Diane and Rich, if you wanna know which friends. They said that my first name together with my middle name sounded like a stripper’s name. Or was it a porn star? I can’t remember. What I do remember is that the first time I told Diane my middle name, I got a big fat “LMAO.” It didn’t matter that I told her why I was named that.
But my parents didn’t just give me a funny name. My brother Wayne actually goes by his middle name, because his first name is Lecial (the pronunciation rhymes with Cecil). When he was very small and people asked him his name, he couldn’t pronounce it right, and it sounded like “Lisa.” So my parents decided to start calling him by his middle name, instead. But they had good intentions when naming him, just like they did with me. While they were still newlyweds and living in Chicago, they didn’t have a car, but being so young, they still wanted to go out and have fun. So whenever they wanted a “date,” their neighbor, who had a car but only one arm and one leg, chauffered them. (You can’t make this stuff up, folks) His name was Lecial, so they named their firstborn after him.
(Lecial Wayne is now known in many blues bars as “Waynerd Fingers”)
Anyway, what I want to know is, how did you get YOUR name? Who named you and why? Is there a story behind it? Were you named after someone? Do tell.
My name would have been “Mary” except that my cousin Mary wasn’t yet married and they didn’t want two of us with the same name. Yeah,like that didn’t go out the window when Mary got married. So I like have to give out my real name huh? Ok, so my great grandma’s name was Martha and I guess that’s where they got it from. I always HATED it and told them for YEARS I hated it. It’s an old person name. And when my husband’s niece called me Aunt Martha the first time I cringed. So, my middle name is Ann, and any time I hear the two together as in “Martha Ann” I again cringe because I only heard that when I was in big trouble. Needless to say, I heard it a lot as a kid.
Mainly on my mom’s side of the family, and that was applied to all of us grandkids. Get both names, you’re about to get you rear end tore up. Oh, and I’ve always had to hear the “Martha White”, “Martha Washington”, “Martha Raye” (did you know she’s dead?), and “Martha’s Vineyard” jokes and cracks since I can remember.
hehehe. Great story DL! You’re right though, when they say both names it usually means you’re in trouble. I have a friend in Tennessee and her name is Monica Ann, we were kids together when my family lived there, and MAN, you should hear how southern THEIR accents are,and they run names and words together, so when Monica was in trouble (a lot) you would hear, MONCAAAAANNNN! So now it makes her cringe too,to hear that, and when she calls me I immediately recognize her voice when she says “Whatryoudoin?” I always reply with “MONCANNN!!!” LOL, she hates that.
ROFL! I’m sure you can imagine what kind of accent I am hearing that in. LOL!
John A. MacDonald, I hope I don’t have to point you in the right direction. Do I?
Think 1st PM of Canada
Cool, Mac! Related?
My first name, I don’t know.
My middle name is my Godfather’s first name. I did not have imaginative parents. Being the last of eight, I’m probably lucky my parents were still sane and gave me what they did.
Patrick Michael Kelley
My father thought I needed a strong irish name. My drinking is keeping it honest.
Great story!
Named after my aunt.
My dad said if I was to be a boy, he’d have named me Kenny Bunkport. What a joker.
Glad I’m a girl.
P.S., Are you going to tell us your middle name?
Mel, if I told you, I would have to… well.. lets not go there.
Is this another What’s My Line post?
LOL, thanks for the info guys.
Paul, it’s Starr.
Sam, I’m calling you Kenny from now on.
Thank you, Mel, it’s pretty. Unfortunately a lot of strippers do use it - I mean not that I’d know, I just heard…
Mel, at least you didn’t marry a guy whose last name is “Cummings” like one of the girls I work with.
ty paul, lol.
DL, Melody Starr Cummings. I think I like it, LMAO. Seriously thought, I did WORK at Cummins Diesel once. All the execs there used to write on a chalkboard near my desk where they were going when they left for awhile so I could tell whoever called. But they ALWAYS shortened it when they went to the Cummins Factory…. to Cum. Factory. That always made me feel a lil queasy.
I can’t tell you my first name here, so if you don’t remember it from our backgammon days, tough noogies
I don’t know where it came from,but my mother was determined to name me what she wanted me to be called. So, although people think it’s a nickname, it’s actually on my birth certificate.
Loved all the other stories
*giggle* I don’t think it was after a porn star Mel… Of course, I am an innocent, and don’t know any porn star’s names
Anyway I’m named Richard Robert. Richard because Andrew wasn’t popular with my mother, she didn’t want kids to torment me with “Andy Pandy” (it’s an english cartoon apparently). And Robert, because that’s my dad’s name. We have a tradition of giving our sons our own first name as their middle name.
Rich, that is so crazy because my oldest daughters father’s name is Robert Richard.
So, are we ever gonna see pictures of those puppies?
Mel, what happened? Did you fall in?
(That’s what the other nine members of my house said if a person took too long in the bathroom - said kiddingly. Well, from me to you, they were serious)
Top 10 Poorly Made Up Stripper Names
Each of these has one name that has actually been used by some stripper. I’ve merely added to their names to make them less than adequate. 1. Dirty Skivies 2. Sugar Rot 3. Crusty Peaches 4. Titti Sags 5. Bunny…
Okay, now I might just be regretting mentioning it, lol.
My first name? Just one my parents wanted. It’s the one I go by.
My middle name is my dad’s middle name (the one he goes by).
Pretty simple stuff.
These names were the best. Helped us get through hump day!
My first name, Kari, was pulled from a story in a Highlights book. You remember the one’s you always found at the dentist or doctors office. Up to the moment I was born I was suppose to be Kevin Daniel, so they had to think fast.
Highlights! I remember… I LOVED that magazine!