Think before you name your children

This can not be true! I refuse to believe that a person would name their child Popolon!!!!!!!!


"Hello, My name is Large Vagina Rosario Fortuna!!!"


ROFLMAF

mariel said:

CUCA FELIZ SEGURA

GUEBIN RONDON DE LA CRUZ

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"Srta. Cuca Segura, acepta ud. al Sr. Gueb?n Rond?n como esposo?"

"Cuca y Gueb?n, los pronuncio marido y mujer."

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"Diablo, t?guere, anoche me visitaron Cuca y Gueb?n; la pasamos de lo mas bien."

I have the email with the cedula numbers.

I also have a collegue named Kiero Guerra and Know a Hitler and a Mussolini...two brothers of an Italian guy who came here in the early 30s...

HB

mariel said:

CUCA FELIZ SEGURA

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But this one can't be real: feliz y segura al mismo tiempo? Too good to be true.

Hello my name is Large Vagina Rosario Fortuna.....too funny.

I once lived in avillage in the UK where one of the families were called Hunt. The father was called Lionel and ran a butcher's shop in the nearby large town.
He called his son Mark.......

morlandg said:

I once lived in avillage in the UK where one of the families were called Hunt. The father was called Lionel and ran a butcher's shop in the nearby large town.
He called his son Mark.......

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:ermm:Mark no :bunny:MIKE:cheeky::laugh:

I know a lady who married a Mr Christmas and her name was Marry
also another ..a man called Andrew Peacock know to his close friends as Drew

all true..

Skippy

Mr. Lu said:

This can not be true! I refuse to believe that a person would name their child Popolon!!!!!!!!


"Hello, My name is Large Vagina Rosario Fortuna!!!"


ROFLMAF

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I thought popolo and popola were two different things? Heck, if not - how did we end up having all these kids??? hahah

mariel said:

LOL, what about "Herpes"?

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I met one, but he spells it Jerpis.

blogs.law.harvard.edu/dowbrigade/2007/01/09/the-kingdom-of-strange-names


CARACAS, Venezuela - As university students clashed with the police in this country last May, attention focused not just on their demands to hold elections without government meddling but also on the names of the two leaders organizing the protests: Nixon Moreno and Stalin Gonz�lez.

Many Venezuelans had a good laugh at the names and went on with their business. What’s so odd, after all, about the occasional Nixon or Stalin in a nation where bestowing bizarre names on newborns has become a whimsically colorful tradition?

A glance through a phone book or the government’s voter registry reveals names like Taj-Mahal S�nchez, Elvis Presley Gomez Morillo, Darwin Lenin Jimenez, even Hitler Eufemio Mayora. Other Venezuelan first names, which roll off the tongue about as easily in Spanish as in English, include Yusmairobis, Nefertitis, Yaxilany, Riubalkis, Debraska, as well as Yesaid? and Juan Jondre — transliterations of “Yes, I do” and “One hundred.”

from the New York Times

We read the above article in the Week in Review and had to laugh. Not because the Venezuelan names were so weird, but because we have spent time in a place where the names are MUCH weirder.
The province of Manabi, along the Pacific coast of Ecuador, has got to be the world capital of weird names. Where else could you find Conflicto Internacional (International Conflict) Loor living next door to Himno Nacional (National Anthem) Salgado?

Weird names in Manabi are something of a sport, a tradition and a regional idiosyncrasy in Manabi. When an Ecuadorian national newspaper organized a competition a few years ago to find the area with the strangest names, it was called the "Second Strangest Names in the Nation Competition" because it went without saying that Manabi had the top prize.

We know whereof we speak, as Manabi also happens to be the home province of our lovely and supremely tolerant spouse Norma Yvonne. Over the years, on multiple visits, we have met Martes Trece Santana (in South America Tuesday the 13th is the equivalent of Friday the 13th, making this guy Friday Thirteenth Santana) and Mar Pacifico (Pacific Ocean) Andrade.
Tomas, Jaime and Juan are in the minority here. Parents in Manabi like to use babies’ names to commemorate both happy and sad life events. Take, for example. Perfecta Circuncision (Perfect Circumcision) Hidalgo and Cadena Perpetua (Life Sentence) Vasquez.

