I’m still waiting for someone to name a kid LaQwerty.
And please, ladies; it’s Portia, not Porsche.
Nobody likes my ideas for naming kids. I tried to talk my sister into naming my nephew Amadeus, Atilla or Akira. A co-worker didn’t like those ideas for her kid either. My boss’s surname is Potts, and he wanted to name his kids with a name beginning with C. I suggested Dick van Dyke’s character from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – Caracticus Potts. He didn’t go for it.
Wow, did you do that from memory?
When my newest child was born this past May, I told my dingbat in-laws that his name was Vladimir. My wife and I maintained the hoax until her mom began to rant and quiver. The silly woman began keening, “You can’t name him Vladimir, that’s the stupidest name I’ve ever heard!”
My reply?
“Calm down, Elsie.”
don nardo: That reminds me; one of the suggestions I gave my co-worker was “Vladimir Illyich”. She didn’t like that one either. (Personally, my favourite suggestion to her was “Attila Thomas”.)
I actually know an Attila Thomas.
My future children will be named as follows.
Thor Hercules [mylastname].
Frumious Bandersnatch [name]
Scabies Rubella [name]
and Jane [name]
Isn’t that “Sierra”, though?
Cold “Camry” Fire
Nope, it’s the Oldsmobile Ciera. Crappy car if there ever was one.
Actually, Ciera is also close to Ciara, which is a traditional Irish girl’s name. I’d be willing to give the namer the benefit of the doubt, here, and pretend the name’s just a misspelled traditional, and not a car…
Though that doesn’t say much - nothing grates on my nerves more than all the Kaytlynnes out there. Spell it right, fools!
Ah, I was thinking of the Ford Sierra. Equally crappy, I’m sure.
Well yeah…it’s a Ford.
I knew a woman whose three children (girl, boy, girl) were Anniversary, Chokli, and…Lisa.
Actually, they’re named Koby, Kory, Kasy and Kody. Still obnoxiously alliterative, but not quite as wretched as what you wrote. (Krabby?!)
Notice that Clemens picked the letter K, probably because it’s the symbol for a strikeout. Thus the father glorifies himself by naming the very fruit of his loins after his own mighty achievements on the field of battle. Someone ought to throw a broken bat at that putz.
Actually it’s a GMC
http://www.gmc.com/gmcjsp/sierra/main.jsp
OK, how do I make the worl GMC the link?
More on the Madison thing:
The US SSA administration lists the top 1000 names per decade for every decade back to 1900. Madison as a boy’s name exists on the list through the first half of the century. Madison as a girl’s name doesn’t appear until the 1980’s. (539th place). In the 1990’s it’s in 37th place.
While there’s no doubt that the US is a large country and someone somewhere is giving their child a terrible or gender-opposite name right now that may become popular sometime in the next one hundred years, it looks pretty likely that the start of ‘Madison’ as a girl’s name coincides with the movie ‘Splash’.
Slightly related: My sister was born in '77 and given the name Hannah (475th most popular that decade). She hates the face that Hannah is terrifically popular right now. (Top 5 for the last few years.)
No, it’s a Ford as well. Trust me, they weren’t all equiped with Cosworth engines.
lionel, click “quote” to see how I made that link.
Well would ya look at that! It IS a Ford. Must be a European thing…
Hey and it’s a GMC, too.
Geez…who doesn’t make a Ciera/Sierra?
{url=“http://www.gmc.com/gmcjsp/sierra/main.jsp”}GMC{/url}
Replace the curly brackets ({}) with straight ones ().
Do the parents have any idea what that means? :eek:
I had a student last year whose middle name was “Micheal.” Apparently illiteracy runs in families, because he was eighteen years old and could not write in complete sentences. I cringe whenever I see odd spellings on the class rolls now.
I went to elementary school with a kid named Chaka Khan [last name]. Wonder what she’s doing now.
What about Shanitra, LaShayne, Tawanda, or Cynithia?
My sister would have been named Jared if she had been a boy. So, she thought this would be a cool name for her boy. Unfortunately, not being the brightest crayon in the box, she spelled it wrong on the birth certificate. I have a nephew named Jarred :rolleyes: