# I met a person today whose first name is Virus. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 20, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795 "2012-06-20T22:38:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/21 "2012-06-21T06:42:38Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Really. Truly. Virus. > > His last name was a very, very common english name. > > Nice enough guy, but he has some issues and problems. > > I didn’t ask him about his name, but I was tempted. Did you grasp his head with both hands and say, “And I… am the cure”? ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/22 "2012-06-21T06:53:26Z")
> [@Toucanna](#): > > I was at a -----mart and overheard a woman yelling at her kid “Nemesis” to stop running amok. Her son, Nemesis. > > At an upscale department store, I overheard a woman telling her daughter to knock off throwing a tantrum. Girl’s name? “Melodrama.” To be fair, the second kid could have been named Melanie, and her mom just nicknames her Melodrama when she throws a tantrum. My aunt did that when my cousin Melanie was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/23 "2012-06-21T07:14:30Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I know a girl named Cilia (pronounced Celia). Father is some Eastern/Middle Eastern ethnicity, possibly Lebanese, mother American, both well-educated. Better than Virus, I guess. But the name choice only won by a hair. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/24 "2012-06-21T07:21:28Z")
I know someone named Pepsi. Upon witnessing them drinking a Pepsi the first time, we all decided it was a form of cannabalism, and razzed him about it. He took it well, apparently he catches people off gaurd all the time when he does that. He also admits to getting confused at his job when someone orders a Pepsi. :smack:😃 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/25 "2012-06-21T07:23:50Z")
Maybe he has older siblings named Onus, Tootie, Trey, and Forrest. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/26 "2012-06-21T07:58:56Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Really. Truly. Virus. > > His last name was a very, very common english name. > > Nice enough guy, but he has some issues and problems. So, will this Virus be gone in a week to ten days, or is this going to be a chronic affliction … 😉 Si ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/27 "2012-06-21T08:04:00Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > To be fair, [the second kid’s] mom just nicknames her Melodrama when she throws a tantrum. {snip} Yep. Entirely possible it could have been a nickname. Not sure if this matters but, first scenario happened in Puerto Rico and in the second, both mother and daughter were Spanish-speakers visiting the USA ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/28 "2012-06-21T09:57:08Z")
You are a prison doctor. That guy is in deep trouble one would think. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/29 "2012-06-21T10:29:13Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > … but not as much as my patient named OG. Smash? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/30 "2012-06-21T11:06:18Z")
> [@Toucanna](#): > > Yep. Entirely possible it could have been a nickname. Not sure if this matters but, first scenario happened in Puerto Rico and in the second, both mother and daughter were Spanish-speakers visiting the USA Well, while the original Nemesis was female, the non-capitalized noun applies to either gender. I can see either one being used as a nickname or an insult. I did witness a Cuban neighbor yelling at her grandkids “nemesis! destroyer! you’re the four horsemen of the apocalypsis and I don’t care if there’s only three of you! I don’t want to meet the fourth one!”, and I’m reasonably sure my nephew’s name is Mark and not “the fifth horseman of the apocalypsis”, which he has been named on occasion. Once the kid found out what did that really long thing his father would call him mean, he though it was The Coolest - “like a cartoon character! Like, like, like the OLDEST cartoon character!” Someone tell St John he should’a done manga, I’m still busy laughing. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/31 "2012-06-21T11:08:15Z")
“Og” is actually a legitimate Biblical name. Not one people actually use, but still. Was he very large? ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/32 "2012-06-21T14:30:06Z")
I didn’t meet Titus Maximus in person, he’s just six, but apparently his big brother died and Titus Maximus was mentioned as a survivor. Odd story, 17 yo dies in his sleep, inconclusive autopsy, grieving Dad (runs prison ministries)tells story how he and his son stopped talking recently until he decided to forgive said son, and then they spent a great day together then his son dies…(sad)…oddness all around ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/33 "2012-06-21T17:41:44Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Did you grasp his head with both hands and say, “And I… am the cure”? I’m sure Qadgop is too professional to have done that, but damn…if he did it should be on youtube. > [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > His last name was a very, very common english name. OMG, it wasn’t Virus Smith, was it? ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/34 "2012-06-21T17:48:08Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Nice enough guy, but he has some issues and problems. Drug resistant? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/35 "2012-06-21T17:48:32Z")
> [@chizzuk](#): > > Maybe she wanted to name him “Enoch” and got confused? That’s basically how Oprah Winfrey got her name; her mother wanted to name her after the Biblical character Orpah but misspelled the name. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/36 "2012-06-21T17:49:16Z")
I once had a classmate in college whose name was Spore Virus. He was a weird dude so I suspect it was a name he had chosen for himself. I also received a resume once from a woman whose first name was Tequilla. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/37 "2012-06-21T17:55:00Z")
1. It is very important for his survival that nobody take him to see The Cure. 2. I know a very charming young girl, now about 15, named Eris. Her mother wanted to make sure her life was interesting. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Surb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@The\_Surb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Surb)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/38 "2012-06-21T18:02:38Z")
I had to ask how a girl named Analy pronounced her name. Thank GOD it was pronounced like Anna Lee. Her parents were not born in the US. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/39 "2012-06-21T18:13:14Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > 1. It is very important for his survival that nobody take him to see The Cure. > > 2. I know a very charming young girl, now about 15, named Eris. Her mother wanted to make sure her life was interesting. Even without my Evil hat on, I don’t see anything wrong with Eris, though of course there is another name from Greek myth I would prefer. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/40 "2012-06-21T19:09:08Z")
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