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post #1 of 334
5/14/08 at 3:55pm
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met a baby boy named "General Lee" - that is, first name "general" last name "lee". not as in the heroic historical figure, as in the red car with a stripe.

gotta wonder about people......
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post #2 of 334
5/14/08 at 3:56pm


Jon.
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post #3 of 334
5/14/08 at 3:57pm
That's a weird name. Out of curiosity, how did you know it was after the car instead of the general? Either way, it's still a bit odd.
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post #4 of 334
5/14/08 at 4:03pm
At least it is a no-brainer what the kid names his penis.
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post #5 of 334
5/14/08 at 4:07pm
When I was a little kid, I knew a girl named "Precious." There's some pretty sadistic parents out there.
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post #6 of 334
5/14/08 at 4:09pm
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Originally Posted by kwilkinson View Post
That's a weird name. Out of curiosity, how did you know it was after the car instead of the general? Either way, it's still a bit odd.

because the mother didn't even know that there was a historical person. talk about a moron. basically, a kid whose cousin goes to my sons school, so the kid and his mother came to a fund raiser on the weekend. and the aunt thinks that the parents are morons, too, and told my wife the whole story.
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post #7 of 334
5/14/08 at 4:20pm
the book Freakonomics talks about children's names and how they can affect behavior. Kinds with names like "Winner" and "Loser" - siblings that turned out completely opposite to their names.

Then there's the young girl named "Temptress", who was a bad case of miscommunication between new mom and hospital staff.
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post #8 of 334
5/14/08 at 4:22pm
It seems that people with a certain name often act similar. I know it seems that way with my name. I once knew a girl named "Naughty", spelled way differently though pronounced too similar for anyone to tell the difference.
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post #9 of 334
5/14/08 at 4:28pm
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It seems that people with a certain name often act similar. I know it seems that way with my name.

I once knew a girl named "Naughty", spelled way differently though pronounced too similar for anyone to tell the difference.

So you collect ties, then?
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post #10 of 334
5/14/08 at 4:49pm
I work with sketchy people so I get good ones!




Younique

Champagne Beaver ( I shit you not )
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post #11 of 334
5/14/08 at 4:50pm
There was a Nicholas Cage SNL skit where he was trying to think of a good name for his baby with his expectant wife. His name was pronounced "Os-wee-pay" Spelled Asswipe.

I knew a kid in high school named Brick. Not so bad, but his last name was Wall. WTF were his parents thinking?
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post #12 of 334
5/14/08 at 4:57pm
.... there used to be lawyer in my city named brick wall (full first name was brickford)

hmmm, there is more than one out there

he had a brother with a really strange first name too, like cement or something but it wasn't cement, i can't recall it
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post #13 of 334
5/14/08 at 5:02pm
I sometimes think it should be illegal to name your kid anything outside a certain range of non-detrimental names... but I guess it's just more natural selection. I wonder if a study has been done to say whether people with non-"normal" (for their society/culture) names generally do worse in life. I would have to guess, on average, a kid named John will do better than a kid named something that begs to be ripped on.
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post #14 of 334
5/14/08 at 5:04pm
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I would have to guess, on average, a kid named John will do better than a kid named something that begs to be ripped on.
From what I understand, the Jons of the world have it pretty bad.
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post #15 of 334
5/14/08 at 5:05pm
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From what I understand, the Jons of the world have it pretty bad.

I've found the douchebaggery to be individual-specific, not to the entire spectrum of people named Jon.
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