Don't know if it's still there.
Posted on 03/22/2008 8:56:19 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
What would compel a parent to bestow a newborn with a name like “Tiny Hooker” or “Fanny Large”? Or an amusing choice like “Wanna Towell"? It’s not just Hollywood’s elite opting for unique, embarrassing names—throughout history, normal people separated their offspring from the masses with truly terrible names.
In “Bad Baby Names,” Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback, of the genealogy Web site Ancestry.com, share thousands of shocking names given to real people, as recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau. Discover the funny names based around common themes, like diseases (Fever Bender, Cholera Peace), food (Bread White, Pomegranate Purple), pets (Good Dog), and if you thought Wednesday Addams was unfortunate—wait till you meet Monday Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Maj Richard Dicks.
Simplicio Tampon (alright, your parents have to give you their last name).
Pink Angela (he was born long before Pink Floyd was popular).
Delicious Gay Burkes.
Those are the ones I remember the most...
There was a liquor store in Santa Fe NM where the owner had his name in 3 foot tall letters, his name was PETER HANDLER.
The doctor who delivered me in Sugarland Texas was Dr. Slaughter.
ahhhh The Ozarks!
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There was a gynecologist at the University of Vermont, when my first child was born, named, Dr. Clapp.
The old Sunday supplement Ripley's Believe It Or Not hat I read it in as a teenager mentioned that his father (ca 1920, IIRC) had insisted upon it; and that it MAY have been an allusion to "an alleged irregular parentage".
My parents as typical Midwest Catholics in the mid 50’s did so often name their children after Saints.
Nothing, ultimately is farther from the truth!
English Lit professor in college — birth name — Leafy Plant — went by “Lee” — and her sister was Pansy Plant. She said parents were weird (when we asked her).
My mother is a retired teacher and she said she had a set of twins years ago (boy and girl) — their names?
Jack and Jill.
Bill Lear (of Lear Jet fame) named one of his daughters “Shanda”. I heard her speak at Oshkosh once.
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Ima Hogg was the daughter of a late 19th-century governor of Texas, and famed for her beauty and graciousness.
She never got married, which strikes me as odd. I can't imagine she enjoyed her peculiar name.
Her uncle owned a livery stable in Phoenix, which had a large barn that my grandfather moved to his ranch many years ago, and which I now own.
-ccm
A guy I work with fathered twins. If they’d both been boys, it would have been Hunter and Fisher. He got Hunter out of it.
I met a girl named Winter Green.
My last name is Head. I’ve heard them all.
Yes, if intentional. You’d be amazed at what registers only five seconds after too late.
I went to school with Mai Yang.
Don't know if it's still there.
hahahahahaha!
HAHAHAHAHA.
um, yah, it took me a second or two :o)
A boob indeed.
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