abysmal real names

speaking of NFL players, I always liked Yancey Thigpen because of his unusual name. He was a Steelers player IIRC.

Thurman Munson (sic?). Even as a kid the name made me flinch.

I have a friend named B@rby who married a guy with the last name "B@rb@ra"

having @ signs in your name is pretty abysmal, yeah

i hate the name b4rb4r4 on its own

from Latin barbaria "foreign country," from Greek barbaros "foreign, strange, ignorant," from PIE root *barbar- echoic of unintelligible speech of foreigners (compare Sanskrit barbara- "stammering," also "non-Aryan," Latin balbus "stammering," Czech blblati "to stammer").

Well im sure someone somewhere named Barbara hates your name.

i was told how to pronounce 'nakhchivan' recently

can remember having an argument with my latin teacher about that etymology when i was about 13, he vociferously argued against the onomatopoeic root

how should one pronounce it then? xp

na-ker-hee-chee-van, basically - two extra syllables where you don't rly expect them

did a russian tell you that

no, but it was an englishman of about 60 years whom i know well, and who happens to be genuinely knowledgeable about indo-european history & cultures

essentially i respect everything he says, and there is a small handful of people i would say this about - he might be one of 2 or 3 individuals perhaps

the best approximation to an english speaker is probably the fifth one here afaik

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakhchivan_Autonomous_Republic#Etymology

^ correct afaik

cressida bonas

See also Chelsy Davy.

nakh u heard the snl joke on her name, right?

lol, no?

can't find vid but here's a (weird-ass) transcript

http://www.hollywood.com/news/tv/55037179/weekend-update-snl-bruce-willis

Henrique Buss

toni polster

was in a car today after cricket and the girls in the back were discussing a friend of theirs called Libbs and I thought of this thread

maybe it's lewis scooter libby?

I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby [a] (born August 22, 1950; first name generally given as Irve,[b] sometimes Irving)[1]

oh that's repulsive. belongs here

his name is routinely disparaged and thus it would be trite to include it here

just imagining him as a member of a cricket team and his cricket m8s would call him libbs

haha

libbo

1950 births
American government officials convicted of crimes
American Jews
American lawyers
American perjurers
Assistants to the President of the United States
Chiefs of Staff to the Vice President of the United States
Columbia Law School alumni
Disbarred lawyers
Living people
Pennsylvania Democrats
Pennsylvania Republicans
People associated with the Plame affair
People convicted of making false statements
People convicted of obstruction of justice
People from McLean, Virginia
People from New Haven, Connecticut
Phillips Academy alumni
Reagan Administration personnel
Recipients of American presidential clemency
Yale University alumni

exeter or andover?

*i hardly knew 'er joke implied*

American perjurers

Toni Garrn

Mate Males

Idaho Gov. Butch Otter

abysmal or amazing, can't decide

whoooa

North West

It gets better: Butch Otter's wife's name is "Gay." Butch and Gay Otter.

ex-wife, that is

I saw an artist's name at a gallery show recently listed as Page Turner.

It gets better: Butch Otter's wife's name is "Gay." Butch and Gay Otter.

― Diddley Hollyberry (Phil D.), Monday, May 19, 2014 11:27 AM (3 hours ago)

are you shitting me

BOISE — U.S. Magistrate Judge Candy W. Dale has denied Gov. Butch Otter's motion for a stay on her decision overturning Idaho's ban on same-sex marriages.

butch in the streets, otter in the sheets

lol

Crystal Metheney, arrested for shooting a missile into a car.

http://jezebel.com/woman-who-shot-missile-into-car-has-most-florida-name-e-1589467389?utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_facebook&utm_source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Elon Musk

Wayne Payne, 31, (inset) was travelling at 61mph when he hit Cameron Ward (main picture), who was riding his bicycle alongside his parents in Erdington, Birmingham on April 1 last year. Unemployed Payne was sentenced to five years in prison and banned from driving for five years. A judge had bailed the killer driver over the weekend on 'compassionate grounds' so he could see his two young daughters before being jailed. But just minutes later Payne, of Erdington, argued with Cameron's grieving relatives outside court.

Tory Burch

Kent Swig

Busan Haeundae Doosan We’ve the Zenith is a complex of three residential towers which were completed in 2011.