Okay, what first name do you never hear...
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Wed Jan-05-05 09:32 PM
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Okay, what first name do you never hear...
I've never met an "Adolf"
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Wed Jan-05-05 09:33 PM
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is my Wife's grandfather's name. unusual... RL
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Wed Jan-05-05 09:35 PM
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6. That's a pretty cool name! It suits a grandpa!
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Wed Jan-05-05 09:37 PM
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11. It suits him, yet he goes by "Sam"
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Wed Jan-05-05 09:33 PM
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Wed Jan-05-05 09:34 PM
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Wed Jan-05-05 09:40 PM
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13. LOL...in high school, there was a girl named Hilda Bruhm
when they'd do alphabetical roll call, there were always a few chuckles.
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Wed Jan-05-05 09:34 PM
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from Al-Pharo, "the light" Though I often hear the variant Alvaro.
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Wed Jan-05-05 09:35 PM
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8. Like Ar-Pharazon the Golden, from the Silmarillion?
That bloody thief, JRR Tolkien!
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Wed Jan-05-05 09:34 PM
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5. I've never actually met an Oscar. I did meet a Felix once. n/t
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Wed Jan-05-05 09:37 PM
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last name Cienfuegos, which means 100 flames. That's even weirder than the first name.
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Wed Jan-05-05 09:35 PM
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7. Bob... you never meet someone named Bob......
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Wed Jan-05-05 09:37 PM
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10. sure he's not exactly a person, but his name is Bob
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Wed Jan-05-05 10:05 PM
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31. I know six or eight Bobs! When my husband and I talk about them,
we have to be sure to specify which Bob.
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Wed Jan-05-05 09:41 PM
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15. My best friend's grandmother was named Gladys
We called her "Happy Bottom." :D {Glad Ass...get it?)
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Wed Jan-05-05 09:40 PM
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14. Poindexter or Seymour
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Wed Jan-05-05 09:42 PM
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17. Ha! Jesus, could you imagine looking at a newborn baby
and calling him Poindexter?!
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Wed Jan-05-05 09:44 PM
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20. Tiglith-Pileser, Artexerxes, Nebuchedrezzar, Habakkuk,
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Wed Jan-05-05 09:45 PM
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21. Murray, Homer (except Simpson) eom
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Wed Jan-05-05 09:48 PM
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23. I've only met one Martha in my entire life...
Edited on Wed Jan-05-05 09:50 PM by Longgrain
Stewart not with standing... I've never met an Aloysius or a Cornelius either...both names that I thought were pretty cool... I've always liked Dulcinea too...It's what I want to name my first born daughter...
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Wed Jan-05-05 09:58 PM
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27. I have a young friend named Martha (about 20 years old) and went to
college with a woman named Cornelia (she went by Connie, though)
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Wed Jan-05-05 09:49 PM
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24. Hortense. My great aunt. one of a kind.
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Wed Jan-05-05 09:51 PM
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isn't his real first name mortimer
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Wed Jan-05-05 10:02 PM
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28. Never met a Mortimer.
Nor an Agatha, Rex (unless dogs count) or Bertha.
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Wed Jan-05-05 10:04 PM
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Thu Jan-06-05 01:14 AM
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42. The JROTC instructor at my high school was a Rufus n/t
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Wed Jan-05-05 10:13 PM
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a chester or sylvester dies.
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Thu Jan-06-05 12:46 AM
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How many hyphenated first names do you know of?
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Thu Jan-06-05 12:47 AM
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37. I've never met an Algernon (nt)
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Thu Jan-06-05 12:48 AM
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38. I've never met a Humperdink
But I will as soon as I father my first son :evilgrin:
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Thu Jan-06-05 12:49 AM
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were they just frigging with our brains or what??
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Thu Jan-06-05 12:54 AM
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41. Not too many Waldos or Hermans or Gertrudes anymore. n/t
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Thu Jan-06-05 01:18 AM
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43. I went to school with an Adolf
Poor child got picked on constantly because of his name.
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46. Jezebel. The name got a Biblical bad-rap. nt
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