Stupid Names

My mother is a school teacher, and she is always telling me about kids she has with strange names. There was this one girl in her class that the kids called "Iwilla". This is a strange name, but she later found out that the girl's name on her birth certificate was "IwillriseandshineforJesusChrist Jones". Who would do this? Does anybody else out there know somebody whose parents subjected them to a lifetime of mockery because of a dumb name?

[Big_Jim]

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.

Pretty sure the entire Phoenix family qualifies. Also, anyone with a generic name with a non-generic spelling (Chone Figgins) inspires my mockery.

[trotski]

Zappa family qualifies as well.

[diebitter]

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]

[young nut]

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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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hahahah, this is genious.

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Pretty sure the entire Phoenix family qualifies. Also, anyone with a generic name with a non-generic spelling (Chone Figgins) inspires my mockery.

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Chone Figgins' given name is Desmond.... his middle name is DeChone, which is where Chone comes from.
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[LittleOldLady]

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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.

[jacki]

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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.

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And here's a link, you gullible fvcks.

[manpower]

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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.

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And here's a link, you gullible fvcks.

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For the record, the author does identify Orangejello and lemonjello as having not been verified by social securty data, but also says that he learned of the names firsthand from "Doug McAdams, a socialogist at Standford University, who swears he met the twin boys at a grocery store" (i'm looking at the book). Anyway, do the boys exist? Probably.

Shih-theed? That one may be fake; the source is someone who called into a radio show complaining about the name given to her new baby neice.

Gullible [censored]? I take offense to that. What's the need for the condescension? The link doesn't even say the names are fake.