I thought Frank Zappa had scarred his little girl for life when he named her Moon Unit. Well, she is an established entertainer now, still using her given name.
It would not have served her well in any other intelligent career path. She would have had to change it or shorten it to Moon or something. I wouldn't want that name in my law office.
The animal's name is coney, which is pronounced "cunny". People immediately noticed the resemblance to the name of a body part, so they said bunny instead.
thank you, I am sure that's true and I didn't know that.. I am in the UK so not sure we have the same reference to conny here? , I was referring a gardening celebrity here called Bunny.
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My dad who grew up in the early 1930's claimed to have had a schoolmate named Lotta Krapp. He said he always thought it was a cruel thing for her parents to do.
I don't know if this story is true, but it certainly rhymes with reality.
A fellow named R. B. Jones got drafted into the army. The army is very persnickety about certain things, and one of them is "payroll signature". It is required to write your first name in full, middle initial, and last name in full, all in some sort of script handwriting such that it is clearly legible. Well, "R. B." does not fit that definition, so he was given a change of name affidavit. He declined it because he intended to keep his given name. The army types did the army thing and threatened him, then they sent him to be psychoanalyzed. He remained firm, saying he knew what his name was and he intended to keep it. They offered a compromise: he could use the signature R.(only) B.(only) Jones. He declined, saying that he did not care to be known as "Ronly Bonly Jones".
I don't know exactly how they ever worked this out. After all, courts have ruled that a man's name is anything he says it is and it doesn't have to be spellable or pronounceable in any particular language. And the army types firmly believe they can do anything they want.
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