Don’t feel bad. People are always relating things to me as though they had personal knowledge and are then embarrassed when shown they have been duped. There are several sites that deal with hoaxes and urban legends, including www.kumite.com. If it sounds too bizaare to be true…
Er…not to rub salt in the wound, but isn’t the term supposed to be “bald faced lie”?
I stand corrected “bald”
Thank you.
I see the problem you had with it, Indygrrl. There was no reason to tag on the “especially African American” part. “Motif” and “Genre” would be names that reflected the vocation of any parent who was a writer, and by sticking in the side note, the implication was pretty clear – “these are stupid, but a black person could get away with them, because you know they give their kids dumb names.”
It was a backhanded insult. I don’t know if I’d be offended per se, but I’d likely call the poster on it.
While I don’t know the specifics of the “Shithead” name and whether or not there is any truth to it, I have personally spoken with a customer of my company’s whose name is “Shitonya.”
OK, you guys can call bullshit on me if you like, but I am an RN in a hospital and I have seen the name “Shithead” with my own two eyes. It was not a story related to me by a FOAF, I saw it with MY OWN EYES!..it was a Muslim or Indian name or something, and it was the first name of a child I was caring for. It was not pronounced Shit Head, but still. Awful.
Just last night when I worked, I went to my unit’s phlebotomist to collect some lab labels I needed, and while going through her labels to get my own, I came across a 60 something year old man’s label and his name was, I kid you NOT…Dick Head. Of course I"m sure his real name was Richard, but there it was in black and white, the dude went by the name Dick Head. She said “We’ve been laughing about that poor man all night!”
I would change my effin’ name.
This is verbatim from my brother’s boss (who is Jamaican):
I wasn’t offended by it. But I don’t find it funny either.
There’s a guy at my church named Moe Hair. I am not kidding.
The highest elected officer in the Knights of Columbus in a state is known as the State Deputy. In Virginia, our state deputy this year is Richard Head, Sr.
He goes by “Richie.”
Property inspector in a nearby city is named “Dick Manlove,” and goes by ‘Dick’, not ‘Richard’.