My son had a doctor’s appointment this morning, after the appt I drove him to school. At the school, I walked him to the office and had to sign him in. In the sign-in book, above the space I was using, a parent had signed in his/her child. I noticed the name and thought, “Why would you name your kid Holden Butts”? Was Grabin already taken? What about Spankin? Or Pinchin? I hope that kid has a good sense of humor.
Maybe the kid was there because of unstoppable diarrhea.
Is his dad named Seymour?
Heh. One of my best friends has that last name. It has produced challenges. However, I cannot imagine her going that route in naming her child (who ended up with a perfectly normal name, BTW).
Why would they do that? Because when you have a name like Butts or Dick or McPenisgrabber it just becomes part of your name and you don’t think about it the way an outsider would.
But they still should have thought about the unfortunate funnies that will follow this kid his whole life.
Isn’t the most likely explanation that some wise guy wrote that name in the book and there is no child by that name in the school? Was Michael Hunt also late for school today?
The creator of AMC’s Mad Men named his son, who acts on the show, Marten Holden Wiener. The kid plays his role well, but damn - “THANKS, DAD”.
See, I always thought it would be the exact opposite… anyone with a name that made their childhood hell would probably try extra-hard not to choose a first name that makes their kid even easier to pick on, no?
Like if my last name was Dick or Butts, I’d probably avoid naming my child Harold just to spare them the extra childhood trauma.
That excuse probably holds up better for people whose last names aren’t easy pickings until you pick the wrong first name. I have a former colleague whose married name ended with “head” and whose husband was very nearly named BJ by his clueless parents, until a teenage relative pointed out the obvious (poor kid would’ve been nicknamed BJ Giveshead for the rest of his life otherwise).
Funny you should say that. My first college roommate had the last name Dick, and he swore he’d never name his kid Harold.
His first name was Peter.
You are probably right. I was just thinking about the times we would talk about stuff (for ex, discussing how our kids kept saying butt all the time) where the word butt would come up and I never made the connect that we were talking about her name and it seemed neither did she.
I’ll see her this weekend. I may ask her about this.
I was watching The First 48 (fun show, btw) the other night and they showed a female detective’s name. It was C’mon Wingo. As in “c’mon with us.” Later someone pronounced it like “Simone.” Cracked me up.
No discussion of strange names would be complete without Urhines Kendall Icy Eight Special K. (The first name is pronounced “yer highness”.)
If ever you think your parents were cruel…
What am I missing with the name ‘Harold Dick’?
If Harold gets shortened to Harry, you’d be Harry Dick.
This would not be a problem for people who live where you live or where I live, but in some parts of America Harry and hairy sound the same.
If my last name was Butts, I would CHANGE my last name.
To something really extra cool to make up for the generations of poor sob’s that came before me.
Like KillerNinja or Awesome. Johnny Awesome. I likes.
His friends call him Harry.
Reminds me of the renowned educator named Harry Wong. That guy had to be a good teacher just to survive.
Just don’t name your kid Phil if your last name is McCracken(say it like you are Irish).
I didn’t get it. Then I said it with the accent and burst out laughing dude. thanks, I needed that.
It’s not so bad if he’s got a friend like Ben Dover to help spread the teasing.
Oh, God, why did you have to say “spread”?
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Wait, how does “Harry” sound in your part of the world?
Oh my.
I suppose their next child will be named Prynz Kendall Foggy Nine Cheerios.
That’s just all kinds of not nice. In fact, I firmly believe that giving your kid a name like borders on child abuse, and that the parents ought to be punished somehow.