Allow me to ask the obvious question nobody dares to ask: Why does she have a Chinese surname, but is quite blonde?

Mr. Guarante should have an extra "e" at the end of his surname. Nice to see honesty in action in this day & age

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Two of my favorite film makers are PT Anderson and Wes Anderson. The two things they have in common in my mind, aside from the surname, are far-out films, and every few years they release around the same time. I'm certain it's the same genius, and he's been pulling one over on all of us this whole time.

This week I taught my first classes with a new set of Thai HS Seniors (the semesters start at a different time here). I always start out by getting a roster with the students' full names in Thai and having them write their nicknames in English, then taking roll call to make sure I am pronouncing the names correctly. There is no set way to write Thai sounds in English, so there is a lot of variation in how to spell things.

Anyway, one boy on the list wrote his nickname as "Kok". I correctly assumed that he wanted that to be pronounced "Coke", but then explained to him that if he goes with the other spelling an average westerner will probably call him "cock" which is rather unfortunate...

In 5 years of being here I've seen a lot of semi-unusual or unfortunate names and nicknames.

Odd: Dollar, Bible, Bird (hordes of those), Blue, Oil, Dump, Bomb, Gun, Nuke, etc.
Unfortunate: Fook, Fluck ("fluke"), Gook ("guck"), Poo, Poopae, Dodo, Porn (loads of this one also), Titee (girls name)

The worst and/or funniest one I've seen was a girl who converted her full Thai name into an English spelling of "Titteeporn Suksonmanee". Considering Thailand's ... reputation, that one is particularly unfortunate, although the actual pronunciation of the surname is more like suke-sawn-MA-knee.

On the flipside many western names translate phonetically into rather unfortunate things in Thai, or are commonly mispronounced into something bad in English. For example, Jim means "pussy" in Thai, Chris will usually be pronounced by Thais as "Clit", etc. etc.

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Let's take a deep breath and take it down a notch. @quantumushroom that is a borderline racist comment, please refrain. @GenjiKilpatrick I sense your frustration but that's an inappropriate way to respond and an ad hom, so please refrain. This an official warning. Thanks.

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

Yeah QuantumDickface, since her surname is Sanchez she obviously unloads the van full of pregnant undocumented immigrants at every polling station in Orange County in order to rig every election she's run for.
So @dag, if I heard from an anonymous source that @quantumushroom is clearly a racist & moronic meatbag filled to the brim with human feces..
..it's not technically breaking the AD HOM rule since it's only hearsay, right?
>> ^quantumushroom:
The biggest obstacle to job creation is the obama regime itself. No sane business is going to produce anything when there's no demand from consumers and this lawless excuse of a government stands ready to seize all the profits.

Sanchez - proof that Mexican illegals vote in American elections.

Yeah QuantumDickface, since her surname is Sanchez she obviously unloads the van full of pregnant undocumented immigrants at every polling station in Orange County in order to rig every election she's run for.

So @dag, if I heard from an anonymous source that @quantumushroom is clearly a racist & moronic meatbag filled to the brim with human feces..

..it's not technically breaking the AD HOM rule since it's only hearsay, right?

>> ^quantumushroom:

The biggest obstacle to job creation is the obama regime itself. No sane business is going to produce anything when there's no demand from consumers and this lawless excuse of a government stands ready to seize all the profits.

Sanchez - proof that Mexican illegals vote in American elections.

Bloody Sam Rackham

Every pirate lives for something different. For some, it's the open sea. For others (the masochists), it's the food. For you, it's definitely the fighting. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!

Your pirate name is:
Black Morty Rackham

Like anyone confronted with the harshness of robbery on the high seas, you can be pessimistic at times. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!

Also Sagemind remember when you had LESS videos than me? lol

No, "Puff, the Magic Dragon" is not about marijuana, or any other type of drug. It is what its writers have always claimed it to be: a song about the innocence of childhood lost.


The poem that formed the basis of the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon" was written in 1959 by Leonard Lipton, a nineteen-year-old Cornell student. Lipton was inspired by an Ogden Nash rhyme about a "Really-O Truly-O Dragon," and, using a dragon as the central figure, he came up with a poem about the end of childhood innocence. Lipton passed his work along to a friend, fellow Cornell student (and folk music enthusiast) Peter Yarrow, who put a melody to the words and wrote additional lyrics to create the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon." After Yarrow teamed up with Mary Travers and Paul Stookey in 1961 to form Peter, Paul & Mary, the trio performed the song in live shows; their 1962 recording of "Puff" reached #2 on the Billboard charts in early 1963.


The 1960s being what they were, however, any song based on oblique or allegorical lyrics was subject to reinterpretation as a "drug song," and so it was with "Puff." (For Peter, Paul & Mary, at least, the revelation that their song was "really" about marijuana came after the song had finished its chart run; other groups were not so fortunate, and accusations of "drug lyrics" caused some radio stations to ban songs such as the Byrds' "Eight Miles High" from their playlists.) "Puff" was an obvious name for a song about smoking pot; little Jackie Paper's surname referred to rolling papers; "autumn mist" was either clouds of marijuana smoke or a drug-induced state; the land of "Hanah Lee" was really the Hawaiian village of Hanalei, known for its particularly potent marijuana plants; and so on. As Peter Yarrow has demonstrated in countless concert performances, any song — even "The Star-Spangled Banner" — can be interpreted as a "drug song."


http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/puff.asp

My dad used to deliver post to a doctor whose surname was "Dick".

Dr. and Mrs. Dick had 2 daughters called Joanna Dick and Heatha Dick (not a typo).

The Dicks did not live in a ghetto. True story!

Na, I prefer countries that the Spanish had once taken over and impregnated with surnames and Catholic guilt.

addendum: EXCEPT for Italy>> ^Throbbin:

I couldn't help but think of Jersey Shore. Are you Italian?>> ^rottenseed:
Anybody that knows me knows I only date brown people.

Hi, I'm Gabe_B, so named because my first name is Gabe and my surname begins with a B. I'm creative like that. You can expect other creative gems from me, like taking other's pieces of videographic art and submitting it here to express my own sense of self.
I'm an English teacher in Korea, and like most of my kind I drink too much and have bandwidth to spare. I love astronomy, evolutionary psych, clever people, nerdy girls with good bodies, and interesting videos about religions.
I live on the 30th floor of a 2 year old apartment building in Seoul with a nameless cat and a Californian girl. I majored in Religion and Film for my BA and think The Sift is one of the greatest things on the net.

What to think of the people who's ancestors did an early attempt of making a funny?
In Holland some people have names that would translate to "born naked" or "farts" for example.

There's one woman, Anne-Wil (Anne-Wants in Dutch), who's surname would translate to "Anne-Wants Out of the Bottle". If that wasn't bad enough she's married to a guy who has "Mustard" as his surname... So now her full name is "Anne-Wants Mustard-Out of the Bottle".
Another guy is named "Koos Busters" (Koos is pronounced as "Coas")

Nowadays there probably would be people names "gotpwned", "isanoob" or "hasskillz" as well.

>> ^dag:
^That makes me think of a tangent. It would interesting if people go back to using professions for their surnames, like "thatcher", "baker", "smith" etc. In this day and age, there probably would be people named "photoshop"
What would your name be?


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