Worst Names..

Aunt Bea said:
I always thought that Ima Hogg, known as "The First Lady of Texas", was a cruel name to hang on a child.
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Her grandfather rushed to town to stop the christening, but he was too late. Her first name, if I remember correctly, was to honor her uncle who wrote either a poem or story with an Ima as the heroine. This woman went on to great things, and was an amazingly generous patron of the arts. She never married, I believe.
 
I knew the Sugar sisters: Cookie and Candy. True.
A girl who briefly was in one of my elementary school classes: Sophie Hoppenskipper. Also true.
And then the brother and sister: Harry and Carrie.
 

There was an old guy out in California whose name was Weldon Rumproast. I knew a Krystal Chanda Lehrer. The worst was a couple we knew in the service who named their baby "Honey", which was bad enough but when the birth certificate came in from the consulate, it was misspelled "Hokey" and they decided that they liked it and didn't change it back
 
jujube said:
There was an old guy out in California whose name was Weldon Rumproast. I knew a Krystal Chanda Lehrer. The worst was a couple we knew in the service who named their baby "Honey", which was bad enough but when the birth certificate came in from the consulate, it was misspelled "Hokey" and they decided that they liked it and didn't change it back
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I hope her last name wasn't Pokey!
 
I once heard a story about a woman giving birth who heard the doctor say, "Placenta's out." She liked the word so much that she gave that name to her new baby daughter.

Not sure how true it is, though.
 

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