Don’t really want to start another one, but today, I prepared a baby’s first Christmas ornament for someone’s grandson. His name? Major Payne.
I weep for this child.
Better than Private Parts.
Will his parents use Corporal Punishment?
What about General Nuisance? :dubious:
Seaman Staynes
I just read an article about a name for girls that is very “unique” and is becoming more and more popular each year. The name, " ABCDE ". It’s pronounced, “Ab sid day”. ~sigh~
I’m waiting for her little sister, pronounced,“Ella mena pee”. Written out as, " LMNOP". ~sigh~
I could never be a grade school teacher. I’d end up storming out during roll call.
Roger Me.
At my previous bank one of the tellers was named Vageena. Or at least that’s what her name tag said.
One of my ESL students was a gorgeous Russian girl named Olesiya Vagina. When she handed me her registration slip, all I could think of to say was “Are you sure your name is spelled right?”
I found out later that her last name was pronounced “VA-gee-na” (hard “g,” as in “good”) and came from the Ukrainian word for “scales,” as in “Libra” (cognate with German “Waage.”)
Are you sure you want to post her name? It’s searcheable on Google…
There are probably hundreds of Olesiya Vaginas around the world. 
Have you checked? You might be surprised. We interviewed three guys for work last week: one was evidently unique, another shares a name which didn’t seem to us foreigners like it would be common with another hundred thousand, and the last has several sosias but we could still find his linkedin with relative ease.
Uh big mistake. DON’T copy and paste that unless you want to be bombarded with Russian porn. Duh! But there are a few Facebook profiles.
Can we stop using the term “baby names”? Because I think that’s half the problem. They aren’t baby names - they’re *people *names. They’re names given future adults.
Moving thread from Cafe Society to MPSIMS.
I stood in a checkout line recently, behind a young lady wearing a sports team jacket. Sort of a windbreaker thing, with her team name and her last name embroidered on the back. She turned to talk to someone, and I saw her first name embroidered on the front: “Sha’Love”.
Dear god.
Are you sure this wasn’t some sort of GWAR tribute? They did have Corporal Punishment and Private Parts as enemies back in the days of Granny and her Wheel-Chair-of-Death.
That is a remarkably astute observation.
I was helped at a Casey’s not too long ago by a young lady named “Celestrial.” She had her babies names tattooed on her neck; I didn’t get a chance to see if she had taken a similarly creative approach to their monikers.
One of my coworkers was built like a brickhouse. Talking about picking baby names, he said that his sister had proposed some cutie-sounding things which his wife had rejected, and the sister kept coming up with the cutie stuff, and by the third or fouth proposal he’d stepped in and said “you know, it’s my kid. Do I look like a CutiePinkyPie?” (or whatever the proposal had been). The sister thought about it and agreed that no, he definitely did not, and from then on her contributions were on more reasonable lines.
My son has friends and classmates with names that sound like “hippy” names or trying to be “cre8ive”. Most of them turn out to be kids who were either born outside of Canada, or are first generation Canadians. One girl’s name (not exactly this) basically is “CuteandLucky” and her sister’s name is similar to “WealthyMother”. In English. I feel bad for the kids, but at his multi ethnic school it doesn’t really cause much concern.
Still, my son has a name that is uncommon, but known to be a name, going back 100s of years, and has had a few famous people with that name. Also we spell it the same as a noun in common usage in English. Teachers and other people want to change a letter to a more “Creative” spelling changing some vowels. It drives my son batty… he said “Mom, one of these days, a supply teacher is going to spell my name wrong and I am going to be rude about it. Not yet, but I can’t make promises for when I am 15! Please don’t be mad at me if it happens.”