# I do not believe you. In fact, I think you're a liar. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 22, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154 "2009-09-22T22:36:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/21 "2009-09-23T00:27:52Z")
Disbelieve any of these first names at your peril. I can deliver to you the online court record links which will demonstrate their reality. **OKEYTHANN HUK FENTRIESS LAQUEITON LERVON MENDELL ROBRESE ACE TRIRU ANTWARN LAROYMEL SCHEROCKO MONTREAVOUS ANTAVIUS SHYWAN HORACTIO CARNELLIUS DIONICIO JUBA TILAN SYMWONE JOREL KENYACIES TERION OLU VERSIE AUNTRAY TREVOCEAN TARRICK DEZMEN DENERAL TREON DERMITRE ORLIN LEVAVIUM ALGENONE ODIA TRAMMELL ORAN** Oh, and who can forget one of my faves, **OG**? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/22 "2009-09-23T00:32:07Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Disbelieve any of these first names at your peril. I can deliver to you the online court record links which will demonstrate their reality. > > **ACE** Uh, why would I disbelieve that one? ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/23 "2009-09-23T00:43:19Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Uh, why would I disbelieve that one? Because I’d figure most people CALLED “Ace” are not actually NAMED “Ace.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/24 "2009-09-23T00:45:59Z")
I may have mentioned this before but I saw the yearbook picture, so that’s all the documentation I needed at the time to believe the story of the girl named, “Smelda Rottencrotch”. A lady I worked with some years ago swore that she went to school with a girl by that name. I wouldn’t believe it, so she brought me her yearbook. It looked like an ordinary yearbook, completely unaltered. I guess it’s possible that someone on the yearbook committee snuck a name change in before press time, but dang if she didn’t look like a Smelda. I believe, also that the school was in Texas. Make of that what you will, but I have no faith in people not to be mean or stupid fuckers, even to their own kids. On an unrelated note…do you ever find that you ask yourself in circumstances like these why on earth you shared?😉 ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/25 "2009-09-23T00:46:15Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Disbelieve any of these first names at your peril. I can deliver to you the online court record links which will demonstrate their reality. [Jorel?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jor-El) ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/26 "2009-09-23T00:51:21Z")
So is La-a a real name or not? (The hyphen isn’t silent. It is pronounced Ladasha.) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/27 "2009-09-23T00:55:16Z")
> [@astro](#): > > [Jorel?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jor-El) No. Lacks the all-important dash. He didn’t look a bit like Brando, either. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/28 "2009-09-23T01:05:58Z")
My dad once knew someone who named her child “Melanoma.” ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/29 "2009-09-23T01:10:16Z")
> [@Faruiza](#): > > I may have mentioned this before but I saw the yearbook picture, so that’s all the documentation I needed at the time to believe the story of the girl named, “Smelda Rottencrotch”.[/SIZE]😉 Let’s not forget her sister Mary Jane, as mentioned in Full Metal Jacket. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/30 "2009-09-23T01:10:18Z")
In my job I can see 10,000 names a day. I collect them. My two favorites are Velvet Milkshake (who, I found out, is a semi-famous college coach. Women’s Golf I think) and Gloria Hole. On edit: I don’t claim to _know_ these people, though. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveroptic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiveroptic/32/8257_2.png) [@Fiveroptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveroptic)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/31 "2009-09-23T01:13:02Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Oranjello and lemonjello are from some black female comedians routine, i can’t think of her name at the moment but i saw that act years ago on comedy central. I believe [this](http://minibytes.mondominishows.com/daddy/main.asp) is what you’re thinking of. Hey, I just googled, don’t kill the messenger. And actually, Shirley Q. Liquor is neither black nor female. And some might opine that he’s not a comedian, either. ---
**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:** [September 23, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/32 "2009-09-23T01:16:22Z")
I always remember **Crunchy Frog** telling us about his classmate, Velvet Beaver. One of my teachers in high school’s last name was Dickensheets. (She went by Mrs. D.) Her husband’s first name? Hans. She offered extra credit points if you could come up with a joke about her name she hadn’t heard before. I also had a classmate whose last name was Buntrock (pronounced BUTT-rock. And yes, he LOOKED like a Buttrock). And my grandmother’s maiden name was Gerthoffer. She had an aunt whose first name was Gertrude. ---
**Author:** ![kdeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b487fb/32.png) [@kdeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kdeus)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/33 "2009-09-23T01:21:01Z")
So I used to work with Mike Hunt. Yes, he went by Mike and he had (& has) a great sense of humor about it. His rule (and now, mine) is “Laugh with me, cuz its funny. Laugh at me (behind closed doors, etc), you’re a jerk.” Mike, my friend, I hope this doesn’t violate your rule. You’re not the funny one in this story. Mike and I worked with/ for A Woman. She was in charge of X & Y, except that procedures had changed, and now she was in charge of X, and Mike was in charge of Y. **kdeus** : I need some Y for next week. **A Woman** : Procedures have changed, I only do X now. If you want Y, you’ll have to talk to Mike Hunt. **kdeus** : OKFINETHANKSBYE [slam phone down to avoid getting fired for saying “Well, can you at least hold the phone lower?”] ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/34 "2009-09-23T01:23:11Z")
Moral of thread: give your kids a weird name and they eventually get to meet \*\*Qadgop the Mercotan \*\*. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/35 "2009-09-23T01:28:04Z")
I used to work in a medical lab, and saw hundreds of names a day. I don’t claim to have seen any that have been mentioned so far, but there were a few that could arguably top them. Sadly, HIPPA prevents me from sharing. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/36 "2009-09-23T01:34:14Z")
I knew twins in high school named **Peaches** and **Pumpkin**. They were pretty big black guys and talented basketball players especially for a small school. It doesn’t matter if you believe that one or not anymore than it matters if you disbelieve that I am posting this from my brown desk using my Dell computer. It is simply true. I never examined their birth certificates but that those are the names they went by. I have a very unusual name myself (Maverick) and I predate **Top Gun** by many years thank you very much. ---
**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:** [September 23, 2009, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/37 "2009-09-23T01:35:09Z")
It may not be QUITE as odd, but remember that Lynyrd Skynyrd got their name from their high school gym teacher: Leonard Skinnerd. At least if you have a nasty name like SKIN-NERD, give your kid a name that doesn’t rhyme. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/38 "2009-09-23T01:38:37Z")
The very first job I ever had was as a night clerk in the Texas Department of Public Safety Driver License Division, before they automated. In digging around all those manual files, I found a bunch of names that made me laugh out loud. The ones that stuck in my mind were an individual whose first and middle names were Precious Blue-eyes, and at least 3 people whose legal first name was T9C. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/39 "2009-09-23T01:53:34Z")
I can vouch for the existence of a woman with the surname Biggs-Tinker. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/40 "2009-09-23T02:03:12Z")
Don’t think this thread is quite what the OP had in mind. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154.md?page=3)