¿Is your name ruined forever?
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Topic: ¿Is your name ruined forever?
Posted By: cuncuna
Subject: ¿Is your name ruined forever?
Date Posted: December 13 2006 at 23:47
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I'm not comfortable with this, but in order to explain the aim of this thread, I must reveal some personal information. My first name is "Nicolás". People call me "Nico" (Nee - koh), wich is the short commonly used. And there was a very popular movie featuring a very young Tom Hanks in wich a character (male stripper) is named "Nico, el rico" (I'm not sure about how to translate it, but it is meant to be understood as something slightly obscene). This haunted me every year during highschool. After that, some idiot invented a rime as a joke on TV; "Nicolás, hasta atrás" (something like "Nick, balls deep"). After some time, they used only the name (Nicolás), and the laughing started spontaneously. My name, wich I like, ruined forever, since that joke is remembered until this day, not so much as in that time, but still. ¿Anyone else?
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: December 13 2006 at 23:52
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The movie is Bachelor Party and the character is Nick the Dick. But don't worry at school kids managed to add something to any name.
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: December 13 2006 at 23:59
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Yeah, it has happened to me several times... my friends called me usually Memo ... and with it looots of jokes:
memo-lestas
memo-je
memo-ciono
memo-herdez
memo-rroides
memo-nte en un caballo
memelas
well obviously in spanish and you guys can understand and laugh about it, what a shame... but actually no one calls me like those this days... ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: December 14 2006 at 00:09
So, basically, I'm screwed in both languages. (Never saw that damn movie, but it was broadcasted by national TV, so I guess it was translated, and the translators find their way to even translate the Nick, the dick joke to something in spanish that ended up with me very upset). ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: December 14 2006 at 01:41
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Yep Cuncuna, here it was also broadcasted and the translation was "Nick El Pico". I understand why it wasn't translated like that in Chile being that this word is harmless in Perú but I believe not in Chile. Iván -------------
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Posted By: Viajero Astral
Date Posted: December 18 2006 at 03:13
 You forgot Memo-rroides  Oh wait, you already put that one ------------- 
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Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: December 18 2006 at 04:28
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my name is Dane. I really like my name because I've only met about 4 or so other people named Dane
But as a kid I was always Dane the Pain. its totally retarded now but I hated it growing up. Then it was Dane the pain the boogerbrain. And just about anything else that rhymed with Dane which turns out to be a whole lot of things. Other nicknames that I had were danish, daniak, and danal ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: ResidentAlien
Date Posted: December 18 2006 at 04:30
| Jared... I get people singing me the Subway jingle... and now there's this damned Jared's Jeweler all the sudden... the commercials are soooooooo annoying. Ergh. |
Posted By: Time-Machinist
Date Posted: December 18 2006 at 04:37
My name is hard to pronounciate by most non-Turks, other than that it has no bad connotations and also having a cool meaning; in English "Free", or "Independent". It is Özgür, and especially watching our USA'ian teacher trying to pronounciate my name is fun nowadays 
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: December 18 2006 at 13:00
jajajaja that is hilarious!!!! that movie is so good! The part where the donkey dies! jajajaj great movie... nuff said...Nico ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: December 18 2006 at 13:04
Erm, when I was much younger, my name was associated with the fool in the Russian fairy tales, but who reads those these days? ------------- sig |
Posted By: CaptainQuark
Date Posted: December 18 2006 at 14:15
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I curse Charles Dickens with every fibre of my being for ever having written the book "Oliver Twist".
'nuff said ------------- Erithacus Ordinary morals are for ordinary people ~ Aleister Crowley |
Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: December 18 2006 at 19:57
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: December 18 2006 at 20:20
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Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: December 18 2006 at 22:25
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Wow. Tough luck memo.
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Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 10:06
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Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 19:56
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I also remember a schoolmate who's last name was "Araya". He was rather fat, and the verse for him was "Guatón Araya, se tira un peo y se desmaya" (something like "Fat James, he farts and then he faints"). This became a song with the time. Sad. Though some people found this to be quite funny, Araya wasn't happy about it at all. ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: andu
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 20:02
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Nicolas is such a beautiful name... You should be more relaxed and you should use it as it is, Nicolas, and not shorten it.
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Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 20:12
It's not me, is everyone else. I hear my full name only if: a) Girlfriend is mad at me. b) I'm in a job enterview or something "official", like reneweing my national identity document. c) I talk to myself. I like my name, but I get all sort of crap instead of it. People plays with it by changing it to "Nikolai" (not so bad actually), "Nicomedes" (???), "Nicasio" (???!!) "Nicoleico" (???????!!!!!!), etc. Also, a local expresion "Ni cagando" (Something like "Not a chance in hell", though the actual meaning of the phrase is "I won't, not even defecating") also takes the place of my name. Funny thing is, this comes from friends (???). They are not my favourite people when this happens. Highschool was far worst, off course. ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: Barla
Date Posted: December 20 2006 at 16:03
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Posted By: Revan
Date Posted: December 20 2006 at 16:08
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my name is marcos, which doesn't rime with anything, and my surname is Vrljicak (verleechack), which it's already difficult to pronunce to spanish speakers, so i was saved all my infancy for that one
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Posted By: pepefloyd
Date Posted: December 22 2006 at 12:04
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Posted By: Marcos
Date Posted: February 23 2007 at 08:19
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wow! very latin topic... ------------- www.postmortemweb.com.ar |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 23 2007 at 08:32
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Kids can make something out of any name. Mind you, adults can be just as bad. Every time I've ever been to an interview and said my surname was "Hyde", the interviewer has said "Ah, as in Jekyll, ha ha ha" as though they were the first person to ever crack that joke.
We have someone at work here called Wayne John. Boy, his parents must have had a real sense of humour.
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Posted By: blaughida
Date Posted: February 23 2007 at 11:37
| My last name is now the last name of a popular television character and it's rather irritating. I miss the good old days when this show did not exist. |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: February 23 2007 at 12:27
The brutal combination of 2 songs ruined my name: "Daniel" by Elton John and "Danny Boy"
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Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: February 23 2007 at 12:58
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Not that it was really annoying, but people found a way to shorten an already short name. From 'Eric' It went to 'Rick' from my early teens to my late twenties. I am still called that every once in a while... ------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |