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Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 27

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Stacyhs said:
Only if she was born in the 80's. In the 90's or later she can give it an even more 'unique' spelling like Quarren.

Why do people do that to their kids?
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I've never understood the thinking behind the names some people give their kids. Do they not remember how cruel their classmates could be when they were kids?

I've mentioned this one before, not necessarily because it was particularly egregious, but because of the result.

There were two teenagers I knew of back in the 70's. Fraternal twins, a boy and a girl. Their family name was Barr, so in their infinite wisdom the 'rents decided it would be 'cute' (I guess) to name them Clark and Candy.

They seemed to be spending their teenage years getting even with their parents. They were two of the wildest, most out-of-control young 'uns I have ever met, before or since. And this was against a backdrop which was pretty wild and out-of-control to begin with.

I moved away from that area a few years after I first ran into them, and have no idea how they ended up. But, to be honest, the prospects weren't promising.
 
Stacyhs said:
Tell me about it. I hate 'cute, clever' spellings. They are neither cute nor clever.
My great-nephew's name is the same as a tree. When my niece was pregnant with her second, I only half-jokingly asked if she was going to name it "Hemlock".
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You know what the stupidest thing is, with regards to my coworker's naming of her child? After a year or two she was complaining about having to spell her name to everyone when taking appointments and such.

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quadraginta said:
I've never understood the thinking behind the names some people give their kids. Do they not remember how cruel their classmates could be when they were kids?
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I don't have kids but if I did I would go for names that are simultaneously cool and original, and are easy to spell.

Something like Lothar and Beatrix or somesuch.
 
Norman Alexander said:
Unfortunately the Wakanda thing was hardly the worst dumb-cluck screw-up that the T**** administration perpetrated. No need to list them, but it went way beyond amateur hour with the hiccuppingly hilarious presidential inauguration celebration (which, incidentally, has not been paid for yet). Things rapidly hit "raving lunatic orange-ass baboons running the asylum" level shortly thereafter, and then went downhill. So it is hardly surprising some of the temporary interns thought it would be fun to "do stuff" like that. It could hardly have been as ridiculous as what The Boss was doing and saying.
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Well, perhaps not a signification problem (most likely from the guy at the very top saying “proofreading is for losers”) , but the point is even if the Obama administration made one-sixth of these errors the flaming Republicans would be screaming up and down. **** them.
 
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quadraginta said:
I've never understood the thinking behind the names some people give their kids. Do they not remember how cruel their classmates could be when they were kids?

I've mentioned this one before, not necessarily because it was particularly egregious, but because of the result.

There were two teenagers I knew of back in the 70's. Fraternal twins, a boy and a girl. Their family name was Barr, so in their infinite wisdom the 'rents decided it would be 'cute' (I guess) to name them Clark and Candy.

They seemed to be spending their teenage years getting even with their parents. They were two of the wildest, most out-of-control young 'uns I have ever met, before or since. And this was against a backdrop which was pretty wild and out-of-control to begin with.

I moved away from that area a few years after I first ran into them, and have no idea how they ended up. But, to be honest, the prospects weren't promising.
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That's not too bad. Actually kind of cute. We had a boy in school whose last name was Dover. Guess what his parents named him?
 
quadraginta said:
I've never understood the thinking behind the names some people give their kids. Do they not remember how cruel their classmates could be when they were kids?
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There's a group of people who does that intentionally, of course. Sorta like naming a boy "Jane" in the hopes that they'll grow up tough because of the adversity they face. Similarly, I've been barely acquainted with a (MAGA) guy who said that Karen was one of the finalists for names for his daughter, with the other not really being any better.
 
Aridas said:
There's a group of people who does that intentionally, of course. Sorta like naming a boy "Jane" in the hopes that they'll grow up tough because of the adversity they face. Similarly, I've been barely acquainted with a (MAGA) guy who said that Karen was one of the finalists for names for his daughter, with the other not reallybeing any better.
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Oy, some people are so young...
(A Boy Named Sue -- Johnny Cash)

 
If you give your kid a "quirky" first name, give them a common middle name and don't fight them too much if they want to use it, especially at school.
 
I remember a scene in, I want to say it was a Steve Martin movie maybe, in which he was in Hollywood having a conversation with a woman at a cafe. She said her name was Sandy, and he started to talk about how glad he was that she had a normal name, instead of one of the strange names he kept encountering in Hollywood. She interrupted him to clarify that her name was spelled SanDe*, with the capitalization and star.
 
Armitage72 said:
I remember a scene in, I want to say it was a Steve Martin movie maybe, in which he was in Hollywood having a conversation with a woman at a cafe. She said her name was Sandy, and he started to talk about how glad he was that she had a normal name, instead of one of the strange names he kept encountering in Hollywood. She interrupted him to clarify that her name was spelled SanDe*, with the capitalization and star.
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And a heart around the whole thing...

LA Story I think
 
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