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When not to hyphenate your name
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total jokes!
I worked for a catalog company one holiday season when I was still in school and a gal called in and gave me her member number off her catalog and her name came up. I had to put her on hold, so as not to laugh in her face. Her hyphenated name was Price-Hagler.
ROTFL! now that made me laugh!
:-)
lol funny !!
These people are not all hyphenating their names.
It's just the way the paper writes the headlines.
Hilarious!
My wife and I almost hyphenated our names together. It would have been young-cock, but we plan on having kids someday, and we're already geeky enough. They'll have it rough regardless.
Yup, Jay Leno usually does a bit on wedding names every now and then.
I would love to have the last name Hardy-Harr
Aarrrrr
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I ran across a file at my work ~ a month ago. The gentleman's last name was Poon and the answer to his security question indicated that his mother's maiden name was Tang.
When his parents married their guests would have have been guest at the Poon-Tang wedding.
When my uncle married my aunt, the names were "Plante-Mellon" We laugh about it to this day!
Desu?
I think Desu is Japanese for thank you. My Japanese is basically non-existent tho. And crazy Japanese even worse.
My mom knew a family that named their daughter Fonda Cox.
No one ever believes me when I tell them that.
And then there was the Texas Governor who named his daughter Ima Hogg.
desu is japanese for the verb "is"
Desu is japanese for "is"
Arigato is "Thank You"
Very creative! Loved it!!!!!
Can you beat this hyphenated name:
Moysten-Cumming
There is a woman who works for the Canadian Government with that name. My wife used to have meetings with Randy Poon and Margaret Moysten-Cumming.
Priceless!
Jay Leno had this on his headlines peace a week ago. Funny
DESU is a stupid meme originating at 4chan.org. People flood IRC chatrooms and message boards with it and think they are funny.
4chan is filled with 14 year old idiots and it shows.
desu is a Japanese word which has no meaning, other than to convey politeness.
It is used at the end of a sentence, when the sentence does not end in a verb....and other situations....almost like a period.
Or, for the Canadians out there..."eh"
desu = thank you.... you made me laugh.
HARDY-HARR-HARR
Pools closed!!!
I've heard of a cop who had the name Rob Banks
im in ur blogspot
forcin mah memes
Norman Lear named his daughter Shanda.
Get it? Shanda Lear?
you retards!!!
Nice :D
I like to have sex with dogs. But only sexy dogs.
My friend's two middle school teachers got married a few years ago. Ms. Chin and Mr. Hickey. Yes, now she is Mrs. Chin-Hickey.
IM CHARGIN MAH LAZER!!
O rlly?
My stepmom knew someone named Harry Dick.
apologies if this blogpost is going into fark like territory, but those newspaper cuttings just made me laugh out loud.
My friend went to school with an Ophelia Dickey. Her parents named her after that chick in Hamlet, lol sounds unbelieveable I know but its true. How unfortunate for her.
my friend in middle schools last name was Hoare and his mothers maiden name was Waters.
When she married she took Hoare as her last name... but what makes it worse were her first and middle name.. and i SWEAR i'm not making this up...
Shirley Ima Hoare
swear to God...
Are you happy now?
This blog is spam heaven
Growing up there was a neighbor whose parents named her "Ophelia Butts". Somehow I don't think they ever sounded out the name before they put it on the birth certificate.
thhen the was the couple that called thier poor kid drew thier surname was peacock... retards
I am a third cousin to Pepper Roni
Real Company in the Kitchener-Waterloo Area.
Cumming-Cockburn
(I hear a little penecillin will clear that right up )
no joke, woman at work, surname is "osuch-goodhead"
Remember the Boise State player that proposed to his girlfriend on national t.v. If they hyphenated thier name it would be Papadick-Johnson.
Remember the Boise State Bronco football played that propsed to his girlfriend on nation t.v. Her name Papadick; his name Johnson = Papadick-Johnson.
Anon says: "desu is a Japanese word which has no meaning, other than to convey politeness. It is used at the end of a sentence, when the sentence does not end in a verb"
No, it is none of that. It is a verb. It is the "be" verb: is/am/are. A plain old "be" verb, nothing remarkable about it at all. LOOK IT UP.
Which has nothing to do with the topic at hand. So let's drop it.
I LOL'D!!
DESU in the 4chan sense is a way of showing appreciation.
So is it any worse than writing 'Thank you' or 'LOL' or 'rofl' or 'that was funny'?
You have to respect the way in which others express themselves.
Photoshopped.
my husband knew a Richard Head
My middle name is Darin, last name Dickey. That's Darin(g) Dickey. My dad wanted to call me by my middle name, and I kinda wish they had.
My wife and I were the "black-cox" wedding. Signs were plastered all over the location where we were married pointing people to the "black-cox" wedding.
And no, we didn't hyphenate, but our mailbox in our apartment still says "black cox"
OK--one more from my childhood, I remember the advert for a plumbing firm on the telephone book cover:
Crapp & Murphy!
You people are some serious morons.
