Years ago, I had a patient whose name was "Velveeta"

[PCIntern]

I swear to God.

I thought I'd heard everything until:

Track Enfield


They're doing it again!!!! It's the Stealth Morans taking over...how many times do we have to endure stupidity of this nature?

[tallahasseedem]

1. This is completely off topic but...

why do the Phillies want to push me over the edge?

[PCIntern]

3. I'm wathcing that as we speak...

so to speak...

...I've endured this for 49 years of fandom...

on edit: I can't believe he beat the TAG!!!!!

on edit again...YAY: 3 run homer!!!

[tallahasseedem]

4. Victorino!

Yay! :)

I was there July 4 and 5th when we played the Mets...got to watch him be a hero in the bottom of the 9th. I love him!

[PermanentRevolution]

2. I hate to admit to being "slow"

...but it took me a second to get the significance of "Enfield." I was thinking about the Enfield rifle until it dawned on me.

Actually, maybe that's not slow, just too high a humor threshold.

[tallahasseedem]

6. My husband couldn't

even believe that one. People are just plain stupid.

[PCIntern]

10. Almost moved from Philly years ago to Tallahassee for college

long story involving transfer to your State U. where we knew someone who was politically connected. We were very poor and they thought that it would be helpful to me. Didn't work out...nice people there....very progressive brilliant people (our friends). You probably know them.

[tallahasseedem]

18. I have been going

to FSU for a while (two undergrads, currently working on my MPH) despite the reputation from the football program, it really is a great school!

By the way, I have my A.S. in Dental Hygiene...I saw my fair share of bizarre names while I was practicing in rural (very red) areas. I guess they never read Freakonomics.

[Nay]

45. Hey, TD! I graduated from FSU in 1977--it is a great school. As far as

weird names, the weirdest I ever saw was a guy whose first name was Vaseline -- I was a mail carrier in TN and couldn't believe some of the names I saw. It's like mom looked at her bedside table in the hospital and said, "Hey, how about "Vaseline"?" Also had an old guy whose first name was "Doctor." I guess his mom wanted to be able to introduce him like this: "I'd like you to meet my son, Dr. Smith." Pretty amazing.

[PermanentRevolution]

13. Seriously - who the hell names their kid "Track and Field?"

Even "Van Palin" is better than that.

[PCIntern]

17. Narcissistic juveile drug-addled lunatic. why do you ask?

[PermanentRevolution]

22. Oh, right, right, right...

I keep trying to use "common-sense" standards when they clearly don't apply.

[Lancer]

5. Exhibit 2: Trig Paxson Van Palin

As my wise Mom, (who gave all five of her kids old-fashioned names) says, the Palins didn't give their kids "people" names. They named them words, like you use for pets or inanimate objects. It's very peculiar. Life has enough annoyances without your having to explain your name to everyone you meet, or tell people who can't see you whether you're male or female.

[vaberella]

19. Isn't the full first name...Trigger. It has an even better ring to it, Trigger Paxson Van Palin.

n/t

[PBS Poll-435]

7. Like Track 'N Field?

Holy crap.

It's all coming true...


http://www.brawndo.com/

[tallahasseedem]

8. You got it!

Absurd.

[Speck Tater]

9. Wasn't there a character named "Velvetta" in the movie Idiocracy? NT

[PCIntern]

11. This was 1983 or so...

named after the first thing he Dad ate after she was born. No lie.

[PBS Poll-435]

12. Good thing he didn't eat Pork Rinds first...

or Rocky Mountain Oysters.

[PCIntern]

15. Had another patient "Hadasser"

because her mom was a cleaning lady who worked for a Jewish woman from NY. She pronounced "Hadassah" (a perfectly fine name for a Jewish lady about 90 years ago) which was the organization to which she belonged, as "Hadasser". And so it went...

[PBS Poll-435]

20. Yikes

Poor girl.

[Doremus]

28. Then there's Condoleezza .... n/t

[Barack_America]

14. Caption: "In what respect, Charlie?" nt

[PCIntern]

16. DUzy!

Kristi: between the two of us, I think we've created something...

[AtomicKitten]

21. A friend named her son Justin Thyme.

Another considered naming her son Patrick Beau so he would be called P. Beau (a la Peabo Bryson).

I'm thinking it's hormonal.

[baldguy]

23. And people think I'm weird because I have no middle name.

[PCIntern]

25. Many people 80 and above don't have them...

it's more and more of a rarity these days...

[vaberella]

32. It's more common for people NOT to have middle names.

There are people with two first names and then when they come here they either go by the second name or the first and say the second name is a middle name.

So, in actuality there are actually more people in the world WITHOUT middle names than with.

[berni_mccoy]

24. Wait, Is his MIDDLE NAME REALLY ENFIELD? You have got to be SHITTING ME. Please. You're kidding...

right?

[PCIntern]

26. "You can't make this shit up."

[mamalone]

27. Nope... she's serious..

His name is really Track Enfield. Apparently the grandparents were both coaches and they thought that'd be a "cool" name for their dear little first born. Tragic, n'est pas?

[berni_mccoy]

29. O.M.G. For Fucks Sakes she's dumber than Bush!

[vaberella]

34. Yuppers. I picked Dumber. You know why the call the youngest Van Palin right?

Cause Todd, the daddy dearest, thought it would be cool to have it as a take off of Van Halen.

[JitterbugPerfume]

30. Just get ready fora lot of poor little babies

with each mom trying to out weird the next. Personally . I think Hockey Puck is a cool name :rofl:


Remember the silly hippie names? Moon Unit , Butterfly , etc? :hippie:

[SoCalDem]

31. A nurse friend of mine told me of a baby named Advil

:)

[BrainStorm]

33. I heard about one named "Aquanetta"

:)

[Tansy_Gold]

35. Probably named after the movie star

http://www.filmbuffonline.com/InRemembrance/Aquanetta.htm

[PermanentRevolution]

38. I suppose that's marginally better than "Aquavelva"

:silly:

[PCIntern]

36. ...and his brother Ty Lenol?

[SoCalDem]

37. The woman who shared my hospital room when my first son was born

named her little girl Temple Starr...her son was named Chevy Blue..

she had a hot pink nightie and her husband brough beer in when he visited her with his sister & her husband.. They all wnet into the bathroom to drink their beers..

She sweated so much, there was a pink outline of her left on the sheets when she got up out of bed..

He was picked up by the cops that night ans was in jail, when she and the baby were released ..:rofl: poor little girl..

[TexasLady]

39. Swear this is true: A girl named Krispy that worked at KFC

Right there on her nametag.
She was stunningly beautiful. But that poor thing must have grown up hatin' that name.

[PCIntern]

40. she had a sister: Kreme

[PCIntern]

41. she had a sister: Kreme

[grace0418]

42. My friend, a teacher, had a kid named TV Kitchen in his class. Apparently it was

the mother's two favorite things. Fortunately, this woman wasn't running for Vice President.

[zuzu98]

43. I had a client who named her twin daughters ReGina and...

VaGina. I kid you not.

[PCIntern]

44. Let me guess:

Father was Rufus Leaking?

[zuzu98]

46. Maybe it's me; I also have a client named after the call letters

of a local radio station...

[PCIntern]

47. McCain named his wife after a radio station:

K--T