Grrl Power #346 – Naming wrongs
I wanted to show Sydney’s immediate reaction once she got past the foaming stage, but the way the dialog flowed we’ll have to wait to the next page to see that. (I am amused by the idea that she has a foaming stage that she regularly exhibits.) Obviously Sydney is easily distracted, but that’s not news to anyone by now.
Shrapnell is a real last name, as is Slaughter, Vetura, Blitzer, Ironside, Savage, Hazard, Fightmaster (not a joke, that’s a real last name) and a host of others that make you think the person missed their calling as a professional wrestler, or if they’re a character in a movie, you just want to roll your eyes. I’ve ranted about super heroes and villains with names that serendipitously match their powers, Telford Porter being just about the worst offender, but obviously Sydney feels differently about it. In fact she’s obviously downright offended when the stars don’t align on the naming front. Even living in a world with actual super powers, the vast majority of people with cool names aren’t going to have powers, so she’d better get used to it.
I encourage people to share the coolest or craziest names you’ve come across, including people who you’d marry just for their last name and then name your kid something rad. (Or lawsuit inducingly awful.) My wife’s last name, for instance, was Warr. If she’d had a daughter she should have named her Cybil.
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8 pages? Seriously?
9 now. But yeah, that’s a lot of comments.
You know, I never got in on this the first time around, sooooo – Imagine having the last name King and being 2 feet taller than all your classmates. Yep “King Kong” all through elementary school. (It was a popular cartoon at the time.)
I have a cousin named Aaron Sonshine. (air and sunshine)
I bet Arelius wants to turn Sydney into shrapnell right about now… XD
Why would they want two financial advisors?
Ooooh! Future business ventures?
I don’t know if this was already mentioned, but Bill Learn, the founder of LearJet (and inventor of the 8-track tape format), had a daughter that he named….Shanda. Shanda Lear.
That’s a glassy.. uh–I mean Classy joke!
Definitely not a Freudian slip there, that would require a banana peel.
When I was in college my friend Dawn named her daughter Merry Sunshine. So dawn gave birth to sunshine, as you would expect any day that it’s not raining.
I currently work with Sheila Hathcock. Does she hath? Apparently not.
The best ‘appropriate name’ I’ve come across is probably that of my final-year supervisor at university, Doctor Bos.
The most potentially awkward has to be the young lady who entered a fencing competition I ran recently – and whose name I would therefore have to announce several times over the course of the day. A lady called Inaas. In the under-13s age group. (Apparently it’s pronounced like ‘Anais’, but you don’t get that from seeing it written down!)
I’ve also had the privilege of fencing against Westley – husband, wife, and daughter. None of them left-handed. I have studied a little bit of Agrippa, although it’s of very limited use as they don’t follow the style of Thibault anyway.
But for sheer intrigue in a name, it’s hard to beat working for Doctor Mistry. By day, a mild-mannered R&D manager at a company whose products go into high-end military and space applications (among others). By night, who knows…
A fried of mine, last name “Kaese” (pronounced exactly like “Case”) told me of the time his brother was picking names for a soon-to-be-born child, and their father threatened to disown the brother if he went with the name he had selected. “Justin”. Dad spotted the problem his grandson, “Justin Kaese”, would have been saddled with before anyone else…
A guy on my boat had his name legally changed to
for life of me I can’t remember the ridiculous second word he chose for his last name. But his uniform read “the [something stupid]” with the space and everything
He changed it shortly around the time I got on the ship so there was a lot of talk about it.
Besides, seeing the last name tag that read something like “the legend’ no, that’s not the right word, but you get the idea looked weird
Also, his wife was PISSED
Oh another funny name
Imagine being a girl in the navy with the last name swallows and starting as an e1
Seaman recruit swallows
Seaman apprentice swallows
Seaman shallows?
She was on the ship my husband did a deployment and I didn’t believe him u til a couple of years later I was on the ship and came across petty officer swallows
My daughters name is Charlotte Adventure and my sons name is Maximilian Danger. They seemed like good names at the time.