There was a former coworker who gave each of his three children (2 boys and a girl) first names that were totally random collections of syllables - his rationale was that they would NEVER be confused with anyone else. He did give them each a more-ordinary middle name so they would have something to fall back on.blackhawk wrote:I feel sorry for Dweezil.Wombat wrote:Could have been worse, Jim. Frank Zappa named his kids Dweezil and Moon Unit. How perverse can you get? Faced with a choice between those two, which would you choose? He called the boy Dweezil and the girl Moon Unit but I know of no convention that dictated that one was for girls and the other boys.
Yours truly,
Darvis (my real name...sorry)
But he wasn't too sympathetic to the "odd name" argument - his parents had immigrated from the Netherlands when he was in his early teens, and nobody he met in the US was ever able to pronounce his own name (Maarten) to his complete satisfaction. Though I doubt he took too much teasing - he rather resembled (in body, not face) a silverback gorilla wearing a suit.
Of course, he had many other somewhat unusual ideas. I used to think that he never changed clothes; turned out he owned about half a dozen blue pinstripe suits (same material and cut) and all his shirts were white. He claimed it saved him a great deal of time in the morning - he always took the suit and shirt from the left side of the closet, and never had spend any time worrying if they went together.
A great guy, really - I should look him up. I'm curious whether the kids are still using the names he gave them, since by now they're probably in their late 20s. (I know how *I'd* bet, though. He's lucky if he didn't live out the last part of "A Boy Named Sue")