Oh my god yes! I always made that joke and sometimes people thought I was being racist. "I don't care if Raul and Xiao are building a goddamned ladder! Just give me the raw data and a fucking diagram!"MeChaNiZ3D said:
Names you just can't keep a straight face to
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Being named Dovahkiin would be BADASS.sextus the crazy said:at least he got named after something good. still that sucks. Warfighter's still worse though.Arklyte said:As far as I know there is a pair of idiots that named their son Dovaahkin following TES5 advertisement campaignsextus the crazy said:
Any (don't wanna sound racist but...) names that are usually associated with obese sassy black women. Yolanda, Laquisha, and the like. It's just... why?
Psht, they'd be jumping on the bandwagon of the LAST people who gave that name to their kid.Arklyte said:As far as I know there is a pair of idiots that named their son Dovaahkin following TES5 advertisement campaign
OT: My brother's name is Talon and while that's not the humorous part, I actually met a GIRL where I used to live who's name was ALSO Talon. It was even worse when I learned that her middle name was River. Hippie names kind of make me smirk on the inside, especially when I had a brother (actually he has a kid friend (boy) who's ALSO also named Talon) who already had that name.
I think mileage my vary wildly on some of those.SlamDunc said:
I believe over the pond (or at least, over the pond from my vantage point) a lot of those are relatively common names for male children. In particular Ashley, Dana and Jamie.
Generally, unisex names start out as boy's names but then are given to girls as well while the reverse doesn't happen nearly as frequently. It fits into the general cultural theme of "it's OK for girls to do boy things, but it's not OK for boys to do girl things".
Persy, Pegasus, Welcome, Tedd, Silva, (hello) Mr. Anderson (puts on glasses), Gorki, Jay, Bertha, Moses, Kandy, Bento, Angelina Jolie, Kesha, Bieber, oh sorry, that was for something else. Sweety, Moldan, and that's all I have from people that actually exist.
My name is pretty unique for my geography, so 'odd' names don't phase me in the slightest.
I... kinda like that. Does that make me a bad person?direkiller said:
Quite an awesome bit of lexicon going on behind that name. When naming Luigi, Miyamoto noticed his name was close to 'ruiji', a Japanese word meaning 'similar', highlighting how Luigi is 'similar' to Mario, particularly in the early games. Wario's name also comes from combining Mario with the word 'warui' which means 'bad', hence 'bad Mario'. Put those two words together, and you get 'bad similar', the 'bad Luigi', Waluigi. So, it's not as lazy as some people claim his name is. /geekoutkatsabas said:
I once worked with a woman named "Muff London". Hard to say that name with a straight face. She was married to Jack London as well. Not that Jack London of course. Just some guy named Jack.
I guess my problem was that Muff London sounds like the bad sort of name you'd give an English Porn Starlet.
I guess my problem was that Muff London sounds like the bad sort of name you'd give an English Porn Starlet.
I snicker whenever i hear the name Thomas Crapper and the fact that his invention lead to a whole host of terms like "taking a crap" or "that's a pile of Crap".
* Redneck names. You know, the ones that end in "-us" ("Cletus", "Festus") or sound really biblical ("Jobriath").
* Anything with "cum" in it. Like "Cummings" or "Slocum" (the latter also sounding pretty redneckish)
* Made-up stereotypically Black names, especially those created by adding "-ese" or "-isha" to an existing name ("Jaquese", "Tyrese")
* Kevinisms: Endemic to the German-speaking world, these are names typically associated with the German urban lower class. Named for "Kevin", a name that gained popularity around 1990, when a large number of Germans (particularly those from the recently opened-up East) chose to name their son after either Hollywood's hottest star (Kevin Costner) or their favourite movie ("Kevin - Allein zu Haus" aka "Home Alone").
* Anything with "cum" in it. Like "Cummings" or "Slocum" (the latter also sounding pretty redneckish)
* Made-up stereotypically Black names, especially those created by adding "-ese" or "-isha" to an existing name ("Jaquese", "Tyrese")
* Kevinisms: Endemic to the German-speaking world, these are names typically associated with the German urban lower class. Named for "Kevin", a name that gained popularity around 1990, when a large number of Germans (particularly those from the recently opened-up East) chose to name their son after either Hollywood's hottest star (Kevin Costner) or their favourite movie ("Kevin - Allein zu Haus" aka "Home Alone").
The German surname 'Kuntz' gets me every time thanks to Baddiel and Skinner taking the piss out of a German footballer with that surname (can't recall his first name though)
I swear one of my teachers was called Mr. Kwuntwas or something thus everybody call him Mr ****-Toss.
Another one of my teachers was called Ms. McLeod and at the time I didn't pronounce it cloud I used to say it as it was spelt much to her displeasure.
Also, some guy once applied for an application form where I worked and he said his name was Mr. Sutcliffe. I just prayed his first name wasn't Peter.
Another one of my teachers was called Ms. McLeod and at the time I didn't pronounce it cloud I used to say it as it was spelt much to her displeasure.
Also, some guy once applied for an application form where I worked and he said his name was Mr. Sutcliffe. I just prayed his first name wasn't Peter.
