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  • Abcde: What's in a name?

    Now of course it's poor form to mock anyone's name -- especially if you're trying to sell 'em something.

    . But it is foreseeable that when a parent saddles their kid with some sort of made-up, nonsense, jibber-jabber "freestyle" name such as "Abcde" (apparently pronounced AB-City), you're gonna need to develop a thick skin.

    And if you've got a name like "AB-City", you'd better be working on your "six pack" . . . .


    All this, recalls the old 1960s Johnny Cash tune about an arguably misnamed boy . . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOHPuY88Ry4 (maybe that one is too politically-incorrect for today's microaggression "snowflake" generation.)

    Or maybe the old alphabet joke . . .

    ABCD puppies?
    LMNO puppies.
    OSMR!
    CMPN . . . .

    I'm wondering if the kid's sibling will be named Qwerty? Or ZYXWVU?
    A Southwest Airlines gate agent in Orange County posted a 5-year-old girl's boarding pass on social media to mock her unique name.

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    Frank Zappa used to warn media types not to make fun of his kids' names..... Dweezil, Ahmet, and Moon Unit.
    Act your age, not your shoe size. - Prince

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    • #3
      I don't think it's fair to give a kid a name that they are going to have to spell over the phone for the rest of their life, with uppercase and lowercase and apostrophes and stuff. That's a curse that you put on them at birth, not thinking forward.
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      • #4
        I have a guitar playing friend whose last name is Payne. He named his kid Window. Totally not kidding.
        Act your age, not your shoe size. - Prince

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        • #5
          Originally posted by studemax View Post
          I have a guitar playing friend whose last name is Payne. He named his kid Window. Totally not kidding.
          Ohhhhhh.......oh.......... no.........ohhhh brother.......ohhhhhhhh that's oh nooooo
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          • #6
            Soon as he hit 18, he changed it. The judge didn't argue.
            Act your age, not your shoe size. - Prince

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            • #7
              Originally posted by studemax View Post
              Soon as he hit 18, he changed it. The judge didn't argue.
              Same as an idiot classmate. White! Wife was white too.. Named son Jotya after some Indian (convienence store) guru.. Kid begged mom to let him change at 8 yrs old.. Mom was ok, dad was not. Idiotic!

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              • #8
                and sometimes your name is almost prophetic for the way your life goes-- for instance,
                in my case its "SOL"--short for solomon. and we all know that S-O-L is an acronym for--

                sh@t outta luck
                same old loser
                slightly overweight lover
                scr@wed over lifetime
                etc etc etc.....

                Last edited by fatguyzinc; November 29, 2018, 09:43 PM.

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                • #9
                  There are a few I've made fun of but I don't work in the public sector . The two that come to mind ……….La-ah pronounced
                  Ladasha . The other is Shewonderful . Probably pronounced She wonnerful .
                  Previously HoosierL98GTA

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Dan Barlow View Post
                    There are a few I've made fun of but I don't work in the public sector . The two that come to mind ……….La-ah pronounced
                    Ladasha . The other is Shewonderful . Probably pronounced She wonnerful .
                    I'm biting my tongue. I'm wrapping rubber bands around my fingers to keep myself from typing. I've got way too much ammo and I'd rather not shoot in such a target rich environment. Having been born and raised and lived in the South all of my life.......way too many names to toss out there. No, peewee just shut up. Self-imposed gag order.
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                    • #11
                      Many years ago I knew a woman named Snowda. She married a guy whose last name was Cloud. I ain't smart enough to make that up.

                      My own curses at birth; mini-me-ette's initials are MAF, mini-me's initials are NSF. One is, and has been, in advance placement classes from as early as they were available. The other lives up to the initials.
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                      • #12
                        Remember the actor Rip Torn...
                        and there was Lorne Green.
                        K. Kardashian called one of her's North....
                        imagine calling out "Where's North ?"
                        sounds like you're disorientated.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by malc View Post
                          ...sounds like you're disorientated.
                          That would be totally unexpected to have a Kardashian disoriented!

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Dan Barlow View Post
                            There are a few I've made fun of but I don't work in the public sector . The two that come to mind ……….La-ah pronounced
                            Ladasha . The other is Shewonderful . Probably pronounced She wonnerful .
                            Years ago, a friend of mine who happened to be of African-American ethnicity had the most gut-busting, liquid-spewing, comedy monologue on what she called "tribal names." Of course as a beige-hued mope of long-past European extraction, I dare not repeat a word of it . . . .

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by malc View Post
                              Remember the actor Rip Torn...
                              and there was Lorne Green.
                              K. Kardashian called one of her's North....
                              imagine calling out "Where's North ?"
                              sounds like you're disorientated.
                              Torn and Green at least changed to their memorable stage names. It wasn't like a PARENT who is supposed to be LOOKING OUT FOR YOU and EXERCISING MATURE, SENSIBLE JUDGMENT saddled them with patently ridiculous "handles" as children.

                              This isn't a problem limited to parents, though. Carmakers make up ridiculous, nonsense alpha-numeric crap:

                              ILX, CTS, SXT, CT6, xB . . . .

                              Or string together nonsense words:

                              CAMRY, PRIUS, TIGUAN , , , ,

                              Or use stuff with (hopefully) unintended connotations:

                              SWINGER, ESCORT, HUMMER, PROBE, SS (Did everybody at GM in the 1950s just forget about what those infamous initials meant in the 1930s and 40s)

                              Or even occasionally make strangely accurate predictions:

                              GREMLIN, DAIHATSU SCAT, CHARADE . . . .

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