These people didn't hyphenate their names!!!!
When papers print the weddings section, they write the last names of both parties involved. It's to show the union of two families.
I went to high school with a guy named Laustin Woods. Gotta wonder what some parents are thinking.
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No joke... There's a fishing gear store a couple towns over from me that's called Master Bait & Tackle.
my son and his cousin are both
I. Ruyle (rule)....although i must admit i was tempted to name him Shine....so i could introduce him as my Son Shine...i'm just not that cruel
I had an old girlfriend with the last name Hunt. Her parents named her younger brother Michael. He got real pissed if you referred to him as Mike. It was Michael. I always thought her parents were idiots.
My wife works in a pharmacy. One of the clients has a hyphenated last name of Dixon-Butz. I guess some people just don't think or are clueless to what it might mean.
went to school with wayne king
my sister was the capt. of the debate team in high school. i think she did this on purpose tho.
on her letter jacket under her name she had them stitch in "Master Debater" ... no joke
I have a friend named Phu Ken Luong!
In high school I knew a family with the last name of Hale.
Named their kids:
Summer
Autumn
Winter
Rainy
Seasons
My parents were friends with a nice couple with a fine old Dutch name with the Americanized spelling, "Titsworth." They had a son, and named the poor kid Randolph.
Honest.
When I worked as a journalist for the Geelong Independent, the editor there was a Dick Horniblow - no joke,
OK, I'm making a night of this...
Google, in quotes, Funny engagement announcements.
Google Shanda Lear
Go here:
http://www.myarcadeplanet.com/home/showthread.php?t=1320
And that last guy, I can believe it!!
I went to school with two guys named Mison and Urson, the folks were going to name the other kids (if they had any more boys) Hison, Herson and Ourson. They had a sister named Ramona and their last name was Lasagne.
I knew a girl in school whose cousin was named Ima Jean Beaver, you can see why she used her middle name....
think i might do another blogpost based on on the comments above.
very funny stories. and thanks for commenting - really appreciate it!
Every year the Indian High Commission in London has a lunch for politicians. For the last three years it has been hosted by a government minsiter called: Sheila Dikshit.
My college sociology class was discussing this. Two students "Ima Street" and her fiance "Dave Walker" didn't like the result: "Ima Street-Walker"!
I went to school with a guy named Robert James! We called him...are you sitting down for this?...Bob!! He married a gal named...Kathy! And named their kids Megan, Andrew, and Michael!!! Can you even comprehend this shiite? My name is actually Walter Melon, my dad is Tyrone Shoelaces, and my brother's dad is Ben Dover!!! My father is Heywood Jablowmee!! My mom is Ima Cummins and she married Harry Pupenshute. My dad's wife is Olive Bubezilott!! And I have a Saudi brother...Sheik Yabooti!! My mother was born Lucy Cootsch... Ophilia Innmeenow is my sister, and my only brother...his name is Jack Meehoff. My only sister is Barb E. Dahl, and my mom calls my dad Izzy Innyett!! My father's real name is I. C. Yarrizen. and my little brother is Phil McCrackin. My dad is Buster Hymen. My brother's dad is Peter Gozinnia. My brother's name is Phillip Oliver Krevassis!!
-from Niel Anblowme
A high school sweet heart of mine was named Dewanna Ball. I finally had to break up with her because she did.... with everyone.
There is a real estate agent in Ottawa named Anita Hoare.
Do Anita Hoare?
No, I need a real estate agent.
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I worked with a lady named Pat Hartz. Not funny. All of her computer logins were 'phartz' by default. Kinda funny.
My mate went to school in Sheffield with a lad called Sean Bush.
Better than that is a guy called Robert Sunter who owned a butchers in Salford called "R Sunters". This went on for years through the 1950's, until someone pointed it out in the 1960's. He changed the name FAST.
In school, I was looking through a new list of freshmen (last-names-first format) and there was this student (presumably Korean) whose name read: Oh, So-Young. I laughed so hard in the hallway, people probably thought I was insane. Haha.
HAHAHA !!!! wow that's tell ya those couples are IDOL matches lol
Speaking of IDOLS who was your favourite American Idol so far?
vote in: idolornot.net be a sport :)
HAHAHA !!!! wow that's tell ya those couples are IDOL matches lol
Speaking of IDOLS who was your favourite American Idol so far?
vote in: idolornot.net be a sport :)
HAHAHA !!!! wow that's tell ya those couples are IDOL matches lol
Speaking of IDOLS who was your favourite American Idol so far?
vote in: http://www.idolornot.net and be a sport :)
growing up there was on my paper route a french pastry shop called:
MASTER
BAKERS
One of my best friends growing up's dad's name was Mark Clark.
My moms name is Bating and my dads name is Bear. The slaves at our plantation always called me Master Bating-Bear.
I'm just kidding wit'ya <:o)
rofl :D
Dugg It!
--
Sneezy Melon
(http://sneezymelon.blogspot.com)
My cousin told me of her classmate in college. Mike Oxbig.
my brother told me of a phill McCrackin
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