First names you find weird, strange 😉

I arrested a man back in the 70’s whose name was Garnett. I thought it was a pretty cool name back then. His last name was Mims. He had West Virginia plates on his Cadillac. I stopped him on the Pennsylvania Turnpike just outside of the Pittsburgh Interchange.

As I was writing the citation, it came to me that there was a song in the 60’s titled “Cry Baby” that a singer by the name of Garnett Mims sang. I went back to his car and I asked him if he ever recorded a hit song. He said “Yes, Cry Baby” and it was re-recorded by Janis Joplin.

I clocked him going 81 mph in a 65 mph zone back then. I gave him the citation and he apologized. I was almost sorry that I didn’t tear it up, but it is what it is no matter who it is. He was very nice about it.

See if you remember this song:

 

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I arrested a man back in the 70’s whose name was Garnett. I thought it was a pretty cool name back then. His last name was Mims. He had West Virginia plates on his Cadillac. I stopped him on the Pennsylvania Turnpike just outside of the Pittsburgh Interchange.

As I was writing the citation, it came to me that there was a song in the 60’s titled “Cry Baby” that a singer by the name of Garnett Mims sang. I went back to his car and I asked him if he ever recorded a hit song. He said “Yes, Cry Baby” and it was re-recorded by Janis Joplin.

I clocked him going 81 mph in a 65 mph zone back then. I gave him the citation and he apologized. I was almost sorry that I didn’t tear it up, but it is what it is no matter who it is. He was very nice about it.

See if you remember this song:

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@911
I've only ever been familiar with this same song, by Janis Joplin.
Good to hear the "original".
 
If we use names from the Bible, there are quite a few unusual names in both the Old and New Testaments.

I did know a man named Ezra, who was Jewish and was a neighbor of our family. In the summer, he would sit on his front porch and tell me stories from the Hebrew Bible.
 
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My grandfather was from North Carolina. His first name Oscar was unusual. Years later I learned that it was common in the Cuban community in Miami. Our forebears came from England in colonial times.
 
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