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What are the worst names you could give a baby boy? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by FlyForABeeGuy@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Hello you awesome people,

Friends are having a boy and everyone they know wants to push a name on the child. So I decided to be the best friend they could have and to offer only bad, ugly or horrendous names to the lucky parents so they could have a laugh. I already send them some names and dictators, Smeagol, Steve and Juan-Esteban.

So please, people or Lemmy, give me the worst names you could give a child, so that I can help them as a good friend!

Ps: don't worry, I've already planned some meals to drop off when the gremlin will be there to feed the parents. And some take-out vouchers so they won't get food poisoning

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[–] Susaga@ttrpg.network 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

There's a classic Japanese story about a boy called Jugemu Jugemu Gokō-no Surikire Kaijarisuigyo-no Suigyōmatsu Unraimatsu Fūraimatsu Kuunerutokoro-ni Sumutokoro Yaburakōji-no Burakōji Paipopaipo Paipo-no Shūringan Shūringan-no Gūrindai Gūrindai-no Ponpokopii-no Ponpokonā-no Chōkyūmei-no Chōsuke. That's all the first name. No nicknames allowed.

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We grew up with the story of Rikki-Tikki Tembo No Sa Rembo Charibariruchi Pip-Peripembo.

There was also this article recently about a Spanish Duke who was told he can’t give his daughter 25 names:
https://greekreporter.com/2023/10/27/spanish-duke-shorten-daughter-25-word-long-name/

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And now the ending theme from Joshiraku is stuck in my head.

[–] Susaga@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's how I first heard of it, and it really helped me memorise the full thing when saying it. The challenge is not doing the pause between the Shuringans or staggering the Chosuke.

[–] muddi@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh man this is stirring up some memories from early grade school about an English version of this that we used to sing about a boy with a long name and his younger brother.

I always wondered if that was just the moral of the story: don't give your children long names. Which my parents did to me 😡

[–] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember this too, part of the name was like "tik terry tembo"

[–] muddi@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Ah yep that triggered the full memory for me...it was a book called Tikki Tikki Tempo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikki_Tikki_Tembo

[–] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Three different transliteration schemes used in the same name.