The Most Bizzarre "Name" Ever

[Shironu-Akaineko]

Nope, just some crazy-kabbalah-hippie-earth child type.

Not to send this thread totally off-course but some other names I have come across that stand out.
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James Bond
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Heeeey, my lil godson's called that! (Yes, I'm part Bond. I have gadgets. )

[BusBus]

So, say you had a customer come in whose name was entirely Cyrillic(Russian alphabet, I think)? Born and raised in Russia, moved to the US. Now what? Is it antisocial that way? If you ask for her name, and she pronounces it for you, you can at least phonetically spell it, right?

I think the problem in the OP was that the woman's symbol was not pronouncable at all. If she had changed her name to "%" or "*", we could still call her 'Percent' or 'Asterisk'. Living in a fairly multiculteral area, I meet a lot of people who go by foreign names and sign documents in their native alphabet (i.e. Cantonese, Persian....). However, they are names that are easily spelled and pronounced in English. I think the name in the OP was more along the lines of Prince's symbol name....can't spell it, can't pronounce it.

-BB

[Getoutofmylobby]

I checked in a "Rudy Teabagy" the other day.

But the one that really made me laugh was "Ron Ragan." Especially when he was charged as a no-show and yet came in the following day because he forgot to call us to change his arrival date.

That symbol lady needs to lay off the Salvia Divinorum.

[Kara]

A friend of mine told me a story once (and this sounds like one of those friend of a friend urban legend things, but he swore it was true). A coworker went to high school with a guy who had a very unfortunate name. When he was born, the mother had been extremely angry at the father (he walked out on her when he found out she was pregnant) so she put a rather colorful name on the birth certificate. She meant to put it on the "Father's Name" line, but wound up giving the name to the child. She immediately put him up for adoption and since she didn't want anything to do with him anyway, didn't bother to change the name, nor did she care what his name was. His foster parents tried repeatedly to get her to change the name, because only the birth mother could do so, but she refused. He was stuck with it until he turned 18, when he could legally change his own name. With no other recourse (it seems there was no middle name at all), they simply pronounced his name "Shihtheed."

Like I said, this is probably made up.

[BookstoreEscapee]

He was stuck with it until he turned 18, when he could legally change his own name. With no other recourse (it seems there was no middle name at all), they simply pronounced his name "Shihtheed."

Like I said, this is probably made up.

What the heck would stop them from just calling him Bill? Plenty of people go by nicknames that don't necessarily have anything to do with their real name. Ted would also make sense

Not confirmed or debunked, but here's what Snopes has to say:
http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.htm

[amarisse]

hee hee your right it does sound elvish the only time i ever saw it used was in my Ukranian and Russian langauge books.

[BDbuddy23]

I signed up a lady for our shoppers card and she wanted to put one of her sons names on it as he spends more time in our store. No prob. The other son (boys looked like twins) wanted his own card, which I obliged (more signups make me look better, so knock yourself out. )

So I go to remove the tabs on the sheets after they left and try to piece together #2's name.

Son 1: "DeJuan" perfectly normal
Son 2: "Deataone" Dee-twan? De-a-Tone? De-anTone?

DE- ATA- ONE!

So the boys were "De One" and "De Other One"

I got lightheaded from laughing at that one, and since I relembered the names, could show ppl in the computer system that didn't believe me.

[Reyneth]

hee hee your right it does sound elvish the only time i ever saw it used was in my Ukranian and Russian langauge books.

It's actually "transliteration/transliterate"

I've seen some doozies when we do the preschool photos at work but I haven't given in to make a list.....yet.

But two stand out -
Treasurer (a girl). Not Treasure, something that is precious, a position on a board of a club. I can just imagine the comments she'll get when she's a teen....

Sirr (boy). "Because his momma wanted him to always get respect." GAG!

[CurlyLocks]

I had a customer once whose last name was Frankenstein. She said "you know, like the monster". Somehow I managed not to laugh at that.

[Kara]

Now, I'm not being mean, I've had some very dear asian friends, but that was just hilarious. The all-time best I've seen was a Vietnamese guy who bought something from me at a store I worked at. I tried to maintain my composure as he hands me a credit card with the name "Fuk Yu" on it.

[Mark Healey]

I had a customer once whose last name was Frankenstein. She said "you know, like the monster". Somehow I managed not to laugh at that.

I would have been a pedantic dick and said "I think you mean like the guy who made the monster".

[Bacter]

That.... wow. I want to say if I had a symbol for a name, the sheer mediocrity of most things that I do would make me want to change my name. While (pi-symbol) might lead some dragon rebellion in an ancient land, in a far-off world, (pi-symbol) had no business, say, RENTING A CAR. Or buying groceries. Argh.

[CurlyLocks]

I would have been a pedantic dick and said "I think you mean like the guy who made the monster".

I was a little flustered so I didn't even think of that at the time. The really tough thing was that we're supposed to address the customer as "Ms. Frankenstein" at least once or twice during the call and saying that without laughing was quite a challenge!

[Kara]

I was a little flustered so I didn't even think of that at the time. The really tough thing was that we're supposed to address the customer as "Ms. Frankenstein" at least once or twice during the call and saying that without laughing was quite a challenge!

Oooh! That reminds me! I live in a suburb, but I used to live and still work in the city. And my doctor's office is in the city, next to a dentistry office for "Dr. Todd Frankenbery, DDS." That's like the coolest thing ever. So far, I've lucked out and haven't needed to see a dentist in years, but if I ever do I know where I'm going. After all, I love his cereal (gotta admit, it's a great racket. Give people cavities then make them come see you )

[angelkirie]

In the childcare area of our store I once met a family of three kids whom I could only speculate what their upbringing had been.. Hippie/Christian/Native American?

I don't remember their exact names anymore but they had been in the style of

Moonbeam Mary RedFeather
Sunshine Delilah RedFeather etc....