Bizarre Names

[Volgadon]

On the old forum EC started a thread about really odd family names, great fun, so thought I would start another.
On that thread I completely forgot to mention the host of an Israeli celebrity gossip show. Guy Pines. No, it doesn't sound like a tree, it is much ruder....
Perfectly normal name in Israel, Guy means a valley and Pines is a form of Phineas (or Pinchas).

[Spitfire]

Guy Pines. No, it doesn't sound like a tree, it is much ruder....

Oh my!!!:eek:

When our spanish speaking relatives came up to visit, we took them out camping and exclaimed pointing to the Pine trees. "Grande Pinos!" (pardon spelling) Well, we all burst out laughing. :o

[EC2]

On the old forum EC started a thread about really odd family names, great fun, so thought I would start another.
On that thread I completely forgot to mention the host of an Israeli celebrity gossip show. Guy Pines. No, it doesn't sound like a tree, it is much ruder....
Perfectly normal name in Israel, Guy means a valley and Pines is a form of Phineas (or Pinchas).

Good job he wasn't half-American and given the first name Randy!

I was at a re-enactment festival last weekend - The Robin Hood Pageant. It's held annually at Nottingham Castle. There's a craftsman attends every year who stamps out silver pennies of the kind they would have known in the late 12thc. On one side he always puts the name of the reigning king at that time - usually Richard or John, and on the other he stamps the name of the current sheriff of Nottingham. This year, however, he digressed from tradition, since the reigning sheriff's surname is Grocock. Instead he's used the name of the sheriff from 1200 - Robert Viterbo....

[Spitfire]

In Edmonton, Alberta there is a woman who owns a huge greenhouse and has sold many books on flowers, whose name is Lois Hole. She has a son named Harry...ugh! I only ask...why????

[MLS859]

I was in the grocery store and the cashier had on a name tag -- it said "Moronica". I kid you not.

Lynn

[MLE]

There's a guy in our town with the name of Peter Cotton. What if he married a woman named Paula Esther?

[SonjaMarie]

There was a girl in my school named either Rose or Rosa Petta (Rose Petal).

SM

[annis]

I once knew an infortunate young guy called Wayne Kerr. You can imagine the hard time he got at school :(

[diamondlil]

Parents sometimes just don't think do they.

I used to be acquainted with a woman named Coralie Waters - It always made me want to call her a reef!

Of course, then there are the names that people choose for themselves. The most recent example I can think of is someone who changed their name by deed poll to Work Harda.

[pat]

In the notices column the other day was a baby with the middle name of Danger. Why??? A mum at dance class saw it and we all discused the silly names parents give their offspring! Luckily we had named all our children properly!

[EC2]

My dad used to work with a guy called Terry Bull. We also have an estate agent in the UK called Paul Orridge.
Why don't parents think?
A teacher friend stateside had a 'Temptress' in her class one year which just seems eeeeeuwww to me to be calling a little girl that - and equally eeeuwww when she's an old lady.

[Alaric]

I once knew an infortunate young guy called Wayne Kerr. You can imagine the hard time he got at school :(

Heh, one of the players in the Ireland rugby team has that name.

A lot of celebrities these days seem to be in a contest with each other to give their kids the most ridiculous embarrassing names. Penn, from Penn and Teller, named his daughter Moxie Crimefighter. Err, why would you do that to the kid? :rolleyes:

[Vanessa]

We know someone called Bertie Bunny. I can't even say it without smiling.

[diamondlil]

Heh, one of the players in the Ireland rugby team has that name.

A lot of celebrities these days seem to be in a contest with each other to give their kids the most ridiculous embarrassing names. Penn, from Penn and Teller, named his daughter Moxie Crimefighter. Err, why would you do that to the kid? :rolleyes:


That is terrible. Poor child.

[donroc]

I had a student when I taught high school whose first name was La Trina.
Another with the first name of Private.

[Ludmilla]

When my youngest was still in daycare, there was a girl in her class named Messiah. This year, there's a girl in her K class named Makita (not sure on spelling). Every time I hear that name, I think power tool. Funny, the things you associate with certain names and that would be considered over the top in some cultures but perfectly normal in others.

[donroc]

When I was in the fifth grade in San Francisco, a new boy checked into our class, and every time we heard his last name we giggled. It was so distressing to the boy that his mother had to come to class and explain that the name meant "Love Shot" in German. That ended the giggling.

Gerhard Lipschitz.

As an aside, mothers were great in those days. Another came to class when her son enrolled in the school to explain that he was slow and it would be nice of we all helped him. We did not have "Special Education" classes in the early 1940s.

