Nomenclature
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The Pacquiao-Hatton bout was over so quickly we had to entertain ourselves by discussing Pac-Man’s youngest daughter, Queen Elizabeth.
– I’m sure the Brits get a kick out of it. Their boxer lost, but Pac-Man named his kid after their monarch.
– Imagine when she gets a little older. “Queen Elizabeth huwag kang makulit, papaluin kita!”
– The names Filipino parents give their kids. “Nina Ricci”.
– Yes, but Nina Ricci carries it well.
– You should call your kid Coco Chanel. “Coco Chanel, naglaro ka na naman sa putikan, ang bahu-baho mo na!”
– “Coco Chanel, tingnan mo nga yang suot mo, ang dungis-dungis!”
– I know someone who named his kid Dracula. He should get a perpetual visa to Transylvania.
– “Hoy Dracula, nagsimba ka na ba?”
– “Dracula, first communion mo na, male-late na tayo.”
– As we speak, there are people out there who plan to name their future children “Wolverine Sabertooth Wraith Gambit Deadpool”.
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May 4th, 2009 at 14:12
I have a friend who swears she tutored a kid named “Blessed Virgin Mary” somewhere in Quezon City as a requirement for her NSTP.
May 4th, 2009 at 21:47
bwahaha! panalo yung Dracula! just hope na magkaron sya ng maraming kaibigan!
May 4th, 2009 at 22:27
I think giving a child any one of those names should legally qualify as abuse.
May 5th, 2009 at 04:53
There’s a Fil guy who married an American girl, and they named their daughter “Mahal Kita,” because the FilGuy calls/tells the wife “mahal kita”
all the time.
The wife loves the term of endearment so much, so she named their child
such. This is true.
May 5th, 2009 at 14:29
I have contemplated “Wolverine” as a possible name for a son.
May 10th, 2009 at 00:32
I know a guy, his parents called him “Lord”… so telling his friends “Nagkita kami ni Lord sa simbahan…” makes strangers turn around to look at us strangely.
May 10th, 2009 at 13:22
hmmm… parang si ely yung nagpangalan ng dracula. akala ko joke lang yun… kawawang eon =)
May 10th, 2009 at 22:59
Maybe it’s my german genes kicking in, but in highschool i was totally obsessed with reading everything about the Nazi period. Centuries later, i have a pldt dsl guy whose name is HITLER. I’ve known him for awhile now and he’s the only reason why i stay with PLDT… It was weird at first, but i have come to accept that my experience with this dsl guy has completely changed the “hitler imprint.”
However, i’m still not willing to ask him why his parents named him HITLER.
Too scared to find out why…
May 26th, 2009 at 18:37
If I remembered it right, there was someone named TESTICLES in my aunt’s high school yearbook.
July 4th, 2010 at 17:31
Still nothing beats the name “Jejomar”. In High school we had a classmate named “Arpruberptito”. We called him “Aprub” but he didn’t approve of it. If someone wants Roman sounding names for their offspring,the following should NOT be on their lists: Commodus (toilet);Ascarius (worm) Scrotus (testicles) Rigor Mortis (stiffening of a corpse) and Gluteus Maxus (the arse).