What's in a Name?

Parent Cafe
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<p>Harold Bahls</p>

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<p>There used to be a family in our town with the last name of Beach. The wife was Virginia, and the daughter was Sandy…</p>

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<p>I knew a Starr Light, and her daughter</p>

<p>Skye Light</p>

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<p>I knew a Candy Kane.
And I had a client named Jose Jimenez. I couldn’t get the old Bill Dana character (“my name … Jose Jimenez…”) out of my head for weeks!</p>

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<p>Your Candy Kane reminded me that someone in our town is named Candy Barr.</p>

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<p>My parents went to high school with a girl who became Mary Christmas by marriage.</p>

<p>My husband worked with a prominent CS researcher named Dick Orgass.</p>

<p>EDIT: Boy, do I feel stupid! I <em>just now</em> got the Kikkimen one, even though I read it last night! Groan…</p>

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<p>D’s teacher said it was first day of class, and she was taking the roll, and the first name was Lemonjello, and the next (the twin brother) was Orangejello. So, she called out the names the way she THOUGHT they should be pronounced, not ever thinking to ask if they were pronounced differently, and the first boy corrected her and said his name was pronounced Le-mahn-zhello and the brother said he was orahn-zhello. Maybe they moved from AL to TX?!</p>

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<p>Limoncello and Orangelo are a liqueur and citrus soda respectively, popular at least in Italy. Maybe it’s not unusual there to name your children after your favorite beverage?</p>

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<p>How about Michael Michael.</p>

<p>Always reminded me of Major Major from Catch 22 - you gotta love Joesph Heller.</p>

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<p>My orthodontist’s name was James C. Toothacher. Even stranger, when the orthodontic process worked faster than he had estimated, he gave my parents a rebate! (This was back in the Paleolithic Period.)</p>

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<p>Mom of a player on my son’s U8 soccer team named Mary Poppens. Come to think of it, there was a certain magical quality to the season… Spit spot!</p>

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<p>Gale Tooter</p>

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<p>wjb-
My orthodintist’s name was Dr. Fingeroth. He had a brother- also an orthodontist.</p>

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<p>I know of a Mark Park.</p>

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<p>In the old days the first boy was named after the father’s father and the frist girl was named after the mother’s mother.</p>

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<p>When my H was a US Army major, he worked for a Colonel Sanders.</p>

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<p>Knew a Psychiatrist once named Dr. Brain. :)</p>

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<p>tookie - I know who you are talking about…lol! </p>

<p>I know someone named Pierce Franklin…brilliant kid and apparently the parents have a pretty decent sense of humor. :-)</p>

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<p>Since we are talking names here…I am married to Michael Jordan, which gets more than a few comments, and I taught a student this year whose name is Laurel Ann Hardy (I guess her parents had a sense of humor!).</p>