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People with real l337 speak names?
An anonymous reader writes "I'm considering naming my first-born child either Br4d or J4n37, depending on gender. My wife isn't too keen on the idea but there's plenty of time left to persuade her. Anyway, it had me wondering whether there are any people out there with real l337 speak given names (or even just a digit in their name). Do you know of any? Other than people saying your dad is a l4m3r, What are the possible pitfalls of having a digit in your name? Is it legal to have a digit in a name? Am I guaranteeing my child becomes a misfit? Am I the misfit?" Ask Jennifer 8. Lee.
Yeah, I'm going to name my first born son fr1st p50t!!11
Jon Blake Cusack 2.0
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Imagine having a commonly used pr0n word in your name.
John.
As far as April Fools jokes go, this takes the biscuit.
It's both unfunny and the story makes no sense.
I'm amazing. You aren't. SUCK IT
One problem would be taking standardized tests such as the SATs. There are no numbers in the section where you bubble in your name. Your child could lose the 400 points given for putting your name on the test...
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I think you'll just wind up irreperably harming your child, as when they get to school and interact with kids, they'll be mercilessly made fun of. hey, if you want to be father to the next dylan kleybold, thats up to you, but do it in an isolated area where you will be the only casualty.
I had my name legally changed to Ry4an 10 years ago. It's worked out fine though most formal records just exclude it.
i cant seem to find the story anywhere but im sure there is a guy in Europe that called his son after him.
But included v2.0 in it!!.
"The quality of life is inversely proportional to the number of keys on your keyring."
I can't help you on the new name, but to get the name you want make sure withhold the epidural until the little lady complies.
Skipping the episiotomy could be the next step, but let's hope your demands are met in good time.
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
I'm considering naming my first-born child either Br4d or J4n37, depending on gender. My wife isn't too keen on the idea but there's plenty of time left to persuade her... considering you haven't even met her yet. Now move out of your parent's basement and stop posting April Fool's jokes.
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all us boys got unusual names. Makes you tough.
Sue.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
I know this is OT, but WTF is the topic today anyway?
But,
On the off chance it is not then the best thing to do is to change your own name and see how it goes.
Reserve the stupid name for your second child if you find it so great.
name your child 8347 M3
What doesn't kill you only delays the inevitable
My parents named me sc0. They thought they were so cool with their UnixWare server. I'm in therapy now.
I am going to name my first child :-) . Because he/she will the happiest child in the world with a name like :-)
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g0 4 17!!!!
OMG!!! r0x0r!!11!!! j00 0wnz!!
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...stupid isn't illegal yet.
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April = 1
print "Happy April Fools Day"
Else
print "You're friggin stoned.."
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Be prepared for inconvenience. I considered changing my name to "Bob 4 Apples" (not very seriously) and realized lots of forms and data entry systems can't accomodate or will trap numbers in a name field. I just pre-slugged thousands of optical scan forms with names. No space for a number so you'd get a blank.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
considering the fact that most l33t speakers stereotypicaly lack reproductive partners
"I'm making perfect sense, you're just not keeping up."
OK, April Foole or not, your child deserves a real name, not a gag name or a spoof or your attempt to make a point or to be cute. You've no clue what will become of your child later in life, what path they will take, who they will work and live with. A name is one of few things you have control over in their life, and a bad/goofy name can really impact a child's psyche and who they become. My own father never outgrew the name Jan (old world version of John) and forever held it against his parents. If you need further reference, look at the flack that the musician Prince put up with when he changed his name to an unprononucable symbol. Do you really want people laughing at your kid behind his/her back the rest of their life?
Name them Robert, Sarah, Bruce, Steve, Karen, Jessica, whatever. Just don't get cute or play games with your kids name. It's too important for you to mess with.
Yeah I know slashdot is for nerds and stuff, but why the hell is this news?
- oh yeah... April 1st.
damn, I need some coffee...
> Br4d
> J4n37
Dr. Scott!
Rocky!
Wait a minute. Didn't I say that on the other side of the record? I'd better check
My first CS TA in college's first name was 'H' he said that it had caused him a lot of problems. In fact I just searched for him on Google and http://www.cs.pitt.edu/%7Ehcl/me/name.html this page explains it.
Any earlier reference to a number in a name in fiction? Not just the idea that your name could be replaced with a number, but a number in a name.
But serisously f0lks:
There was a US couple who decided to version number their children. I'm suprised that his wife actually agreed to it.
Norman Cook's Ode to Sl
If you're serious, and not just for April Fools, this is for the name of a real human being for their entire lifespan. Don't give them an odd name just because you think it's cool at the moment. Oh, and make it a normal spelling of the name so they won't be correcting everyone and spelling it out a million times over their lifetime.
The above post is an editorial, the poster cannot and will not be held responsible for all or in part for it's contents
Anyone retarded enough to name their kid in l3375p34k lacks the genes that would make higher learning a possibility anyhow.
Trolling is a art,
"A woman with an extreme love of vegetarianism is legally changing her name to GoVeg.com. The woman formerly known as Karin Robertson is now named after a vegetarian infor- mation website to encourage carnivores to give up their meat-eating ways and become vegetarians. The 23-year-old GoVeg.com is a Youth Project Specialist for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and says her new name is a great conversation starter. However, she has had a little trouble at airports trying to get security guards to believe her when she shows them her drivers license. She also had her mother worried about what to do if she got married, but GoVeg.com says her parents understand how much animal rights activism means to her. She couldn't imagine changing her name back. "To be named after the number one website for vegetarian information -- what could be better?""
So you can even hae punctuation in your name.
Exactly ... Be unique ($diety knows we have enough Ashleys and Hunters), but don't go overboard ...
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Don't be one of those idiot parents that names their child Moon or Sky... those names sounded pretty cool back in the sixties, but now they look like morons. Same thing here... naming your kid 733t or some other idiot name today will guarantee an ass wooping by some kid named bubba 10 years from now. Spare the kid... please.
Back in 1999 there was a guy at Apple who's name (as posted outside his cube) was Bo3b. I believe the '3' was silent.
Don't do it. My best friend is scarred for life by the legal name Desuma. Yes, amused backwards. Don't do that to your child! As a parent your primary concern should be to give them the oppotunity to advance and lead a normal and sucessful and happy life. =)
Records show that prisoners in France around the time of the French Revolution were forced to change their names to numbers. One famous person is Jean Valjean or 24601, whose life during this period of French unrest was documented by Victor Hugo in his book "Les Miserables."
People judge you on your name.
I know from personal experience.I have a strange name..Aram, Simple but different. . I've had a few people tell me what they were expecting from name someone "with a turban". Or my last name Com jean which some people think as french "you don't speak french???". I'm just a caucasion with some armenian mixed in.
My name I like, but I'm often pre judged on it. I can't imagine what Dweezle Zappa would go through if his father wasn't so famous.
Ok.. Ok.. Ill play along.. 1337 names are extremely dull and boring.. besides.. you would have to be a 100% Certified NERD to do that.. See, Im a geek.. I am thinking of changing my name to something a little more classy... such as Neo.. Now that is an interesting name.. but calling someone h4xx0r Smith or maybe j4m3s Or something is rather stupid IMHO
Just me
There is a doctor in western CO whose name is 9. She's actually quite a nice person and usually goes by her middle name if I recall (which is something much more generic). A close friend of mine goes to her when she has to have doctor "stuff" done.
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Didn't George from Seinfield want to name his kid Seven?
First change your name to Br4|) and live with the humiliation of it for a while before inflicting that on your child.
I have a grandson named Darren Andrew Terrence Anderson - initials D.A.T.A. - after the StarTrek android...
Does killing two genres with multiple names count?
Regards,
BubbaJonBoy
Do people in America confuse you with the famous (though his fame is dubious) "rapper" Ja Rule?
All the creatures will die, And all the things will be broken. That's the law of samurai. (Jubai, 1605)
either Br4d or J4n37
How about R0cky, Fr4nk, C01um814 or M4g3n74?
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I'm not sure if being perceived as a misfit is really the problem here. Children, particularly at younger ages are a malicious lot, I can't think of a good reason to make your child a bigger target for harassment and ridicule by giving them a "different" name. Similarly cruel names given by parents to their children I have observed were: In one family, the two kids were named "Einstein" and "Atomic" yes these were the first names given by their parents to these unfortunate offspring. Also a number of years back a Swedish (?) couple named their first born a series of random numbers and letters, something to like..his name is "x231ggseiyysxx3456etrydhf264" but pronounced "Albin" People are strange.
