Comments on: Parents, please think about what you name your kids

By: Honey

Honey — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:55:59 +0000

My first name is Honey and my middle name is Beatrice(Honey Bea) I went to school with a Sharon, who later married J. Peters.

By: BeccaLeigh

BeccaLeigh — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:00:13 +0000

Lol, I almost forgot… I went to school with a guy named Phil McCracken. What are these parents thinking?!

By: BeccaLeigh

BeccaLeigh — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:58:04 +0000

My friend has a cousin who’s name is Crystal Ball, poor girl. And I read an article not long ago about a mother who named her baby ‘Asshole’. Apparently it’s pronounced “Ah-sol-ay”, but spelled asshole.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:23:10 +0000

I used to work for SBC business and we kept running into problems with an agent at another department named Nita Mann. I thought it was a made up name, but I saw it on her rep-log. Also, when I worked for a cell phone collections department, I spoke with a Quing (pronounced like king) Dong and U. I. Tung. No joke. These are classics.

By: Giana

Giana — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:09:10 +0000

I went to school with a girl named Anita Bush, I swear. Poor girl, what was her mother thinking?!?!?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:50:59 +0000

I once worked with a guy named Hugo Furst!

Actually, no, I didn’t. I just made that up.

Orangejello and Lemonjello – as well as Shithead – are both documented in the book “freakonomics.” IIRC, the book does at least suggest that these stories are on the level, not urban legends, but it seems to me that the likelihood of the sister of one of Shithead’s former teachers reading this blog is rather slim.

By: Harry's Friend

Harry's Friend — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:57:40 +0000

I commuted on the train with a guy once who I got to know over the course of about a year. I only knew his first name, Harry. One day, there came a need to know his phone number so I was entering it in my cell phone and asked him for his last name. I was sorry I did because I busted out in sidesplitting laugher that resulted in the guy eventually ending our train friendship. I couldn’t help it, his last name was Balls.

By: BethBeth

BethBeth — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:06:05 +0000

Through my mom’s group, I met a woman named Candy and she honestly married a nam named Bill Korn. Her name became Candy Korn!

By: A

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:52:28 +0000

A friend’s mom was an EMS worker and a nurse, and she saw an Acetaminophen, and I think worse, Abcde, pronounced “Ab-said-ee”. How confused would you be the first day of kindergarten, when your name is all over the place? When I taught, I had a Cinnimon (we called her Cinni) and a friend had Usmail (Us-my-ail), as in the post office.

By: Jake Stichler

Jake Stichler — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:56:53 +0000

Yeah, that’s best reserved for cats. Like my cat, Captain Morgan