Who dislikes their child so much at birth...

[si_blakely]

On a related note - if your surname is Champion, what would persuade you to call your son Brian James.

And if you have that unfortunate combination of initials and surname, why would you use it for your business name, and paint it on all your vans. :smack:

I see them every day on my way to work, and I just don’t get it. At all.

Si

[Drain_Bead]

I’m really surprised this whole thread has gone by without a mention of Dick Trickle. And there was a college football player named Lucius Pusey, but he changed his last name.

[Elysium]

@Bosstone

“You changed your name…to Latrine?”
“Yeah. Used to be Shithouse!”
“…Good change. That’s a good change.”

Aw! You beat me to it!

There was a boy in my school back in the day whose last name was Buttkiss. He was apparently quite the troublemaker, because he was often called to the office via loudspeaker.

This cracked the whole school up at least twice a week.

[Cyn]

I work perdiem as a PostPartum RN in the 3rd largest birthing center in California.
One of my best friends at work runs the Birth Certificate office.
Some people really do have it in for their newborn babies, the most direct story I remember is a father insisting on naming his new son Slow because it took so long for Slow to arrive. My friend is a loving and generous woman and takes time to make certain she gets spelling and such correct. She has learned to be non-judgemental about names, having heard some doozies but she did try to talk this father out of naming his son Slow, explaining the future this child might face. The poor boy is about 5 years old and named Slow. I hope he has a cool nickname.
Cyn, RN

[Maastricht]

Thanks all. Well, if my husband Arwin can live with an adapted name from LOTR, I guess Esper can live with a name from FF. I’m just glad the name doesn’t mean “poop” in some language. But we’ll teach him some cold reading just to be sure.
And Nava, the association with Esperanza (Or Esperanto) is on purpose.

[Shera]

There is a 12 year old girl in the judo class that I teach named Tyranny. I have now idea how it is spelled, but it is pronounced just like you think it is. She seems to living up to the name as she is pretty much always in trouble of some kind. I have know idea what her parents might have been thinking.

[rocking_chair]

@iamthewalrus(:3=

My girlfriend wants very much to name a future (hypothetical, at this point) male child “Jedi”. I have tried to reason with her, but the reason does not stick.

I did get a good laugh out of the scene in Baby Mama where two children named “Wingspan” and “Banjo” are mentioned. And then we talked afterward. She likes “Banjo”. :smack:

ETA: I fully believe that if we ever have kids, our only compromise available will be to alternate choosing names. I can picture calling them to supper, now: “Charles, Barbarella, Jane, Velociraptor, Emily, Kaleidoscope, your dinner’s getting cold!”

you could go with jedidiah and the nickname jedi. that way everyone wins, even a wee padawan.

i read a book where one of the secondary charaters had named a son albatross. kid went with the nick. al.

[gigi]

@iamthewalrus(:3=

I did get a good laugh out of the scene in Baby Mama where two children named “Wingspan” and “Banjo” are mentioned. And then we talked afterward. She likes “Banjo”. :smack:

Rachel Griffiths’s son is named Banjo, after the Australian poet. (not sure if the movie references this or uses Banjo all on its own–not sure I can bear to find out)

[fachverwirrt]

@Drain Bead

I’m really surprised this whole thread has gone by without a mention of Dick Trickle.

Only if you ignore post 17.

[panache45]

The best I’ve encountered is Astrida Penis. I think it’s Romanian, and is pronounced exactly how you think it’s pronounced.

And then there’s Dick Pounder.

[Oslo_Ostragoth]

@Sunrazor

Nancy Dick, former lieutenant governor of Colorado, named her son Timber. Note the sad irony of his death.

Must be distantly related to an unfortunate relative of hers who attended my high school: Harold Dick, who was of course known as Harry.

[bubble_pop_electric]

@sandra_nz

I once worked with a Heather Leather. That was her married name, which she chose to take.

Ha, I went to school with a Heather Feather…

[Loach]

@Guinastasia

Don’t forget Dick Butkus.

Dick Butkus was never teased.

[Q.E.D]

@Loach

Dick Butkus was never teased.

Is that a fact or are you just making stuff up?

[Loach]

@Q.E.D.

Is that a fact or are you just making stuff up?

I hope you are whooshing me because asking for a cite for that comment is ridiculous.

[Q.E.D]

It is neither. Dick Butkus either said “I was never teased” or he didn’t. It should be a simple matter to demonstrate the former. I ask because I find it hard to believe he was never teased with a name like that.

[Loach]

@Q.E.D.

It is neither. Dick Butkus either said “I was never teased” or he didn’t. It should be a simple matter to demonstrate the former. I ask because I find it hard to believe he was never teased with a name like that.

I guess I’ll have to believe you have no idea who Dick Butkus is or was. This is not GQ so I know no cite was needed. This is not the Pit so I can’t say what I think of you for pushing this ridiculous inquiry. This is MPSIMS so I figured a little throw away line like that would either be understood by those familiar with #51 or ignored by those who don’t. Dick Butkus was one of the toughest, meanest and most ferocious players to play pro football. From what I have read he was totally committed to being the toughest from before he was a teenager. Now he is all smiles but when he was playing he would rip off your arm and beat you with it if he could. Just for you I’ll change my line.

Dick Butkus was never teased…more than once. And I’m not giving you a cite.

[Q.E.D]

Yes, I’m sure he was the biggest, toughest guy in the third or fourth grade and those eight-graders never teased him. Nope. No, sir.

[CandidGamera]

There’s a person running for local office whose signs I see all over town.

His or her name is Sandy Holepit.

[Bosstone]

I honest to God knew a Michael Hunt in high school. I don’t know what his parents were thinking.