Stay away from the number 2. I work for a company with a 2 in the name, and it is just this side of impossible to spell it to people over the phone. The same would go for 4 too.
Mike van Lammeren
It will challenge your head, your brain, and your mind.
Your wife isn't the one to worry about. Just ask anyone that started life as Moonbeam, Flower, or Song.
To err is human. To arr is pirate.
Actually, when I went to St. John's College, there was an administrator named Sus3an Borden. Apparently, when she was young, she was always in class with two other Susans, and the 3 became a way to distinguish herself. Now she is called "Susan" but then I think it was "Susan-3". I believe it is her legal name. Google for her name and the first entry is in the St. John's College campus directory.
His wife got to pick their son's first name--Ocean. He didn't like it, so for his pick as the middle name, he chose 2,4,5-Trioxin, which is the "chemical" that brings the dead back to life in the movie Return of the Living dead.
No, really.
Hopefully a description of Br4d, not J4ne7...
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
Seriously, if you look there are various studies that have tracked kids with highly unusual names-it is too frequently a big hassle.
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...who went to high school with these two people, brother and sister. The guy's name was Chip, the girl's name was Cookie.
The dog's name was Chocolate.
I shit thee not.
"People" using "unnecessary" quotes should be "shot".
http://www.rootstrikers.org/
In any case we had to file her name with an 'E' so don't waste your time.
It helps if you are rich. Just ask Lady 3Jane Marie France Tessier-Ashpool. It also helps if you are in Freeside; Orbital law is soft on cloning as well.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Consider that enigmatic character from William Gibsons "The Sprawl" trilogy.
Of course she was the second clone of the original Jane Tessier-Ashpool, but hey...
I don't have a TV now, but that's ok. The shows in my mind are almost ALWAYS better...
while($today == "04/01") {
showLamePost();
}
Translation: I hate my child, and wish to see them get beaten regularly in school.
You don't have another child named Squee, do you?
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Wait a second... maybe it's not...
-Rob
Marriage doesn't have to suck!
my wife and i discussed this 4 years ago and decided that bubble tests would be a real spoiler. she and both my sons already deal with the problem of being second name people, meaning they use just their first initial. my oldest (8) likes that our phone number spells his name and likes to write that on emails he sends, so it might have been cool for him. my second has a name that can be totally spelled in with numbers and symbols, but though he types pretty well at age 3 (still hunt and peck and only rudimentary spelling) he is more into sports and bullying, so we probably made the right decision with him.
Anything you say will be held against you.
coming dad! (@) *shudder*
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The search on "Jennifer 8. Lee" brought back an interesting blog comment: If it's simply the number eight, why does it have a period after it?
My grandfather's name is A C (let's call him Jonesmith for privacy). When he married my grandmother (first grandpa died before I was born), I thought his name was "Acee", like the local milk company. But his first name is "A", and his middle name is "C". And his full name is A C Jonesmith, not A. C. Jonesmith.
So the blogger is right -- if her middle name is "8", it should be "Jennifer 8 Lee", no period.
And my grandpa was 1337 before 1337 was invented.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
If you have to give them a weird middle name but seriously its a kid not a psychology experiment.
This is the ultimate in inconsiderate selfishness. The name you give a child is the name that child is going to be stuck with, at least until they're old enough to change it to something sensible. Children are not 'possessions' or baubles that hang around as a display of your status or in this case you 'geekiness'. Consequently the name you give a child is something very serious and deserving of every bit of consideration you can give it and more. With more idiots like this naming their children in the same way they would name a pet or even a car, I would not be surprised to see more lawsuits in the future by offspring pissed off at their parents for the lifetime of humiliation heaped upon them by these inconsiderate jerkwads who don't deserve the title of 'parent'. You don't think it'll happen? There's already cases of young men suing their parents over being circumcised - a very common practice until recently. A child's name is NOT a joke. Grow the hell up!
To put it into perspective. "Prince Michael" might not be old enough to care right now, but once he's a young adult, do you think he's really going to appreciate the amount of consideration is self-obsessed ass-wipe of a father gave his name?
I consider myself a big geek compared to normal people. I think the nicest thing about slashdot is that it reminds me that I am the freakin Fonz compared to you guys. Wow
There are plenty of perfectly good names that won't bring ridicule on your child. Pick one or make one up.
I grew up with a weird name and had kids spit in my face and pick on me and beat me up for it... You're not the one who has to live with the crap you dish out.
The price we pay for immortality... is death. Narnia The Great Fall
I went to college with an &erson and dated Christian Dick.
Is this the modern day version of a boy named sue?
Yes, I know it's April 1st.
Depending on when the kid watches the Matrix, all he's going to ever hear when he comes home is "Mr. Anderson, welcome back... we missed you."
"Why Subscribe?" Good question...
Would someone take a JOKE and actually re-code it...
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I know this is a 4/1 joke. But if this were to happen most likely they would just have the issue that I do- two completely legal spellings of their name.
My birth certificate says Brodie.
My social security card says Brody.
Drivers licence says Brodie.
Passport says Brody.
The only time that its taken more than a 30 second explination was when I applied for the US foreign service. I just had to produce basically everything that I had to show that it was used consistently within document branches, and that there was no fraud involved.
So Br4d would probably just bubble in "Brad" when he took his SAT.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
This guy named his son Jon Blake Cusack 2.0
Max(x) Barry's Syrup has a character named 6.
My name is Shane but pronounced "Shawn" and I live in America. Does anyone else pronounce it the same or heard of anyone? Is this common in Ireland? It's caused confusion throughout my life, mostly in school. In fact, in high school I went by the normal pronunciation of Shane just so I didn't have to deal with it. People I work with who only see my name in print (paperwork etc) call me "Shane" as well and I don't correct them out of habit. It's like I have two names :/
Actually, (and I did double check the dictionary to be certain I'm not making an incorrection) there are two primary definitions of "gender." One is the meaning you provide. The other is "sex," as in the masculine or feminine gender - not a grammatical term. So the use of gender in the original post is correct - although it's one of a number of posts today which suggest such bad ideas that I suspect they're poor April Fool's jokes.
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I would never get online on April 1st anymore, it's getting b0r1n6! If this isn't a joke, it's the GH3Y357 thing ever, and I hope your child becomes a maladjusted seial killer that starts with you.
I named him jaNOSPAMcob.
Am I guaranteeing my child becomes a misfit?
Yes, you are, but it does not depend on naming. Your choice to reproduce is more at fault.
A friend of mine gave his son the middle name "Danger".
The theory was that his son would only have to say "Well, Danger is my middle name" once in his life to make it all worth while.
(Brad, if you are out there, give Mike a call)
It's bad enough we have people out there named "Sunray" and "Moonbeam". Now our children have to contend with this?!
Bobby [to Br4d]: Nice name...g33k.
Br4d: [plotting father's demise]
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Remember when the HP-41C came out and ruined all our fun?
Some things off the top of my head (So what if this is April 1st):
How names work alphabetically? What if you son/daughter publishes a book. I bet the Library of Congress will have a shit-fit trying to index it by author's name.
How the hell is it supposed to be pronounced? Brad? Brfourd? B-R-Four-D?
Your son/daughter will become a geek like you. You're a geek. You posted on /. on April 1st. Your children being geeks will be enough torture through grade school. Why make it worse?
I waant to be there when your son/daughter enlists in the military and the Drill Instructor goes Ape-Shit on your kid.
:-)
Nice article.
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"First things first -- but not necessarily in that order"
-- The Doctor, "Doctor
Also, it doesn't take a bad A.P. Rilfools joke to come up with bad names. My friend's late mother taught primary school, and one of her students (whose parents were from another country) had a name pronounced SHI-thee-ad, but unfortunately spelled Shithead. Hand to God.
I know, I'm an evil man for giggling at both a stranger's culture and his misfortune, but there's a dearth of intelligent humor today so the fourth-grade stuff will have to do.
It's so much more attractive / inside the moral kiosk.
That's true for other languages, but you might have consulted a dictionary before attempting (incorrectly and pedantically) to correct the poster regarding English usage. As seen from definitions 2-3, gender is an acceptable term in English to refer to a male/female distinction for humans.
Other languages can do what they like, but simply because English is different from other languages doesn't make it wrong. Many languages use one word for two usages that are split in other languages See below. Sex and gender in this usage are accepted synonyms.
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gender ( P ) Pronunciation Key (jndr) n.
1. Grammar.
2. Sexual identity, especially in relation to society or culture.
3. a) The condition of being female or male; sex.
b) Females or males considered as a group: expressions used by one gender.
