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I had a textbook about Microsoft's Visual C++ once written by Buck Forland.

Borland was the company who was the nearest competitor in C++ programming at the time. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Dikshit comes to mind.

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Moonbeam eh? I knew a Sunshine once. Perhaps girls with names like that would double up on a guy like me.

Swede

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They all mean "African Princess"

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A couple of local radio guys here in Memphis, Drake and Zeke, had a daily feature called the "Bad Baby Name of the Day", where they would read one baby name per day. They were all true, taken from newspaper birth announcements.

D&Z left the market last year, so I haven't heard their show in a while, and I can't think of one single baby name they did. Maybe some Memphis OOT'ers can help me out here. (They used to log them on the Rock103's website, but the D&Z links there are gone).

Names like Shining Star Johnson and Youdaman Jones.

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The people that named their kids 'Esp(e)n'.

and then got a 3 minute story on SportsCenter

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When I was younger I always wanted to name my son Crash Danger Estes. Crash after bull Durham and Danger just say he could say "Danger is my middle name." Pretty lame but still funny to me.

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Can't believe no one has mentioned NASCAR legend Dick Trickle yet.

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Guy I worked with whose name was Dick Seeman (no lie).
Laughter would ensue when he was paged over the speaker system. Why he didn't go by Richard or Rich I'll never know, maybe Dick was not a nickname.

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'Rich Seeman' is no prize either...

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From the book Freakonomics

[censored] (Pronounced Shih-theed) Johnson
Twins named OrangeJello and LemonJello

There were more, but I don't have the book in front of me.

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These are urban legends. See snopes.com.