Am I wrong to giggle at this real first name I've just come across?

[quiet.american]

I swear this is a real first name:

Supaporn

[MrScorpio]

1. It's a common Thai name

Grow up

[quiet.american]

2. Yes, sometimes I can't help being a little childish

I guess that's one vote for "wrong."

[KitchenWitch]

6. Thank you, MrS

:yourock:

I was just going to say that it is a common Thai name.

[Kire]

3. I giggled before I read the message.

great set up, excellent delivery

[quiet.american]

4. Thanks from the kid banished to the corner of the room. :)n/t

[Kire]

5. when I was a kid, my friend's mom's name was Poornima

but it was always somehow my name that got teased

[quiet.american]

7. You know, I have one of those names, too

It always inspires the same joke from people, who think they're the first to have thought of it, but, it's an icebreaker, at least. :)

Other common names I've come across that still give me a quiet giggle:

Bubba
Papermaker
Dick Condon

[Kire]

10. actually the joke of my name was his mother's pronunciation of it

my name is Erik, not a commonly made fun of name, but she had an accent and pronounced it "Eh'dik", and so my name was Er-dick for most of my childhood. last name Ander-butt.

I saw him at my 10 year reunion in '03. He told me that I was still violently reacting to his teasing in High School. I find that hard to believe, but it is possible.

I still fucking hate getting teased. My brother was ruthless.

[quiet.american]

15. Oh my goodness.

:hug:

Luckily, the joke my name inspires is pretty genteel in the scheme of things. No one's ever gotten ruthless with it.

[Rising Phoenix]

8. Speaking of names that make you giggle...

My sixth grade teacher was Mrs. Dickoff...

[quiet.american]

9. She must have had a lot of fun with a roomful of sixth-graders....:)n/t

[Rising Phoenix]

14. oh yeah

but she said, out of all her students, we were the most respectful about it, which isn't saying much

[progmom]

12. my asshole physics teacher was Mr. Koks.

[quiet.american]

19. Well, looks like I'm having a self-declared "silly" day...hee, hee....n/t

[progmom]

21. works for me!

:thumbsup:

[Guy Fawkes]

11. Quiet American... great movie.

Absolutely wonderful... and the main character, the older british gentleman... mmmm

[quiet.american]

13. I've just finished the book....

And then happened to catch the original version of the movie, with Michael Redgrave (I think) and Gene Autry. Very interesting movie for Gene Autry to have done, I was surprised....

[Flaxbee]

16. a female colleague's name was "Poopak"

common in her country, not common here. By the time she was 20, however, she was immune to the jokes.

I think I might have changed my name. If my real name was rather scatalogical in another language, I'd definitely consider that language's version of "Jane".

[Fight_n_back]

17. That was my nickname in highschool

it was my crime fighter identity. It is difficult fighting crime with that super power but I was able to distract criminals and make them uncomfprtable while wearing jeans.

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. Lots of Thai names end in "porn"

But even knowing that, yes, I still giggle a bit when I see one.

[SoCalDem]

20. I have a friend named Porntip..we call her Corn-chip

:)

[leftofthedial]

22. I thought it was a genre.

[WeRQ4U]

23. There's a Thai woman golfer named Virada Nirapathpongporn

Just to add another one. I think it's really common.

You can giggle if you want to though. It's OK. I won't think you're a horrible person. I laughed at Dick Trickle's name.