When will people stop perpetuating the urban name myth

[Liberty Belle]

OMG-you must have been at UK around the same time I was because I distinctly remember meeting Pleasant Ground. I made him pull out his driver's license. I didn't mean to be offensive, but I sure did not believe him for a minute.

LOL That's so funny! Yep I was at UK from 85 to early 90.

 

[bumbershoot]

I went to church when I was a kid with Richard Dick Sr. and Richard Dick Jr..... everytime someone said their name I would crack up laughing...they went by big dick and little dick....uggggggg

Are you from Albany? I dated a Little Dickie (to his hometown...elsewhere he was Rich) ...dad was Big Dickie...

I don't think of those as being "bad" names since they were basically chosen, but still...

 

[MamaJessie]

My DH is in the army and was a recruiter about 6 years ago. He actually enlisted a boy named Limanjello Jackson.

I work now with a woman who is the baby of 14 kids. They were all named after the city they were conceived in. Her name is Scotia (for Nova Scotia) and some of her siblings are: Paris, Brooklyn, Sydney, Brisbane, Aukland, Cruz (santa cruz), Portland, Akita and Samara (russia).

Weird. My kids would all have the same name. I don't venture out of town every time I ovulate though. (I believe she TOLD you that, and maybe even that her parents told her that, but I guess I am a wee bit skeptical)

On the Soup they showed a clip from Bizarre foods with Andrew Zimmern (the guy that eats a lot of weird animal genitalia) and he introduced his friend "Mike Hawk" Not a bad name until you say it a few times ..... And I was friends with a Joe King. Not really that bad a name but I admit it, every time he'd say something I'd say "Are you joking? Oh wait, you are!" I am sure it was HIGHLY annoying.

 

[aprilgail2]

Are you from Albany? I dated a Little Dickie (to his hometown...elsewhere he was Rich) ...dad was Big Dickie...

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no long island

My grandmother's name on her birth certificate is Female.

She was a premie and born at home, so I suppose the doctor just put "female" since he didn't expect her to live. She was able to get a SS card and license later in life using her church records and marriage documents with her "real" name. Recently she was thinking of traveling out of the country and couldn't find her birth certificate. Her problem now is proving that she "Theresa Jones" is the same person as "Female Smith".

One of my birth certificates just says "female" then there is another with the name my birth mother gave me--first and last name and then I have another with my adoptive name on it....so I can go by my name, by Suzzane or by Female LOL...

 

[marcyinPA]

"Mike Hawk" Not a bad name until you say it a few times .....

I was telling my DS15 about this thread, and he was cracking up. And then he told me of the jokes they played on his French teacher last year (he was a Freshman in HS last year)....one of which, was to write the sentence "___ is my best friend." in French. She had volunteers write their sentences on the blackboard. One kid writes "Mike Hawk is my best friend.". French teacher reads it out loud. Kids laugh. She "gets it". And she laughs "Ha ha ha...good one. Moving on.".....DS15 thought it was hysterical...and I'm thinking I would not have handled it as well as this teacher did. I'm sure she thought that if she made a huge deal out of it, the kids would have been worse.

Anyway, some of the other joke names he told me the kids use at school are "Oliver Closeoff" ....and another one I can't remember right now. ETA: Just remembered it....Ben Dover. LOL

My DH said when they were in high school, they used to give the name Mike Hunt in situations that the name would be said out loud....

 

[pperfectmom]

LOL That's so funny! Yep I was at UK from 85 to early 90.

I was there between 87-92ish. I used to run across Ashley Judd all the time but then she was just famous for who her mother and sister were. At the time Ritchie Farmer was a way bigger star.

 

[Northstar]

My DH is in the army and was a recruiter about 6 years ago. He actually enlisted a boy named Limanjello Jackson.

I work now with a woman who is the baby of 14 kids. They were all named after the city they were conceived in. Her name is Scotia (for Nova Scotia) and some of her siblings are: Paris, Brooklyn, Sydney, Brisbane, Aukland, Cruz (santa cruz), Portland, Akita and Samara (russia).

Nova Scotia's not a city, though. I'm guessing maybe her parents didn't want to name her Musquodaboit or Ecum Secum or Tatamagouche (some of our funny names in the province) so they stole a more plausible name.

And I bet they're pulling the kids' legs about "where you were conceived." The cities are too nameworthy. Not a New York or Kansas City among them?

 

[bumbershoot]

My DH said when they were in high school, they used to give the name Mike Hunt in situations that the name would be said out loud....

College, freshman year, very very gullible roommate. Went off to the upstairs of a frat house during a party, with a guy with that name, to "see his Betta fish". He was a known louse (to use an old fashioned term), and she was gone a bit too long. I started asking around for her, but no one knew her (freshman year). So I started asking around for him. Then started calling out his name. I did that ONCE. After that I said "Michael".

Did find them, he was up to no good and she was just sitting there clueless like "oh there is your fish, oh what a pretty fish, oh what a nice room gosh you're standing close" just like she always did....sweet innocent little thing...(and I was entirely naive and rather stupid in the ways of boy/girl relationships, but she trumped me!)

Anyway, don't know what his parents were thinking, but now I'm all lost in recollection-land (and I live in my university's town AND it's frosh orientation week, sigh).

 

[wellesleyprincess]

My first year teaching I had a Princess Tiara (she was a total diva and I wonder if it would have been different if her name was Jane).

I met in college a Harry Richard Bush the third (saw the driver's liscense to know it's his real name).

 

[minkydog]

Nova Scotia's not a city, though. I'm guessing maybe her parents didn't want to name her Musquodaboit or Ecum Secum or Tatamagouche (some of our funny names in the province) so they stole a more plausible name.

And I bet they're pulling the kids' legs about "where you were conceived." The cities are too nameworthy. Not a New York or Kansas City among them?

OOooh, I like Ecum Secum! And Tatamagouche! Have to remember those.