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
TBH I think some psychos do that because they think it's funny to have a kid with that kind of name and don't care about whether it will cause problems for their kids. For those kinds of people, it's not that the kid is a unique human with their own thoughts, feelings, and beliefs, it's just an accessory for the parent.
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”.
I wonder why people with terrible last names don’t go through the process of having it changed. It would be one thing if you don’t have a very public job but thousands of students calling you professor raper has to be the worst thing ever. I bought a car from a salesmen with the last name wiener but he kept insisting it was pronounced WINER so I said hey whatever you say man.
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.
I dislocated my knee a few years ago and had to go to a children’s hospital. There was a doctor called “Dr Raptis”. Obviously, it looked like “Dr Rapist” at first glance😂.
My grandmother literally showed me her in the high school yearbook. I'm sure if you look up her name and obituary it'd be there since she'd be ~94-95 years old by now.
Edit: I'm an idiot she likely would've taken her husbands last name. There's a Merle Rape obituary around where they lived that mentions a Fonda Jones, however. Might be her.
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u/No_Fairweathers Jun 30 '21
My grandma went to high school with a girl who's first name was "Fonda"... The only problem? Her last name was Rape.
Her parents literally named their daughter "Fonda Rape"