Hmmm.
Naming dogs after vile dictators is a long-time practice among dummkopfs (I can remember a 1940s story (by Thurber?) that mentioned it).
"Perhaps most shocking was the information that 15 L.A. dogs are named Hitler (mostly rottweilers, German shepherds, boxers and pit bulls). An additional 12 are named Adolf, including four German shepherds and three rottweilers."*
One idjit in France coyly named his two dogs “Itler” and “Iva”. The local registrar refused to issue licenses in those names.
*fortunately, French bulldogs, chihuahuas and Cavalier King Charles spaniels seem to have been mostly spared such indignities.
What kind of parents name their child Adolph Hitler? The kind who should be whipped naked through the streets.
Alois and Klara Hitler.
This started as a very local story to where I was living at the time. The supermarket that refused to do his cake was my supermarket. I drove past his house often. He went to the same pediatrician and I once saw him there with little Adolf.
There have been several updates since then. Heath Campbell found another Nazi lady to procreate with. He has nine kids and all have been taken away. He’s been in and out of trouble with several domestic violence arrests. A couple of years ago the courts allowed him to legally change his name to Heath Hitler. Thankfully he lives in Pennsylvania now.
It’s because involuntary sterilization was done BY the Nazis, etc. that we can’t do it ON Nazis. :smack:
These notorious murderers had a pet snake named Hitler. They also had snakes named HIV, Bonnie, and Clyde. Yeah, they’re right where they belong.
I think giving your pets ironic names falls outside the scope of this thread really.
And the folks you’re mentioning were put behind bars for actual crimes like murder. Calling your pet snake Hitler or HIV doesn’t necessarily mean you are a murderer, but being a murderer makes it more likely you’ll give your pets murderous names.
The newspaper in my old town printed the babies’ names in the birth announcements, and I once saw one for a little boy named Aryan. I suspect that it was pronounced a-ryan or ar-yan, and I sure hope the OB nurses at least said something to the parents about this.
That is just dumb parents trying to spell Aaron. Don’t ascribe to malice what is explained by stupidity.
I’m a telemarketer. Believe me when I tell you that I have seen every conceivable spelling of every conceivable name in the universe.
That’s a real Indo-Iranian name, though, at least real enough that I would not even blink or imagine anything unfortunate upon seeing it, any more than I do with Aria Airlines or Indo-Aryan languages.
Anything’s possible, but I wouldn’t necessarily bet on it.
NB sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, whether it be a name or a big fat swastika on a pamphlet of Jain literature.
Whose real name is “Chasity”?
I knew someone in college who’s given name was Adolph, named after his grandfather. He had to use his middle name.
HERE is a site called Famous people Named Adolf.
If your name were Adolph or Adolf, you might get away with going by “Dolph.” (Actors Dolph Lundgren and Dolph Sweet did, even though they weren’t actually named “Adolph.”)
Okay, but according to that site, Adolf von Henselt was a dead ringer for Adolph von Menzel. :dubious:
There was also a post-WWII Texas governor named Dolph Briscoe, although he was born pre-war and also not an Adolph.
“Shame!” (Cowbell) “Shame!”
More cowbell!
More shame!
I have seen at least one documentary on the couple and followed some of it in the press; would Google now but I work for Da Jungle and I am sort of Peaked out. You come away thinking yeah – beat them senseless since they are already basically senseless. But some of the stuff dumped on them and the kids as a result I think may have been over the top.
Last I was aware they were divorcing and the mother was trying for sole custody. Not so much because her views had changed but because she decided hiding them and having her children was better than expressing them and not. Maybe she’ll actually have an epiphany ------ maybe not. But the whole thing is just FUBAR beginning to end.
Am I a namist if I say that all Adolf’s look alike?
That’s not a name; that’s a Halloween costume.