And another mother visited the home of each 6th grade classmate of her son to explain his slowness, and how wonderful it would be if we all attended his 12th birthday party and made a fuss over him. And we all did.

[Volgadon]

I was in the grocery store and the cashier had on a name tag -- it said "Moronica". I kid you not.

Lynn

I think Moronica means dark girl.

[Melisende]

Nicole Kidman's new babe "Sunday Rose" - or as she is also known "sunday roast"

[Carine]

There is a doctor in town here called Dr. Coffin !
Good thing that he doens't live in an English speaking country !!

[Spitfire]

I used to work for a chinese Dentist who's name was Dr. Au - pron. Dr. "ow". Somehow, fitting dont you think?

[MLS859]

I think Moronica means dark girl.

Well, that would certainly make it better -- but it wasn't the way it struck me when I saw her name tag. :confused:

Lynn

[Volgadon]

I would definitely have picked a different spelling.

[ellenjane]

I went to college with a Peter Abbot - poor guy was always making it very clear that he preferred to be called "Pete." He married a woman called Abby, but I don't know if she took his name (I don't think I would have in that case!).

I also had an instructor with the unfortunate last name of Moist. He had a good sense of humor about it, though - on the first day of class he said that he didn't want to be called Mr. or Dr., because "there's nothing you can put in front of Moist that isn't going to sound weird, so please just call me Kevin." :p

[Leyland]

I used to work for a chinese Dentist who's name was Dr. Au - pron. Dr. "ow". Somehow, fitting dont you think?

I went for an annual exam to a Dr. Payne many years ago. Only once.

The same city also had a certain Dr. Lawyer practicing. Perhaps he had a Jeckyll/Hyde complex of which no one was aware. ;)

[Rowan]

When I was in college, a business acquaintance of my dad lived in the area. I met both him and his wife. His name's Frank Valley. His wife's name is Forrest.

I worked for a year in the IT department of a local medical centre and they employed a gynocologist with the last name of Peeper.

[Leyland]

I worked for a year in the IT department of a local medical centre and they employed a gynocologist with the last name of Peeper.

LOL! That's just sick! My dad's an OB-Gyn and I'll have to tell him about Dr Peeper!

As an aside - one of my dad's patients cross-stitched a little picture for him many years ago - "Loose women tightened here"!

[MLE]

I once had a dentist by the last name of Savage. He was actually very good, but Doc Savage had a hard time getting new patients!
On the last forum I mentioned my college friend, Nada Fink. Her parents had an unfortunate (for her) sense of humor.

[boswellbaxter]

I once met a woman named Welcome Friend. Also, I went to elementary school with a Stormy Weathers, but I don't remember whether Stormy was her given name or a nickname.

Down South here, one runs into older people whose first names are Prince, Princess, or Queen. There's a dentist with the first name of Prince in our town.

[Rowan]

My friend's doc's last name is Smirnoff, so she calls him Dr Vodka LOL Not to his face of course...

[SonjaMarie]

Rep. Dave Upthegrove - http://www.leg.wa.gov/House/Upthegrove

SM

[nona]

I talked to a gentleman the other day and his name was Viken Ashgrove, I loved the whole first name, and he said his family was from Norway.

[ejays17]

The younger sister of a girl I went to school with married a guy with the surname of "Scragg" and took his name. :confused:

I'm not sure if others are familiar with the slang meaning, which is roughly a "loose woman" or one who is excessively tarty (it's a bit hard to describe), but it doesn't have good connotations for a female :rolleyes:

[Telynor]

The younger sister of a girl I went to school with married a guy with the surname of "Scragg" and took his name. :confused:

I'm not sure if others are familiar with the slang meaning, which is roughly a "loose woman" or one who is excessively tarty (it's a bit hard to describe), but it doesn't have good connotations for a female :rolleyes:

If you've ever been in the US military, scragg is also a verb -- as in 'to scragg' or 'scragging.' It's not a nice word, pretty meaning to take out a superior officer, usually during the Vietnam war, and mostly a very inexperienced lieutenant who didn't know how to lead mean.

[MLE]

If you've ever been in the US military, scragg is also a verb -- as in 'to scragg' or 'scragging.' It's not a nice word, pretty meaning to take out a superior officer, usually during the Vietnam war, and mostly a very inexperienced lieutenant who didn't know how to lead mean.
When I was in the Coast guard, the term for shooting your superior in a firefight --where nobody knew where the bullet came from --was 'fragging'. But maybe different in other services?