Well, my daddy left home when I was three. Didn’t leave very much to my mom and me. Except this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze. Now I don’t blame him 'cause he run and hid but the meanest thing that my daddy ever did was before he left, he went and named me Sue.
Oh boy… These are real people.
- Drink Water Rivera: Very refreshing take on nomenclature but quite bland 8/20.
- Macaroni 85, Spaghetti 88, and Sincerely Yours 98 Pascual: As if someone stopped them from naming their kid after pasta because the username is already taken. 66.67/10 because they didn’t commit all the way.
- Covid Bryant: Not quite Black Mamba, not quite the Black Death but still 8/10 or 24/30.
- Abcde Aeiou: Very educational A+/10
- Captain Philip Ines: Not quite the super soldier 19/40.
The site links a real source for each name but the commentaries on each one read like ai generated so i was skeptical.
Just in case anyone hadn’t heard this one before: Abcde is pronounced “Absidy”, which is more of a real name.
I’m a huge fan of your scoring system!
Kitchenaid Whiskey Jones is an awesome name
Postmaster General Ford Lincoln Mercury.
That’s a name I haven’t heard for a long time…
God, what a great name and a great movie, thanks for bringing it to the forefront of my memory.
Its like a whole gneration hasn’t listemed to Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue” ← (best Folsom Prison performance)
My name is Sue. How do you do? NOW YOU GONNA DIE!
My wife and I have received several compliments just for giving both of our daughters normal, pronounceable names. Names I don’t see very often anymore, but perfectly normal before 9/11 altered the timeline and made everyone unbearably stupid.
Same here. My wife and I also picked traditional timeless names that we both liked and know they will never get made fun of for them
I think labeling “Kitchenaid Whiskey Jones” as “borderline” is too lenient. “McKeinsleigh” I think is the borderline one. Marijuana Pepsi managed to make something of it – ironically writing her PhD thesis around it – but I would be thinking forwards and backwards about what a name I give could do to a living, breathing person their entire life (even if they get it legally changed).
I’ve always told people pick a name for your child and unless there is a realy good reason don’t name them after yourself. Then say the name out loud a few times, if you can see a respected doctor,CEO, and janitor having that name then you picked a good one. Middle names are free space and that’s where you can be “quirky”
Major Major Major
Whisky Jones is a bad ass name though. That’s either a porn star or a treasure hunter and I’m good either way
Peruvians take this to another level. There’s a professional soccer player named Osama Vinladen, and his brother is Sadam Huseín
There’s a town mayor election where the candidate Lenin lost to…eventual winner named after THAT Austrian artist
I mean, I’m Tanis, it’s rare but I like it.
Rawdogging the internet with your real name is bold.
First and last. I’ve just never bothered to come up with a real username in twenty years.
If you show up at my doorstep I’ll make you tea and we can play a board game.
Well, looks like we’re both in the same city. I’ve met a Tanis here before. Wonder if it’s you
Prolly. Hey.
Meh, it’s not that bad. I don’t have my last name but it’s trivial to determine it, there are like 6 Zedds in the US.
You are named after an Egyptian/Greek city?
Nah, just an Irish first name.
Does that come from the word tanist then? As in named successor?
You got it! Plus it was really easy to render into kana.
There was a golfer at Augusta national and her first name was Asterisk.
I wonder if their other children are named comma, semi colon, or parentheses?
Idk about children, but a character in La saga/fuga de J.B. (Torrente Ballester book from the early 70’s) is called Don Asterisco.
Rise of the Leighs and Dens
Parents use these names because it’s the pique of their cleverness.
There is a clear socioeconomic divide between those who do and do not do this and it is exactly what one expects to to be.
Honestly this is bullshit. Some of the most ridiculous names I know are from old money families here in the South.
Wealthy southerners aren’t immune to trashy behavior. They’re just oblivious to the trashiness.
And some wealthy Utah mormons
They’re forcing their lack of ingenuity onto another generation and ensuring their garbage legacy.
Utah moms need to remember. One day, Brightlynn, Ayngylle, and Keighleigh will be 90 year old patients, playing gin rummy in a nursing home.
