Yet more thievery from The Awl:
Listicle Without Commentary: 38 Delightful Names Gathered While Perusing College Football Rosters
38. Gee Gee Greene37. Roddy Maginot36. Jacquizz Rodgers35. Justin Cabbagestalk34. Rantavious Wooten33. Bacarri Rambo32. Ferbia Allen READ MORE
OK, I gotta say it: What WERE they (the parents) thinking? In related news... it's almost September!
Rantavarious?!?! There must have been some good drugs involved in that choice.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a disease, doesn't it? "I'm sorry, Mr. Pennington... it's Rantavious. I'm afraid you only have weeks to live."
ReplyDeleteBuck, I have gone to work at a large company with thousands of employees...most of them young people.
ReplyDeleteThese names are actually quite sane, and normal compared to some I have come across in the couple of days I've been there.
When a 35 year old black supervisor that originally hails from the 'hood (a lady who has supervised many hundreds of folks) can not figure out how to pronounce your name...well, you know your folks screwed ya' over pretty good.
I heard some pretty crazy names thanks to all the leftover hippies in Northern NM, but I think it has gotten worse since my days there.
ReplyDeleteAndy: I'm simply AMAZED at some names I see these days.
ReplyDeleteLou: It IS getting worse!
Good Irish kids, one and all.
ReplyDeleteHeh, heh. Am about to put the li'l ones to bed but couldn't not comment. I went to school with, no lie:
ReplyDeleteRoman Battles
Nancy Ann Cianci (say it 3 times fast)
and my personal fave: Robin Banks
I had a couple of hippie friends who named their daughter "Zen Sky." I used to joke that, when she turned 18, the first thing she was going to do was change her name to Mary.