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07 March 2008
Awesomest name ever If this man knows who his parents are, he should give them a medal.
That totally beats "President Muscles Irwin" which is what I want to name my son (although the little woman has not yet approved this).
When I was working at [company that does outsourced HR for larger companies] we kept a spreadsheet of awesome names we'd encountered. My fave was "Charity DeLaughter" which I imagine as the opposite number to 101 Dalmatians' "Cruella DeVille."
You know you've been playing Dwarf Fortress too much when you read about a man called King Money Tarzan and the first thing that comes to your mind is, "this name is even crazier than my fortress'!"
Heh, I didn't even blink at "Candida" because the mom of a friend of mine had that name. "King Money Tarzan" on the other hand really IS the awesomest name ever.
I love this name. My brother keeps a list of great names and he's got a couple hundred. Neptune Bee used to work for my parents as a landscaper, and I thought that was the finest name ever until today.
My mother-in-law wanted to name my wife "Penelope Candace" so they could call her Penny Candy. My father-in-law countered by wanting to name her after an ex-girlfriend. In the end, the settled on an innocuous name that didn't offend anyone.... except that her initials were B.J. When we got married, she changed her middle name to her maiden name and dropped the J.
bassjump- I used to know someone named Kent Clark. That was kind of weird too. Especially when one of his underlings came to work on Halloween dressed as Superman. Very, very strange situation.
Ha! The NameVoyager shows that in the US "Candida" peaked as a name in the late 70s/early 80s with about 30 girls per million babies being named thusly. It fell to zero by 1990. I wonder if there was a celebrity around the mid-to-late 70s named Candida?
I always thought it was a pretty unfortunate choice of name for Candida Royalle the pornographer (I mean, it's gotta be a pseudonym). It draws a rather unpleasant connection between vagina fun and vagina infection, to my mind.
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