrating a Confederate General was just "trash" anyway. This was not in a southern state, I believe the events occured in Illinois. Had the parents named the child Thomas Jackson "Whatever", he might be alive today.

120 posted on 12/28/2002 7:43:20 AM PST by kaylar
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To: AppyPappy
I do think I would have run into these names if they were so common...lol. But, I don't think everyone here is lying either.

BTW, are you the same AppyPappy that I think posted on Presbyworld? I seem to recall that name.
430 posted on 12/28/2002 1:39:27 PM PST by rwfromkansas
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I've got you topped. A company I worked for had a client named Anil Dikshit. There were so many notes on his account pleading with anyone who got him that this was in fact his real name and to treat him with respect and it wasn't a prank call. It was prounounced a bit of an Indian accent, but it indeed sounded like the way you would expect.
581 posted on 12/28/2002 8:28:16 PM PST by glory
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To: AppyPappy
I had a Vietnamese guy on the track team who's father was named Phuc Loung. Pronounced just like it sounds.
662 posted on 01/15/2003 8:20:08 PM PST by fogarty
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