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September 17th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Seriously, some of these are as bad as the names of the people who send spam in my inbox, who assure me, “You will please her more than anybody else.”
September 17th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Jermajesty, for the win. Actually, they are all equally terrible. “Kal-el”? Nicholas Cage is a dork.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
Nowhere near the all-time worst. My wife went to school with somebody named Ima Pigg. Seriously.
Still tied for second are Dweezil and Moon Unit.
September 18th, 2007 at 1:40 am
A friend of my mothers used to register new immigrants in the schools, and back in the Eighties she had the worst time with their names. They’d all pick names they thought were “English” but they picked them by reading what people wore on their sweatshirts and tees. Are you old enough to remember B.U.M. Equipment? Well, she got about twenty “Bum” registrations a semester, and always had to gently suggest they pick a different name. Imagine trying to explain “Yes, yes, it’s very popular. Everyone is wearing it. And it’s really, really rude.”
September 18th, 2007 at 10:46 am
Reminds me of the chinese parents that named their child @. Another couple (can’t remember from where) named their child “for real”. lol
September 18th, 2007 at 11:26 am
And I thought some kids I went to school with had it rough: Forest Parks, and the Kane sisters, Candy and Sugar. Oh, and there was a girl I knew in high school whose given name was Cotton.
This is tough, but I finally have to go with Pilot Inspektor. Not only is it horrible in its own right, there’s no good nickname to be produced, and it’s got that…very special spelling to boot.
Oh, and I have to give a second vote to Audio Science because really, nobody should do that to a child.
Not that Jermajesty or Moxie Crimefighter is exactly doing those kids any favors.
At least little Kal-El could go by ‘Kal’ for short.
September 18th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
I think Jermajesty is especially bad because the poor kid’s father is Jermaine. Also, I’d forgotten this, but I new a girl named Aquanetta. Like the hair spray. And a boy named John Knopf, which wasn’t so bad, except that he went by Jack.
September 18th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
I KNEW, not new. Sorry.
September 18th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Cheeky- Jermajesty is beyond horrible. I voted for that one too.
Dr. S- I tried to keep them within this decade or so, although I thought long and hard about including Dweezil. Moon Unit is actually not that bad compared to Audio Science.
Rain- Oh man, I remember those!
Ana- People are strange.
Twistie- Ha! The Kane sisters cracked me up. I swear, people are thinking they are just so clever when they do this.
Cheeky- No need to apologize!
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:46 am
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