People with real l337 speak names? 1441
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.
oy (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:oy (Score:4, Funny)
What about Asskickotron the Destroyer?
Re:oy (Score:3, Funny)
"FORTRAN? Wasn't he the one that turned into a dump truck?"
Re:oy (Score:4, Funny)
Of course he changed his mind when he sobered he said he was just talking about graphics cards.
So he settled on "Zebulon" for a boys name. Fortunately he got a daughter and mother got to chose the (sensible) name.
eek.
Re:oy (Score:5, Funny)
Umm... I think that you are forgetting TROGDOR!!! [homestarrunner.com]
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For somehow managing to escape that damned rubber.....
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Re:oy (Score:5, Funny)
She said "no" of course, she doesn't want to be pushing a stroller around with a baby with a shirt that says "broken condom".
So, I just opted for this shirt [tshirthell.com]. I figured "Daddy drinks because I cry" was a little better.
~Will
kindergarden (Score:3, Funny)
Re:kindergarden (Score:4, Funny)
"Hmmm... I dunno... According to your DNS Server at 212.90.2.112, you're named Venom. That doesn't sound like somebody my admin would like me playing with."
Re:oy (Score:5, Funny)
It looks like while some people learn to be leet, others are just born that way.
Re:oy (Score:5, Funny)
Well, I'm more impressed that the kid's first name is "______".
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Alfred Bester was here first... (Score:4, Interesting)
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Re:Alfred Bester was here first... (Score:5, Informative)
You owe it to yourself to read "The Demolished Man." Aside from the prominent use of telepaths in the story, it was in every way a proto-cyberpunk novel as well as being just one of the best-written books I've ever read. Bester's "The Stars My Desitination" is even better, though. It takes an intelligent look at what society would be like if everyone could teleport at a whim and tosses it into the background of one of the most vivid revenge stories ever told. Gulliver Foyle is the single greatest "larger-than-life" protagonist that I've ever seen. His indomitable will is monstrous and his passion and fury leaps out and grabs the reader.
Bester is one of my favorite authors of all time.
Re:oy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:oy (Score:5, Funny)
Dude, there's a whole country full of people whose full names are spelled entirely with Greek letters!
Re:oy (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, I saw that Star Trek episode, too...
Re:oy (Score:5, Funny)
Telling her or showing her? Oh yeah, this is slashdot. Telling her.
Re:oy (Score:5, Insightful)
Mod Parent Up! Re:oy (Score:3, Interesting)
Embrace the persona of "DAD". I wish my parents had...
J05H
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Re:oy (Score:4, Informative)
Yeah, it'd be a pain to be named after the Norse Goddess [gods-heros-myth.com] of Love and Fertility. But you'd think she'd be able to understand that a little easier. Maybe you might want to pick up some mythology books next time, for help.
=Brian
Not a Joke (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Not a Joke (Score:5, Funny)
Housing director at my college (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:Housing director at my college (Score:3, Informative)
Incidentally, the 'B'-character is also referred to as 'the sharp s' as the 'z' requires a sharper pronounciation than double-s would.
(Try having taken german from 6th grade up)
Re:Housing director at my college (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not a Joke (Score:4, Funny)
Guess an abortion would be given Jon Cusack 2.1.RC1
That's nothing (Score:5, Funny)
John.
Re:That's nothing (Score:5, Funny)
"Oh God, I'm Cumming!"
sorry...
Re:That's nothing (Score:5, Funny)
Her name was something like Mary Elizabeth Cummings..
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=cumminme&hl=e
Re:That's nothing (Score:5, Funny)
Many colleges and business's tend to strip the last name down to 6
characters and add the first and last initial to either the beginning or end
to make up an e-mail address..
For example, Mary L. Ferguson = mlfergus or
fergusml. They are just now beginning to realize
the problems that may happen when you have a
large and diverse pool of people to choose from.
Add to that a large database of company/college
Acronyms and you have some very funny addresses.
Probably not funny to the individual involved, however:
Top ten actual E-mail Addresses
10. Hellen Thomas Eatons (Duke University) -
eatonsht@dku.edu mailto:eatonsht@dku.edu
9. Mary Ellen Dickinson (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) -
dickinme@iup.edu mailto:dickinme@iup.edu
8. Francis Kevin Kissinger (Las Verdes University) -
kissinfk@lvu.edu mailto:kissinfk@lvu.edu
7. Amanda Sue Pickering (Purdue University) -
aspicker@pu.edu mailto:aspicker@pu.edu
6. Ida Beatrice Ballinger (Ball State University) -
ibballin@bsu.edu mailto:ibballin@bsu.edu
5. Bradley Thomas Kissering (Brady Electrical,
Northern Division, Overton, Canada) -
btkisser@bendover.com mailto:btkisser@bendover.com
4. Isabelle Haydon Adcock (Toys "R" Us) -
ihadcock@tru.com mailto:ihadcock@tru.com
3. Martha Elizibeth Cummins (Fresno University) -
cumminme@fu.edu mailto:cumminme@fu.edu
2. George David Blowmer (Drop Front Drawers & Cabinets Inc.) -
blowmegd@dropdrawers.com mailto:blowmegd@dropdrawers.com
but at No 1, it had to be...
