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2006-07-31 20:24:32 · 13 answers · asked by simon r 1 in Entertainment & Music Jokes & Riddles

Douglas Adams lives on .

2006-07-31 20:45:34 · update #1

Unknown...very good .This is looking good .

2006-07-31 20:51:26 · update #2

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I once had a man who came to my counter named, and I promise that I am not making this up . . . Unknown Whiskey

I am a car rental agent at the airport in my town, and when this man came to my counter to rent a car I asked him for his driver's license and credit card. He handed them to me, and I began entering his DL information. When I came to his last name, I stopped, picked up the license and asked the man, "Why are you handing me a fake ID?". He, very politely, laughed, and showed me paycheck stubs from his employer with the name Unknown Whiskey printed on them.

He then explained of how he got his name. When he was born, his mother passed away, and his father was nowhere to be found. The state he was born in immediately placed him into the foster care system, and at that time (the man was born in the early 1930's), there wasn't anyone available to sign a birth certificate or anything of that nature so he was given the name Unknown Baby Boy.

Not wanting to always be known as Unknown Baby Boy, he went to court and had his name legally changed to Unknown Whiskey, because that was his favorite drink, and that is how the man got his name.

I promise this is a true story . . . I couldn't make this up on my BEST day.

2006-07-31 20:46:53 · answer #1 · answered by GottaGo 3 · 1 0

Moon Unit Zappa continually regarded like a unusual one to me. I take care of someone at artwork by using digital mail named David Putz. a minimum of his moms and dads did not call him Dick. yet, wow, at the same time as i look on the toddler Names area the following on YA, i will't trust lots of the names those human beings choose to saddle their little ones with. of their quest to be unique or diverse, they're no longer somewhat wondering about what the little ones ought to ought to flow by, or how those names will look on a resume. Edit: Alistair, there's a singer named Engelbert Humperdinck (genuine call Gerry Dorsey), yet he took that call from a German composer (1854-1921). Watch Eddie Izzard's "gown to Kill" DVD the position he talks about how he'd have loved to be in the room at the same time as they made the alternative to regulate Jerry Dorsey to Engelbert Humperdinck.

2016-11-27 05:30:30 · answer #2 · answered by peirson 4 · 0 0

Ms Ridiculouso Namo De Unrealo

2006-08-01 02:35:24 · answer #3 · answered by Newme 3 · 0 0

When my mom was in the hospital to give birth to me, she says the people down the hall from her named their newborn Shannon Ann McClanahan. Say that five times fast.

2006-07-31 20:32:42 · answer #4 · answered by 42ITUS™ 7 · 0 0

my great grandmother's name was Jewel. Her sister's names were Ruby, Hazel and Bacardi 151.

2006-08-01 04:41:39 · answer #5 · answered by one4_420 2 · 0 0

My son new a kid with the name Gamama. I swear I'm not making this up.

2006-08-03 18:09:10 · answer #6 · answered by cndnchop75 2 · 0 0

Funny names may adorn your family tree

By Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG


They called her "Tribby," but she was baptized Through-Much-Tribulation-We- Enter-into-the-Kingdom-of-Heaven Crabb. Don't laugh. She may be your ancestress. Or one of your pious great-great-great-grandfathers may be named Freelove. You could discover on a 1658 jury panel list the names of some of your Puritan ancestors: Stand- Fast-on-High Stringer, Be-of-Good-Comfort Small, Search- the-Scriptures Moreton or Preserved Uttley.

Beginning, as well as advanced, genealogists find their research amputated somewhere along the way because of names — surnames, first names and nicknames. Our ancestors' names have been recorded, reported and distorted every which way. Successful genealogical research depends on developing two talents dealing with names: A good ear to hear names with myriad accents and a vivid imagination to figure out ways they could have been spelled.

It's a jungle out there in old records. Your Phoebe, can turn up listed as Febe or Phebe or as initials, P.A. or F.A. (for Phoebe Ann). Eunice has been found spelled phonetically by a census taker as "Unis." Sometimes clerks simply could not spell or did not write clearly, or the ink smeared. Poor spelling turned one of my ancestors named Mordecai into a "Mountain." William Shakespeare's surname has been found spelled 93 ways. The world's greatest dramatist's surviving signatures are indecipherable. Some are identical to my doctor's hieroglyphics.

When large families — 10 to 15 children — were common, the given names of our ancestors are intriguing and revealing. In some families naming customs were followed so closely that you can determine the names of all four grandparents, once you know the names of the first two sons and two daughters. Frequently the first son was named for the father's father and the second son for the mother's father, with the first daughter given the maternal grandmother's name and No. 2 daughter was named for her paternal grandmother. In some ethnic groups this custom is reversed or only partially followed. Our ancestors seldom left written explanations as to why they bestowed such names as Comfort, Tonsilitis, Experience, Crazy Bull, Increase, Ebenezer, Creature, Abijah, United, Gottfried, April First or Obadiah on their offspring.

According to Elsdon C. Smith in The Story of Our Names, there was a Cox family in North Carolina who gave its 11 children names beginning with "Z" — Zadie, Zadoc, Zeber, Zylphia, Zenobia, Zeronial, Zeslie, Zeola, Zero, Zula and Zelbert. In West Virginia, a Rogers couple evidently used the weather to name their eight children: Winter, Snow, Icy, Frost, Hale, Raine, June and Day. Was Day the only child born in the daytime? Or was he or she born on just an ordinary day? Naming patterns such as these can keep family historians sleuthing for years.

Genealogical research often reveals some of our ancestors changed their names — usually the surnames, but occasionally they discarded given names (sometimes for obvious reasons). I've often wondered what my ancestor Greenberry was called by his school chums. It's difficult not to chuckle while filling out family group sheets when the children are called Dicey, Penelope, Mourning, Etheldred, Needham, Lazarus, Demarias, Zilpah, Celah and Obedience. They may be my relatives, but their names sure sound funny to my 20th-century ears.

Our immigrant ancestors may not have been able to spell their names, at least not in English, so they told officials their name and they wrote it as it sounded to them. Names that were difficult to pronounce or spell were often changed. Many were translated to an English equivalent, so don't overlook any clues to your family's original surname. Families often have traditions about members changing the spelling of the surname because of a quarrel or because they did not want to be identified with a disliked relative or neighbor. Sometimes they changed their names simply because America was a new beginning and they did not want anything to remind them of an unhappy past.

Semantics sometimes was the reason for a surname change. Some perfectly good European and Asian surnames sounded funny to Americans. Immigrants in general were eager to conform to their new home and their children even more so.

Study the naming patterns you discover and pay attention to the given names in all your lines — not only can they be genealogical clues, but they're part of your family history.

2006-07-31 20:31:57 · answer #7 · answered by shaffer56 3 · 0 0

Jason Lee's kid is named Pilot Inspektor. hahahaa

2006-07-31 20:28:52 · answer #8 · answered by ♫ Abby ♫ 4 · 0 0

Mike Hunt. hahaha!

2006-07-31 20:32:55 · answer #9 · answered by Knoxy 2 · 0 0

My name is Fawn

2006-08-02 21:54:53 · answer #10 · answered by ifawnzilla 2 · 1 0

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