Posted on 04/08/2008 12:54:38 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
We have a winner in the Worst Bad Name Contest. And after talking to the woman who has this name, I’m happy to report we have new anecdotal evidence to go with the psychological studies supporting the Boy Named Sue theory: good things can indeed come from a bad name. It wasn’t easy picking a winner from more than 1,000 entries. Besides Charman Toilette, an early favorite of the judges, there was Chastity Beltz, Wrigley Fields, Justin Credible, Tiny Bimbo, and a girl whose father was an auto mechanic but somehow didn’t realize he was effectively giving her the name of a tire: Michele Lynn. There were girls named Chaos and Tutu, and boys named Clever, Cowboy, Crash, Felony, Furious and Zero. There was Unnamed Jones (pronounced you-NAH-med). There was Brook Traut and his daughter, Rainbow. There were more names involving genitalia than the judges cared to count. (Memo to parents: Carefully consider your surname before naming a boy Harry or Richard.)
The grand prize, a copy of “Bad Baby Names,” by Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback, goes to Kate, a Lab reader who nominated a fellow resident of the Cleveland area: Iona Knipl. The judges chose it because, in addition to being an embarrassing pun, it also set up an inevitable reply from people imagining they were being wittily original. I called up Miss Knipl and asked her how many times she had heard someone meet her and reply, “I own two.”
“I got sick of hearing it, but what can you do?” Miss Knipl said. “My mother never thought about that when she was naming me. It was her mother’s name. I came home from school a couple times crying and my mother said, ‘Oh, why did I do that?’...
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The worst one I ever saw was Claire Annette Horn. (Say it to yourself)
Knew a guy in college whose father’s name was Ishmael M. Dick. Used his initials in the phone book...I. M. Dick.
hmmmmm...........Iona Knipl
..bet ya can’t eat just one..........hehe
My husband’s uncle works in Medical Records in a hospital in Lexington. He says that five or six years ago there was a baby born whose mother named him “Your Royal Highness Infamous Pimpin’ _________”
I assume that pimping was spelled pimpin’ because it’s just cooler that way. Seriously what future could a child have with that name?
One my dad’s best friends (long dead)....Eaton Peters.
Pussy Galore from Goldfinger.
The Black Family, with their kids, Jett and Cole.
The Tree Family and their kids: Mary Christmas and Douglas Fir.
“One my dad’s best friends (long dead)....Eaton Peters.”
Oh yeah. I remember him. He had a sister named Fonda.
Supposedly a real name: Stewart Paddaso. But you know everyone around the office calls him ‘Stew’. (Put it together...)
Not quite the same as a bad baby name but still germane to this thread.
There’s the railroad Norfolk & Way.
If you wonder if your freight will get there think “Norfolk & Way”!
1. If Yoko Ono married Sonny Bono, she’d be Yoko Ono Bono.
2. If Dolly Parton married Salvador Dali, she’d be Dolly Dali.
3. If Bo Derek married Don Ho, she’d be Bo Ho.
4. If Oprah Winfrey married Deepak Chopra, she’d be Oprah Chopra.
5. If Cat Stevens married Snoop Doggy Dogg (Hey! Now everything is possible!)
he’d be Cat Doggy Dogg.
6. If Olivia Newton-John married Wayne Newton, then divorced him to
marry Elton John, she’d be Olivia Newton-John Newton John.
7. If Sondra Locke married Elliott Ness, then divorced him to marry
Herman Munster, she’d become Sondra Locke Ness Munster.
8. If Bea Arthur married Sting, she’d be Bea Sting.
9. If Liv Ullman married Judge Lance Ito, then divorced him and
married Jerry Mathers, she’d be Liv Ito Beaver.
10. If Snoop Doggy Dogg married Winnie the Pooh, he’d be Snoop
Doggy Dogg Pooh.
I once worked with a gal named Jingle Bell.
there is a huge fish and tackle in Miami called Crook and Crook
I remember some years ago Paul Harvey took on this subject. He centered his talk around a guy named Hunter H. Hunter. Guess what the “H.” stands for ...
I knew a girl in college whose last name was Rainey. Her name was Wendy Gale and her sisters were Sunny and Misty.......
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