Posted on 10/03/2010 7:24:38 PM PDT by Bean Counter
So I just got finished with a second shot of Wild Turkey (the 101 if you must know...the wife decided I deserved it, OK??) and the Halftime show is on for Sunday Night Football.
They were introducing a bunch of kids for the NFL Pee Wee League, and I was half paying attention, until they flashed a pair of young black kids' pictures on the screen, both in football uniforms, and one of them was named "Asfunzo".
What the hell did that poor kid do to deserve a name like that?? Talk about a qualification for Future Felons of America! I honestly feel sorry for the kid.
We have seen the gauntlet of ridiculous names over the years starting with "Lemonjello" back in the eighties, and proceeding downhill from there as single black mothers increasingly decided to burden their increasing numbers of bastard children increasingly unpronounceable names, but this is a new standard here, and endorsed by none other than the NFL.
I guess I should count my blessings, but with a name like that how far will a kid like this get in life??
Carry on, as best you can...
Barney Frank’s pet name for his boyfriend?
Worst name ever for a new student in my class: Elfago. His middle name was Jose. I introduced him to my middle school class as “E. J.” and he was happy with that.
Its a cultural thing you wouldn’t understand.
His mom read it off the label for her foot fungus prescription maybe?
Almost as dumb as Track or Trig...
I know a guy that named his daughter ‘Stormy’. She’s probably doomed to a life of stripping.
The anti-virus company that I work PT for have a call center in India and 2 of their managers are called Parikshit and Butram. All of the employees want to talk to them and say “thanks But..ram”.
That there is funny!
National TV...?
“A boy named Sue”
I know of one whose name is pronounced “shu-theed”. It is spelled Shithead.
When asked, a psycho babble expert said they give their kids these weird names because they are so poor they can't give their kids anything else so they give them a "Fancy" name. Sounds like something straight out of a "Psycho Babble 101" textbook.
If you can give those names an Indian pronunciation spin, they ain’t so bad....
I work with a Frank F Yu. They put it as F Frank Yu on desk tag in the office.
When I was a kid we were so poor, they cut holes in my pockets so I would have something to play with.
The same type of name as Dweezle and Moonunit.
Stupid.
Back in the early 70’s I met a student (basketball player) at SU named Lemonjello....tallest guy I had ever met. Never forgot his name, even though I only talked with him for a few minutes.
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