I have a friend Faith and for a year she was studying abroad in Germany. During that year, we made many jokes along the lines of "I would make a faith pun here, but I'm afraid Faith will teleport from Germany to to take revenge" And then other times we would just lement how we lost our Faith. She's a good sport =3
If my dad had his way and if i was born a boy, i would have been named after my dads lizard... its name was Dabahed
I can't see the name Ragnar anymore without my inner voice scream-whispering 'the Red' -something something skyrim trash-
shit i know the name of the next Johnny Zest child thats fuckin perf nickname would be Ella tho since he isn't a monster how would one make that male? Chris?
My parents' joke names for me before I was born include: Rotifer Stentor (scientific names for small aquatic organisms, my mom is a marine biologist) Mizithra Brie (cheeses) Cholmondely Featherstonhaugh St. John (pronounced "Chumley Fanshaw Sinjin")
I had a friend in middle school who swore she was going to have two kids and name the first one Wolfgang and the second one Puck. I never wanted children, ever, so I've never considered what I'd name them.
I have an online friend with 17 names. not sure if they're all middle or first names, since she goes by several different names depending on which group of friends she's with. another friend's first name is ailim, and another friend's middle name is orbit.
Kind of unrelated, but larping names are fun. Some of them you give yourself, some you get from families, and some of them, you earn. In amtgard my middle name is Bearfucker.
I go by Brie, Lily, or Sea, depending sadly no one has given me any ferret based nicknames I still kinda want to name a kid River edit: i forgot Borny
I have never LARPed but I want to but aside from that, I am just a Cedar or Eevee mostly Cedar, though
i've got Everett, Cai, [actual first name], Ceil, Cyril.. although nobody calls me anything but my actual name and sometimes Cai. But i do go "it me" when i see the name Everett or Cyril
When I was in elementary school, there was a guy in my class named Thong. It was pronounced 'Tong' and I don't think remember anyone in our grade giving him shit over it, but I also wasn't surprised years later on facebook that he changed his name to Tom.
Was he Vietnamese, by any chance? I looked it up out of curiosity and it seems like Thong is a fairly accepted Vietnamese given name--albeit yeah, definitely not the best choice for a child in an English-speaking country.
IIRC there's a dialect of English in which 'thong' means 'jandal', which is a specific type of sandal that's also called a 'flipflop'.
I never was close enough to him to know, but he was definitely something southeast asian. If I had to make a guess, I'd say vietnamese or thai, but it's been ages since I saw him, and we never really talked much.