Oh god....When naming children...THINK!!!

[Sannum]

A friend of a friend named their child Crystal. Which is bad enough (no offense) but, the last name is Matheson. Did it cross their minds that her name is very dangerously close to being Crystal Meth? Or am I just catty?:shrug:

[bridgit]

1. well...

could have named the child: crank lab :shrug:

[smtpgirl]

22. Couldn't have said it better!!

ROTFLMAO

[flvegan]

2. Gimmie Cox. No seriously, I saw it on a Warranty Deed a month ago.

[MarianJack]

3. I knew a Family...

...who had a daughter named Heidi Weiner! This was in the 70's, so I hope that the girl got married!

Our son's GOD-Mother had a relative who thought that the hospital staff had named her daughter for her "Female", pronounced "FAH_MA_LEE"! :crazy:

[Deja Q]

4. The BBC had an article about naming kids brand names...

Noxema Johnson, meet fu King Buffet.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3268161.stm

[matcom]

5. paging Mike Hunt.

Mike Hunt!!

you there?

MIKE??

MIKE HUNT??

[Sannum]

7. I wish I had saved the photos of his campaign sign

Didn't it say something like "Mike Hunt: Serving You"?:eyes:

[Rabrrrrrr]

30. Here's some Mike Hunt, Sheriff

http://www.aikencounty.net/DspDocTopic.cfm?qDocID=198

[Fenris]

9. Has anyone seen Mike Hunt?

[jane_pippin]

24. I've seen him and he's a Wisconsin sports columnist

He goes by Micheal, but I swear, somewhere in the deep dark recesses of my memories this guy was Mike once. (or my family was just being rude to him while reading the paper, or I'm thinking of a different guy, which is also likely)

At any rate:

http://www.jsonline.com/sports/gen/may04/232508.asp

[jmm]

6. I had a friend growing up named Mike Hunt

No, Mike was not short for Michael. His parents broke up while his mom was pregnant. Despite the fact that he hated his name his mom thought that naming him after his father would somehow win him back. It didn't work.

[DS1]

8. RIchard Bytes

Hey, he exists

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. My favorite bad names

Darius Mercury
Bannick

It's a brother and sister. I forget which is which.

[KatyaR]

11. Twin boys--

Pete and his brother Repete.

Swear to god . . . .

[Bucky]

14. Urban legend started by Dan Driff

He was real flaky that way.

[DoctorMyEyes]

12. Went to school with a Jay Walker

What were they thinking?

Also had a friend with a friend named "Mai Tai" - whose mother claimed that she was drinking a mai tai when she received the good news that she was pregnant. Yeah, right..! That's clearly something made up to cover the regrettable choice of something "cute" not being so "cute" when you have to tell your little girl that she's named after a drink that led to her conception.

[giant_robot]

13. An aquaintance of mine, who is male and has a Ph.D...

...insisted that his daughter be named Cheyenne Rose. And another stripper is born... :eyes:

[Radio_Lady]

32. Hey, Gypsy Rose Lee made a good living as a stripper!

Of course, her real name was Rose Louise Hovick. See her information at:
http://www.streetswing.com/histmai2/d2gypsy1.htm

Don't know about Cheyenne Rose. What did it for you, just the name "Rose"? Frankly, I like the western names. Cheyenne has always had a mystique for me -- but there are so many variations on the spelling. Alternate spellings of names are what drive me nuts.

I don't know how popular the name Cheyenne is now. Maybe it's run its course.

Social Security has kind of an interesting compilation of popular names by year at:

http://www.ssa.gov
Then use their search function to find: popular baby names

My name is Ellen, one of the old fashioned names. Prior to Ellen De Generes, I can't think of any celebrity with that name. There was a clothing company named Ellen Terry or Ellen Tracy.

A few months ago, I ran into an "Ellen" about six years old. What a relief!

Now, let's talk about my middle name "STAR" -- that's it! My mother didn't know what she was doing in 1939, but I've tried to live up to my name. I added a second "R" to avoid pomposity!

Making peace a priority,

Radio Lady

[Bucky]

15. Three siblings who went to my high school. Last name Mountain

Their given names were Rocky, Candy, and Smoky Mountain. I shit you not. Smoky was in my economics class. His big brother Rocky ended up being a political operative for a local Republican county commissioner (Harris County, Texas) and got in a lot of trouble over some embezzlement scandal. Had it not been for that scandal, and with an excellent name like that, I'm sure he would've have made it to Congress by now.

[matcom]

16. OH YEAH????

just WHAT do you make of THIS?

:D

[brentspeak]

17. I recommend the name "Brent"

There are so few of us out there.

:-)

[Evergreen Emerald]

18. I saw the name Philip Glass posted somewhere this morning

was it on DU? Philip Glass! I am certain the parents did it on purpose.

[stlsaxman]

27. So Phillip Glass posts at DU???

Always wanted to tell him his music is excelent!

[pitohui]

19. you're just being catty

every name can be twisted to a mean nickname, after a certain point you just gotta get over

[Rufus T. Firefly]

20. How about "Toshiba?"

Or "Chiquita" (as in banana). Seriously. It's like a competition around here.

[WhollyHeretic]

21. There was a kid a year or two ahead of me in school who was named

Nimrod Wizelfish (not sure of the spelling)

[samdogmom]

23. Okay here's mine--Dick Butt!

A teacher in my child's middle school of all things! The snickers never stopped with that age group.

[TheMightyFavog]

25. There' a reporter in Wausau, WI named Cinnamon St. John

Is it just me or does that name sound like something you'd see on a list of names on a XXX video?

[bertha katzenengel]

26. I went to high school wish Sam Barr. His younger sisters' name was -- wait

for it --

Candy.

[dr.zoidberg]

28. Try Espn or Apple.

Yes, that's right, this kid's idiotic parents named their kid after a sports network. Of course, I don't know if anything can beat that stupid celebrity that named her kid Apple. I swear, that kid is going to get his or her ass kicked in school so bad.

[Zero Division]

29. Richard Crabb

And he didn't go by "Richard". Came across that real name not too long ago while doing some filing. Unfortunate.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

31. There were a lot of girls born in the '80s named Crystal

for Crystal Carrington on 'Dynasty'

[Kathleen04]

33. My cousin

went to school with a guy named Pat Smear. The only think worse I think would be a girl named Pat Smear..