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I worked with a guy once who had legally changed his name from Ryan to Ry4an. He apparently did it in high school to screw with the standardized test forms.
In case you're wondering:
1. The 4 was silent
2. Yes, he was a programmer
3. He didn't seem any stranger than your run of the mill, non-numerically named programmers
4. He did express a bit of regret for all of the hassle it had led to.
Ry4an if you're out there, Hi!
I did know a family with three girls: KayD, LayC and MinD. Does that count?
Real geeks give their kids names that start with /dev/.
Perhaps in imitation of Neal Stephenson (whose novel Snow Crash had a character named Da5id), I had a friend in high school who called himself "Da3vid" or "Da3ve". The 3 was silent...
N4st0r, trixx0r h0bb1tz0rz! Th3y st0l3 0ur pr3c10uzz!
07734, you can type the names of oil companies into your calculator as well: 710.77345, 710.0553
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"Hi! I'm 212.90.0.89! Want to come to 127.0.0.1 and h4 | R-0uND?" -or- "Honey, look at that! our kids are so alike! They have the same class C ip address! How sweet!
I fight a continuing problem with name pattern nazis. I go by my second of four names so (with initials) my name would be written "R. Craig T. Altenburg". Way too many forms and computer programs tend to expect only names in the "First Name -- Middle Initial -- Last Name" pattern. I get somewhat upset when others try to mangle my name to fit.
My rule is that others can use my full name without any initials; they can use the form shown above; or they can use simply "Craig Altenburg". I tend to use the latter.
I had given (passing) thought to giving one of my kids "7" as a middle initial. If you say it as part of a full name it does not sound too obnoxious but, it would cause grief with some (in may opinion) brain damaged programs.
When I code programs that require users to enter a name, I prefer asking for "Family Name" and "Given Names". Where either field can contain whatever characters the users wish to enter.
Why settle for just a number. Make the name be some sort of function.
My name is John {Today's juvian (sp) date mod 26 mapped onto the alphabet} Smith.
That would surely reak havoc on contracts (but I guess could always be verified by the date field that's always next to the signature line.)
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Schmuck: Australian for "Dude"
Foster's: Australian for "Beer"
Lame: Australian for this topic.
man, these April Fools articles are 14m3!!!
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Either way, the kid's emails will never get past the spam filters.
Imagine it: j8Lee@wherever.edu
or worse: Br4d.Cumming@whevever.edu
Seriously, how much of your email has gotten bounced or blackholed over the years because of your name?
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
I'm getting married soon and I looked up the laws about changing your name in a couple different states, Washington, Oregon, and Ohio, and every single one of the says that it's alright to have a number spelled out, but having a numeral isn't allowed. Granted, things may be different outside of the US.
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I don't know about your l337 names, but if you want your child to have their self-confidence buoyed by positive energy every time they enter a room, name your kid Yahtzee. No one can say "Yahtzee" without excessive exuberance and enthusiasm.
I wonder what will happen if you, for example, gave your child a first name that would constitute a valid VBA backdoor for lets say Outlook. All kinds of questions pop up then:
:=)
- Would you get sued constantly for spreading a virus when e-mailing to anyone, signing with your name ?
- How will the custom officer look when he enters your name in his console and saw it go totally nuts ?
- Would the photographers that took your photo for the wanted-portrait be arrested themselves for knowingly spreading illegal code ?
- Would you ever become a succesful programmer, writing kernelcode for Linux V6.2.6, even when that meant every comment with your name in it would make the kernel overflow with proprietary M$ bugcode ?
- What will your parents say when your grade report was not only mailed to them but to the rest of the world as well - automatically ?
On the bright side: you'll probably end up a millionaire, because M$ will pay you everything to change your name by the time you turn 18
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She uses the number "8" in her byline, a clever device she came up with to differentiate herself from the hordes of other Asian girls named "Jennifer Lee". In fact, I believe there was actually another Jennifer Lee at her high school (Stuyvesant, in NYC, if I remember correctly) that wrote for the paper and she wanted to differentiate herself.
Lots of people have made up stories about the origins of "that wacky NY Times writer's middle initial", that her parents gave her the middle intial "8" because it's a lucky number in China or some such thing. These stories were either made up by silly people or things she once told at a party after a few beers just to see if people would actually believe them, and they have propagated over the Internet (because when you are a Circuits writer, you get geek-fans). The 8 is a creation of her own. Why 8 rather than 9 or 10? I believe because she thought it sounded cool, though the number may have some other personal significance.
So these days she may actually tell people her name is Jennifer 8. Lee because that's her byline and it's become associated with her. But it certainly wasn't her given name by her parents, and to the best of my knowledge she has never gone and changed her legal name or anything of that sort.
He let his mind loose on that one.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Oh, and it doesn't matter because the US doesn't allow numbers in names
You mean like Spears? Or were you thinking more along the lines of Dick Trickle (Nascar driver; AFAIK, that is his real name).
I'm (seriously) considering changing my last name to a footnote. I don't like being associated with my parents, and intend to take my wife's name when I get married, but until then, I need something--a placeholder. So I want to change my last name to a footnote, specifically [1].
Has anyone ever tried this?
(oh, and for those who care, here's what the note points to)
[1] Geez, that brings back bad memories.
How somebody who would name their kid in l33tspeak was able to get sex in the first place.
-R
that's all.
B.
There's some other stuff in the same section about "illegal names" in Denmark.
"I'm sorry, Mister Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116, there aren't enough spaces for your name in our database!"
"There are a dozen opinions on a matter until you know the truth. Then there is only one." - CS Lewis (paraprhase)
Does that count?
Why limit yourself to Br4d or J4n37? You could go with Fr4nk-N-Fur73r (hoping that he acheives a doctorate some day), M4g3n74, C0lu/\/\b14, R0ky, or even 3dd13. Wait, scratch that, no one wants to be named for a greaser from the freezer.
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Like those poor offspring of Mr. Foreman. Ya know, the ex-heavyweight who now sells mini-grills. At least in public all of his kids are named George.
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We just hired this new Indian (from India) guy in our office, and his name is pronounced An-Indian. It is spelled nothing like that, but that is how he has told us it is pronounced. So we've got a bunch of cracker (aka white as you can get) 20-something guys walking around the office asking "Where is Anindian? Can you find Anindian for me? I need Anindian to help me out with this..."
Best-name-ever.
- I love animals. I try to eat at least one a day.
For a boy: j^F or ^Omon.
For a girl: ^Gle or ^Vthia or ^Xdy.
dictionary.com pulled a REAL April Fool's joke. That took guillible out of their online dictionary for the day!
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The 1337ist name ever!
I have a fetish for traffic cones
Twins named Cookie and Candy. Didn't really know them, just heard the names a lot. They were sisters of one of my former bosses.
I told you once!
I told you twice!
You better wise up!
J4n37 W1355!
i'm going to head home tonight and concieve a child with my girlfriend, just so he or she can grow up and beat up your kid for having a dumb name.
I actually know of a couple that met on the internet because their names had numbers in them. tom and tone is common Norwegian names and to is the norwegian word for 2 so they called themselves 2ne and 2m. well 2m searched for any norwegian girls with 2 as a reference for to(yea he is a real neard) and to this day they still live together. Even got married on the 1.2.3 (1.jan.2003) And even though 2m and 2ne is not real names it's a cute story. If I ever get twins i promise to call them the real good Norwegian names Odd and Even(if they are boys that is :-)
I guess the real question is would your child mind people yelling "51u7!" or "455h013!" every time they say their name.
Apple's own Bo3b Johnson. He's been a member of Apple Developer Support since time immemorial, and has managed to get Bo3b on credit cards and (it's rumored) drivers licences since way before many slashdotters were born.
The 3 is silent by the way. And apparently Bo3b is short for Ro3bert.
Gibson's Mona Lisa Overdrive had a 3Jane. But she was an insane clone.
perhaps not the best precedent
so she should get to name the kid.
I've been there with the midwives for both my kids' births. It ain't easy for the woman. Neither is pregnancy, for that matter. Adding to her grief by pushing for some god-awful l33t name so you can demonstrate your hackerness just makes it that much less pleasant.
Just something to think about.
Please don't do this to your child. The amount of teasing and being made fun of can not be measured in any existing unit of mesurement. It may be cute on IRC, but please, please, don't actually name someone like this.
Buckethead
Hey, Br4d and 5lu7 are waaay better than Trout Fishing in America which is still better than 7r0u7 f15h1n9 1n 4m3r1c4.
