Strange but true names

No, his full name is Samaro Oramas. He just went by “Sam” for short.

Barry

The Great Unwashed: Ya beat me to it by a whole minute!

:wink:

Barry

I know a lovely bi-racial girl whose last name is Brown. Her given name is Golden. Quite apt, and she’s more than beautiful enough to pull it off, but still!

at high school there was a plaque of honored students from long ago. One of the names on the plaque was “Otto Boos”. My Spanish class got a kick out of that one.

I know a bint called Cherry Pickles

Not to hijack my own thread, but is it her name that makes her a “bint” in your opinion, do you have something against her personally, or are you just generally misogynistic? Or maybe this is some strange usage of the word “bint” of which I was previously unaware?

Just curious…

Barry

I know a Harold (Harry) Peters.

Wow, that’s gotta be some funny name!

Almost forgot—I once dated a man named Pete Moss. It didn’t work out, because, a) he had no sense of humor about his name, and, b) turned out there was a Mrs. Moss and several little fungi at home . . .

mmm, I’d have to point you in the direction of The Netherlands for very strange names.
Napoleon Bonaparte was the person who carried out the first ever population count, so every one also had to be registered, and had have a last name. In the Low Lands, people were still either named after their profession (smith, copper, baker, and so on), the place where they’re from (Van Den Heuvel, Denbosch, my own last name, too, actually), or a distiguishing characteristic: De Neus, De Kreupele, and so on).
Daughters were given their fathers first name a s last name, like the Iceland still does today (Simonsdottir, only in Dutch it would’ve been dochter instead of dottir).
Napoleon wanted to change all that around and regulize it. People in Flanders readily complied, and followed the 3 rules mentioned above, but the Dutch did not really care for Boney and his rules, and a lot of them gave phoney names to take the p*ss: like pancake (Pannekoek), or bornnaked (Naaktgeboren).
I went to school with 2 Dutch guys (I’m Flemish, from Belgium), one was born in Holland, and the family name happened to be Naaktgeboren. They gave their first son a typical Dutch name:’ Jochem.
They’d moved to Belgium when the mother got pregnant again, so they asked their belgian friends what a typical Flemish name would be for a boy.
Now their friends were joking when they said “Kamiel” (it’s a very obscure Flemish name, not used anymore, and sounds kinda archaic, like Ebenezer would sound to you in the US), so the poor guy grew up with a name that would be the equivalent of Ebenezer Bornnaked…
He got a LOT of slagging, I can tell you.
He was a really sweet guy, though…

Former Texas governor Jim Hogg named his daughter Ima.

http://www.famoustexans.com/imahogg.htm

Ah Mea culpa. I didn’t see the Samaro thing. And what is the deal with having 1000 posts? You must put more weight on it than I do.

I met a guy called Ebenezer Bornnaked once, even he laughed.

Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo.

When I was naught but a young pup, there was a guy in my hometown phone book named Harold Butts. This gave rise to many hours of snickering for ten year old children.

Peace,
~mixie

Former client, Lillie White. She was Chinese, her husband American. Sweet lady. Thanks for making me remember her.

I work with a guy named Hui Da Wang.

There was a Henauder Titzoff in our phonebook many years back.

You can’t always believe what you read in the phone book. In a former life I spent a couple of years as a proselyting missionary in rural Idaho. Rather than put the phone under our own names (especially since we could be transferred to a new area at a moment’s notice), we put the phone under such names as “Phillipe DeFonte” and “John D. Baptiste.” Ah, those were the days…

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Barry

When I was a kid they used to have a commercial for (I think) Stove-Top Stuffing featuring a lady named “Toppie Smellie.” Anybody else remember ol’ Toppie? I often wonder what ever became of her after her single brush with fame…

I once did business with a guy whose last name was Cardinal. His wife’s name was Robin – Robin Cardinal.

I can’t believe nobody has mentioned Buddy Cianci. He was a corrupt politician in (I think) New Hampshire.

He named his daughter Nancy Ann.

Nancy Ann Cianci.

Say it quickly.

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