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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 514839" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>My dad taught in some rough neighborhoods and had kids with some interesting names. Thaddus Hall XXXXX - his mom was on medications when they asked the name and she thought they asked f she was going to have another. He was her 6th or 7th and she was done with having kids. He also had brothers named Lemonjello and Orangejello XXXX, pronounced Le-MON-jello all run together into one word and or-ANG-ello all run together as one word. Names went downhill from there.</p><p></p><p>When I was in 6thgrade my mom didn't stop me from reading a book that was written by an ER doctor about what he experienced as he worked in an ER in an inner city area. Many women would come into the ER in labor after never having seen a doctor for prenatal care or not having had much prenatal care.. The docs were really mean in general in this book, pretty much overworked to the bone and sick of all the things they saw that showed how awful people could be to themselves and each other. Lots of those babies were delivered in the ER. It was very common for the moms to ask the doctor who helped end their pain what their name was to name the baby after them, or what the doctor thought would be a good name for a baby.</p><p></p><p>The author was pretty disgusted about suggested names because in that area there were a lot of kids named Gonorrhea or CHlamydia, but even more named things like Vagina, Vaginosis, Iudia (I remember the pronunciation was eye-YOU-de-ah and it just seemed awful to me), Syphillus and Papilloma. One lady thought she named her kid after that famous designer of women's clothing, Herpes. </p><p></p><p>The book made a real impact because we were learning about the meaning of names and the significance of them in religion class at the time. I got three detentions for asking what God would do if you got to heaven but had one of those names. I got out of the detentions by bringing in the book to prove I didn't make it up and asking if I needed to bring my mom in to say she knew I was reading the book.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 514839, member: 1233"] My dad taught in some rough neighborhoods and had kids with some interesting names. Thaddus Hall XXXXX - his mom was on medications when they asked the name and she thought they asked f she was going to have another. He was her 6th or 7th and she was done with having kids. He also had brothers named Lemonjello and Orangejello XXXX, pronounced Le-MON-jello all run together into one word and or-ANG-ello all run together as one word. Names went downhill from there. When I was in 6thgrade my mom didn't stop me from reading a book that was written by an ER doctor about what he experienced as he worked in an ER in an inner city area. Many women would come into the ER in labor after never having seen a doctor for prenatal care or not having had much prenatal care.. The docs were really mean in general in this book, pretty much overworked to the bone and sick of all the things they saw that showed how awful people could be to themselves and each other. Lots of those babies were delivered in the ER. It was very common for the moms to ask the doctor who helped end their pain what their name was to name the baby after them, or what the doctor thought would be a good name for a baby. The author was pretty disgusted about suggested names because in that area there were a lot of kids named Gonorrhea or CHlamydia, but even more named things like Vagina, Vaginosis, Iudia (I remember the pronunciation was eye-YOU-de-ah and it just seemed awful to me), Syphillus and Papilloma. One lady thought she named her kid after that famous designer of women's clothing, Herpes. The book made a real impact because we were learning about the meaning of names and the significance of them in religion class at the time. I got three detentions for asking what God would do if you got to heaven but had one of those names. I got out of the detentions by bringing in the book to prove I didn't make it up and asking if I needed to bring my mom in to say she knew I was reading the book. [/QUOTE]
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