(/local/home/curiosity)-#who -u|grep thecat|cut -c 44-49|xargs kill -9
(It's a GREAT book, by the way. :) )
Triv
Gender is the personal expression of sexual identity. Definition 2 hits this directly, though I could see why an etymologyst would list the grammatical definition of gender first. The 3rd definition is more common usage, but it is split in half with 3b supporting the classification schema definition. Note, none of these definitions refer specifically to biology, just identity perception. And as the baby is too young to have a well formed sexual identity perception, it can be said to be biologically male or female, but it cannot be said to be psychologically masculine or feminine.
Sex is verifiable. Gender is a perception.
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Back in college my housing director's name was, no lie, "Sus3an". I figured at first that the "3" was just her trying to make a German "s" on a US keyboard but, no, it was in fact a 3.
Don't do it, dude. Your kids will have enough reasons to hate you without giving them stupid names.
All's true that is mistrusted
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april fool jokes aside...
if you want to give your child an unusual name, at least give him or her something s/he can abbreviate to something less unusual if s/he turns out to be more conservative than you, otherwise, s/he could have some problems, among other things, with finding a job, people assuming the name has typo or is a joke name (but I have a vewy good fwiend in Wome named Biggus Dickus!).
even some foreigners are starting to modify their names due to embarrassing phonetic correlation in English... like this Vietnamese person I know: real name "Phuoc". (side note: a friend of mine who is a native French speaker took her child to the Toronto zoo once, and she was teaching her to say the animal names in French. The people around her were evidently scandalized to see this mother teach her daughter to point at a seal and to say: "un phoque!")
That being said, I also know a guy named Richard Hertz, who everyone calls Dick. No joke.
I wouldnt be surprised if one day someone starts an agency to research names that have absolutely no bad connotations in any language.
BOOBLESS, upside down and backwards. I used to type it in on my calculator all the time and show it to the girl infront of me during class.
BTW, detention sucks.
What are you to lazy to psychologically damage your own children? You just give them a name that causes everyone else to do it for you? Are you MAD! Name your child with a beautiful non-descript conformative name. If they want to be Z4pp4 |\/|()()|\|rov3r later then they can change their name theirself. -Ben.
The actual reference from your link says "You can not use numbers in your name, like 911, in order to intentionally confuse people." From that, I take it that if your intent is not to confuse, you can use numbers in your name. If not, they should revise their wording in that statement.
I've been considering giving my first born a binary middle name... Soemthing that would be strange and different. Middle name so they can just drop it if they don't like it down the road. Would definatly at least be a conversation piece.
"The next generation of interesting software will be made on a Macintosh, not an IBM PC." -Bill Gates
... the Japanese have a past of naming their kids with numbers (not "1337534K"). Well, that's what I heard in my Etymology class, yesterday, at least.
So numbers in names isn't exactly without precident.
In other news, Slashdot ate one of my posts, earlier this morning. I'm still trying to figure out if it was an April Fool's joke to have my post up and dissapear or if it's just Cowboy Neal going on the Atkins diet. (I suspect that Slashdot posts have low carbs.)
Anyhow, happy pre-Gregorian calendar/"Pagan" New Year, everyone!
~UP
Eat the Path.
I'm leaning towards April Fools myself, but I don't see it being out of the realm of society. Literally on the bleeding edge of societle, evolution enough to have enough people talking behind your back sayng how much of a freak you are for naming your kid that. It's like my brother-in-law named his daughter Shao Lin. You know, like Kung Fu? Which I'd normally wouldn't bat an eye at except for the fact that he isn't Asian. His wife isn't Asian. The daughter isn't Asian.
Common, do your kid a favor and name him something other that just what you think is cool.
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18 Rabbit, Mayan ruler of Copan in Honduras beat you by about 1300 years.
Tom Lehrer, the Harvard Professor of Mathematics and Night Club Singer once claimed to have a friend named Hen3ry. "...the 3 was silent, you see."
This is not the sig line you're looking for... move along.
In his novel "The Demolished Man", some of the characters (mostly the telepaths) had names that would now be considered internet slang names...Samuel @kins and someone else who last name was Wyg&, just to name a couple. But he was always ahead of his time. Maybe it was it just me, but I saw some of his influence in Stephenson's "Snow Crash". Hiro Protagonist has got to be the best name for a main character ever...!
Introduce me to the little slut when she's legal ok? And keep the asshole away from me:)
Rifraff.
To err is human. To arr is pirate.
Jennifer 8. Lee? Why not?..........nobody seemed to mind 7 of 9. Wasn't there another famous "7" from another television show?
"There is only a one in six billion chance that you actually exist"
"I am reminded at this point of a fellow I used to know whose name was Henry, only to give you an idea of what a individualist he was, he spelled it H-E-N-3-R-Y. The three was silent, you see."
- Tom Lehrer, from "An Evening (Wasted) with Tom Lehrer, 1959
In America names cannot contain numbers, unless its something like Tom Smith IX.
The later pretty much guarantees the former.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
I would think it might be a little more acceptable and almost as unique/cool to use a symbol from another alphabet that has mathematical significance. I'm particularly fond of pi (spelled using the actual greek letter, of course). Another possibility would be aleph-naught (the cardinality of integers if I remember correctly). Names with weird letters and subscripts just seem cool somehow. It's also subversive because a lot of older government databases probably don't do greek or hebrew well.
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:)
you should probably tell him to stop putting a . after the H if he doesn't want people to think it stands for something
I'd stay away from Br4d or Jan37. Anyone who's seen Rocky Horror would know why.
Sorta OT: Where I grew up, an entire family changed their last name... seems the wife was a real estate agent, and didn't like the way her name looked on the signs. So the husband, wife and kids changed their name from Titmuss to Tyler. No kidding.
I'd have a personalized plate on my car, but "toxic bachelor" won't fit into 7 letters.
it's true. I have an uncommon enough name that when I do a google on my name in quotes, over half the results are actually about me. This has good and bad sides. For one thing, anyone who knows my name can find out a fair bit about me pretty fast. Fortunately nothing bad about me is really on the net, but who knows if it will stay that way.
On the other hand, I have a friend named John Smith who was arrested on pretty serious drug charges but managed to get off without a jail sentence. There are half a dozen articles on the internet that mention his name in this regard, but type John Smith into google and they're nowhere in the first thousand results.
lysergically yours
"My name is Aymie."
"Oh, A-M-Y?"
"No, A-Y-M-I-E."
"Oh. My name is Brian. B-R-I-V-O-L-B-N the number seven the letter Q!"
I'd be justifyed in murdering these people... yeah? these aren't the sort that should have children.... april fools joke then?
-You're wasting your time. Alfador only likes me.
Was's 7 the name of a character on "Married...With Children in the later years"? I think George on "Seinfeld" also wanted to name any future offspring "7". I don't think the characters or the writers of the show had computer-hacker speak in mind, tho.
I am the new Number 2.
Who is Number 1?
You are, Number 6.
I am not a number! I am a free man!
*Laughter*
This is your child, not your new toy or pet. Why should she have to go through life branded with a weird name because of your obsessions. How would you like to have been called 'Caboose Williamson' because of your dad's fondness for model trains? What if your mom was really into amateur radio and decided to christen you 'Frequency Modulation Jones'?
This name is a gift you are giving to your child. Try to give her something she might want.
m.m.
Looks like Sally Atkins had this idea as well...
Domain Name: KINS.COM
Administrative Contact:
T, SA (30093608I) sally@kins.com
The practice in Roman families came from naming sons in the order of their birth. Japanese samurai families would also adopt a convention of naming children based on the order of their births.
Some common names from Kate Monk's Onomastikon:
1st Son -- Ichiro (mod.-ichi or -kazu suffix)
2nd Son -- Jiro, Chojiro (ji suffix)
3rd Son -- Saburo, Kanzaburo (zo suffix 3rd son)
4th Son -- Shiro, Heishiro
5th Son -- Goro, Daigoro
Note the common elements of each name. Ichi, ji, sabu, shi, go. These correspond to certain (in some cases uncommonly used) pronunciations of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, respectively. The -ro suffix means "son" and acts as a counting suffix for counting off sons. -Zabu- is just an inflected pronunciation of -sabu-. Many of these names also have homonyms where different kanji characters are used that have different meaning, but these are merely clever plays on the numbered system and were still reserved for children of appropriate birth.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
It's worked out fine though most formal records just exclude it.
I wonder if unusual, yet legal, names are able to monkeywrench the system. Presumably most database systems go through periodic cleaning and junk some records based upon some heuristic for what a name "is", and if your name doesn't match those, it gets dumped.
Which could be great or could be a pain in the ass when your account gets suspended, passport invalidated or some other thing you'd rather not get junked gets junked.
