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monster 06-22-2010 10:35 AM
One of my kids has a friend called Marley Beaver. Poor thing.

classicman 06-22-2010 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by jinx (Post 665416)
I had a friend named Windy. Also one named Stormy, although they didn't know each other...
We have a stormie here too.

Sheldonrs 06-22-2010 12:03 PM
Not so much weird name as weird coincidence.

I had just got off the phone with someone who's last name is Moriarty. When I reached for the next donation form to process, the name it is in Memory of is Sherlock! :eek:

Rhianne 06-22-2010 12:47 PM
Not too weird, there was a Joe King, presumably Joseph, where I worked about ten years ago.

Clodfobble 06-22-2010 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Gravdigr
FWIW: I've read that the name Wendy is recorded nowhere in history before the story about Peter Pan.
The Straight Dope says no, although they agree it gave a major popularity boost to what was a pretty uncommon name at the time.

Spexxvet 06-23-2010 12:11 PM
Bill Lear, who invented the Lear Jet, named his daughter Shanda, as in Shanda Lear.

Pie 06-23-2010 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 665415)
FWIW: I've read that the name Wendy is recorded nowhere in history before the story about Peter Pan.
Nope.

Quote:
J. M. Barrie did not invent the name Wendy for his 1904 play Peter Pan, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (the book form of the story, Peter and Wendy, was published in 1911). He did popularize it, though.
[...]
But we have absolute proof that there were earlier Wendys, thanks to the just-released 1880 U.S. Census and the 1881 British Census (available here). These documents show that the name Wendy, while not common, was indeed used in both the U.S. and Great Britain throughout the 1800s. I had no trouble finding twenty females with the first name Wendy in the United States, the earliest being Wendy Gram of Ohio (born in 1828). If you include such spelling variations as Windy, Wendi, Wenda, and Wandy the number triples.

Shawnee123 06-23-2010 12:21 PM
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Bill Lear, who invented the Lear Jet, named his daughter Shanda, as in Shanda Lear
She was a bright girl. It was so sad when she hung herself.

Undertoad 06-23-2010 12:26 PM
:sweat:you killed me with that one shaw :lol: :lol:

Spexxvet 06-23-2010 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 665769)
She was a bright girl. It was so sad when she hung herself.
Double bonus points!

wanderer 06-25-2010 04:41 AM
I don't know if this should be in list of weird names or list of long names. But we have got this guy from South India working for us. He's named:
"Kinnera Srinivasa Ravishankara Kumara"
(I didn't even remembered it (other than that its really long). Just copy-pasted it from his mail :D)

Clodfobble 06-25-2010 04:04 PM
Better hope he never googles himself. :)

jinx 06-25-2010 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by wanderer (Post 666259)
we have got this guy from South India working for us. He's named:
"Kinnera Srinivasa Ravishankara Kumara"
Better than Michael Bolton at least...

ZenGum 06-25-2010 06:30 PM
I rather enjoyed paging Mr Supakit Charnvanichborikoran at the library where I worked.

Gravdigr 06-26-2010 03:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 665627)
The Straight Dope says no, although they agree it gave a major popularity boost to what was a pretty uncommon name at the time.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pie (Post 665767)
That's an interesting article. Thanks, to both of you, for pointing it out. Twice.:)


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