vagabond

I found this article interesting.

Some of you know my real name, and so you know that it's unusual. Growing up, you wouldn't believe the teasing I got from the other kids who couldn't pronounce it, couldn't spell it or didn't know what it meant, if anything. As an adult, I remember a phone call with a customer service agent who asked me for my name. I give it to her. She next says "spell it for me please." I spell it. Next she says "how do you pronounce it." Then she says "now what is your first name."

Hope nobody had as much trouble with their name as I did!

Kilgore Trout

YouTube - Eddie Izzard - Engelbert Humperdinck

727gm

Back in my high school, there was an "Eaton Butz", and the Silva brothers: "Quick", "Hiho", and "Sterling".

Of course, it's actually worse these days, with teenage parents giving their offspring internet names like ZBlaze, etc.

Globerunner513

when checking in passengers, you would not believe some of the names I've come across....

Stringer

Brilliant! While Eddie is a little strange on the gender front, he's certainly very amusing!

alarkyokie

See any of these folks?
Stupidity.com presents: Funny Terrorist Names
(maybe a repost-- sorry)

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Ewfflyer

How about Highly Devine, or Misty Tear........two people I went to school with.

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rickair7777

Grow up in the bay area did you? Or maybe Big Sur?

Globerunner513

Actually, yeah.

But because it was someone's real name (lord knows why..), I don't think it would be right to post it in a public forum. PM me if you really want to know.

Ewfflyer

Not even close. How about east-central Indiana

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