What's Your Name?
When we are born, we are all given a name, which we have for the rest of our lives. Some people like their name, others do not, and there are some that are just plain embarrassing. In my life I have heard some very unusual names, that I would like to share.
In my school years, there was a girl with the name Laya, her last name is Mann. Any time someone was talking about Laya Mann, the name thing is talked about. Let me say that becoming a teenager was not an easy thing. Especially when it came to dating. I mean, what were her parents thinking when they filled out that birth certificate.
Then there was the nice lady who worked at the post office, her name was Anita Dick. Yes, she was listed in the phone book too! I can remember prank calling her a few times in my teen years. We would ask her if she was Anita Dick, When she said "yes", we would giggle and hang up. Poor lady! Everybody in the county knows who she is and her name is mentioned still to this day.
My dad works with a very short, fat man who wears a hard hat and runs the conveyer belts. His name is Richard Head. He is so short that when he walks behind the conveyers, all you can see is his hard hat bobbing up and down. Well, of course everyone calls him Dick! Lorna, the secretary of the company, will call over the intercom when someone is needed for this or that. This lady talks like she has a clothes pin on her nose and every time I hear her talk I can't help but laugh. Anyways, Lorna will call for "Dick Head" over the intercom and everyone will give him crap about it. But, he laughs right along with them, as it is no big deal.
The most embarrassing names I ever heard by far, come from my mom's high school years. Mind you that was in the 60's, and I think that a lot of people did too much wacky tabacky. My mom went to Aitkin High School, and in the 9th grade a set of twin had been enrolled into class. They were girls, both identical and very homely looking. The ones name was Ima, and the others name was Ura, and their last name... Was Hogg. Yes, that's right, Ima Hogg and Ura Hogg! If that doesn't top the list for most embarrassing names, I don't know what does. Lets say that these girls were heavily insulted growing up. But they seemed to take pride in their being different and made it a point to let people know that they were proud of who they were and of what their names were.
What are peoples motives for choosing these names? We may never know, but I do know that if there were not names like these, there would be no blog about this embarrassing subject.
Do you know of someone that has a very bizarre name?
posted by Jillian @ 12:15 AM
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3 Comments:
ha! I had to laugh when I read your blog! It is so true though!!! What were people thinking when they named their kids names like that? It makes me think of the cartoon the Simpsons. Bart prank calls Moe's Tavern and has Moe repeat the silly names to everyone in the bar...pretty funny when it isn't true. I feel bad for the people in which it is a reality.
Lipshitz. I think that is the weirdest name. Mrs. Lipshitz and she was a teacher. Now mind you that the crazier thing was that it was my pastor telling us that this was his teachers name. To hear your pastor go on about his teach named Mrs. Lipshitz, is pretty funny. Especially when you are 13-14.
On the other hand if my parents would have had their way, and I would have been born a boy. My name would have been either Red or Peti. Now those are strange in themselves, but just so you know that my maiden name was Coats. Ha ha ha ha!
It cannot even be true: Ima and Ura!!! Really? I do love all these dumb name things (if you take Comp II from me, you'll read a weekly announcement on this very subject...)
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