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kathycf wrote:Well, I have never cared for the name Luxwana Troi either, and as far as I know she had the usual number of "parts"...

And that is a as in :laugh:

Yeah, I know. I knew a girl in my youth whose real name was 'Blodwin', but she went by Buffy. I was all like, "You're what?", but apparrently it's legit. Scandanavian for "Red Wine", or some such. Just sounds odd on an English tongue. It was, however unique. I've never known anybody before or since with that name.

Eventually, I hear she decided to go with Blodwin instead of Buffy.

Oh, and as far as how she turned out, back then she was in puberty, but still what I believe they call today a "Stone Fox". Ugh. Sounds awful.

I'd like to remind all posters of this rule, here at GameBanshee:

#1 - Flaming, humiliating, ridiculing, or belittling other members will not be tolerated.

If you mean an insult as a joke, please use an emoticon to emphasize this, unless the whole thread is like that, and among people who regularly trade such remarks. It's too easy to mistake tone on a flat communications dimension like the Internet, and such mistakes can really offend others.

Knew I guy in university named Jeremy Head. Not a great name, but not a bad name by itself.

He went to high school with a girl named Erica Gibbs. Not a bad name at all.

The problem was when their names were read one after another - it was a small high school, they were both good students, in the same grade, so when awards were being handed out and attendance was being taken, very common to hear:

"...Erica Gibbs... Jeremy Head..."

I guess it bothered her a lot, he never cared. Last day of school, someone snuck a banner up across the front foyer, all it said was 'Erica Gibbs Jeremy Head.'

I couldn't have made this up if I had wanted to.

@fable: I was waiting for this thread to go astray, but my fear was that sooner or later someone would pick on a name of one member or other - not that it would do so based on mammary fixation...

There is a region of this country that has a perverse liking for joining two completely incompatible names into one. A famous, albeit mild case of this was the former coach of the English football team, Sven-Göran Ericsson. This is a bit like calling someone Steven-John in one word. There are much worse examples, but they don't make much sense in English. Still, the practice should be outlawed in the declaration of human rights.

dragon wench wrote:Here are my initial contributions:

Humphrey
Lester
Harriett
Bertha
Cecil
Cyril
Mavis

You forgot 'Thantor'

Prior to the birth of our first daughter, my wife and I chose the most unlikely name we could think of to use whenever anyone asked the inevitiable “What are you going to name her?” question. -- "Earlene"** -- We were just trying to shock our friends and family out of asking the same question over and over.

We said that our second daughter would be named "Winifred".

** Yes, I realize that this is probably Bloodstalker’s mother’s name, and I mean no offence.

How does one change a name illegally anyway?

Tricky wrote:How does one change a name illegally anyway?

Simple: you find a friend who knows a friend who knows a forger. They make up some papers for you that bear a false identification.