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posted February 27, 2025 07:39 AMHide Post
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golfed with a guy named Richard Head.


I worked with a guy named Richard Hair.


One of my clients in a previous life was named Richard Hummer.



I had a client named Richard Forehand. It’s not as on-the-nose as those are, but it made me giggle anyways.


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posted February 27, 2025 10:51 AMHide Post
Besides the previously mentioned Heidi Mycock I used to work with, I also worked with Richard Hare at the same company.

He did not like being called the common nickname for Richard, Dick.
 
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posted February 27, 2025 11:06 AMHide Post


Grocery store cashier with that name. I thought about asking her about it, mostly about how to pronounce it, but didn't. Nuh-VAY-uh?
 
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posted February 27, 2025 11:11 AMHide Post
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Grocery store cashier with that name. I thought about asking her about it, mostly about how to pronounce it, but didn't. Nuh-VAY-uh?



I have seen the names Semaj and Nomar multiple times.




 
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posted February 27, 2025 11:14 AMHide Post
Antoine is a perfectly good, if slightly foreign-sounding (well it is French) name. Antuan, Antwan and other variations, some with apostrophes, are not. At least they sound and are pronounced like Antoine. I worked with an Antione once. I asked if the spelling on his uniform shirt name tag was a typo and he said no. Nice guy, but dumb as a fencepost.
 
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posted February 27, 2025 04:49 PMHide Post
Years ago I worked for a rental car agency at the Atlanta airport, the counter agents used to print out copies of rental contracts with really funny names and spellings. That stack was at least a foot tall and I used to look thru it to see new ones that had been added.
 
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Was on vacation year ago. In a Florida Walmart they announce a call for Bo Tie
 
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If your family name is Hunt, don't give your boys names like Michael, or Richard.
 
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I once knew twin girls named PregNancy and SiPhylis, I'm not joking. A friend that was a maternity ward nurse told me that a baby girl born prematurely got named T9C.
 
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posted March 05, 2025 12:54 AMHide Post
Somewhere I read where someone said that being at a loss for a child’s name they grab a bunch of Scrabble tiles, shake them and toss them. And that’s how some of these names are created.

I tend to believe that.


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posted March 06, 2025 11:17 AMHide Post
Cousin teaches middle school in North Carolina. Has 5 Bo’s in her class named DeShawn, all 5 have different spellings.




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My friends mother was a nurse. She told about the time a new mother wanted to name her child Chlamydia because she heard the doctor reading her chart mention it and thought it was a pretty name.
 
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posted March 08, 2025 10:13 AMHide Post
"Semaj" always just sounds like a Balkan terrorist to me.

Have also seen a baby-mama whose gimmick is combining her name with the sperm donor's name for each progeny.

Ray'Mo.
Shaw'Nique.
Mo'Quan.

I'd argue all of these are a form of child abuse.
 
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