"It's a joke name, sir."

[Desdichado]

In real life, I've known very few people with "odd names", other than a woman named "Sparkle",

My daughter has been enamored with that name for years. She's told us that she wants us to call her that in the past, that she wants to change her name legally, and more recently, that when she gets married and has a daughter of her own, she wants to name her that. It's been a good four years now that she's been going on about it. I really hope she grows out of that...

 

[Storm Raven]

I had a fraternity brother in college whose girlfriend was named Candace Barr. I still think Child Protective Services should have had a talk with her parents.

My brother in law helped program Virginia's state database for child support enforcement. You don't want to know the insane names that he came across.

 

[diaglo]

My brother in law helped program Virginia's state database for child support enforcement. You don't want to know the insane names that he came across.

any large database has the same.

i worked for the State of Maryland.

Baby Boy and Baby Girl out numbered a lot of "normal" names.

 

[Xythlord]

Well many years ago my brother was making his character who was going to be a thief, and still hadn't figured out what his characters name was going to be. He described his character as a "vagabond, a very free spirit, but shady, kind of a hobo". Well another player was only partially listening to him and asked him if he said his name was Vagabond? In short, Vagabond H'bo (pronounced Huh-bo) gamed steadily in a campaign for about 4 years between 84 and 88.

Later for a Dragonlance game that lasted 6 months, he came up with a very strong and large minitour name Angus the Black who wore a leather kilt.....took me about 10 minutes to figure that one out

For real life names I had a Sergeant First Class Richard N. Dick (gotta love his parents) and a squad mate named Thomas Wolfe who named his children Timber and Lone....Wow

Xyth

 

[CarlZog]

There needs to be canings for parents who do this to their children.

I wouldn't worry about caning. Paying the psychotherapy bills will be punishment enough.

I knew a Prof. Hardy who named his daughter Laurel Ann.
My dad worked with someone named Bush who named his daughter Ima Rose.

I wish desperately that I was making these up.

Carl

 

[iwatt]

I couldn't resist naming my Dwarf hammer of Moradin a silly name:

Mored ColdHammer

Every time a battle starts, i get to say "Hammer Time"

 

[Desdichado]

My dad worked with someone named Bush who named his daughter Ima Rose.

I wish desperately that I was making these up.

Could be worse. I can think of a lot of worse joke names with the last name Bush...

 

[diaglo]

Could be worse. I can think of a lot of worse joke names with the last name Bush...

using a character concept similar to Of Mice and Men.


one PC had an int of 3.

his tag line was I wish my brudda George was here. his PC didn't have an actual name. so the others called him George's Brudda.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I had one player who was consistently bad with names. Any character in a RPG set in the modern day was named after a football player (except for one character named Arnold Schwartzenstein). His fantasy names were equally bad. There was an elven mystic named Dice Man (Wasn't a gambler, I might add) and a gnome illusionist named Arnie Mann. The last one was his longest-lasting character, and I think he always regretted not making a bruiser instead.

 

[Estlor]

A guy I used to work with told me the story about Ms. King. See, his wife worked for social services and one of the more memorable people she met was a lady by the name of Ms. King and her son Nosmo. Of course, like anyone would, she asked Ms. King about the name of her son, because Nosmo is a rather unusual name. Ms. King simply replied, "I was sitting on the bus one day, looked up, and it came to me."

True story about how Nosmo King got his name.

And believe me, I couldn't have made something that silly up.