Hello all

I am getting my pictures taken in a few weeks in pin up style. I am also taking Burlesque dancing classes. I am actually going to try to model pin up. My photographer has asked me my name, I am kinda clueless...lol...

I was thinking Ginger for the first name since I am a readhead, but don't know.....

Let's give me a name!

Ginger Tamarac was my 1st thought. Give me some ideas!

OMG...my stripper name is:

ISIS GLITTER TUSH!! LOL!!

I think I like Ginger Butler! If I was in GWTW, I would want to be Rhett's wife...lol....

What do you think of

Ginger Butler??

and as well for the stripper thing, I know what my name would be...

Candy Cane..lol...

I forgot to quote the person who suggested the alternate "kitty" names (sorry), but I like

Ginger Falene

I know a person IRL whose name (maiden name) is Kandy Kane. She's doesn't exactly live up to the expectation of the name, LOL!

I like Ginger, but I also like Kitty. I think Kitty used to be one of the nicknames used for Kathrine, so it's not too out there.

Good luck picking!

How fun...I know a Candy Kane as well..what some people do to their children is torture!!!

Rain

At least it's not Richard Trickle.... Come on, people, like you didn't know everyone would call him Dick, instead of Rich....

Sorry, back to topic!!! LOL!

I was a teacher...this is a list of some of the names I have had...I am not Kidding...

Jimmy Dean

Benny Dover

Wayne Newton

Shithead (pronounced with the "th" sound instead of as a compound word)

Dorcus

Harry Dickhardt (this is the worst)

Ken Dahl (pronounced doll)

a girl named Female (fee-ma-lee)

Just to name a few.... uggghh!!!! mean parents!

Rain

How fun...I know a Candy Kane as well..what some people do to their children is torture!!!

Rain

One of my cousins maiden name is Candy Cain. In college her best friend was named Candy Apple and no one believed them when they went out. Makes for some interesting stories.

gk

I was a teacher...this is a list of some of the names I have had...I am not Kidding...

Jimmy Dean

Benny Dover

Wayne Newton

Shithead (pronounced with the "th" sound instead of as a compound word)

Just to name a few.... uggghh!!!! mean parents!

Rain

And I thought there was only 1 in the world! I wonder if that's the same one I heard about! A friend of a person I know was sitting in class when this girl's name was called for attendance, and of course the teacher pronounced it the incorrect way. The girl was actually insulted that the teacher would think that's how it was pronounced...seriously, what does she expect?

I too was called Candy Cain. Even though my name is Sandy, all my buddies called me Candy...and Cain was the maiden name.

This is so off topic but funny.

My mother ran a preschool for years and between there and my actual school here are a few names I've run across as well.

Richard Naylor

Richard Wonderlick

Rosie Rumph

Harry Rumph

Harry & Rosie are brother and sister, thier last name is pronounced Rump and to make an already terrible situation worse their parents owned a local plumbing company. But I still can't decide who had it worse them or the two Richards during roll calls that called out their last name first. At least Rosie was able to get a new last name through marriage.

I also have some found Abbott & Costello type "who's on first" memories from my college days when I kid you not my dorm had some asian students with the names pronounced You, Now & Soon. Yu was my roommate and her name caused many a confusion in conversation.

Phone rings, I pick up and say "Hello?"

caller "May I speak to Yu?"

me "Speaking"

caller "No not you, Yu."

or talking to a friend telling them about my weekend.

me "Yu & I went out to eat last night"

friend "No we didn't."

Then there was the time I was running late and my friend waiting in the hallway asked if I was coming I shouted "Soon!" and as he happened to be walking by he asked "What?" Then my friend getting impatient shouted back "Hurry up we need to leave, NOW!" and the poor girl who also happened to be just coming out of her own room down the hall looked like someone had just slapped her thinking my friend was yelling her name. I swear there were a couple more with names like that in the dorm that year but I can't remember them right now.

Actually for misunderstanding conversations I think the hands down winner was the foreign exchange student from France. I was eating Breakfast with him and some other friends in the cafeteria one morning. When someone else joined the table and asked "What's up". He responded a perfectly adequate "Nothing." but after a couple minutes finally broke down and asked us why everyone kep asking him what was up? He said he could never see anything "up" out of the normal to know what in the world they were referring to.

I knew a Kandy Kane as well, (can't remember if it was Kane, Cane or Caine).

One of my roommates during my college years was named Mandolin Robin Hood.

I had a teacher named Barbara LaBarbara

My DH's ex FIL is named Harry Balls. Actually Harry is his middle name, his first name is Francis and he didn't like Francis so he called himself Harry Balls...I think I'd go with Frank or Francis or Frankie...

I'm now in neonatology and my colleagues and I have seen some DOOZIES! Twins named Ameriae and Amerion, Norman and Namron, Beautiful and Brianne (imagine being Brianne?), Neveah and Heaven, Brianne and Brianna. I could go on for hours...

When I was is college I worked doing birth certificates and here's the best one I ever had, I've never had anyone top this:

Picture a middle-teens aged mother who really liked the Disney movie Fantasia. Pretty Hot And Tempting was just making it's mark as a catch-phrase, and as I'm sure you may have noticed many African American moms seem to choose names that are mixtures of other family names or favorite things, or names that end in -eisha, -sheia, -ieka, -eika, -nae, -kia, -tay(tae, taye), etc...

Here's the first and middle name:

Phayntaysheia Shedollolorhonda

Yup, that's supposed to be Fantasia. But she didn't know how to spell it and when I wrote it down for her, she didn't think it was interesting enough... WTF?

I want to create a job at the state or national level where I can sit with a HUGE red rubber stamp and deny stupid ass names and stupid spellings that come across my desk...

People name babies, not adults. They just do not think about what happens when the kid grows up and tries to climb a corporate ladder with a name like Blaise or Shithead or Deiontaye.

Anyhoos, back on topic:

I really like Ginger Butler, or Ginger Greer. I looked up a list of pin-up women from the 1910's through the 1970's and Greer or Grier was listed a few times. It evokes that classy sex-kitten image.

We were observing in a drug court one day---I spoke on a victim impact panel, and we were getting some info concerning drug abuse related to domestic abuse--- and one of the defendents was named Richard Head. Now tell me that his name might not have been a start to his issues.....

I had a girl in day care named Snow White

And like your Barbara LaBarbara teacher--my teacher was Donna Lee Donnelly!!!

And another child I had in day care was this little tiny boy---he was almost miniature in stature, except for his ears he was sweet as the day is long, but they stuck him with the name Adonis! I tried calling him Donnie, his Mom ---from whom he did not get his size---about ripped me in 2!!!

A woman I worked with had 2 daughters, Stormy and Misty, when she was pregnant with her last, we teased her about naming it Overcast!

And finally (for now) I had a grade school principal named Mark Titt. Don't ya know that made 4th & 5th graders giggle!!!

Kat

I knew a Kandy Kane as well, (can't remember if it was Kane, Cane or Caine).

One of my roommates during my college years was named Mandolin Robin Hood.

I had a teacher named Barbara LaBarbara

My DH's ex FIL is named Harry Balls. Actually Harry is his middle name, his first name is Francis and he didn't like Francis so he called himself Harry Balls...I think I'd go with Frank or Francis or Frankie...

I'm now in neonatology and my colleagues and I have seen some DOOZIES! Twins named Ameriae and Amerion, Norman and Namron, Beautiful and Brianne (imagine being Brianne?), Neveah and Heaven, Brianne and Brianna. I could go on for hours...

When I was is college I worked doing birth certificates and here's the best one I ever had, I've never had anyone top this:

Picture a middle-teens aged mother who really liked the Disney movie Fantasia. Pretty Hot And Tempting was just making it's mark as a catch-phrase, and as I'm sure you may have noticed many African American moms seem to choose names that are mixtures of other family names or favorite things, or names that end in -eisha, -sheia, -ieka, -eika, -nae, -kia, -tay(tae, taye), etc...

Here's the first and middle name:

Phayntaysheia Shedollolorhonda

Yup, that's supposed to be Fantasia. But she didn't know how to spell it and when I wrote it down for her, she didn't think it was interesting enough... WTF?

I want to create a job at the state or national level where I can sit with a HUGE red rubber stamp and deny stupid ass names and stupid spellings that come across my desk...

People name babies, not adults. They just do not think about what happens when the kid grows up and tries to climb a corporate ladder with a name like Blaise or Shithead or Deiontaye.

Anyhoos, back on topic:

I really like Ginger Butler, or Ginger Greer. I looked up a list of pin-up women from the 1910's through the 1970's and Greer or Grier was listed a few times. It evokes that classy sex-kitten image.

I like this post. There is a very funny website called The Institute for Naming Children Humanely which deals with abominations of this sort. You might enjoy looking it up and having a read......