Hello you awesome people,

Friends are having a boy and everyone they know wants to push a name on the child. So I decided to be the best friend they could have and to offer only bad, ugly or horrendous names to the lucky parents so they could have a laugh. I already send them some names and dictators, Smeagol, Steve and Juan-Esteban.

So please, people or Lemmy, give me the worst names you could give a child, so that I can help them as a good friend!

Ps: don't worry, I've already planned some meals to drop off when the gremlin will be there to feed the parents. And some take-out vouchers so they won't get food poisoning

        • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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          10 months ago

          Well, there's a bit of context behind it:

          The name is a meme in Poland and comes from the 1969 adventure-comedy mini-series Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową (How I unleashed World War 2).

          In the second episode, the main character is in hiding insideof Nazi Germany after escaping from a Prisoner of War camp. He is eventually arrested for an unrelated reason and this is the fake name he gives to the German bureaucrat using the typewriter. Unsurprisingly, he is baffled by the spelling, especially once he gets it right... since he gets an even more difficult fake birthplace to spell by the MC.

          Edit: If you mean Grzegorz, it means George and isn't too difficult, I suppose.

  • marketsnodsbury@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Open a random page in any P. G. Wodehouse novel and you’re good to go! Gussie Fink-Nottle, Bingo Little, Kipper Herring, Stiffy Byng. Or, my personal fave, add in an extra letter like he did for his character Psmith, where, he explains, the “p” is silent, "as in pshrimp.”

    • ElGosso [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      Those are awful names for people but fantastic names for bands.

    • Yerbouti@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      Were I'm from (Québec), this name is always associate with difficult hyperactive kids. It's like a running joke "This classroom is full of Kevin". One of my good friend is a Kevin, he find that quite funny.

      • ElGosso [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        Down here in the states Kevin is normally associated with the Call of Duty demographic stereotype - a young (15-25) dumb pothead who drinks too much Monster and punches holes in drywall when he gets mad.

  • Susaga@ttrpg.network
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    10 months ago

    There's a classic Japanese story about a boy called Jugemu Jugemu Gokō-no Surikire Kaijarisuigyo-no Suigyōmatsu Unraimatsu Fūraimatsu Kuunerutokoro-ni Sumutokoro Yaburakōji-no Burakōji Paipopaipo Paipo-no Shūringan Shūringan-no Gūrindai Gūrindai-no Ponpokopii-no Ponpokonā-no Chōkyūmei-no Chōsuke. That's all the first name. No nicknames allowed.

    • muddi [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      Oh man this is stirring up some memories from early grade school about an English version of this that we used to sing about a boy with a long name and his younger brother.

      I always wondered if that was just the moral of the story: don't give your children long names. Which my parents did to me 😡

      • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        I remember this too, part of the name was like "tik terry tembo"

        • muddi [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          Ah yep that triggered the full memory for me...it was a book called Tikki Tikki Tempo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikki_Tikki_Tembo

  • deathfoam@infosec.pub
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    10 months ago
    • J'nathan
    • Lester
    • Krang
    • Schawghn - pronounced Sean
    • Sponk - halfway between Spock and Spunk
    • Clippy
    • Korn
    • Hootenanny
    • Dan-The-Man - short for Danimal-The-One-And-Only-Manimal
    • Skeet