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What kind of abuse did this guy take as a kid???

shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,616 ✭✭✭✭
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Mr. Shiner
"My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."

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  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭
    I dont think kids were as mean back then image
  • VintageJeffVintageJeff Posts: 1,282 ✭
    I don't care who you are, thats funny!
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  • nightcrawlernightcrawler Posts: 5,110 ✭✭
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    That is funny.

    There's a guy up the road from me named Harry Sac, that's his full real name. We gave him a hard time when we were kids, but he's to old and to good a guy to bug nowadays.

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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,438 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wish it were true that kids were nicer years ago...

    But any chance at a "rank?" It's gonna be taken.

    We had a kid on our block names Ira Lipschitz.

    People all the time would yell: "Hey Ira, if you lip - shits, what does your ass do!"

    And of course there's always the clueless mom who names her boys without dad jumping in.

    We had a really cool set of twin brothers who lived in our building.

    True story - their names were Robert and Jackson Goff.

    Mom never thought that kids would call him "Jack!" I mean...is that clueless or what?

    Kids can be cruel, cruel and cruel.

    Merry Christmas
    mike
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  • CariconCaricon Posts: 819 ✭✭
    I have an older 70's topps card somewhere, the guys name is Dick Pole. Really. I have it somewhere. I kept
    it since his name was funny. Wasn't worth grading.
  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    There is a guy that works in my office, his name is Harry Palm, true!!
  • kcballboykcballboy Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭
    I went to school with two kids named Eerie and Bernie Raasch. Not twins, so that means dad must have dropped the ball twice. image
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  • BunkerBunker Posts: 3,926 ✭
    OMG! That is crazy!
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  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,251 ✭✭✭
    There is or was? a Dean of Admissions at Albany University here in Albany NY and his name was Harry Johnson. I never understood...why wouldnt you go by Harold? He insisted being called Harry!
  • AUPTAUPT Posts: 806 ✭✭✭
    Growing up in Fond du Lac, Wis., one of the biggest realtors was Harry Wang. His signs were all over town. I believe in the early 1940s he also played minor league baseball for the FDL Panthers, a Class D farm of the Yankees in those days.
  • mkg809mkg809 Posts: 1,320 ✭✭
    In college I knew a guy named Dick Swinger, no joke.
  • kmnortonkmnorton Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭
    I'm sure there are a million of these. I also know a fellow named Harry Johnson.

    But, even better, when I was a kid, a friend of mine's sister whose name was Iona Hinds married Steve Muscrat and took his name, of course. She worked at the local bank and had her nameplate proudly displaying "Iona Muscrat". I'm sure she always appreciated me coming in and saying everytime "I own a dog and a cat".
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  • TheVonTheVon Posts: 2,725 ✭
    My wife's grandfather is named Harry Bohner . . . and yes, it's pronounced that way.

    I asked my wife if she ever called him Papa Bohner. image Needless to say, she didn't think it was nearly as funny as I did.
  • calaban7calaban7 Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭
    We were raised by our parents to address others by their proper name. We learned Mr. smith, Mrs. Jones, Uncle Brian, etc. and so all of our family taught the same to their children. My nephew Ian, a number of years ago,had a driver instructor named Jack Wacker, and when Ian when out for his 1st drive , he said " Hi, ah , am, am Jack, how you doing ?"He said he could never call him by his last name. This guy Mr. Wacker was a bow-tie poindexter anyway ,that looked the part,to boot.
    We still rib Ian ,now and then about it, as we all still think its funny, except my wife.
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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,438 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Another name...

    I had a friend in high school - Barbie Bender.

    So, of course, people would call he Barbie Bender-over.

    Merry Christmas
    mike
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  • gregmo32gregmo32 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭
    The guy who delivered my friend's baby was named...........................Dr. