Let me introduce you to Marijuana Pepsi:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana_Pepsi_Vandyck
The kicker is her siblings have normal names.
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deafboy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m all for unique and clear identifiers for everything, including people, but jesus christ, imagine yourself in elementary school having a weird name. Why would parents choose a hard mode for their progeny?
dingus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
In the fall of 2019, Vandyck sponsored the Marijuana Pepsi Scholarship for first-generation African-American students at UW–Whitewater.
If someone with a brand name… name… starts a same-industry business in their name, or offers a scholarship for nazis, I wonder what kind of recourse the original brand has.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Now I’m really curious about how people call her in day-to-day life.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
That may be one case where a non medical PhD would be justified in just going by Doc
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
mari, or mary.
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Imagine you’re a seven years old little fat kid and your name is Leviathan
deafboy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That one I actually like. It’s easy to short it to Levi in public, but still be able to flex among friends.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I guess if everyone has a weird name, that doesn’t matter. Maybe kids don’t make fun of weird names anymore. Who knows, maybe it’s the Johns and Marys who get made fun of for having uninteresting names.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
My name is a standard name, but super uncommon here. It’s not that bad, since I got picked on about as much as anyone else. It’s not like they won’t just because your name is unremarkable.
Tolstoshev@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Narcissism
Adramis@midwest.social 7 months ago
If you don’t get bullied for your name, you’ll just get bullied for something else. At least with the name you can blame it on your parents, maybe. Kids are assholes.
Fonderthud@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I’m a big proponent of normal/semi obscure normal first name, weird middle name. John W Smith if you work in sales, J Wolfgang Smith if you’re an author. Perfect compromise.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
We gave our daughter a somewhat disused but normal and formerly not uncommon name which was the name of a plant. We just wanted a name that wasn’t religious but still normal enough that she wouldn’t get bullied for it (she got bullied anyway). We realized later that it actually made sense in terms of her ancestry because her mother has a plant name, her grandmother has a plant name and her great-grandmother has a plant name. One long lineage of plant names.
crazyCat@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Dude I see you around here on the regular, so I’ll mention that this is ironic for me to read this, because we also named our daughter an old, obscure but “real” name that is also a plant (a flower, specifically).
It’s from France, so I asked a French friend before using it if it was ok to use and not a weird name, and they said “sure it’s ok, but it’s like an old grandma’s name no one uses anymore.” And that’s when I knew it was the one!
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yep, that was basically our reasoning. Vintage name, so it’s memorable, but not a weird one and spelled normally.
And absolutely not religious.
whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Wait, it’s all bullying?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
She was bullied for other reasons. Most significantly being as eccentric as her parents.
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Always has been.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Describing it like that makes it really tempting to try and guess the name. Out of respect for your and her privacy, I won’t, though.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Okay, I admit it. Her name is Cannabis Indica.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
Same boat. I think I guessed it, and it’s absolutely killing me knowing I’ll never know if I’m right. But also, my brain itch doesn’t trump doxxing a person (or even a squid) or their kid.
Korne127@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ngl having “Wolfgang” as an example for a weird name is baffling to me… but I’m German.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s a pretty common practice where I live for a kid to be named after someone for their first name, but go by their middle name. So I think it’s perfectly fine to have one normal name and one weird name in any order.
A. John Smith is an accountant. Atreyu J. Smith is a musician who wears leather pants and some sort of studded headband.