I feel like the Nameberry memes thread is sometimes used for this, but I’d love to hear your funny stories having to do with names or being a namenerd. Things that wouldn’t normally happen to non-namenerds.
I’ll start!
I realised the other day that I didn’t know two of my cousins’ names, which is crazy because I only have three cousins, so I ran to my mom. (a girl’s got to know these things! ) One of their middle names is [name_f]Dawn[/name_f], I had a brother try to guess the middle name (apparently none of us knew) he had the letter d & a. “Dandelion,” was his best guess. After that I went on a long rabbit trail of thinking of fun middle names. I love that middle names are like a secret name you get to share or keep to yourself. They’re like a special treasure.
I know my story wasn’t very funny, but please share yours and continue to share if you experience anything else in the future!
It doesn’t have a lot to do with being a nerd but I recently remembered this name anecdote:
When I was a child I had ongoing trouble with a classmate named [name_f]Anna[/name_f]. I also had a “magical bracelets” book with friendship bracelet patterns that included special knots to bless or curse people, as well as a code to spell out names using beads. So obviously I made a Curse [name_f]Anna[/name_f] Bracelet – nobody will know, right? – and when I showed my mom she immediately went “oh, it says Anna?”
me:
mom: …or [name_m]Otto[/name_m]?
me: uuuh no the beads are just a random pattern I thought was pretty
Turns out she had no idea what it said, it was just very obvious that it was a palindrome.
Moral of the story: name your kid a palindrome to catch peers trying to curse them
[name_f]My[/name_f] husband just told me this really long story of how he was working with electricity prices that are more exact than whole cents, like things can cost .001 cents for example. [name_m]Or[/name_m], technically speaking, one millicent. Then he thought that that sounds like it could be a name, looked it up, discovered that it was, and when he was finally done and presented me with his findings all he got was “Yeah I know about [name_f]Milicent[/name_f]. The Berries like it but I don’t. Also there’s one in [name_m]Harry[/name_m] Potter.” Poor guy
Haha, but 10/10 for effort to husband. That’s some Berry thought processes going on right there!
A common occurrence for me is when an interesting name is casually mentioned & my attention remains on this and I’ve got 100 questions, but the speaker has continued on with what they were saying and I have no idea what they said beyond Tiberius
I encountered a person named [name_f]Anna[/name_f] recently, and I was really hoping her middle name wasn’t [name_f]Grace[/name_f], because that’s a major pet peeve of mine. I wasn’t planning to ask her, because I didn’t actually really know her, but we both had to do paperwork and I (accidentally, I swear!) saw her middle name. And guess what it was–Grace! Like, seriously? Out of all the potential middle names she could have, it had to be the one name that I had a negative opinion about! Any other very basic middle name would have been great–you really can’t go wrong with [name_f]Anna[/name_f], unless it’s [name_f]Grace[/name_f]. [name_f]Anna[/name_f] [name_f]Rose[/name_f]? Yes! [name_f]Anna[/name_f] [name_f]Marie[/name_f]? Good! [name_f]Anna[/name_f] [name_f]Louise[/name_f]? Totally! But it had to be [name_f]Anna[/name_f] [name_f]Grace[/name_f]! [name_f]Every[/name_f] time I think about this, I get more annoyed by it. Maybe I’ll just rename her [name_f]Anna[/name_f] [name_f]Louise[/name_f] in my head, since it’s not like I’ll ever see her again. . . it might be the only way to stay sane.
[name_f]My[/name_f] husband’s workplace is notorious for having their [name_f]Christmas[/name_f] parties as late as the following [name_m]March[/name_m]. Yesterday we were struggling to remember which year we did what – was bowling or the Escape Room this spring? But I remembered that on the way home from the bowling alley I first suggested the name [name_m]David[/name_m] to him and he said yes, and I switched from suggesting boy names to girl names this [name_f]January[/name_f], so that must have happened last year.
And then later I remembered it was also my brother’s 30th birthday, so that could have told me the year as well. But no, instead of thinking of that day as my brother’s 30th like a normal person, think of it as the day we added [name_m]David[/name_m] to the list. I even posted to NOTD about feeling like a bad sibling for choosing [name_m]David[/name_m] over my brother’s name that day…
) One of their middle names is [name_f]Dawn[/name_f], I had a brother try to guess the middle name (apparently none of us knew) he had the letter d & a. “Dandelion,” was his best guess. After that I went on a long rabbit trail of thinking of fun middle names. I love that middle names are like a secret name you get to share or keep to yourself. They’re like a special treasure.
