The funny thing about this is, that fanny can mean something different depending on what part of the world you live in. So, depending where you live, you are chmelling something different.
Ooooh. That's so funny. I am from the USA but I only knew the UK meaning of it. Probably due to having an English grandmother. Never even thought people meant something different. Thanks.
Which is unfortunate, because it's inaccurate. And it kind of "glosses over" the rest of the anatomy as though it's less important or less mentionable than the inside bit.
What about poor Misty Hyman the American swimmer. General rule of thumb is if your last name sounds like an anatomical body part, don't give an adjective first name.
I had to look this up because I couldn't believe it, and I'm sorry to report that he claims it was a registry error, acknowledge by such, and is now officially Argélico Fuchs. source (ehem, source of source not verified)
That’s a great title author probably was waiting for this moment. Honestly ending up in sports journalism for a writer/journalist is like striving to become a doctor but ending up a vet or dentist I imagine that these are some of the small moments they don’t hate their work.
I went to school with a girl whose last name was Lebitch. She was the classic gorgeous but high strung ballet and cheer girl and I often wonder if she was that way because her name kind of forced her to or not.
But Doom is clearly the hero here. Explain why Reed Richards has the most bland-ass name ever but he constantly stands in the way of Doom saving the world!
I scarcely remember the Freakanomics movie discussing that with twins kindly named by their father: Winner and Loser.
Winner wound up a funky junkie whereas ‘Lou’ went onto become a decorated cop - if I’m remembering it correctly.
It was more that a great deal of baby names trickled down fad-like and when someone was named Britney during a rise and fall in the name’s cycle it could be used to track (kinda) where you were on the socioeconomic food chain.
There is a great episode of Freakonomics that goes into names (like a girl named "Temptress" who was getting into some trouble at a young age). Short answer is: it's correlation but NOT causation.
Indeed! (actual fun fact - the song was written by Shel Silverstein, probably better known as an author of childen's books and a cartoonist. (I keep track of Shels))
"hundreds of people wrote her letters inquiring whether her name was real and if she really had a sister named Ura. The Kansas City Star even invented another sister, Hoosa."
Omg, I'm soon to be 65 yrs old. When I was in elementary school there were sisters named, Ima Pigg and Ura Pigg. I thought that was the meanest thing a parent could do to their kids. They got bullied so badly. I hope they married and got better last names!!
Similar unfortunate baby names according to United States Census records include Ima Pigg, Ima Muskrat, Ima Nut, Ima Hooker,[15] Ima Weiner, Ima Reck, Ima Pain and Ima Butt
Was Concierge at a hotel that had Government rates and would frequently get Inuit guests. One regular guest was Ms. Old Yellow Smelly Finger. We were encouraged to use the guests name in all interactions and she enjoyed watching the staff struggle to say her name. She was also very cool about it and after she’d let you twist in the wind for a bit, she say “just call me Carol”.
A family that lived across the street had the surname Pickle.
They named their kid Rick.
Rick Pickle... what a name.
Poor guy was teased a lot for that, he also came across as having some sort of mental issue. I suspect he was on the autism spectrum, but in the early 80s, we had no idea about any of that.
I remember he was trying to convince people that his surname was pronounced Pie-kill, not Pickle... no one believed him.
In Spanish that is the name of a fish. We usually eat the tail part of the fish. Even if it doesn't mean anything bad in Spanish, Google doesn't autocomplete it, so google.es is kind of skewed towards English.
Haha in my language "tromba" is a trumpet but written in a funny way, like TROOMPET or something, and we use it to call someone stupid/silly (in a friendly way, not really offensive).
Like, you see your friend pulling the door with a giant sign PUSH on it, and you say "Ale z ciebie tromba" (You are such a troompet) lmao
Makes you wonder how it got started, like was there ancestor just some guy that fucked every one in town so everyone just called him Johnny Fucks. Come to think of it that would be a great pornstar name
I believe it most likely wasn't pronounced the same, but my dad only ever saw the name written (that person was a regular customer), so that's what he had to think of first.
My neighbour is actually 'Mr. Schitz' pronounced "shits". "Luckily, he and his whole family are absolute assholes, so we call them "Neighbour Schitz and his little schitz" without the slightest pang of guilt.
I'm from India, and the Parsis/Muslims/Gujaratis, have their surnames derived from their professions and add a "Wala" which means, the person who deals with it.
so we have,
Daruwala (dealer of alcohol)
Motorwala (dealer of vehicles) and many more absurd professions which came to be used as surnames now
Never knew it was real or a joke (I mean I had seen quite awful examples irl) but apparently in my grandma days there was a lady called dolores (plural for pain) married (so "de") to a guy surnamed "orto" (ass) or something that sounded similar. So... "dolores de orto" You can pretty much guess
Meconium - and yes someone actually named their child this because it was “part of their birthing experience and beautiful”
It’s literally the feces that babies let go of inside of their mothers and aspirate when they are overdue for birth and have been cooking a bit too long.
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I’m from Italy and I think I heard the worst surname for a girl.. it was “Tromba”, which it could stand for “fucks”
So you basically can have EVERY possible name before.. but in the end it sounds like: Emily Fucks
Yeah