So, you think parents giving their kids strange names is a recent

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phenomenon? It's actually an old custom.

I'm reading a book on exploration, and it turns out that when Henry Hudson set sail in April, 1610, he had among his crew none other than a guy named Abacuck Pricket.

Really.

No wonder the guy wanted to leave England and take his chances in the frozen Arctic with Hudson. He was probably sick and tired of the reaction whenever he introduced himself to anyone.

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[Bunny]

1. Yeah, that's a mouthful alright!

Gadzooks!

[really annoyed]

2. Funny

There was a Puritan name listed as "Flee-Fornication." :evilgrin:

[alarimer]

3. I saw a woman on TV whose name was Daiquiri

I am not kidding. It was some PSA I think but I still had to laugh.

[Shine]

4. That reminds me of the classmate of my sister's whose name

was "Misty Sherbert". I kid you not.

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5. And the funniest part is that it's not spelled "sherbert."

It's "sherbet," with only one R!

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[Shine]

12. Exactly.

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17. Do you suppose that one day all of those illiterate parents will wake up

and figure out that all of their precious little "Britneys" would have had their names spelled "Brittany" if they (the parents) hadn't been so fucking stupid?

Or do you think the girls will find out first, then kick their parents' asses?

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[Shine]

21. Hey don't look at me, but I can certainly relate to wanting to kick

my parents' asses. I have a VERY unusual first name that I absolutely HATED when I was a kid, but now I love it, of course. I've never met anyone with the same name, in my entire life, and I'm 41.

My first name is "Chimene", pronounced "Shi-mane". I added a little accent thingy over the first "e" when I was in college, thinking it would help with the constant mispronunciations. Sometimes it's helped, most times it hasn't. But, as you can imagine, I've had to contend with a lifetime of mispellings and mispronunciations. If anybody gets it right the first time, they get a gold star in my book. :)

Parents got it from the movie "El Cid", with Sophia Loren and Charleton Heston. Sophia Loren played Chimene, my mom was pregnant, they loved the name and here I am.

To this day I'm a huge movie buff. Go figure. Funny, huh?

[kitkatrose]

6. Ha! My sister had a classmate named Tequila.

No lie. Sometimes you just have to wonder what they were thinking when they named their child.

[alarimer]

16. I just started laughing when I saw that

There was also a story in the paper here about some parents who named their son ESPN (pronounced Espen I think).

[Eurobabe]

7. Friend told me last night his mom wanted to name him Alucard

Dracula backwards. I think he was pulling my leg.

[AccessGranted]

8. Top Ten Craziest Names I've Ever Known are . . .

1) Placenta - No lie. Somebody actually named their daughter that.

2) Merry Christmas - My mother had a friend and that was her name.

3) Janocki (pronounced "Ja-knock-ee)- a girl I went to school with.

4) Little Tamba and Big Tamba - Two brothers who went to my kid's high school. Those were their real legal names.

5) Sari Fokker (pronounced "Sorry F_cker) - I heard this name in Motor Vehicles while waiting in line.

6) I know a girl who has 6 kids and their names are: Ruby, Diamond, Emerald, Sapphire, Onyx and Pearl.

7) One day I got a speeding ticket and the cop was really mean and screaming at me and I looked at his name tag and his name was Sargent Hartless.

8) The R&B singer known as Ginuwine's real name is Elgin Lumpkin.

9) My friend's friend named her daughter Passion Flower.

10) I used to work with a guy named Bhupendra. We used to call him "Boop".

[Lars39]

10. I have a cousin named Summer Rose Hedges.

I guess that last name was just toooo tempting.

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15. When I was a kid in Vermont, I had a friend named Linwood Magoon.

Never was able to find out where he ended up.

Of course, we have some strange names in our family, because I have so many cousins.

There's the cousin from the Irish side, who's always the first one to go outside and soak up the spring rays of sunshine: Patty O'Furniture.

And the other cousin, who's still in high school, and smokes all the time: Nick O'Teen.

One of my female cousins married an Italian guy, but we never invite him to picnics: You guessed it, his name is Sal Monella.

Strangest of all is my female cousin who married a Hindu guy, but found out that all he does is to spend every day at the horse racing track, even though he doesn't generally win: His name is Sumba D. Betondibay.

Had enough? I bet you have.

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[Splatter Phoenix]

9. "Miracle".

Poor girl.

[hfojvt]

11. Mary Grant, born in 1728 married Matthew Sadd

named their fourth child "Happy".

[Shine]

13. When I was in high school we had the Baer Family...

Buddy, Teddy and Panda. Panda was the girl.

Is that sad, or what?

[peekaloo]

14. .

:rofl:

[greatauntoftriplets]

18. My father worked with a man whose father-in-law's name was...

Harry B. Hynd.

[hickman1937]

19. I spend an hour at this site awhile ago.

Laughed my ass off.
http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/index.html

I think LaTreen is still my favorite.

[evlbstrd]

20. I worked for a Marine Gunnery Seargent long ago named Beach.

His wife's name was Sandy.