Stupid names

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Wine Legs Jan 2012 10:43am, 15 Jan 2012 2,585 posts	0 Wine Legs That's pretty close... more like kadasha. Poor child.
Binks Jan 2012 10:44am, 15 Jan 2012 5,070 posts	0 Binks When Paula Yates died, the police searched her house and found narcotics, amphetamines and anabolic-steroids. But they couldn't find the other little girl.
Siamese Pete Mar 2014 10:36am, 12 Mar 2014 2,458 posts	0 Siamese Pete Stupid? Possibly. Funny? Definitely. A german government minister. bmbf.de ..........and she was born on April 1st:)
Autumnleaves Mar 2014 11:16am, 12 Mar 2014 3,527 posts	0 Autumnleaves Slight tangent but came across an address in our database at work where someone had entered a house name as Fouray - original correspondence from the donor revealed it should have been 4a....
GlennR Mar 2014 11:44am, 12 Mar 2014 9,165 posts	0 GlennR By coincidence this came up in something else I read this morning: theregister.co.uk
Spleen Mar 2014 11:58am, 12 Mar 2014 595 posts	0 Spleen Wikipedia had a list of these which was deleted from the main encyclopaedia, but it is preserved at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:InMooseWeTrust/List_of_unusual_personal_names. My personal favourites are Boo Moore (American baseball player), Adolf Lu Hitler Marak (Indian politician) and Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (named as a protest against the Swedish law which bans stupid names). There is also a story in Freakonomics about parents who named their baby girl Shithead (pronounced sh'-teed), but it is probably made up.
Hanneke Mar 2014 12:18pm, 12 Mar 2014 65,774 posts	0 Hanneke Thankfully, in Holland you aren't allowed really stupid names either... I had to laugh at Binks' post
Hanneke Mar 2014 12:22pm, 12 Mar 2014 65,775 posts	0 Hanneke Of course we used to have a prime minister with the unfortunate name Wim Kok... meaning cook, but pronounced cock...
SpeedyMel Mar 2014 12:32pm, 12 Mar 2014 2,650 posts	0 SpeedyMel I was at an ante-natal class when pregnant with my twins. The midwife asked me what I was calling them. I told her Edward and Isobel and she said how refreshing, there is a girl up on the ward who has just called hers Thunder and Storm!
Wriggling Snake Mar 2014 12:35pm, 12 Mar 2014 6,426 posts	0 Wriggling Snake OH treated twins a while back. Tia and, yes, Maria