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Topic: this is way crazy
JustAGuy2112's photo
Sun 11/15/09 11:18 PM

Seems to be a Hollywood thing over the years..see who can come up with the most unique name...


" Unique ", of course = stupid

SitkaRains's photo
Sun 11/15/09 11:37 PM


Seems to be a Hollywood thing over the years..see who can come up with the most unique name...


" Unique ", of course = stupid


Not all names are stupid, my daughters both have very unique names they are nothing like this one.

I think some people are so desperate to name their child something
different that they don't think about the child growing up.

causality's photo
Mon 11/16/09 12:29 AM
As someone who was BORN with a very unusual and unique name, I can relate to poor Tabooger and Blanket and people like them. My birth name is Väinämöinen. The thing doesn't even fit on my darn ID. While I can appreciate the meaning and what it represents now, while I was a kid it was cruel and unusual punishment to give me a name like that. I was already a shy outcast, the weird name turned me into a pariah.

EquusDancer's photo
Mon 11/16/09 12:31 AM

As someone who was BORN with a very unusual and unique name, I can relate to poor Tabooger and Blanket and people like them. My birth name is Väinämöinen. The thing doesn't even fit on my darn ID. While I can appreciate the meaning and what it represents now, while I was a kid it was cruel and unusual punishment to give me a name like that. I was already a shy outcast, the weird name turned me into a pariah.


So are you Finnish, or did your parents just have fun with the name? And does it go with your last name?

IgorFrankensteen's photo
Tue 11/17/09 08:12 PM
I wanted to name one of my children with a dance step. Just to see teachers call the role.
My (now ex) wife stopped me. [sigh.]

wux's photo
Tue 11/17/09 08:24 PM


There are so many celebrities who choose unusual names for their kids…

James Brown - Yamma
David Bowie’s - Zowie
Rachel Griffith – Banjo
Don Cortese – Tabooger
Simon LaBron – Pine
Tommy Lee Jones – Kafka
Richard Gere - Jigme
Bob Geldolf – Fifi Trixibelle

At the same time they want them left out of the limelight...right?

I've always found it strange that they give their kids names that make people talk, but then get upset when people talk about their kids. The only explanation I could guess at would be that these are people who are used to having their cake and eating it to0.



True.

Some International names:

Karl Marx: Jinlgehuedelszweigeringenhoestetterknabe;
Ghandi: Ramahajarnagarandajabwazaneer Huganda
Henrik Ibsen: Nothingness
Buddha: Buddha
Tibor Szemeredy: Andras
Genghis Kahn: Batu (Batu actually means "guy who slips on his own snot outside the tent every morning when he wakes up and goes out to tend to the chicken and the horses".)
Gigi: Mon Petite cus-cus
Rasputin: (died childless)
Idi Amin: Vladimir Vissarianovitch Dzhugashvili

wux's photo
Tue 11/17/09 08:27 PM

I wanted to name one of my children with a dance step. Just to see teachers call the role.
My (now ex) wife stopped me. [sigh.]


Igor, that lady on the pic with you; is that your ex wife, your gf, your daughter, or your teacher? Maybe your roll model. In which last case I envy you.

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