Sometimes I wish that when I first started this blog I had given my husband and daughter code names, maybe something ridiculous like the Ginger and the Snotzy or my husband and the kid. I guess I would have thought of some incognito code name, but when I started writing this, I was fairly certain that I would be the only person that ever read it. Since I know their names, this didn’t seem like an issue for me.
When people do have nicknames for their children, I’m always curious about how they managed to spin up the appropriate pseudonym. So if you have them for yourself or your child, how did you come up with them?
Is it hard for you to keep it all real while using pseudonyms? Are you ever like, ” then *insert random pseudonym* said something hilarious today, and then he/she jumped over a rainbow while riding a tyrannosaurus rex.” Totally joking about this whole paragraph, just for the clarification (sort of).
On a completely separate, but partially related, note:
Recently, I was reading an article discussing the most humiliating baby names of all time. The names were genuine, legal names reported in Census reports over the years. Some of them made me roll on the floor with laughter, and some of them made me feel worlds of sorry for the people stuck with these names.
- Acne Fountain
- Mary A. Jerk
- Ima Whore (I am so serious that this was on the list.)
- Fanny Whiffer
- Harry Pitts
- Lard Mooney
- Naught E. Bishop
- Leper Priest
- Kathryn E. Coli (born 1894)
The following are prank names that were used by Bart Simpons on the Simpons, but have actually been documented as the true legal names of individuals once existing.
- I. P Freely
- Oliver Clothesoff
- Anita Bath
- Hugh Jass
- Mike Rotch
- Maya Buttreeks
- Amanda Hugginkiss
I suppose if I had to be stuck with any of these names, I would probably pick Amanda Hugginkiss. Since my name is Amanda already, and my last name begins with an ‘H’.
If you had to be saddled with any of the names in the lists above, absolutely had to, which would you pick? Would you go for a raunchier, more humiliating name for the comedic effect or the least damaging of the list?
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