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The surname “Esposito” and its variants comes from children who were abandoned (“exposed”) in Italy (before the XVII century, when the law forbade it). Every person with that surname today descends from an exposed child that kept the surname the orphanage once gave them.
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My last name is Gilligan so I’ve heard it all.
Where’s the Skipper? Hey, little buddy. Don’t forget Mary Anne!
Enough! No more, I say!
But I guess I probably didn’t have it that bad compared to some people. Still, I heard every lame joke in the book growing up.
And so did these folks! Let’s see what kind of lame jokes they’ve had to endure because of their names.
Totally lame, if you ask me.
what is the lamest joke people make about your name? for ex., i have heard almost every “battle” and “australia” pun or play-on-words there is
— Sydney Battle (@SydneyBattle) May 18, 2021
That must have been rough.
I was in high school when South Park was extremely popular
— Allison Kilkenny (@allisonkilkenny) May 18, 2021
I hope you’re over it now.
Never heard a joke about my name, why do you ask
— Harry Wood (@harrymwood) May 18, 2021
No, not that Davy Jones…
“Where’s your locker?”
“Are you a Monkee?”
Funny story: my wife’s favorite show when she was a kid was The Monkees. She always told everyone she would marry Davy Jones one day. The moral of the story is “Be careful what you wish for!”— David M. Jones (@BigRockDJ) May 19, 2021
And not very funny.
“There’s Brooks, but where is Dunn?”
— Brooks (@RBrooksCII) May 19, 2021
Never gets old.
“Hi, my name’s Jake”
A brief period in the 80s: “Hey, where’s the Fat Man?”
Late 80s to like 2005: “JAKE THE SNAKE!”
ABOUT 2005 to maybe 2011: “Nice to meet you, Jake”
2011 to now: “JAKE FROM STATE FARM”— Jake (@jakingaround) May 18, 2021
You do you!
People always assume my name is fake..
Nah that’s my government name fam
Itsunique
Not ghetto— Yeeehaw Homie
(@Lathell_p3) May 18, 2021
That’s tough…
I love these guys, but it’s on sight if I ever run into @KeeganMKey or @JordanPeele.
Mufuckas ruined my life for like 5 years. That shit only recently started to die down. pic.twitter.com/6kU0TfPw8w
— ☭ Aaron Rodriguez ☭ (@Arod95) May 18, 2021
Young kids, look it up.
Annie are you okay? Are you okay Annie?
— The Annasthesiologist
(@fuzzymittens) May 18, 2021
Still traumatized by it.
middle school: kids called me “Ali Forehead” so I got bangs.
high school: kids called me “Ali Foreskin” but I could do nothing. Even then, I did not have a penis!
— Alison Foreman (@alfaforeman) May 19, 2021
Well, that’s kind of nice, I guess.
When I was a kid some classmates would call me “Drezhnev” as a play on my last name and Leonid Brezhnev. In retrospect I give credit where it’s due, even my bullies were well-informed!
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) May 19, 2021
But what do you expect from people?
My name is Rich, and no matter how I introduce myself people will find a way to say some variation of “well if you’re Rich how about you give me some money?”
Though it’s not as bad as when I was a kid and Happy Days was everywhere, and I would get called “Richie Cunningham.”
— Hellooooo Chieftain! – RENEW INFINITY TRAIN (@hellochieftain) May 18, 2021
Do you have one of those names that people seem to make fun of?
If so, tell us about the lame jokes you hear.
Do it in the comments, please!
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A Tennessee judge ordered a name change for a baby named “Messiah”. He was later fired after her decision was found unconstitutional on appeal—she had previously stated, “That title has only been earned by one person and that person is Jesus Christ.”
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The Amondawa language has no word for “time”, or time periods such as “month” or “year”. The people do not refer to their ages, but rather assume different names in different stages of their lives or as they achieve different status within the community.
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After the musician Prince changed his name to The Love Symbol “Ƭ̵̬̊” in 1993, he sent out custom 3.5 inch floppy disks to news/media outlets with strict instructions that contained a custom font that would replace the capital letter “P” with that symbol on the PC and Macintosh.
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Kobe Bryant was named after Kobe beef, which his parents saw on a restaurant menu.
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In 2002, a man in the UK legally changed his name to Playstation 2. He also attempted to marry his console.
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In 1982, Zimbabwe passed a law banning citizens from making jokes about the surname of the President, Canaan Banana.
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Whoopi Goldberg’s real name is Caryn Johnson. She has claimed Jewish ancestry, despite research showing no known Jewish ancestors. The Jewish Chronicle related an account of the name change where Whoopi’s mother thought her birth name was “not Jewish enough” for her to become a star.
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Keanu Reeves almost renamed himself “Chuck Spadina” because some casting agents were resistant to having him come in for auditions because his first name was hard to pronounce and seemingly too exotic.
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