People with extremely strange names.

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Korolev

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There was someone in my high school who had the name "Jenna Tailor". It sounds even worse when said with an Australian Accent.

As for truly bizarre names: I met someone in university with the name Charlemagne. We just called him Charlie. I know it was his sir name, but once people found out about his surname, they just called him Charlie.
 

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It's not names that bother me, more the way they're spelt. You know when people choose a name and spell it completely weird.

Like Joseph being turned in to Joseff or something.

My Daughter has a name from a game, I've had nothing but compliments from everyone about it :)
 

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A friend of mine had a teacher called Piet Uytebroek. Translated to English that's d*ck outtapants. Yeah...
I get you can't pick your last name but for the love of god why did you call him Piet?!

The Dutch in general are a great source for funny names really. I'm told it's because when the idea of last names was introduced to them, they thought it was never gonna take off and came up with silly names like crookedleg or rocklicker.
 

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There was a girl called Storm who used to live downstairs from me when I lived in a flat. She had a younger brother named Rainbow. I spoke to him and he said that he is going to change his name when he is old enough. Both Storm and Rainbow have an older sister named Lightning.

I also had a flatmate whose name is Bear and he loves his name. I will never forget when I asked him what his name was when I first met him and he roared "MY NAME IS BEAR AND I AM A MIGHTY ICELANDER!!!" (he was pretty drunk at the time, and he was dressed like a viking) to this day he remains as one of the most interesting people I have had the pleasure of sharing a living space with.

There is also a guy I went to university with and he was called Benedict. He is the only person I know called that, and while I don't think it is outlandish, I think it is unusual. However, when he said that he was from Oxford and his parents work at the university, I wasn't all that surprised.
 

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My name is pretty funny sounding :) Don't dare to reveal it though. Who knows what you escapist folks might do with it?
 

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I know of a completely caucasian couple who named their child Akira because the husband loved the anime. I shit you not.

Don't get me wrong, it's a cool name... if you are Japanese.
 

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Mirror Cage said:
Snake Plissken said:
Fonda Cox.
Anything I could say now would be anticlimactic.
I'll take a whack at that: Jesus Condom.

Also, at my old school there was this girl, really big, fat and ugly. Which is fair enough, but she was quite possibly the most annoying, stupid and unhygienic person ever. Her last name means swamp monster.

Edit: Oh shit, I just remembered I have the greatest pair of names ever:

My friend's sister is an archeologist, and one of the digs she was part of was being protested. She was sent to confront the quite agitated lead protestor. His name was Merlin, and the reason she had to speak to him was because the lead archeologist on the dig was called Arthur Pendragon.
 

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I met a guy once in college; he had his college ID to prove his first name was Sword.
 

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I once visited my mother at work at a car lot, and there was a letter on her desk addressed to Weylarando Fat.
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American McGee, anyone?

I mean, I've heard people be given months as names, but nations?
Don't forget about America Ferrera [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_Ferrera]. Of course, she can get away with it because she's smokin' hot.
 

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My grandmother once knew a young woman whose last name was Christmas. Her parents had the nerve to name her Mary.
 

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TheDarkEricDraven said:
ThatLankyBastard said:
TheDarkEricDraven said:
If I ever have children, I'm naming the girl "Lolita" and the boy "Jupiter". Will it invoke bullying? Perhaps. But I will train them so that they may win the local BMX Bike contest and win the affections of the town.
That is an awesome name for a girl!!
I know, right? It comes from a small town in Texas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita,_Texas

I can't tell if you're joking or not. You are aware of the book (and film based on it) called Lolita about pedophilia, right?
 

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The Artificially Prolonged said:
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Prince Charles. Yes first name Prince, last name Charles

I'm seriously not making these names up. Also parents who call their kids things like miracle need to stop. No kid can live up to a name like moracle.
Please dont correct that, the typo had me laughing for about 5 minutes xD

OT: My brother went to school with a guy called john fish, and he lived in a area of my town known as fairyland, so he got arrested alot for wasting police time lol

*Edit* Just remembered a better one, i met this guy online called tom warden who actually named his daughter "Grey".
 

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TheDarkEricDraven said:
bojac6 said:
I can't tell if you're joking or not. You are aware of the book (and film based on it) called Lolita about pedophilia, right?
Whaaaa-? Why, I would never mention something that has to do with a subject banned for discussion by The Escapist. But yes, my daughter would be named after that lovely town. I'm surprised you haven't heard of it. Nice place to vacation, if you don't mind the locals trying to sacrifice you to their dark god, He Who Walks Behind The Rows.
It is important that the corn remain pleased.

But no, never heard of the town. According to Wikipedia, it has 548 people, so that's not surprising. But yeah, you may want to look into the name Lolita a bit more before naming anyone that. It's come to mean a girl who is underage but intentionally seduces older men.