Naming Problems

[Kit-Ginevra]

I still treasure my shopping receipt from my first ever trip to Gibraltar (the cashier's name was something like Paquita or Pakita which she had shortened down) so it tells me

Your cashier today was:Paki

[OneMoreTime]

When I worked as a cashier at Christmas, I rang up a doll, the description came up as "Caucasian". I thought it was rather funny.

[raudf]

When I worked at Mart of Wal, I'd seen descriptions on receipts of items that made no sense.. unless your mind was in the gutter.

Oscar Mayer hot dogs would be shortened down to "odogs" for some idiot reason. Worse, the bun length version was shortened to "bunlegodogs." This was not set by the store, this was set by corporate. Yeah, that went over well with the customers. Frankly, I needed the chuckle.

[Kit-Ginevra]

Images you don't want to visualize from the Simpsons #262

Agnes Skinner: 'Seymour,get me an ice pack.My fanny's red raw'

[greek_jester]

The word (normally spelled "fanny") doesn't have the nicest connotation over here in the States, either -- it just means "butt". Still nicer than the UK definition of the term

Is it just me, or do a lot of our derogative descriptive slang words relate to the genitals of either gender?

[EricKei]

Could be worse -- our UK members will appreciate this one -- The biggest home mortgage lender in the US has one of those interesting names: "Fannie Mae" ...

The word (normally spelled "fanny") doesn't have the nicest connotation over here in the States, either -- it just means "butt". Still nicer than the UK definition of the term

[catcul]

I went to high school with a girl whose last name was Dick.

[greek_jester]

Delta Burke the actress (IIRC, she was on Designing Women)? I can't see what would have gone wrong with the name "Alison Burke" - what's the problem?

Brit here, I have no idea who you're talking about. As KuariKaydrith's link states, it is yet another slang term calling someone a c@$t.

[KuariKaydrith]

Delta Burke the actress (IIRC, she was on Designing Women)? I can't see what would have gone wrong with the name "Alison Burke" - what's the problem?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=berk I think this explains it all right there.

[wolfie]

I used to go to school with a D Burke. Her parents originally wanted to call her Alison...

Delta Burke the actress (IIRC, she was on Designing Women)? I can't see what would have gone wrong with the name "Alison Burke" - what's the problem?

[OneMoreTime]

My husband went to school with a kid whose last name was Eder, unfortunately his first name was Peter.

[icmedia]

I had a girl in my 6th grade class named Tara Highman...that's a terrible name to have around dirty-minded 6th grade boys

[greek_jester]

I really do feel bad for people whose family names are now profane.

I used to go to school with a D Burke. Her parents originally wanted to call her Alison...

[BPFH]

Looks like you've run into an example of the "Scunthorpe Problem" - the difficult task of getting profanity filters to ignore swear words that are embedded in other, innocent words (such as the name of a place in England).

A.k.a. the "Clbuttic Problem", which leads to presidential buttbuttinations, an inability to read the Consbreastution of the United States, and may God help those of us who have to try to program in buttembly language...

[Gilhelmi]

I really do feel bad for people whose family names are now profane.

It could be worse, what if you had been born in the 1930s and given the name Adolf (with the last name Hitler, no relation ).