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-- @rjamestaylor on Ello
"I am reminded at this point of a fellow I used to know who's name was Henry, only to give you an idea of what an individualist he was he spelt it Hen3ry. The 3 was silent, you see." - humorist Tom Lehrer, 1960ish
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I know a girl named Jul3ia. Her name was Julia, but they misprinted it on her student I.D. So she legally got it changed to Jul3ia. She recently came out with a CD, "The 3 is Silent"
Damn you, Chr4is Wang-Iverson! It's all your fault!
A friend of my sister had twins and (no joke) named them Orangello and Lemongello (Orange jello and Lemon jello, get it?). They are of school age now, and their names are practially urban legends, but as far as I've heard havent had any problems because of their names.
Hah... you know I almost wrote a long rant about how stupid this idea was before I realized that today was April 1st. Good one. But I do know someone who named their kid "J-Sin".... I'm not sure which would be worse. I would immagine that "J-Sin" will have a great case for a law suit for the pain and suffering he will have to endure until he turns 18 and has his name changed.
If you are not 12 years old, you are certainly a misfit.
Doesn't April Fools end at Noon, or is that just a Canadian thing? This post is at 12:30 so I take this to be a legitimate idiot wanting to ruin his kids life forever ;)
You create your own reality - Leave mine to me.
I'm pretty sure that, in New Jersey at least, you can't have profanity or digits in your legal name. Now teaching your kid to spell their name that way would be a completely different story...
we have 3 mr. andersons in my company. matrix jokes aplenty :)
perl -e '$_="\007/4`\cp%2,".chr(127);s/./"\"\\c$&\""/gees
No idea what ur talkin' 'bout?
Rocket science is easy. Neurosurgery, now *that's* difficult.
_Snow_Crash_, of course, has DaVid. What an annoying name to read!
You do realize you are asking slashdotters a question that involves (in most cases) actual cross gender contact. ;->
I hate my sig.
There was a guy from another regional high school who ran Cross Country against our team in Indianapolis whose name was "Peter Wacker." I believe he went to Lawrence North or Lawrence Central HS. I saw him again later writing a column for a college newspaper that a friend showed me.
Incidentally, we also had a Richard Hair on our basketball team at Ben Davis HS.
Also, there are a pair of tombstones down towards Greenwood, IN, for a deceased couple named Earlie and Ada Boner. Yes, both of them. The cemetery is just off the west side of 31-- I can't remember the cross street.
We are expecting a child in october and I am trying to convince my wife to name it "Princess 247" if it's a girl and "Hot_Wheels 180" if it's a boy.
Her most convincing arguments have to do with the standardized testing that is going on in the schools now. Unless I can show her a bubble sheet with numbers for the middle initial or an underscore for the first name they are out of consideration. (I releneted on the colouring of the names as well, since I was going to make the "Hot" red and the "Wheels" a dark rubber grey but there's a chance the boy may be colour blind).
Dose anyone work for the ITBS tests or the CAT tests and can upgrade the bubble sheets for this? It doesn't have to be immediate, Since it is at least 5-7 years away until they will test I think that if I can show they will be there by then I can make her budge. That will show her to make comprimizes that aren't!
--Shemnon
hung, castrated and dipped in acid to prevent you from every possible reproducing.
Give boys Manly names and girls Girly names!
Or are you not a Tom Lehrer fan?
Anyone retarded enough to name their kid in l3375p34k lacks the genes that would make higher learning a possibility anyhow.
And the likely ability to reproduce in the first place, as well.
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
Al Gore
No, really! 1337 and old school at the same time!
try shithead, but pronounce it sha theed or something like that, that should make sure your kid is as messed up as he would be if you use leet speak.
There are countries that Police the namespace used for their newborns. They don't allow eccentric parents to give their kids eccentric names. But giving your kid a weird name doesn't guarantee they will grow up to be weird.
Frank Zappa gave his kids Moon Unit and Dweezil weird names. Did they grow up to be weird failures because of their names?
I don't know. But I bet there are moments when they wonder, "what was dad thinking?"
I met a guy who changed his name to "1047" and he was called "10" (one-zero) for short. A friend of mine knew him a bit better than I did, and told me that the name on his checks was truly 1047.
Not that this guy is a model for emulation. I think the first time my buddy met this guy he stepped into my friend's shop wearing his pajamas and pushing along a walker....he was fairly elderly at the time....he was also in the VA Hospital (maybe for mental problems???) just out for a stroll.
Primus, Secundus, Tertius, ... Septimus, Octavia...
Maybe you could put the Roman numbering system to good use and call your child Brivd.
Flourescent (adj): smelling like ground wheat.
Yes, I like the name....
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Tom Lehrer mentioned a friend in one of his tracks that was named Henry, spelled Hen3ry. He said that the 3 was silent. He made this legendary statement back in 1958, slightly ahead of his time...
I'm going to name MY first born son "|<1|< /\/\41 633|< 4$$!"
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
I always thought "Sparc" was a cool name.
but it would be best as a middle name.
When the kid decides to become some sort of actor, scientist, or rock star, he could abbreviate his name to V.Sparc or G.Sparc..
somehow naming your kid after a Microcontroller might be interesting... maybe HC11 or something.
555... 1541 (C-64 5.25" drive)...
hell, "one" is a pretty cool name too.
Maybe the computer does that automatically to one-letter first names.
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I've got a black and white cat named Adam 12. Strangely, very few people seem to understand the name. Am I just too old?
Our secretary had called one of our realtors and told them some people were here to see houses. After 20 minutes and he hadn't come in the office, she called him thinking he had caught on, but it turned out he had washed his car. He came in all spruced up, and there she was with a grin and an "April Fool's!"
:D Office still hasn't stopped laughing over it.
So, later that morning I used Administrative Tools in Windows XP to connect to her computer and send a console message that said the following:
Critical error (0xCE50): The temperature of your motherboard has reached critical levels. Disconnect your computer from any universal power supplies (UPS) or RAID arrays. It is possible permanent damage has occured. Contact your system administrator or consult your documentation for more information. Visit www.microsoft.com for information on Windows XP temperature management conditions.
I changed my computer name to "SYSADMIN" and sent the message. I hear an "uh-oh" come from the other room.
She calls me over, I look real confused, utter "I've never seen that before," etc. "Should I shut it down?" she asks. I tell her, "let me look" and walk off toward my computer.
She starts shutting down her applications...until a new message box pops up saying "April Fool's!"
I hear "you BUTTHEAD!" It was great.
I consider April Fool's jokes to be jokes you actually fall for, not this lame crap michael is posting where we're supposed to be laughing at it because it's so stupid. Remember in the past when the point of Slashdot April Fool's Day was to figure out which stories were real and which were fake? Some of those most absurd stories posted turned out to be true. I miss it.
Tom Lehere talked about a guy named Hen3ry.
Hen3ry spelled his name that way because he was such an individualist.
-- -- Warning. Do not stare directly at the sun.
"asshole!"
or J4n37
"slut!"
That should be reason enough to pick a different name, now go do.
7 November 2006: The day Americans realized corruption and incompetence weren't addressing 11 September 2001
Two examples:
There's DJ Delorie, of "DJGPP" fame (where the "DJ" is not an abbreviation, there are no periods, it's just, well, "DJ". See www.delorie.com for details.), and there's also a guy (whose original name I can't remember) who legally changed his name to "DO-While Jones" back in the early eighties: http://www.ridgenet.net/~do_while/
I saw a story about 2 boys named winner and loser. Of the 2 loser was a decorated police officer, And Winner was spending a lot of his time in jail. The parents named winner because the husband favourite baseball team won when the baby was born. They named loser because one of the kids said we allready have a winner why not name him loser. They both said growing up it didnt matter that they had strange names.
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I've got versions with and without the four and I pick depending on the company. HR people are looking for _any_ excuse to toss a resume and a typo in your name would certainly count. Usually I bring copies with the 4 to interviews and it usually turns into a nice dicussion. My interview success rate has been pretty good in the past.
It's a CHILD for Christ's sake. Name it a normal name. Save the geek names for a pet or something like that. "Geekness" should only go so far, my friend, and I think the line should be drawn for your child. Would you really do that to a kid?!
I'm shocked at the cultural depravity that would allow the entire thread to miss this one.
Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
I'd quote the lyrics, but you really have to hear this one to get the point. If you haven't already heard it, go look this one up.
And l4m3 April Fool's joke or not, if you name your kid P4u1, he will get his ass kicked once or a thousand times.
I don't know if anyone has posted one of these (so many posts!) but there have been two guys at my university over the last four years named "Loong Kwok" One's in my chinese class this semester.
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In fact, I thought of changing my legal name to r1c3_bu|2n3rz_suc|< (the < is supposed to be literally written out, NOT to appear as a less-than symbol).
The only thing I haven't figured out yet is where the underscores go when placing my last name first, would it read: _suc|<, r1c3_ b, or would it read suc|<, r1c3 _b_, or what? There ain't no capitals either.
And, no, this is NOT April Fools. This is extremely serious. I am GOING to do this.
And my first child will be named 1337. And my second child will be named h4x0rz. So when I yell "1337 h4x0rz!" they'll come running from their computers.
"Prince Michael" might not be old enough to care right now, but once he's a young adult, do you think he's really going to appreciate the amount of consideration is self-obsessed ass-wipe of a father gave his name?
No more than Prince Rogers Nelson.
I didn't see a single one of you recommend the name CowboyNeal...
It seems that database designers who don't allow names following the pattern of three initials and a surname have probably never read anything by J.R.R. Tolkien.
A girl that worked in a bar near where I used to live had the name Sei. (pronounced say)
I asked her one time and she told me that it is the number six in the Basque language. Her parents were Basque and since she was the sixth child born they had named her six.
I thought that it was a cool name at the time (she was a doll) but thinking back on it twelve years later she had a pretty poor self image.
She was always involved with the "wrong" guy and was not a happy person, living hand to mouth waiting tables in a bar with no real plans or hopes for the future. The sad thing is that she was pretty, quite smart, and very kind hearted. She could/should have gone far.
I can't say that her name was the cause but the idea that your parents don't care enough to give you a name but just call you number 6 couldn't have helped.
Every wrong attempt discarded is a step forward - T. Edison
You can still give a child an interesting name, and indeed for some individuals, it can be a bonus. I have a very unusual name thanks to my parents (not printed on Slashdot for obvious reasons), and in the context of my own personality, it has suited me well.
The trick: Give them a boring first name and then have your parental fun with the middle name:
i.e. Jason H4rdc0re Richardson
As a young kid, there's no need for Jason to know what's on his birth certificate. But when he gets to be a teenager, he may enjoy being able to introduce himself, in all honesty, as someone whose name is 'H4rdc0re' to any new friends he makes.
But if he turns out to be a more traditional sort, no-one ever has to know him as anything other than Jason H. Richardson, or even just Jason Richardson.
There are all kinds of possibilities.
Annie Aphrodite Smith (a.k.a. Annie A. Smith)
Jerem E4zyrider Morgan (a.k.a. Jerem E. Morgan)
and on and on.
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
Richard Strokirch
Richard Harden
If you stayed after school, once in a while you'd hear them say something like "Dick Stroker, you have a call in the front office...Dick Stroker, a call in the office."
Bill Lear's daughter?
Bill Lear was the creator of the Learjet (and also happens to be the inventor of the Eight-track. No, really, look it up.) He was a sadistic mofo. He named his daughter Shanda.
Yes, that's right. Her name is Shanda Lear. (Read it out loud. Faster. There you go.)
Now I hope this poster is playing a sick April Fools joke. But if not, then I will hunt you down and take a big fat LART to you. Giving your progeny a goofy name is one thing, but marking them with such a 'leet' name will scar them for life.
(Please, for the love of Cthulhu, may this be a joke.)
Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com."
The purpose of that site was not known.
Thank God, we were all on pins and needles waiting to see which way you would go on this.
I call troll - noone on earth can possibly consider "L33T speak" (however you spell it) to be anything but pathetic and weak.
I suppose if you want to have a script kiddie for a kid, maybe this works. Don't be surprised though when the kid gets to be about 15 and kills you in your sleep.
Here is an Apple Employee named "Bo3B" I guess you pronounce it "Bob", but I couldn't be sure.
Yes! Mod the parent up! He is very right!
Embrace the persona of "DAD". I wish my parents had...
J05H
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Kids don't have a hard enough time these days, so why not make sure, as a parent, that life will be as hard as possible on them. Name them "FVCK YOU" or something. Yeah, great plan. Maybe this is an April Fools joke, but quite honestly, it just sounds like you're an idiot who shouldn't reproduce.
Obviously you've never met J4n37. Love those 5318008...
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
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A famous Texan Ima Hogg. No foolin'.
Anyone retarded enough to name their kid in l3375p34k lacks the genes that would make higher learning a possibility anyhow.
I disagree. They will probably raise the kids w/o social skills, very introverted, etc. but it won't take away possibility of higher learning. A lot of introverted/shy kids are actually well educated since they compensate their lack of social life with learning.
The purpose of life is to find the purpose of life.
55378008
:)
+10 Karma to the first person to figure out what that is
Looks like boobless in l33tsp34k in a mirror to me.
But why is the rum gone?
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"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
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Together, we will drive the rats from the tundra.
sex and gender are not verifyable.
I knew a person with DNA of XXY (that's right TWO X and ONE Y)
even had both types of parts
make Linux, not Microsoft. sin(beast) = -0.809016994374947424102293417182819
that says it all. if dweezil can make it this far, your kids will be fine.
You didn't happen to go to UCLA starting the fall of 99, did you?
Hollow words will burn and hollow men will burn.
why use just numbers? Besides you know they are gonna need counciling anyway after that
make Linux, not Microsoft. sin(beast) = -0.809016994374947424102293417182819
Truth be told, I worked with someone named Ozark! (and when I asked him about the "bang", he said that it was actually on his birth cert). So, while it's not necessarily 1337, it is a name with extended characters. You'd think with kids named Starflower or River in the hippie days that Li5a and B4r7 shouldn't be too far behind.
Last note: I've started considering how a name will be abbreviated for emails - my friend "slitt@somedomain..." didn't appreciate his parents lack of foresight on that issue.
-- In Soviet Russia, radio listens to YOU!
Naming your child something "cute" or a "joke" or "l33t" is simple narcissism. It shows you are more interested in pleasing yourself than in considering your child's future experience. The fact that you asked the question shows you have SOME concern for your child, but that you asked it here shows you are hoping for people to validate what you want to do. If you think it would be cool to have a l33t name, change your own.
I have a weird name and I grew up HATING it. And as an adult woman I'm still not that psyched to have a masculine name. My parents gave me this name to please themselves, not me.
Barclay
I know a guy whose last name is "Vanden Hoven", with a space. His department of electronics account (FirstnameLastname) at university would never work, so he'd always have to use his partner's.
Personally I have an uppercase in the middle of my last name, MacLeod, and that often gets filtered to lowercase, especially if an entry form is ALL CAPS and there's no real way to represent it.
Our Fa1her, who 0wnz heaven, j00 r0ck!
J33bus, may all 0ur base someday be belong to you!
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There's a place in Yellow Springs, Ohio, called Ha Ha's Whole Wheat Pizza which used to answer the phone "Hello Ha Ha"...
- "History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men" -- Blue Oyster Cult, 'Godzilla'
George Costanza on Seinfeld was an early adopter, wanting to name his child "7". Unfortunately their friends stole it and George was upset.
Yeah, it's all about me. Apparently, I'm the only "Mick Michalski" on earth. Big supprise.
"That's so plausible, I can't believe it!" - Leela
I'd have to say this is one of the most retarded things I've ever come across on the Internet.
My lack of God, it's Trotsky!
I once played golf with an older Asian gentleman who introduced himself as "Harry Wang". I'm not kidding.
--If 50,000 people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
I told my brother he had to name one of his kids monkey, then I'll be a monkey's uncle.
Linux: The world's best text-adventure game.
A fellow Rhode Island native, Love 22, had his name legally changed a number of decades ago. He has a web site at http://www.love22.com/, although I haven't visited it lately.
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Love 22 is a colorful character and challenged the courts numerous times, going back to changing his name from Lawrence Wagner to Love 22 to printing his own series of 22 dollar bills. Put into perspective, he did this in RI during a time of freedom and change. In our hometown there was shopping center, Garden City, that had a large unused parking lot away from any stores. In their infinite wisdom, the city decided it would be a good thing to allow teenagers to congregate there in their cars. Needless to say, it turned into a large open air drug bazaar. Not that I ever went there myself looking for dope (all varieties, from panama red to "thai sticks" to acid to PCP to you name it). And not that I knew half of the people there. Urban legend, folks.
