People with extremely strange names.

[DonMartin]

This thread is basically summed up by this sketch. Really.

 

[ace_of_something]

As a police officer I'm afforded the opportunity to meet many people with odd names. I don't usually remember surnames because you can't hep those. Unless the surname is what makes the given name odd.

Females:
Morning Star
Cantouchme (pronounced cantoo-cha'may)
LaLa
Latrina (parents obviously weren't in the military)
Delishis
Yorkie

Male:
Sir Jim
Billiam
Hoseay (really bad cuz he is a tranny and goes by Helen)

There's more they'll come to me. Usually i meet a lot more females with odd names

 

[ace_of_something]

My sister met a guy in France who's name was 'Brontosaurus Gondwanaland'. She also knows a man named 'John Rainbird'.
My sister knows a lot of people who come from hippy backgrounds.

Is rainbird his surname? Sounds native american to me. My good friend's last name is Plentywounds, his sisters' married names are Bigfire and Buffalohead.

 

[Quaxar]

Well, the guy in question is French (hence all the hyphens)... =P

Anyway, you can tell that minister's a Catholic, never understood why they got 'Maria' and 'Joseph' among their middle names (usually, regardless of gender). Still, I love German noble styles, one of the reasons being you don't get 'of and at' or 'by' in any other language. IIRC, though, 'Freiherr' is treated purely as name, not a title...(?)

Actually, a Freiherr is kinda like a baron.

Oh, I knew that, but I thought that since the German constitution didn't allow the upholding of patents of nobility, noble styles were to be treated as names as opposed to titles.

About 'Freiherr', I always had trouble getting my head around it, because it translates literally as 'Free Lord', even though I always associate 'Herr' with 'sir (informal)' in accordance with common parlance of the translation into English (e.g. Meine Herrn - feel free to correct).

Germany got rid of nobility but titles can still be used as part of the surname. Austria on the other hand completely abolished it so any von, zu or titular name would just be dropped completely.

And yup, Freiherr is a strange title all in all. Your translation is correct though.

 

[an_luas]

I'ma just leave this here:


And the prize for "most idiotic and cruel parent of the year" goes to: The mother of Pegasus-Ezekiel!

That is one of the best vids ive seen in a while! XD Thank you for that its exactly what i needed today!

OT: I once met a guy who claimed his name was 'Pete O'File' bullshit of course but funny

 

[Yopaz]

Ben Dover and Harry Hole comes to mind. Seriously. Who names their kids those kinds of names?

Also having the same surname and first name is also pretty bad.

Harry Hole, as in the fictional character from a bookseries by Jo Nesbø?

Or an actual person named that?

I know that the fictional character name is pronounced differently in norwegian, the original language the book was written in.

I still pronounced it in english, though.

It's actually a name. Hole is a place in Norway so there's about 17000 persons named Hole or variations of that name, only one who's unlucky enough to be named Harry Hole though. I guess no-one really cares about it here, but even though I know how it's actually pronounced I still pronounce it in English too.

 

[bootz]

I had a friend in high school named Bob Dick. We told him to name his girl Anita. Best part we could yell "Hey Dick" really loud and not get in trouble.

I worked with someone with the name Aniga and yes she was black.

 

[UltraDeth]

Mahershalalhashbaz Ali... I wish I made that up

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0991810/

 

[Wintermoot]

Max Fistfight
Robert ******
Moon Unit Zappa
"@" I shit you not a Chinese couple wanted to name their kid "@"
I don,t know that much people with funny names.

 

[Ushiromiya Battler]

I want to meet Real Life Rincewind!

 

[Korolev]

There was someone in my high school who had the name "Jenna Tailor". It sounds even worse when said with an Australian Accent.

As for truly bizarre names: I met someone in university with the name Charlemagne. We just called him Charlie. I know it was his sir name, but once people found out about his surname, they just called him Charlie.

 

[Voodoomancer]

I met a person once called Ninja. Actual name.

 

[FamoFunk]

It's not names that bother me, more the way they're spelt. You know when people choose a name and spell it completely weird.

Like Joseph being turned in to Joseff or something.

My Daughter has a name from a game, I've had nothing but compliments from everyone about it

 

[bliebblob]

A friend of mine had a teacher called Piet Uytebroek. Translated to English that's d*ck outtapants. Yeah...
I get you can't pick your last name but for the love of god why did you call him Piet?!

The Dutch in general are a great source for funny names really. I'm told it's because when the idea of last names was introduced to them, they thought it was never gonna take off and came up with silly names like crookedleg or rocklicker.

 

[Artina89]

There was a girl called Storm who used to live downstairs from me when I lived in a flat. She had a younger brother named Rainbow. I spoke to him and he said that he is going to change his name when he is old enough. Both Storm and Rainbow have an older sister named Lightning.

I also had a flatmate whose name is Bear and he loves his name. I will never forget when I asked him what his name was when I first met him and he roared "MY NAME IS BEAR AND I AM A MIGHTY ICELANDER!!!" (he was pretty drunk at the time, and he was dressed like a viking) to this day he remains as one of the most interesting people I have had the pleasure of sharing a living space with.

There is also a guy I went to university with and he was called Benedict. He is the only person I know called that, and while I don't think it is outlandish, I think it is unusual. However, when he said that he was from Oxford and his parents work at the university, I wasn't all that surprised.

 

[Scrubiii]

A girl in my cousins primary school is named Raven Rainbird.

I'm serious.

 

[holy_secret]

My name is pretty funny sounding Don't dare to reveal it though. Who knows what you escapist folks might do with it?

 

[Grottnikk]

I know of a completely caucasian couple who named their child Akira because the husband loved the anime. I shit you not.

Don't get me wrong, it's a cool name... if you are Japanese.

 

[Hawk eye1466]

James Oglethorpe - British General and founder of the colony of Georgia.

 

[The Funslinger]

Fonda Cox.

Anything I could say now would be anticlimactic.

I'll take a whack at that: Jesus Condom.

Also, at my old school there was this girl, really big, fat and ugly. Which is fair enough, but she was quite possibly the most annoying, stupid and unhygienic person ever. Her last name means swamp monster.

Edit: Oh shit, I just remembered I have the greatest pair of names ever:

My friend's sister is an archeologist, and one of the digs she was part of was being protested. She was sent to confront the quite agitated lead protestor. His name was Merlin, and the reason she had to speak to him was because the lead archeologist on the dig was called Arthur Pendragon.