Shudder!

[elfs]

Omaha sent me out to the store to get milk and a few other things, and while I was there I heard two little girls, probably six and seven and blonde and ordinary, standing in front of the Halloween display, call to one another: "Mary-Kate, over here!" "No, Ashley, come look at this!"

Who in their right mind would do that to their kids?

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[whipartist.livejournal.com]

I'm grasping at straws here, but maybe they were pretending? Kids don't often make it a point to call each other by name unless they're play-acting.

[spiralsong.livejournal.com]

I work at an answering service and you would not BELIEVE some of the things people name their children.

Bad enough is the mock-celebrities... In the course of my daily work, I've talked to the parents of Christian Slater, Johnny D. Epp, Richard Geare and Richard-Dean (that's right, hyphenated) Anderson.

Worse is the inner-city twisting of COMMON EVERYDAY WORDS to make names out of them, like the 3 year old girl named Nos Mo-King (as in, No Smoking,) and Kawasaki. (Of course, I also once had a woman tell me that she thought her son caught kawasaki from the boy next door... I assumed she meant coxsackie...)

I also work with a (fantastically wonderful) lady named after a common automotive chemical (Ethylene Glycol,) a very famous painting, (the Mona Lisa,) and an equally-famous fictional character (Little Lord Fauntleroy). That's right, IN THAT ORDER.

I still maintain that the worst name title, however, goes to my 7th grade English teacher, Mr. Dick Packer. Dick was on his birth certificate; it was not short for Richard. (I am NOT making this stuff up.)

So really, Mary-Kate and Ashley is not so bad, even if they WERE sisters, in the grand scheme of things. ;)

[bldrnrpdx.livejournal.com]

Were they actually siblings? It might just be an unfortunate coincidence.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[duskwuff.livejournal.com]

Roommate: "Those people should have their parenting licenses removed. And be smacked."

[redhipple.livejournal.com]

You know, my best friend has a sister in law named Holly Wood. And this is her given name. Parents did it deliberately. And this woman named her son Nike and her daughter Sailor-Moon. My husband also happens to work with a woman named Aquanet and her btother's name is Arrudis. It's amazingwhat people consider suitable to stick their children with for life.

[hlmt.livejournal.com]

I about lost it when I had to cash a check from a gal named Merry... ayup, Merry Christmas.

[marketeer]

My sister and her husband, who teaches arboriculture at a community college, insisted on naming their children after trees. They have two girls named Laurel and Holly (numerous people slip and refer to them as Laurel and Hardy). I keep egging them on to try for a boy so that they can him Douglas Fir.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

People are cruel when it comes to naming their kids. My sisters got off easily. I got the creative spelling.

As for my own kid with an associated name? My excuse is that he was 5 when Pirates of the Carribean came out. (and if you look at the line, it's a VERY common name)

[acelightning.livejournal.com]