Anyway, Larry changed his name to Love 22 and lived in a red white and blue school bus and dressed like Uncle Sam. He also printed up those 22 dollar bills. Occassionaly the Providence Journal would run an article about how some judge in Maine or a foreign country accepted a 22 dollar bill for a fine. Love 22 also hung out regulary at the quadrangle at URI on Fridays at 12:00 for what was called High Noon. We would all light up in public. I mean everyone else would, urban legend, remember. Again, this was the late 70's at URI and everyone thought dope would become legalized, since we all knew everyone smoked it. How naieve we were.
Eventually Love 22 moved to Key West and became the official greeter. He still prints and sells 22 dollar bills. He doesn't rmeember me, since I was just one of a number of regulars who used to hang with him and get him stoned (u duh, no wonder he doesn't remember me!), but my memories of Love 22 are nothing but full of fondness. I do love him and consider him a old friend.
So yes, you can have any name you want as long as it isn't offensive. And yes, it's been done before - long before. Just like HTML in the 90's being touted in the press as the newest neatest thing until the old school mainframe-weaned folk looked at it and said "Sheit, it ain't new. It's SGML for cripes sake!" Hey, pass that bone this way
Ed F
My user name was a mistake. Input wasn't restricted, my bad.
There is always Da5id (da-five-id) from SnowCrash.
It may sound neat, but think of what the kid will have to go through in his/her childhood. It'd be really tough on them to have a name spelled in "1337," and would probably end up causing undue emotional trauma.
I saw on the news a few weeks ago where some guy named his son something like John Smith 2.0 instead of John Smith, Jr.
-- In Soviet Russia, radio listens to YOU!
I went to school with a Jeni4 Jones. See here. I don't think it was her given name. But rumor was that it was legally changed.
If you want to provide you child with the lifelong burden of explaining his/her name to every bureaucrat encountered in his lifetime then do it.
You'd really have to do it for your own ego/reasons, because that type of name is no benefit to a child, it will merely be a lifelong handicap.
If you want to give your child some type of disadvantage that he won't even understand the implications of, then it's perfect.
If you want to burden a child like this, for your amusement, it's stupid.
Just tell people to call you... Betty.
The only reason we have the rights we have is that people just like us died to gain those rights. -- Cheerio Boy
I work with a woman named Nine. She said her mother got tired of thinking up names after the eigth kid.
"1337" speak is not about being different, geeky, or cool; it's just dumb. It's not even it's own language, which might acutally be cool, but simply a butchered version of the English language. Anyone who uses "1337" speak isn't being creative, cool, or even funny. They're just being a moron. Go back to English 101, jackass, because apparently you didn't go to college, or even elementery school for that matter. Grow up.
He is one of my employees at Onion Networks and is an insanely talented developer. His web site is at http://ry4an.org/unblog/
Hopefully he'll get on this thread and respond with his experiences.
... there's no way he'll get is ass kicked in school.
Seriously, are you retarded?
you're going to make your kid a noob right out of the box, i mean uterus.
You are the misfit. And, with kids named "Brad" and "Janet", your family problems will be astronomical.
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make install -not war
people like this should not be allowed to have kids...
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Link is from Zelda, Neo is from the Matrix. Although people will say "Neil?" and I reply "No, Neo N E O" after that their names are seldom forgotten, which was what I was going for.
How about Mann, or Name (Nah-Mee)?...
I'm sure if you include numbers in the name that they'll be doomed to a life of people messing stuff up for them. Everytime they fill out an application for anyting, it'll likely get incorrectly edited, or prompt questions anyhow. and I'm sure somewhere lies a form validator that'll reject numbers in the name field.
I like the idea, but don't think it'd be worth the hassle later in life.
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I actually knew a guy whose name was Steve Seven. I asked him how he got his name. Apparently he grew up on an orphanage. They kept things straight by giving the kids that didn't have last names a number. As far as I know, he was never formally adopted, so his last name was never changed. He was Stephen #7, or Steve Seven.
I suggested he change his name to Oliver O. Seven. He'd heard that one before....
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Speaking of people named Moron, go to Switchboard and do a search on different words for last name.
LOTS of freaks in this world, and hundreds of people named Moron.
No kiddin'. Check it out. Hours of fun.
RS
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
> I laugh every time I hear the name Dick Trickle, how messed up were that guys parents.
Why do you think his parents were messed up? He's an adult, and it's reasonable to assume his full first name is Richard, so why does he allow himself to be called Dick Trickle when Rick Trickle or Rich Trickle would be more innocuous? By this time, it's his own damn fault if he doesn't like it.
Virg
People who want to name their first-born child, Br4d or J4n37, watch too much Rocky Horror, hang out on chat lines and shoudn't have children. I bet your wife leaves you.
At least make it something appropriate like 14/\/\3
I talk about stuff.
If you want to subject your child to years of ridicule, embarassment and humiliation by other kids - not only for your kid's name but for having a parent who was such a dumbass giving them that name.
Kids can be extremely cruel and heartless...
they will think that you're a dumbass (or worse) and they will let your kids know it.
Your wife has a whole Hell of a lot more common sense than you do.
Your kid will never forgive you and your wife better not let you talk her in to it.
This had better be some pretty demented and twisted April Fool's Day joke.
-- Two in the pink, one in the sink.
I plan on naming my kid W.O.P.E.R. Thats with ONE P. :p
There is no "Fresno University".
There's CSU Fresno (aka "Fresno State"), and Fresno Pacific.
Either way, "fu.edu" goes to Finlandia University.
There were a few characters on the Peanuts comic that were named just numbers. You only ever saw "6" (little boy, friend of Linus), but his older siblings were 1-5.
"Sometimes the only thing left to say is 'Oops'" -- debbers
I know someone (first hand -- not "heard of someone" blah blah blah) who's name is actually 10^12. On the birth certificate just like that. Trillion.
Laws probably vary by state -- but it *is* apparently illegal for her name to be that in the state she lives in. She's been having trouble getting a driver's license.
Really. Only it's a Roman numeral, and it's at the end, because the firstborn males in my family going back for a few generations have had the same first, middle, and last names disambiguated only by Jr., III, IV, etc.
Nothing leet about that, in fact it seems rather medieval and I really hope that if/when I have kids my firstborn is a female and I can dodge the issue. Don't want to start looking like we're incubating an English monarchy or something.
It does make for occasional, mildly amusing mistakes when computers don't know how to deal with it, though. For example, I've gone up to ATMs and had them display "Hello, Mr. Iv!", apparently not realizing that the IV is a suffix and not my actual last name. Sometimes it just gets appended so I become something like "Mr. Jonesiv".
"Biped! Good cranial development. Evidently considerable human ancestry."
I funny webpage about kids names: http://www.misanthropic-bitch.com/briandrye.html
I'm pretty sure I remember a contestant on the game show "Lingo" on the Game Show Network (U.S. Version), having a number in their name. I can't recall exactly what it was though; anyone else?
What?
> 1.) How names work alphabetically? What if you son/daughter publishes a book. I bet the Library of Congress will have a shit-fit trying to index it by author's name.
/. on April 1st. Your children being geeks will be enough torture through grade school. Why make it worse?
The LoC already handles this quite well. It's their job, y'know?
> 2.) How the hell is it supposed to be pronounced? Brad? Brfourd? B-R-Four-D?
I'd say "Brad", but heck, he could pronounce it "Chuck" if he really wanted to.
> 3.) Your son/daughter will become a geek like you. You're a geek. You posted on
To prepare them for the tribulation of making more money than their former classmates, of course.
> 4.) I waant to be there when your son/daughter enlists in the military and the Drill Instructor goes Ape-Shit on your kid.
If you'd ever been near the military, you'd know that DIs don't use first names. Ever.
Virg
> You just put his name down, every time as Bo3b.... Really, how can they STOP you
Gonna go out on a limb on this one. Perhaps by fining you every time you do it until you decide it's too expensive?
Virg
I had a bad childhood because no one wanted to play with men because of my name.
... but why can't you simply give your child a name where it will enjoy to be called for luch/dinner/breakfast just because of the beautyfull sound?
... when I moved house again and my new shool mates where "adult".
Everybody hated me, because of my name. I don't know if a l337 name is BAD
Its not fund for a child when its playing on the playground and the father calls it home for dinner and everybody in the neighbourhood associate a klingone battle cry with your name.
I got my first friends after I was 16
angel'o'sphere
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
I ran CC in indy for BDHS at the same time Pete was running. I always felt awful for him-- he was a pretty good cross country runner, and usually finished high enough that they read his name at the awards ceremonies after the meets. I would always cringe when I saw the announcer hesitate before reading a name-- they never knew what to do. (For the record, I was bad enough that he probably never heard my name announced)
I never really new him-- but I hope that the name change has made his life smoother.
