[QUOTE=Jackmannii] I collect (or at least notice) odd patient names. Yesterday there was a guy on the schedule whose name I read as “Honest Mojo” (at second glance, “Honest” was the correct first name - the last name was spelled a little differently). But “Honest Mojo” is a terrific name.
I have toyed with the idea of changing my name to Buck Naked. Buck Naked, M.D. has a ring to it and would look nice on a plaque by my office door.
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You are my new bestest friend forever. I’ve never met someone who collected odd names.
I think you should change your name to Naked Doctor. Then you could be Dr. Naked Doctor and of course, Dr. Doctor. gimme the news, I got a bad case in lovin’ you… You could earworm people to death.
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I think Paris as a girl’s name is a relatively recent thing, before Hilton it was probably more likely to be found on boys.
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Leonard Nimoy played a character named “Paris” on the “Mission: Impossible” series, replacing Martin Landau’s “Rollin” character.
And, not really that outrageous, but somewhat interesting: There is a little girl in South Florida who was injured in a “teacup” amusement park ride. Somehow she banged her head pretty badly, but at last report (last week) had started showing signs of improvement. Anyway, she is a twin. Her name is Natashia. Her sister is Tanashia. Almost hearkens back to the days when it was commonplace to give twins rhyming names.
I post on another board with a really wonderful lady whose youngest son is Keldon - after herself, Kelley, and her husband Don. She really is a great person though.
Our old intern and his wife just had a baby girl named Harper, after Harper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbirg . Their dog is Boo.
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My cashier today at K-Mart was named Enjoli. I wasn’t positive, and didn’t want to trust my aging memory, so I googled as soon as I got home…yep, it’s a perfume. Wonder if her boyfriend sings “It’s going to be an Enjoli night” every time they go out.
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That was Aviance. Wasn’t it?
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A freinds dad worked in Berkeley as a firefighter, and supposedly met people named Freakus Bolikas, and his sister, Groovy-Tits, .
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Entirely possible, since Freakis (male) and Groovy Nipples (female) Palikas grew up in Sonoma County and went to school with my cousin (the Forestville/Guerneville/Monte Rio area). Your friend’s dad just got the names a little wrong! Palikas (I think that’s how it’s spelled) rhymes with Freakis. They had a younger sibiling named Sky who was a boy. My cousin also had a classmate named Ocean Littlefield and friends named Harmony and Oriole - lots of hippies giving their kids weird names in that area.
Until last year, I worked in summer conferences at a university, so I assigned rooms to the attendees of various camps and conferences. One guy came back year after year – I never actually met him, so I can’t promise that it was his given name, but:
Hummingbird St. Clair.
There were others, of course, but the funny name list stayed with the job, so that’s the only one I remember.
Who names their son Hummingbird?
Also, I went to college with a guy named Destiny. He said his parents were hippies. He was a sweet guy, though.
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My son has a friend named Paris. Yes, Paris is a boy. No, Paris’s mother was not drugged.
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I know this has already been addressed, but the first thing that came to mind is the (male) Paris whom Juliet was supposed to wed when the trollop ran off with that putz Romeo.
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I used to have a Philipino co-worker with a first name of Bong.
And my 7th grade P.E. coach had a last name of Hiscock. We used to joke, “Coach Hiscock? Coach his cock into what? To jump through rings of fire?” or some variation there of.
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2 for 1 for you here: The highest scoring US flying ace of WWII was Dick Bong.
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My first husband’s sister wanted to honor her father, Dean and her father-in-law, Joe. Unfortunately, the child was a girl and is now walking around with the name Jodeane. I guess she thought the last “e” made it more feminine.
I think she goes by her middle name now that she’s old enough to chose.
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While I was in the Army Reserves, after my active duty was over, I was records clerk for our unit. We had a gal whose parents had obviously wanted a boy. They did sort of the same thing as above. How would *you * like to be named Floydene Earlene?
An old friend’s mother was named for her father, whose name was Harvey. You guessed it, Harviene (sp? I only ever heard it, never saw it.) I always thought it made it worse that her twin sister’s name was Kate. So she was the only one who got stuck with strange.
At least the Aviance tune is gone now…