People with extremely strange names.

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

so im tasmanian right. and i know this dude who named his kid Thylacine. Thats the scientific name for the tasmanian tiger. An extinct dog thing that pissed off the white colonists by eating their sheep.

 

[Ophiuchus]

I remember hearing on the news about a guy being refused a driving license or something because his surname was Dikshit (pronounced 'dixit') and the DVLA thought it was fake. Certainly believable, I used to work with a guy whose surname was Rakshit, although he pronounced it like 'ratchet'.

 

[Sovvolf]

My name is relatively harmless but my initials are: S.A.S and thus I am the ultimate badarse, state of the badarse-art .

 

[Quaxar]

I've known guys with hideously long names (who gets christened with three hyphenated names and a triple-barrelled surname?! Seriously?!), but thankfully no-one with idiotic names.

Oh yeah? Tell that to the former German minister of defense, <url=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Theodor_zu_Guttenberg>Karl Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg! Granted, being an aristocrat normally kinda lands you with more than one name, but that's just ridiculous.

Well, the guy in question is French (hence all the hyphens)... =P

Anyway, you can tell that minister's a Catholic, never understood why they got 'Maria' and 'Joseph' among their middle names (usually, regardless of gender). Still, I love German noble styles, one of the reasons being you don't get 'of and at' or 'by' in any other language. IIRC, though, 'Freiherr' is treated purely as name, not a title...(?)

Actually, a Freiherr is kinda like a baron.

 

[priestswearseatbelts]

Richard Sexual..... You're thinking Dick Sexual, right? Worse. People would wait for him to be in the distance and shout "Bye" "Bye Sexual".

 

[shadowyoasis]

I use to come across a lot of personal data from people.

I came across one Asian immigrant couple that were named Mang ho (Husband/Father) and his wife Bich Le.

Granted these names were not given to them in English and in their country were more or less Normal. But in english....

 

[ToastiestZombie]

Hmmm, the weirdest name I can think of out of the people I know is someone called Matvey. He is a Russian immigrant so that seems quite likely.

[look, its an edit!] I also know someone called El, well at least she can always guarantee to call her character in rpgs her own name, unlike me (name is Matthew btw)

 

[SckizoBoy]

Well, the guy in question is French (hence all the hyphens)... =P

Anyway, you can tell that minister's a Catholic, never understood why they got 'Maria' and 'Joseph' among their middle names (usually, regardless of gender). Still, I love German noble styles, one of the reasons being you don't get 'of and at' or 'by' in any other language. IIRC, though, 'Freiherr' is treated purely as name, not a title...(?)

Actually, a Freiherr is kinda like a baron.

Oh, I knew that, but I thought that since the German constitution didn't allow the upholding of patents of nobility, noble styles were to be treated as names as opposed to titles.

About 'Freiherr', I always had trouble getting my head around it, because it translates literally as 'Free Lord', even though I always associate 'Herr' with 'sir (informal)' in accordance with common parlance of the translation into English (e.g. Meine Herrn - feel free to correct).

 

[iRevanchist]

Precious Roxanne Stones. Her parents were horrible, horrible, people.

 

[JasonKaotic]

Phani Tikkala
Bhatman Supaman

I shit you not.
I've heard of someone called Candy Cart/Kart too, but that's not as awesome.

 

[Redingold]

This guy I know has an uncle called Phil Mabbutt. He also has a cousin called Justin Mabbutt.

 

[DonMartin]

This thread is basically summed up by this sketch. Really.

 

[ace_of_something]

As a police officer I'm afforded the opportunity to meet many people with odd names. I don't usually remember surnames because you can't hep those. Unless the surname is what makes the given name odd.

Females:
Morning Star
Cantouchme (pronounced cantoo-cha'may)
LaLa
Latrina (parents obviously weren't in the military)
Delishis
Yorkie

Male:
Sir Jim
Billiam
Hoseay (really bad cuz he is a tranny and goes by Helen)

There's more they'll come to me. Usually i meet a lot more females with odd names

 

[ace_of_something]

My sister met a guy in France who's name was 'Brontosaurus Gondwanaland'. She also knows a man named 'John Rainbird'.
My sister knows a lot of people who come from hippy backgrounds.

Is rainbird his surname? Sounds native american to me. My good friend's last name is Plentywounds, his sisters' married names are Bigfire and Buffalohead.

 

[Quaxar]

Well, the guy in question is French (hence all the hyphens)... =P

Anyway, you can tell that minister's a Catholic, never understood why they got 'Maria' and 'Joseph' among their middle names (usually, regardless of gender). Still, I love German noble styles, one of the reasons being you don't get 'of and at' or 'by' in any other language. IIRC, though, 'Freiherr' is treated purely as name, not a title...(?)

Actually, a Freiherr is kinda like a baron.

Oh, I knew that, but I thought that since the German constitution didn't allow the upholding of patents of nobility, noble styles were to be treated as names as opposed to titles.

About 'Freiherr', I always had trouble getting my head around it, because it translates literally as 'Free Lord', even though I always associate 'Herr' with 'sir (informal)' in accordance with common parlance of the translation into English (e.g. Meine Herrn - feel free to correct).

Germany got rid of nobility but titles can still be used as part of the surname. Austria on the other hand completely abolished it so any von, zu or titular name would just be dropped completely.

And yup, Freiherr is a strange title all in all. Your translation is correct though.

 

[an_luas]

I'ma just leave this here:


And the prize for "most idiotic and cruel parent of the year" goes to: The mother of Pegasus-Ezekiel!

That is one of the best vids ive seen in a while! XD Thank you for that its exactly what i needed today!

OT: I once met a guy who claimed his name was 'Pete O'File' bullshit of course but funny

 

[Yopaz]

Ben Dover and Harry Hole comes to mind. Seriously. Who names their kids those kinds of names?

Also having the same surname and first name is also pretty bad.

Harry Hole, as in the fictional character from a bookseries by Jo Nesbø?

Or an actual person named that?

I know that the fictional character name is pronounced differently in norwegian, the original language the book was written in.

I still pronounced it in english, though.

It's actually a name. Hole is a place in Norway so there's about 17000 persons named Hole or variations of that name, only one who's unlucky enough to be named Harry Hole though. I guess no-one really cares about it here, but even though I know how it's actually pronounced I still pronounce it in English too.

 

[bootz]

I had a friend in high school named Bob Dick. We told him to name his girl Anita. Best part we could yell "Hey Dick" really loud and not get in trouble.

I worked with someone with the name Aniga and yes she was black.

 

[UltraDeth]

Mahershalalhashbaz Ali... I wish I made that up

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0991810/

 

[Wintermoot]

Max Fistfight
Robert ******
Moon Unit Zappa
"@" I shit you not a Chinese couple wanted to name their kid "@"
I don,t know that much people with funny names.