Well, it used to be Shithouse, but she changed it. Good choice, Good choice 
The worse name I’ve witnessed was a Resident Adviser in high school; he was named Manual Hyman.
There’s a local musician, an organist, in my area, whose first name is Jean-Willy. So a hyphenated, half-French half-English name. Hyphenated names are not uncommon among French-speaking people, but that one just looks weird to me. Maybe it’s the fact that Willy is generally a nickname and not a name (or part of a hyphenated name) in itself.
On the plus side, he doesn’t have to worry about being mixed up with anyone with a similar name.
Stephen Colbert remarked during an interview with Jay Carney last night that his replacement, Josh Earnest’s, name literally means ‘Just kidding, but seriously!’.
I attended a very traditional Southern boarding school. In attendance during my tenure there were Captain Tom Smith (his sister was named Sister Sarah Smith), Patrick Fischoder, Trey Duckworth (in case attending a boarding school in the 1980s failed to make him preppy enough).
An employee at my company is named Pink Brown. Poor guy.
I had heard the story of the cake maker that refused to put a child’s name on a cake. The name was pronounced /shih,theed/ and written Shithead.
I do know of a woman whose name is Gay Cox.
From the Movie…
Johnny Dangerously: The name’s Dangerously. Johnny Dangerously.
Lil: Did you know you’re last name’s an adverb?
To Eyebrows of Doom - I actually met her. This was back in my youth when I was an Army medic and she came in on sick call. I saw the name, asked the question (I was a Spec 5, she was a private) and got that answer.
I haven’t figured out how to use the Quote function.
My mom grew up with a kid named Winkie Bean. She told me he was murdered because someone thought he was extremely wealthy (heir to the L.L. Bean fortune if such a thing even exists?), but a google search indicates that it was a hate crime (http://www.ourherald.com/news/2013-11-28/Front_Page/Winkie_Bean_Remembered.html)
I came back to visit my 6th grade teacher when I was in 7th grade and saw “Blad” written on a kid’s desk. Apparently it was pronounced “Blade.”
Bunyupp****- In the bottom right corner of each post there’s a box that says “quote.” Click on that to quote someone.
Just Inspect Her.
:smack: Thank you.
Thank you. I didn’t realize I had to click it before I clicked the Post Reply button. The Quote button isn’t on the Reply to Thread page.
My great-grandfather had the first name Lester. He changed it to DeLester because he thought it more distinguished. :dubious:
Also had a great-great uncle whose name was a palindrome - his parents reversed the letters of his last name for his first name.
That reminds me of this guy…
We have a winner for the thread!
It’s not cool to give a babby that name when they can’t frigth back.
Wait… Jean-Willy is an organist? And due to similarity of instrument, he migth also be a pianist? (That works better spoken) Mmhmm. Oh, is he 12" tall?
I’ve posted this one before, but: I once represented a woman and her kids at a protective order hearing. Her two daughters were named Eboknea and Ivoreah (pronounced eb-oh-KNEE-uh and eye-voh-REE-uh). Like I said, it was a protective order hearing, so, clearly, they were not living in perfect harmony.
“Malaise” makes me think of Misery Chastain, the character from the novel-within-a-novel from Stephen King’s Misery. Who names their daughter “Misery”?
i didn’t get huygens
Yesterday at work I met a forty-something year old average looking woman. Last name James, first name Jesse. I’m guessing her parents are/were smarty pants types.
Could he be related to principal “O’Shag’Hennesy?”
Melancholia sounds pretty and you can call her Mel or Lia.
(I once knew someone named Gwendolyn and she would go by Lyn. Seemed like a waste of a good name.)
It might not take a genius to strip that down to “Wendo.” 