# Woman makes stupid choice, gets mad at results **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 10, 2018, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917 "2018-12-10T22:12:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917/41 "2018-12-11T15:18:42Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I was in the same dormitory at college with a gentleman whose first name was “Governor.” At least that’s what he went by. I don’t know if it was short for anything. > > He went on to have a successful law career, so apparently it didn’t hold him back in any obvious way. Lawyer Milloy never went to law school as far as I know, but he was a pretty good pro football player. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917/42 "2018-12-11T15:19:06Z")
I think, “Son of Psycho Mom”, would be more apropos. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917/43 "2018-12-11T15:19:08Z")
My half brother named his son Falling Rain and his daughter Tashina Rainbow. We call them Rainy and Tashina. I used to work with Janice Hurlbutt. It was her married name. I think I would have kept my maiden name… ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917/44 "2018-12-11T15:19:42Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > Mulva? > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Nooooo! Anywhoo that wouldn’t be a dirty word. And it’s not ‘Muck’ either. > [@kayaker](#): > > Bildo? > [@Slash1972](#): > > Hunt? Well, **mixdenny** , _I_ got it. It was only one of two episodes of Seinfeld I ever watched and was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917/45 "2018-12-11T15:28:55Z")
Do these kind of parents think about their kids and how they’ll have to deal with a lifetime of smirks and explanations when they tell people their names? ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917/46 "2018-12-11T15:31:44Z")
I used to work for a company with a CEO whose name was [Champion](https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=4110656&privcapId=298718). He would start many of his speeches by introducing himself, then get a chuckle by saying, “My mother did that to me.” The I found out that Champion was his \*second middle \*name. So he did it to himself. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917/47 "2018-12-11T15:38:00Z")
> [@Kelevra](#): > > My half brother named his son Falling Rain and his daughter Tashina Rainbow. We call them Rainy and Tashina. > I used to work with Janice Hurlbutt. It was her married name. I think I would have kept my maiden name… One of my customer contact’s last name is Bunshaft. UGH! Bunshaft and Hurlbutt are the kind of names you don’t want to have while in junior high (middle school). :o ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917/48 "2018-12-11T16:24:07Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > Well, **mixdenny** , _I_ got it. It was only one of two episodes of Seinfeld I ever watched and was hilarious. Hey, I got it. But she said that wasn’t it, so I guessed something else 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917/49 "2018-12-11T17:19:47Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > I used to work for a company with a CEO whose name was [Champion](https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=4110656&privcapId=298718). He would start many of his speeches by introducing himself, then get a chuckle by saying, “My mother did that to me.” > > The I found out that Champion was his \*second middle \*name. So he did it to himself. I see hundreds of names each day. I once saw a “Victor Champion.” And just yesterday I saw a first name of “Perfecto.” I once had a repeat customer at a retail store named “Immaculate Conceptíon.” “Squire” is unusual, but nothing so terrible as an three part, eight syllable name that sounds like a real estate firm from a British stage farce. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917/50 "2018-12-11T17:55:39Z")
Oops, misspelled it. “Immaculate Concepción” I also forgot to add, I wouldn’t have made fun of the name if I were going to the shower, but I would have gotten the mother a copy of the children’s picture book, _Tikki Tikki Tembo_. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917/51 "2018-12-11T18:11:17Z")
Knew a dean at college named “Dr. Nurse.” He pointed out ruefully that it could have been worse – his first name was Ronald – and his mother’s maiden name? McDonald. Some funny names have real cachet. I met Colgate W. Darden IV – the fourth of that name! – while he was attending [a school that shared his name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Virginia_Darden_School_of_Business). ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917/52 "2018-12-11T18:42:25Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > Do these kind of parents think about their kids and how they’ll have to deal with a lifetime of smirks and explanations when they tell people their names? Let’s see . . . cart, dart . . . [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/RiQiTz3KWCE/hqdefault.jpg "Bart Cart Dart E-art") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiQiTz3KWCE) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917/53 "2018-12-11T18:46:51Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#): > > Bill Lear, the founder of the Lear Jet Corporation, named his daughter Shanda Lear. That’s her middle name. Her full name is Crystal Shanda Lear. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917/54 "2018-12-11T18:54:29Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > …No one wants to spend time with someone being so angry and controlling. Well, apparently SOMEONE wanted to spend at least a minute or two. Mom was certain I was going to be a girl, and that my name would be Candace. Not too bad, really. Alas, I was born with a boy’s body. Still, word is it took no small amount of persuasion to not proceed with the planned name anyway. One of my uncles (whom I suspect is my real dad, but nobody’s talking) offered his middle name for me, and that one stuck. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917/55 "2018-12-11T19:31:31Z")
I knew a Sergeant Sargent. One was his rank, one was his name. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917/56 "2018-12-11T19:40:48Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#): > > Bill Lear, the founder of the Lear Jet Corporation, named his daughter Shanda Lear. Supposedly the King and Queen of some country named their daughter Leia. So we now have an actual real person named Princess Leia. The Queen of Belgium during WW2 was Queen Beatrice, although I doubt anyone ever called her Queen Bea. I doubt you’ll ever beat the people who wanted to name their kid Satan. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917/57 "2018-12-11T19:59:12Z")
Or Dime-bag. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917/58 "2018-12-11T20:35:48Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > Supposedly the King and Queen of some country named their daughter Leia. So we now have an actual real person named Princess Leia. > The Queen of Belgium during WW2 was Queen Beatrice, although I doubt anyone ever called her Queen Bea. > I doubt you’ll ever beat the people who wanted to name their kid Satan. [Princess Leah of Norway](http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Princess+Martha+Louise/Leah+Isadora+Behn). Note spelling 😉 ---
**Author:** ![rainy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@rainy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rainy)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917/59 "2018-12-11T21:37:18Z")
> [@Kelevra](#): > > We call them Rainy … Hey, hey! ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917/60 "2018-12-11T21:56:43Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I knew a Sergeant Sargent. One was his rank, one was his name. Did he report to Major Major Major Major? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-makes-stupid-choice-gets-mad-at-results/825917.md?page=4)