Talk about your family heirloom
I came across an unusual name when I was editing yesterday.I mean, I'm used to seeing some weird stuff — for example, you wouldn't believe the number of guys whose names are pronounced (I assume) "de-mahn," but are spelled "Demon."
If I ever meet a Demon in real life, I'm going to ask him what his parents were thinking.
But, in my opinion, the name I came across yesterday took the cake. It was downright excessive. Obviously, I can't print it here, but it was "Mr. So-and-So IX."
The ninth?? This name has been passed down the line for nine generations, and nobody's sick of it yet? How many years ago was that — at least a couple hundred, right?
I can't imagine the hilarity that ensues at family reunions.
posted by Kate at 7:11 PM
Copyright 2001-2009, L.K.C.S. It's MINE, all MINE. If you wanna use it, gimme credit and a link, okies? And don't run with scissors, because you're just going to poke somebody's eye out with that thing. No, really. 
2 Comments:
cough first boy is a III cough ^_^
My aunt who works as a social wroker in public schools swesr this is true:
she asked one of her teen mother puils what she named the new baby. the girl replied that the hospital named it for her. my aunt expressed surprise. the girl said it was true, the hospital had named the girl --- and here she said a name that sounded like feh-mah-lee.
my aunt realized a few minutes later that the girl had seen a form at the hospital that said Female, as assumed that that was her baby's name, pronounced feh-mah-lee.
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