1. Barbara Joan Beeranger (Myplace Home Decorating) -
beeranbj@myplace.com mailto:beeranbj@myplace.com
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I was in a bar with some friends talking about people we know with goofy names like Peter Wacker and Claire Annette Reed. My friend's gf was being quiet and I asked her what was wrong. She said "Do you know what my name is?" and I said "Mandy" which is all I had ever called her. She inform
Re:That's nothing (Score:5, Funny)
I was making a database of club emails, and there was a girl in there named Serena Tan...middle initial, A.
The school had a policy of allowing you to change something that was blatantly horrible, so she didn't have to bear with "satan@uci.edu" for more than a week or so.
Re:That's nothing (Score:5, Funny)
Of course, in the future the only way to remain anonymous might be to have a name so common that it can't be filtered from the noise of web page META tags.
I named my kids "Nude Portman Viagra" and "Spam Nigeria Warez" because if I can't keep them off the grid I can at least make the very, very hard to find.
=tkk
Re:That's nothing (Score:5, Funny)
FBI agent: "We've got the Echelon data on Mr Cumming, sir. Results 1-10 of 413,770,400 are on your screen now. They're mostly emails mentioning his name"
anonymity (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
my first born'll be called 904753 (Score:5, Funny)
coming dad! (@) *shudder*
sending e-mail (Score:3, Insightful)
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?
Re:sending e-mail (Score:5, Interesting)
John.
Re:That's nothing (Score:3, Funny)
I thought he had it bad, but it's nothing compared to you, John.
Potential Problem (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Potential Problem Non-issue. (Score:5, Funny)
Anyone retarded enough to name their kid in l3375p34k lacks the genes that would make higher learning a possibility anyhow.
I think... (Score:3, Insightful)
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Ry4an (Score:5, Informative)
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let's set some priorities (Score:5, Funny)
In my family (Score:5, Funny)
Sue.
Hope this is an April's Fools joke (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
It's not that great... (Score:5, Funny)
Well ...... (Score:3, Funny)
Of course you can do it... (Score:5, Funny)
You are not the misfit... (Score:3, Funny)
Don't do it (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:Don't do it (Score:5, Insightful)
No fooling: my wife works at a children's hospital, and once had a child come through whose middle name was "Trash". The parent (singlular, of course) was just as caring as you might expect from someone who would do that to her child. In a fair world, a name like that on a birth certificate would be prima facie evidence of child abuse... whether you were thinking along the lines of Boy Named Sue [banned-width.com] or not.
Re:Don't do it (Score:3, Interesting)
the Master is having one of his ... *affairs* (Score:5, Funny)
> Br4d
> J4n37
Dr. Scott!
Rocky!
one of my first CS TAs in college (Score:5, Interesting)
H Joke (Score:5, Funny)
Seen it.. once (Score:4, Informative)
Don't (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
I had a pal years ago... (Score:5, Funny)
The dog's name was Chocolate.
I shit thee not.
Tom Lehrer already addressed this (Score:3, Informative)
Ihope this is an April Fool (Score:5, Funny)
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?
My Grandpa is 1337! (Score:3, Interesting)
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 [cgi.ebay.ca]. 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.
Re:My Grandpa is 1337! (Score:3, Informative)
How about we all name you '1d10t' (Score:3, Insightful)
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?
Sue (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, I know it's April 1st.
This is illegal in most states. (Score:5, Informative)
Must clarify... (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Real, almost l337 name; numbers not allowed (Score:5, Interesting)
Oh, and it doesn't matter because the US doesn't allow numbers in names [soyouwanna.com]
The actual reference says... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Real, almost l337 name; numbers not allowed (Score:3, Funny)
A famous example (Score:5, Informative)
Apple's own Bo3b Johnson [google.com]. 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.
Max Barry (Score:3, Interesting)
(It's a GREAT book, by the way. :) )
Triv
i'm so 1337, i'm 2448 (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Always room for Jello (Score:3, Interesting)
our child (Score:3, Informative)
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!
More April Fool's Garbage (Score:4, Funny)
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?
Re:First use of a number in a name (Score:5, Informative)
In real life it was quite common in ancient Rome to give children numeric names (Quintus, Sextus, etc.).
Re:Real 1337 names (obligatory joke) (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The word is "sex" (Score:4, Informative)
You mean definition (3a) here? [reference.com]
Wrong (Score:5, Informative)
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.
He had it right, though for the wrong reasons (Score:5, Insightful)
Sex is verifiable. Gender is a perception.
Re:Oh dear fucking god (Score:5, Insightful)
IMHO, the best part of
Anyway, I've been trying to guess the "theme" for this year's topic and I think perhaps tomorrow that it will be revealed that all these "unfunny" stories are all actually real news/submissions that the mods have been queuing up for a while just for today. But I dunno. I'll just sit back and enjoy the ride.
Thanks again for you contribution. Cheers!