the opening credits of "The Chinese Stuntman", which I was watching again because I love the theme music, note that the film guest stars "Ban Rando". Their parents may or may not have named them that. Good movie.
https://youtu.be/XJ2tQUaDxaE?t=263
― Calpico Girlfriend (rushomancy), Sunday, 6 October 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
Tytti Typpurainen
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 13:56 (four years ago) link
lol i was just coming here to post that
― to regain his mental focus, he played video-game golf (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
From the Marshall Efron obit:
Alfa-Betty Olsen
― nickn, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
xxp most of my relatives and my wife's relatives and the relatives of people I grew up with were from Finland and so were always making up fake finnish names that sound vaguely or explicitly obscene because so many of them sort of sound that way already, Tytti being a perfect example.
― joygoat, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
when my dad was a young reporter, his beat covered an area with a lot of Finno-Americans. The bureau concocted an imaginary troublemaker named Wayno Savalampi.
― bendy, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
https://reading.academia.edu/JumblyGrindrod
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 November 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link
Son of Professor Peter Grindrod CBE, apparently. According to his oddly thorough Wikipedia entry the family has four children, "Tom, Chris, Jumbly and Sophie", which raises all kinds of questions.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 3 November 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
It certainly does!
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 November 2019 22:46 (four years ago) link
this is vastly more satisfying than black sheep
"she was always sort of the jumbly grindrod"
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 4 November 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
Kent Heckenlivelyhttps://edel-images.azureedge.net/ea/SS/images/jacket_covers/original/9781510752245_44f1c.jpg
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
Heckenlively is a garbage person, though
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 14 November 2019 01:02 (four years ago) link
Kent Fuckenslimey
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 November 2019 01:15 (four years ago) link
https://images.app.goo.gl/CwHV7Z8C59UzeZJ17
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 14 November 2019 02:02 (four years ago) link
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/FFgAAOSwsbhdsKby/s-l500.jpg
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 14 November 2019 02:05 (four years ago) link
Marx Lenin Dos Santoshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY72nICEg78
― oscar A, Thursday, 14 November 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
Maybe not objectively a great real name but as a reporter on this story...https://i.imgur.com/1DxGphd.png
― joygoat, Thursday, 14 November 2019 21:33 (four years ago) link
So apparently Belinda Carlisle's replacement as drummer for the Germs in 1977 was named Donna Rhia.
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 18 November 2019 04:58 (four years ago) link
Stage name. Recanted!
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 18 November 2019 05:06 (four years ago) link
"Duke political-science professor D. Sunshine Hillygus, one of the study’s authors, emphasized ..."
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-the-depressing-reason-why-russian-trolls-may-have-failed-at-their-mission-to-divide-america-2019-11-26?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=new%20study%20of%20Russian%20efforts&utm_campaign=dukedailydec2
― file of unknown origin (bendy), Monday, 2 December 2019 12:41 (four years ago) link
Lowmoan Spectacular
― epistantophus, Monday, 2 December 2019 12:47 (four years ago) link
couple of great names on the current memphis tigers men's basketball roster:
Boogie EllisPrecious Achiuwa
― andrew m., Monday, 2 December 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athelstan_Spilhaus
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 6 December 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/tulikukka-de-fresnes
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 13:01 (four years ago) link
"Tulikukka" literally means "fireflower"... I've never heard of such a name before, presumably her parents were hippies or something, or she's changed it as an adult.
― Tuomas, Friday, 13 December 2019 08:08 (four years ago) link
Hmm, apparently there are 30 or so people in Finland with that name, so I guess it's not unique.
― Tuomas, Friday, 13 December 2019 08:10 (four years ago) link
Not a name per se but three cheers for the 'first initial of first name + last name' email address convention at this one dude's place of work that resulted in me receiving correspondence from a 'CHUDSON'.
(Although it still doesn't unseat the champion from my last place of work, where our 'first four letters of last name + first initial of first name' username convention surely hung like an albatross around poor P@trick FukuShima's neck.)
― i was so hungry that i ate a hole cake entirely to myself (Old Lunch), Thursday, 19 December 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
Vesto Slipher
― pflōck (P. Flick), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
very Metal gear Solid name
― "Third of the Storms" Jazz (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 11:16 (four years ago) link
One of the Great Great Real Names:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinling_Gibbons
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 11:29 (four years ago) link
Great real dead names: Just saw Hetty Swales on a grave.
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 12:20 (four years ago) link
Septimus Neverson
― pomenitul, Friday, 10 January 2020 16:01 (four years ago) link
Beckham Wheeler-Greenall New ZealandFull name Beckham Reef Wheeler-Greenall
was a toss-up between this thread and 'abysmal real names' tbh but let's be kind to beckham reef wheeler-greenall
― opden gnash (imago), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 20:03 (four years ago) link
Severin Hacker
― We Jam von Economo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 January 2020 00:50 (four years ago) link
Barby Barbara (only became this nane after marriage)
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 January 2020 00:56 (four years ago) link
Tuna Altınel
― pomenitul, Saturday, 25 January 2020 11:25 (four years ago) link
can't believe nobody's mentioned her yet, but.
dua lipa.
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Thursday, 13 February 2020 21:52 (four years ago) link
it's hard for me to think that's something other than "Two Lips" in bad Italian
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 16 February 2020 14:25 (four years ago) link
"Two lips in bad Italian". Sounds like a lyric.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Sunday, 16 February 2020 14:28 (four years ago) link
xp that was my first impression as well.
I find Albanian absolutely fascinating, not only because it's a language isolate within the Indo-European family, but also because there's an unproven theory according to which Dacian, the vanished language spoken by the ancient inhabitants of modern-day Romania (pre-Roman conquest), may have belonged to the same branch as proto-Albanian. In any case, there is a substratum of Romanian words of uncertain origin that are more or less the same in Albanian.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Sunday, 16 February 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
Two lips in bad ItalianA macabre battalionAn attic tatterdemalion
The Addam's family
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 February 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
lol
i was thinking Nomeansno
Only so many songs can be sungWith two lips in bad It-al-ian
also xp pom you're going to send me off on an all night weirdities of language hunt, this happened with Finnish about a year ago
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 17 February 2020 02:42 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/SeTgHcg.png
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 06:12 (four years ago) link
"firearms examiner"
― nickn, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 07:11 (four years ago) link
previously "Gun Looker"
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 07:34 (four years ago) link
“Bikini Inspector”
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 07:58 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/s2KgNR3.png
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 20 February 2020 06:08 (four years ago) link
Man calling the roll musta been hell on Seed's teacher's
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 February 2020 06:09 (four years ago) link
i think i would lose it if someone walked in and introduced themselves as Dr Sithole, and that's not even taking Seedwell into account
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 20 February 2020 16:13 (four years ago) link
Hello there. I am Dr Asthwipe
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 20 February 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link