Lady 3Jane!
Misleading titles? Inflammatory blurbs? Keep in mind that Slashdot is a tabloid.
Oh boy.
Another stupid April Fool's news item.
April 2nd cannot come soon enough.
Can't we just add a day to February and get rid of April 1?
-Michael
Threshold RPG
C3PO
I have a friend whose parents tried to give him the middle name "Hen3ry", but the state of Oklahoma wouldn't allow it.
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check out Optimus Prime!
My school ID number is '1337'
Everyone is born right-handed; only the greatest overcome it
Yes and yes. Think of the children!
It worked for Hugo Gernsbeck.
(Ralph one two forsee 41 +)
early 20th century SciFi.
Pronunciation can be a real pit for number names.
In answer to your questions:
Am I guaranteeing my child becomes a misfit? YES
Am I the misfit? YES
Don't do it. Kids with oddball names have a hard enough time while growing up. Don't add to their misery.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Only 50 of them? Not bad at all. :)
And the l33t shall inherit the 34r7h.
One of the nurses in my rheumatologist's office is named Inna (pronounced "Eena"), which I am told is the Armenian pronunciation for the number 9. (She was the ninth child born to her parents :-)
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can't remember why I felt compelled to look this up, but I did discover there are people in the US with the misfortune to be named Seven Ates
Usage: fortune -P [-f] -a [xsz] Q: file [rKe9] -v6[+] file1
From snoopy.com:
Q. Who are the dancing girls featured in A Charlie Brown Christmas?
A. The twin sisters named "Three" and "Four," who are most commonly recognized as the bouncy dancing girls in A Charlie Brown Christmas, were characters from the daily PEANUTS in the 60's. They had an Older Brother named "Five."
In the strips' story line, their father names them with numbers in protest of society's ever-growing trend of reducing human lives to statistics. Their last name is actually 95742 - the family's zip code. Most have deduced that this was a bit of Mr. Schulz's social commentary as to 1960's activism. Each of the three characters was seldom seen after the early 70's.
Ok, I know it is April 1 and all, but I actually knew a Bo3B.
He worked for DTS at Apple and when asked, would say, "The 3 is silent".
It was on his offical Apple badge, his business cards, and I believe, I even saw it on his driver's license.
Yours,
Jordan
There used to be a Buzz Buzzard in our city's telephone book.
That, and a friend of mine went to school with a vietnamese transfer student. I don't know how his name was spelled, but it was pronounced "dung heap". Apparently he was the first one to inform this kid that his name literally translated to "pile of $hit"...
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
Someone in my town named their kid John 2.0. I feel sorry for the kid.
Years ago, I worked with a guy whose last name was Meth. When his wife became pregnant with a girl, I tried my best to convince him that their daughter should be named Crystal, but it didn't take. I don't think he ever got the joke, though.
Ok, when I was a kid I read about legal aliases... and convinced my mom to let me get "Noodles" as a registered alias. I'm really glad we didn't follow through with that. Seriously, this would be something like letting an 8- or 10-year-old pick a tattoo. =P
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In high school, I knew a kid named Lief Brown. His nickname was branch.
I know several people who have changed their name due to death of a spouse, divorce, etc. It's not difficult, costly, or illegal.
But it can be a nuisance making the switch. Credit cards, license, etc. Why not let your kids decide their own name when they get older? Maybe he just wants to be B0b.
-- Stephen.
i agree with this post...
"The big question in our lives is how to be at the same time a hedonist and in a hurry" - Alain Ducasse (?)
Not quite the same thing, but equally as stupid: http://www.inthemix.com.au/p/np/viewnews.php?id=14 768
Apple had someone working for them who went by Bo3b Johnson, although the 3 was silent. He wrote for develop magazine, as I recall. For example, see here and here.
I don't know, but it works for me.
I had a friend who told me he had a friend who changed his name from "Fred" to "Fr7d". The '7' was silent.
As Nietsche famously said, "If you stare too long into the Abyss, 1d4 Tanar'ri of random type will attack you."
In the country town where I come from there is an electrician called Rod Tickle. ie Rod Tickle Electrical.
I have not lived there for about 10 years but was suprised when my mother sent me a newspaper clipping from the Births & deaths section of the local paper.
The have just had a beatiful baby girl and named her "Tess". I believe it is short for Tessa
Just for those who have already forgotten the first part of the story, there is a 3mth old baby girl called Tess Tickle.
Maybe they werent thinking??
I tend to forget that the 'z' is pronounced differently in English - in my native language , Danish (which is very much related to German), it can be pronounced either 'tset' (like in German) or (more commonly) 'set'.
That soft-mushy-gaylike pronounciation is something that turned up after seamen having had to many semen (puns are ALWAYS funny at 7 in the morning when you haven't slept for two days).
I have a friend who worked for the US Census Bureau who found a woman named T9C (pronounced "Tee-nine-cee"). He also ran across a pair of twins, Lemonjello ("Lem-on-gell-o") and Orangejello ("Or-an-gell-o"), as well as a girl named Syphilis ("Sue-phillis").
I've discovered a remarkable proof, but this margin is too small to contain it...
In high school I know a kid named Jason Twenty-five. I am not kidding. His actual last name was a number. Though I don't know how it was spelled.
HC
HC
A mate of mine goes one better. His name is Patrick, he lives in Luxembourg, so he nabbed the domain TRICK.LU and his e-mail is now.... p[@]trick.lu.
---- scrm
Peacock is a pretty dodgy surname,
but what possessed the parents
to call their son Andrew?
Poor kid.
We all called him droopy .
Many moons ago when I was in the Royal Air Force, there was a junior rank of Aircraftsman. This was abbreviated to AC. The female equivalent was ACW.
One unfortunate young girl whose surname was Anker, thus saw her name on orders etc. as ACW Anker. The spacing often left something to be desired.
ISO 639 - Code for the representation of the names of languages
- Primo
- Secondo
- Terzo
- ...
A few famous people have such first names: Primo Levi, Settimo Severo and sometimes I wonder about Ottavio/Octave...Non-Linux Penguins ?
Many Greeks also spell their names (and Greek words in general) with English characters. They have to learn both at school> Most road signs in Greece have both english character and greek character variations on them as if they are two different languages.
I can't believe someone who would consider this managed to get a root, let only convince the woman to marry and pro-create with them. What am I doing wrong. The kid would be beaten up everyday of his life; including in the nursing home by the former jock using his zimmer frame.
-- Karma Karma Karma Karma, Karma Chameleon - Boy George
I always wanted to name my first born son Maudib after Paul Atreides chosen name ^__________^
Michael, Listen to your wife on this one. Don't tax your child with a handle. Growing up is hard enough without "tattooing" your child with a keyboard epithet. With regard to naming kids, you might consider that in class, children frequently go by alphabetical order on boardwork. I didn't want mine to be forced to go first but neither did I want them to have to sit and agonize while awaiting their turn, so I gave them names that start with B. Just a thought - FutureExpressionist.
Well it is one way to separate the true hackers that can point to their Second Edition Dungeons and Dragons hardbound manual : Dieties and Demigods (first release) and show you stats, pictures, a historical overiew and what her STR, INT, WIS, DEX, CON and CHA really were ... and those that can't.
To everybody else Frigging is a slang derivative of the word Fucking, used in a semi-polite manner - in the same manner that you might use Farking. It is generally accepted replacement when the need for a verb or an adjective arises.
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
For instance, Vietnam (where my wife's from).
People there have pretty commonly been simply named sequentially (ordinally). She has an uncle here in the US whose name is Tu (which translates as Fourth, which is in fact his position, in age order, amongst his siblings (plus one, since in the south they start numbering the kids at Second for some reason)). Even people who are not named for "their number" are often addressed (among family members) by them -- "Third Sister", "Fifth Aunt", etc.
I dunno for sure, but this practice may be widespread in Oriental countries. I'm guessing this is where Charlie Chan "number-one son" stuff came from.
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
There (supposedly) is a guy named 5/8 Smith -- I heard about this years ago. His father wanted him to be different from ALL the other Smiths.
What's a leet speek name?
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Anyone retarded enough to name their kid in l3375p34k lacks the genes that would make higher learning a possibility anyhow.
True, but what if they adopted and renamed a kid? It'd be sad to see the next Einstein never reach their potential because dumb-ass daddy named them w@nk3r.With a single click, my browser changed that l337 5p33k to some "engleesh phrase".
Pwn3riz3d.
"...a generation of kids has grown up thinking Trance is the shittiest music since country and western." - Paul van Dyk