Ocean said:

I love it.

My daughter's name (since no one could guess it) is Arbor.

Trees and oceans, eh? Guess we're just a couple o' hippies!

Lammastide said:

bourgeois bohemians?

suzysue said:

I knew a girl named America. Her brother's name was Anglo. Seriously!

sextonseven said:

that's a good classical name, and yes it is a boy's name - you should do it anyway! take back the good stuff for the sane.

minneapolisgenius said:

That's the spirit.

Heiress said:

Bourgeouis?!?! Hey!!! Them's fightin' words!

met a girl named Tourquoise this weekend

There's this joke about a woman who names her kid "nickabar," and when they're in a sweet shop she's calling him, "nickabar, nickabar." and the shop keeper thinks she is telling him to nick (slang for steal) a bar of chocolate, or other sweet.

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LleeLlee said:

!

I know a girl name Listerine...

Niger Innis, spokesman for the Congress on Racial Equality. What black mother names her black son Niger!?! That's way too fucking close! I'd slap the shit out my mother. Plus he must deal with bigots all day everyday. That sucks.

Update* Look at this shit!!!

http://www.snopes.com/inb.../innis.htm

That's what the fuck I'm talkin about. His mom is wrong for that.
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Lammastide said:

As in Mist?

TheSmyrk said:

I suppose it's after the country....but still. It leaves things way too open for obvious jokes and comments.

meow85 said:

If I'm not mistaken (and I absolutely could be), his given name was "Nigel" Innis. I think he changed it.

TheSmyrk said:

As in the Latin, for "tree."


...I'm not one who names my kid after cheap beverages.

Lammastide said:

what do you drive? are your showers ecological? i am getting suspicious.

Althom

OH LAWD...SIT DOWN FOR THIS ONE!!

When teaching at Crenshaw...I had twins named.....Drumroll!!!



Hennessy & COURVOISIER!!!!!

I wish I could eradicate every GHETTO MENTALITY ever SPAWNED!!

DexMSR said:

ooooh uh uh

dayum

ok and she's my girl and all but I really want to know the history behind Puma...rhonda?

DexMSR said:

...just setting those poor kids up for a promising future in the fast food industry...

I know, right? People just don't think. It drives me crazy because I used to hate my name even though it's not weird (Joni) but its always mispelled (Joanie) or people try to call me Joan--which I detest--because my given name is Joni. (And if I had a dollar for every time I got, Hey where's Chatchi... ) Now I like it because it's uncommon but not bizarre, even though everyone still mispells it.

My brother's name is Darren--more common than Joni--but often mispelled, too. When my sister-in-law was preggers with my niece she wanted to name her Shayleigh. I personally came up with 10 ways to spell that damn name and told her the kid would be in for a lifetime of mispronounciations and mispellings like Darren & I were. Her response was, well her name was always mispelled too. Her name is Stephanie! I was like, you must have some dumb ass friends 'cause I only know 2 ways to spell that. Alas, my niece's name is Shayleigh. UGH.

The best however was a temp that used to work with me. She had daughters named Mona Liza--except it was pronounced Moan-ay Lee-zay and Diamond--which she justified by telling us she thought Diamond was a name that would help her daughter earn a lot of money when she grew up. My friend was like, Yeah, earn a lot of money as a Stripper maybe! [No offence Krystal666 ]

jone70 said:

I like Diamond, but it makes me think of the (very minor) character in Lord of the Rings, and not a stripper.


I admit I like a lot of unusual names -no doubt a huge chunk of which are pretty fucked up. It's probably a good thing kids are nowhere near in my future plans.

Heiress said:

Uh... uh... I walk... everywhere. And I bathe in the Cuyahoga River. So there!

meow85 said:

Which character is that?
The one with the Dwarf-prince?



( sorry...couldn't resist)

PurpleJedi said:

Diamond married Pippin, actually.


Isn't about time the ol' Prince: Hobbit or Alien debate started up again?

Tonight I met a new co-worker.
His name is:
Markiss.
I asked him how to pronounce it, and he said "Mar-Keece"
and he happens to be gay. That's kinda cute. But still ghettoi.

meow85 said:

Prince is clearly elvish. Keebler elvish.

TheSmyrk said:

I didn't get any cookies with my copy of Musicology.

DynamicSavior said:

If it's Marcus it should just be spelled that way, but since he says it's pronounced mar-kees, wouldn't Marquis makes more sense than Markiss? It's not even phonetic....:confused: