<p>Check out <a href=“http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/[/url]”>http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/</a> for a compilation of discussions about baby names from baby-naming boards (The Internet has everything!), with commentary. Do not read while drinking coffee . .</p>
<p>Very funny. For girl’s names I think this quote from the site sums it up well:</p>
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<p>haha great…</p>
<p>Moon Unit >>> Moon Pie</p>
<p>Daweizel >>> DA WEEZEL (Zappa goes hip-hop)</p>
<p>all those names that just keep playing on each other…<em>clutches head in agony</em> 
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<p>I have actually heard of and seen a guy, just a year older than I, whose name is Darke Sage Green…poor kid!!</p>
<p>My first wife’s grandparents were Hungarian Jews. She wanted to name our first son Samu (after ??? - could have been after Samu Stern, a Hungarian Jewish leader in the 1800’s). Well, the Hungarian pronunciation of Samu is “Shamu.” Even though this was before anyone ever heard of the killer whale of that name, I still protested, saying that the kid would be called “shampoo.” That’s one of the few battles I did win.</p>
<p>I was reading the entries on that website while I was in bed. My wife was already asleep and I was laughing so hard it woke her up. Thanks for the url.</p>
<p>Good for you, digmedia! There are times when it definately pays to put one’s foot down. </p>
<p>Glad you enjoyed the site.</p>
<p>Haha like the joke about the name LaTrine. Excellent in Ebonics but not so much in English.</p>
<p>Many moons ago, when I was in med school helping with a delivery on my OB rotation, we delivered the placenta, after a healthy >10 lb. baby girl was born. I made the mistake of saying, “here comes the placenta,” or something like that. When I visited the neonatal unit later that day, I saw on that adorabole baby’s crib the name “Placenta ___.”
The mom obviously loved the ring of that name!</p>
<p>Well, I just ****ed away about 45 minutes of my life (and I think my pants too) while reading that site. It is equally disasterous to read while drinking a can of Diet Coke, droplets of which are now splatered over the walls of the kitchen in patterns which would even baffle the forensic techs on CSI.</p>
<p>Fortunately no one else in the family was seriously harmed, I think they were all warned off of entering the room by the early snorts and table slappings which preceded when I finally lost it.</p>
<p>That woman is wicked.</p>
<p>My D squared off in a bball game a few years ago against a kid named Utopia…</p>
<p>Some years ago, a Harvard Law student gave the graduate Commencement speech. His name was Bright Yellow (but his hair was not).</p>
<p>I heard of a kid named Random Sparks.</p>
<p>He won some CTY award a few years back. Poor thing.</p>
<p>I taught a child many years ago named Phoenicia Ann. The parent could not spell Phoenicia…the parent informed me: “so we just call her Ann.” This is TRUE.</p>
<p>I know a pair of siblings named Fire and Blaze.</p>
<p>A few months ago we had an Amber Alert here in Maryland for a 9 year old named Dayjavoo.</p>
<p>You can’t make this stuff up. Thanks Moominmama!</p>
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<p>So, did anyone see him once, let alone again? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Turns out Dayjavoo has an online website, and she can’t spell any better than her parents: <a href=“Nick | Kids Shows | Full Episodes & Video Clips”>Nick | Kids Shows | Full Episodes & Video Clips;
<p>Hmph! It was all fun and games until someone made fun of “garland.”…</p>
<p>(Actually, a surname from way back in my family…I would never do that to a kid, though I did have a Great Uncle Garland, (his middle name was “Swayne”) but he was never called Garland—he was always, “Garnie.”</p>
<p>My H saw babies in the hospital he worked at named Pepsi and Popcorn. My favorite name of a student was “Venuslily.”</p>
<p>Re: Phoenicia Ann; does she have a sister named Black Athena? :(</p>