Bad, Hilarious, Or Just Absurd Baby Names

Discussion in 'General Chatter' started by Acey, Oct 5, 2016.

  1. context-free anon

    context-free anon Well-Known Member

    well virtue names are a thing so... i guess vice names could be too?
     
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  2. Acey

    Acey hand extended, waiting for a shake

    I seem to recall Discworld (I think it was Discworld) having a set of brothers named after vices and sins, with their sisters being named after virtues.
     
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  3. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    Yep! The Carters in Lancre. Chastity Carter is a """seamstress""" and Bestiality Carter is always very kind to animals.
     
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  4. thegrimsqueaker

    thegrimsqueaker 28 Moribunding Mouse Aggravates the Angry Assholes

     
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  5. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    And then in The Truth there's a one-off mention that Catastrophe Carter was just born and, despite rumor, is not a snake. :::PPP
     
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  6. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    Not bad, but might have been kinda awkward if they ever read LotR: just encountered a name which appears to be pronounced exactly like a geographic feature in Lord of the Rings. (Not going to say what it is because they're the first thing that comes up when you Google it.)
     
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  7. esotericPrognosticator

    esotericPrognosticator still really excited about kobolds tbqh

    isn't that. the name of yeast infection critters?? WHY WOULD YOU NAME YOUR CHILD AFTER A VAGINA FUNGUS
     
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  8. Everett

    Everett local rats so small, so tiny

    I got curious and searched facebook for "candida" and went to "people"

    In addition to the one girl's aunt, a coworker apparently went to university with a Candida too? I counted 20 more people but it doesn't show how many there are in total so i'll just stop there. Some appear to be italian where maybe it has a different meaning?

    But yeah everyone please stop naming your kids after bacteria

    Edit: fungus, rather.
     
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  9. esotericPrognosticator

    esotericPrognosticator still really excited about kobolds tbqh

    yeah, I think it means "truthful" in Italian, like "candid." 's one of those virtue names.
     
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  10. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    Considering Candide, I think variations on the name definitely predate it meaning "crotch rot." :::PPP
     
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  11. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

    Well, it wasn't an actual name then either. It was pretty much a fable so there was no point in giving the characters real-sounding names.
     
  12. Saro

    Saro Where is wizard hut

    Candida albicans, if I remember right.
     
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  13. Saro

    Saro Where is wizard hut

    Pretty bacterial names:

    Nitrospina
    Sphingopyxis
    Aliivibrio
    Burkholderia
    Flexilinea
    Leptospira
    Gemmatimonas
    Escherichia




    (i am joke)
     
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  14. Acey

    Acey hand extended, waiting for a shake

    Honestly, Candida would actually be quite a pretty name if it weren't for the fungus thing.
     
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  15. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    Just ran across a Sam Hill. Can't help but imagine them going, "What in the me?!"
     
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  16. esotericPrognosticator

    esotericPrognosticator still really excited about kobolds tbqh

    is "Sam Hill" one of those euphemistic curses? I think I remember it being used in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, but I might well be wrong about that.
     
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  17. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    Yep.
     
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  18. Chadwick.
     
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  19. a tiny mushroom

    a tiny mushroom the tiniest

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