some awful names for your consideration

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

I was watching "Babies: Special Delivery" yesterday (which I shouldn't do cuz it freaks me out!) and there was a black women giving birth to her baby. Her name was Ebony, which is bad enough, but she named her baby Ivory. Daddy was white, so the baby's skin color was pretty pale. She was having all these interventions and I just kept saying "She named her Ivory??"

Also, my co-worker told me today her mom knew a woman who claims she saw a sign from God during her labor and named the baby after that. She named him:

Nonsmo King

Can you guess what her sign from God was??

I swear...

Comments

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

I've heard Nosmo King before. Pretty sure it's an urban legend, just like Lemonjello, Female, Shithead, etc.

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

I wondered about that. Except my mother was a nurse in L & D for 15 years and seriously had a women name her twin boys Lemonjello and Orangejello, so maybe some people her urban legands and name their kids that for real...?

[starsatnight13.livejournal.com]

It was actually one of the bad guys on the computer game of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

Yes, I was a nerdy kid. =)

[singhappy02.livejournal.com]

That makes two of us. That's immediately what I thought of.

[aqualectra.livejournal.com]

we did have a Shitasha (guessing on the spelling) run past us at the hospital a few months back.

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. Nonsmo King.

I'm so going to name my child Hospit Alperson Nellonly.


Hmm.. when cruising from hospital to bigger fancier hospital by ambulance (on morphine), I started laughing like a maniac at the juxtaposition of the 'blood' and 'bags' signs. My nurse thought I was insane, but at least I didn't name my daughter that!

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

That's the worst part, I think. Ebony and Ivory.

[hoboheart.livejournal.com]

I like Ebony and Ivory, although not with each other

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

I bet mother and daughter will not, in fact, be living in perfect harmony once puberty hits.

(Someone had to say it.)

There was a girl at my elementary school named Ebony, last name Gay. She was African American, and I'd overhear people teasing her: "Hey, you ARE ebony--so you must be gay, too! HAHAHAHAHAH!" Then they'd probably go knock somebody over and spit on them. Ah, the sweet innocence of childhood...

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

See that's what I'm thinking, "this women is ebony and her parents named her ebony." And then she went and did the same thing to her poor baby.

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

I was WAITING for this joke to come up.

Although it's a pretty old song, so I don't know if she'll find out about it.

[soulsplinter8.livejournal.com]

My parents have some friends who named their son Bjorn (the mother is from some Scandinavian country that I can't recall at the moment). Their last name is Free. Bjorn Free? ;o)

I actually don't think it's that bad. People nowadays probably won't get the reference anyway, so it doesn't really matter.

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

I just start singing the song in my head...

[twitchywoman.livejournal.com]

haha! My best friend and I would laugh over that for a long time if we encountered him. The reason being that I remember awhile ago there was this commercial of a woman who went into a bathroom stall and took off her bra and the "Born Free" song started playing. Yeah, so now everytime my friend and I aren't wearing a bra we start singing "Born Free". No one other than us gets it so it's a good way to be discreet if need be ;-)

[oneirocritical.livejournal.com]

I work at a major life insurance company that does insurance for children, so I hear A LOT of strange names. Probably the strangest so far was Santa Bacon.

I heard that story about Nosmo King when I started working here a few years ago, it cracked me up.

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

Santa Bacon is so very very wrong.

[rubixcube-killr.livejournal.com]

Agreed, I like christmas and a LOVE bacon but I would never name a child that. Just think of the life of teasing they will endure...

[2morrows.livejournal.com]

LMAOLMAOLMAO! this was, by far, the funniest post EVER!!!!

[colliemommie.livejournal.com]

I still stand by No-lej being the worst...

[singhappy02.livejournal.com]

Hand to God, one of my parents best friends is a former Labor and Delivery nurse who had not one but two patients name their new babies Placenta.

Wish I was joking.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

Eh.. the Ebony/Ivory thing is really tacky. I have only met one Ebony before and she was a really fair, blonde little girl. Not sure what I thought of that... because it is kind of weird, but on the other hand it's more annoying on a black person in some ways. I don't like names that describe the person in a superficial way like skin colour or birth month etc. But that's just a personal preference.

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

To most black people, our 'skin color' isn't something superficial but is a marking of cultural beliefs and practices. I think that has bearing on the popularity of Ebony in the black community.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

Interesting - thanks for clearing that up. I hope I didn't offend you, but I have never thought of it that way. I live in Australia and I think because our racial make up is quite different I am not aware of a lot of these things when I visit US forums. To me, I definitely think of it as a bit of a silly basis for a name, so I'm really glad you pointed that out to me. Sorry for my ignorance :)

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

Ugh... that's just... so tacky. I've known several Ebonys (I live in Atlanta and it seems to be more popular here that anywhere else I've been) and most of them have hated their name.

Also, the girl may be light-skinned now, but my father's best friend is black, and his son was very light-skinned at birth, and now he is quite dark. Plus... idk, there are a lot more subtle ways that they could have referenced her heritage, but... really, in this case, you should not name a baby after it's skin or most would be "Rosie" or "Scarlett" in my case.

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

You are stealing my identity! First my name, now my city! :)

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

Hahaha... well, maybe you should shred your garbage?! Haha, Idk what to tell you, other than at least you[r parents] have good taste.

[sballik.livejournal.com]

At the grocery store in my hometown, there's an 'X' on the express checkout sign, and right behind it is the sign for Customer Service. If you stand in a certain spot, the signs overlap, and you get "Custom Sex".

I will NOT be naming my baby that, though, no matter how amazing I find it.