# Good Lord this poor girl is named after a yeast infection! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932 "2003-07-08T03:57:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932/21 "2003-07-08T19:44:35Z")
Jack Schitt was the only son of Owe Schitt and Awe Schitt. Owe Schitt, the fertilizer madgnate, married Awe Schitt, who later ran the “Knee Deep Inn”,a country motel. Jack Schitt eventually married Noe Schitt and they had six children. Sadly their first child Holy Schitt passed away shortly after birth. Next came twin sons Deep Schitt and Dip Schitt. They then had two daughters, Fulla Schitt and Givva Schitt. Their last child, a son, was named Bull. As time went on, Deep Schitt married Dumb Schitt, a highscholl drop out. Deep Schitt’s twin brother Dip Schitt, married Lotta Schitt, who gave birth to a son, Chicken Schitt. Fulla Schitt and Givva Schitt married the Happens Brothers.The Schitt-Happens children are Dawg Schitt, Byrd Schitt and Hawse Schitt. Bull Schitt recently married a spicy Italian number Pisa Schitt and together they await the birth of their first son Baby Schitt. So next time someone tells you that “you don’t know Jack Schitt!!”, you can say that not only you know Jack Schitt, but the entire family as well!!!. ---
**Author:** ![j.c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@j.c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j.c)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932/22 "2003-07-08T19:57:59Z")
A friend of my told me that one of his fellow residents was run out, basically, for following the inglorious tradition of helping indigent women pick names for the babies… and steering them toward totally inappropriate names. I guess that’s bedside manner. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932/23 "2003-07-08T20:05:41Z")
“It is not certain how many years these gatherings were maintained but a printed book of rules records the involvement of **Assheton** Curzon, perpetual treasurer, and Miss Curzon as Lady patroness.” ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932/24 "2003-07-08T20:24:20Z")
I just met a Tequila a couple of days ago- she pronounced it oddly and I can’t remeber how, now. (old age) My daughter goes to school with a girl named Melena. Perhaps only folks in the medical field will recoil at that one. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932/25 "2003-07-08T21:09:07Z")
I went through junior high with a gal named Candida, and at the time I guess none of us knew what else it meant, so she didn’t get razzed as far as I know. Melina…Isn’t that a term for a darkened stool or something? ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932/26 "2003-07-08T21:10:21Z")
I went through junior high with a gal named Candida, and at the time I guess none of us knew what else it meant, so she didn’t get razzed as far as I know. Melina…Isn’t that a term for a darkened stool or something? **sailor** , don’t give us any more of your Schitt. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932/27 "2003-07-08T23:36:47Z")
Melena in Spanish means “mane” like a lion’s mane. Or an attractive head of hair, as we would also say in English “Her tawny mane was the envy of the other schoolgirls.” (OK, if we wrote drivel…). So whatever unsavory medical meaning Melena has, it also has a pleasant meaning. ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932/28 "2003-07-08T23:36:47Z")
Melena in Spanish means “mane” like a lion’s mane. Or an attractive head of hair, as we would also say in English “Her tawny mane was the envy of the other schoolgirls.” (OK, if we wrote drivel…). So whatever unsavory medical meaning Melena has, it also has a pleasant meaning. ---
**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932/29 "2003-07-08T23:38:53Z")
A young songwriter, Mary Melena, named her album _Something Passing Through_. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932/30 "2003-07-09T01:59:24Z")
Actually, she’s probably named after the title character in the [play](http://www.online-literature.com/george_bernard_shaw/candida/) by George Bernard Shaw. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932/31 "2003-07-09T02:38:18Z")
I guess it’s better than being named Chlamydia, but wow… ---
**Author:** ![summerbreeze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@summerbreeze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/summerbreeze)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932/32 "2003-07-09T02:41:14Z")
I really and truly knew a girl named Urine. She pronounced it “YOU-reen.” ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932/33 "2003-07-09T14:02:42Z")
I went to school with some weirdly named kids. There was A$$hole, whose name was pronounced “uh-SHO-lee.” There was also F@t@ss, whose name was pronounced “fuh-TAHSS.” Also poor little Hosmacker, whose name was pronounced “HAHZ-muh-KAIR.” Lately one of them had a new son named “A$$hat,” pronounced “uh-SHOT.” ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932/34 "2003-07-09T14:12:23Z")
Did they really have the symbols for their name, or are you just avoiding the words fatass and asshole? I also know a Melena. She’s from Panama. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932/35 "2003-07-09T16:42:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by summerbreeze \* > \*\*I really and truly knew a girl named Urine. She pronounced it “YOU-reen.” \*\* I bet she was pissed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932/36 "2003-07-09T17:46:31Z")
**Snake-Hips** , it’s people like you what got people to thinking there’s people with all kinds of crazy names. Like my cousin, who insists that a set of twins named Lemongelo and Orangelo went to her high school. I’ve presented her with evidence from _this very messageboard_ that people all over the country think they know someone who knows someone who knows two kids named Lemongelo and Orangelo. I asked her if she ever said “Hey Lemongelo!” to see if one of them would turn around. She said no. And she still insists that those were their names. She won’t accept that she has swallowed a yellowing urban legend. So I’m calling you out. You didn’t know anybody named A$$hole, Fat@$$, or especially @$$hat. I’d have believed Hosmacker, if you hadn’t surrounded it with such obvious fakery. Nice try. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932/37 "2003-07-09T18:02:49Z")
A lot of these names do sound improbable, but I really do have a friend named “Latrina.” I guess her mom and dad weren’t in the military or Scouts. ---
**Author:** ![lovejoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@lovejoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lovejoy)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932/38 "2003-07-09T19:57:28Z")
My brother in law is an anaesthesiologist (sp?) and he and another MD spent a good amount of time talking a woman out of naming her new daugher Placenta, named after the pretty word she had heard for the very first time that day. Needless to say, she was an indigent woman who had zero prenatal care. Can you imagine having the name Placenta, and having all the kids in middle school calling you Afterbirth? No thanks… ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932/39 "2003-07-09T20:21:29Z")
In the Buffalo area, the popular urban legend is that from time too time, African-American mothers will name their kids after area place names that are actually Iroquois in origin, yet somehow sound black. “Yo … Cheektowaga, Tonawanda, Lackawanna, Eastaurora, Westseneca, Chautauqua, Canandaigua … get your butts over here!” ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932/40 "2003-07-09T23:31:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ellen Cherry \* > \*\*I was told by a woman who swore it was true, that she taught a girl in Houston (or maybe Dallas) named Diarrhea. She said she tried to pronounce it “Dee-airy-a” or some such, but was corrected by the girl who insisted, “no, it’s Die-a-REE-uh!” > > I swear this is what this woman told me, c. 1980. \*\* Reminds me of _Beavis and Butthead_. Remember when Daria was still on there before she got her own show? “Diarrhea cha cha cha! Diarrhea cha cha cha!” I offer you [Baby’s Named a Bad Bad Thing](http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/index.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-this-poor-girl-is-named-after-a-yeast-infection/186932.md?page=3)