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Rooh
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Ms Toxicity said :
Title changed, as requested.

On topic, I ran into The Edge - David Evans - in an outdoor equipment store in Brisbane's CBD in 1993. U2 had just played their Brisbane concert and I was shopping for thermal underwear, in preparation for a trip to Germany in December.

I went a little fan-girl, much to my partner's disgust. The Edge however was a complete gentleman. :)

It's awkward when you meet someone famous with an unusual nickname or stage name... it'd be wrong to call them by their real name, but feels odd calling them by their assumed name.

What would you say to "The Rock" if you met him? Hello Mr. Johnson? Hi Dwayne?
Hello The Rock?

(obviously does not apply to Jeff Bridges, it would be wrong to call him anything but The Dude) ;)
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04-Jul-2021 12:45:30 - Last edited on 04-Jul-2021 12:50:36 by Rooh

vonSageworth

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Some parents want their children to carry on a name tradition without using Jr., I, II, III, etc. so they combine names and sometimes use an apostrophe to separate parts of names.

When I was a kid, I had a friend whose name was Johnathan (usually spelt Jonathan). His Dad's name was John and his Uncle's name (Dad's brother) Nathan.

Also from my childhood was a girl whose name was Jay'cille (pronounced Jay-seal). She was named after her father Jayson and her mother Lucille. She nearly died before she was born, but with the mother's determination, the father's attention to detail and Doctors who knew what they were doing, Jay'cille was born normal and healthy...thus the middle name Joyous. She didn't care for either name and certainly didn't like her first name, so when she started Junior High School in another township, she introduced herself as Joy, a shortened version of Joyous.
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04-Jul-2021 17:42:01

Doom Valiant
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Oh theres lots of unusual names I can think of. Many are inappropriate of course, so I'll list the more family-friendly ones I can think of.

People I met :
A woman named "Lady".
A man named "Guy"
Mona - Spanish for "Monkey"
Had an elementary school teacher named Mr. Greathouse
I met a friend of a mutual friend named Xena Resureccion (Im guessing her parents loved watching Xena: Warrior Princess back in the 90s and thats how the name came about)

Other names: Yes they are real
Elon Musks son: X Æ A-Xii
Batman Bin Suparman
Chris P. Bacon
Kash Register
Janice Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele
Krystal Ball
Jed I. Knight
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08-Nov-2021 08:56:53 - Last edited on 08-Nov-2021 09:13:59 by Doom Valiant

FiFi LaFeles

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I'm not sure about the name rules in the UK. I vaguely recall a bit of a hooha about a couple wanting to call their child Hitler and I've heard that the name Adolf is frowned upon in Germany with the name Matti actually banned (no idea why).

I think here we can call a kid anything so long as it is not deemed illegal (for instance, racist).
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09-Nov-2021 10:16:44

vonSageworth

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I knew a woman who wanted to name her first born Herkimer Archibald (last name with held). I'm not sure of the correct spelling of the first name. Her husband and friends highly encouraged her to think of a more traditional name, not one he would hate the rest of his life. She finally settled on Timothy Joseph.
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10-Nov-2021 00:03:41

Rooh
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There was a lad at school called Zorro (first name).
Outside of the legendary fictional figure I've never heard of anyone else with that name.
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10-Nov-2021 11:50:07

Mrs Ana

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Usually, from what I have seen in my culture, we enjoy choosing names that are unique. We also like to mix and max letters, even if they do not make any sense at all. It's just what we do. I think that's one of the reasons why grammar and punctuation rules do not apply to personal names, at least in Spanish :) .

10-Nov-2021 15:24:36

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