Sometimes Civic Milestones are memorialized in names, like Inda Zambrano, named for the Spanish initials of the National Institute of Agrarian Development, or Autoridad Portuaria (Port Authority) Centeno.

Other first names from the official Civil Registry include Querido Ecuador (Dear Ecuador), Se�or Licenciado (Mister Professional), Se�or Jesucristo (Mister Jesus Christ) and Semen de los Dioses (Semen of the Gods). In this country, giving a kid a name like that would constitute child abuse.
Parents also like to name their progeny after favorite products or brand names: Coca-Cola and Burguer King are well-known men about town. Norma knows Eveready Pilar Valencia Vasquez.

We suppose these names seem less weird in a province where one of the biggest cities is Jipijapa (pronounced "Hippy-Hoppa") and smaller towns have names like Tripa de Pollo (Chicken Tripe), Dos Culos (Two Assholes) and Caga Fuego (****s Fire). One town has as its official name a slang term which translates loosely to "Horny Town".

The rest of the country shows the usual Latin attraction to flashy names, with tons of Washingtons, Lincolns and even a few Stalins and Hitlers. But no one we spoke to knew why Manabi went so over the top as to make the Venezuelan names which prompted this whole rant seem tame by comparison. The names we mention above came from Norma Yvonne and two articles from the newspaper El Universo (Guayaquil, Ecuador). They are official. legal given names, and we swear we are not making any of this up.
One of the articles did mention that some of these kids petition that their names get changed to normal names on or shortly after their 18th birthday.
The best of the names come with a story attached. One old guy was a scandalous and prolific womanizer who, although happily married, eventually caused another neighbor to become pregnant. They named the child Olvido Romantico (Romantic Mistake).

But our favorite was the poor kid Norma knew growing up who had the unfortunate timing to be born during a crucial soccer match involving his father’s favorite team. He had to answer the roll every morning as Dosauno (Two-to-one) Andrade.

Ecuador, we humbly hand over the weird names title.

Chirimoya said:

I met one, but he spells it Jerpis.

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Oh, well, that's not too bad then.

I was a pharmaceutical rep in a previous life and used to call on an OB/GYN in Western Massachusetts named Dr. Harry Beaver. They couldn't keep his business cards stocked and finally gave up putting them out.

RHM

From today's DR1 daily news (brief ends with link to this thread, I left that bit out)

Watch your name
The Central Electoral Board (JCE) has passed a resolution prohibiting parents from giving their children odd names. The resolution, seemingly out of place, will prohibit parents from giving their children names that are "extravagant, deceptive, vulgar, foreign or don't allow to clearly determine the child's sex." The measure was passed because of the large number of names in the Civil Registry that make references to the body, clothing lines, commercials, movie characters and vulgar slang terms. Though the Registry is filled with common last names such as Sanchez, Ramirez, Rodriguez and Martinez, Dominicans have become experts on thinking up creative names for their children. Some examples include "Baby Ruth Tejada", "Nat King Cole Martinez Mejia", "Daewoo Garcia", "Mazda Ramirez" and "Herpes Montero."
For a small list of peculiar, but genuine names, click here:

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All very well, but where do you draw the line? I thought the twins with the same name (can't remember exactly; the pronunciation was identical but the spelling slightly different - like Jeimy and Jeymi) should definitely not have been allowed!

One of Yris's students names is STEAL. Growing up in the late 60's, early 70's, many of the children I went to school with had names like Moonbean, Ocean, Sky Blue, Canoe, Kayak....etc. It's not just Dominicans that do this; remember the NBA basketball player "World be free"

I know somebody whose Spanish name is "Vicious Pains" LOL

With A Name Like Schmuckers ...

I once encountered a nasty IRS agent with the name Richard Scooge, who, appropriately enough, went by the name: Dick. I couldn't resist suggesting he see a doctor to get rid of it.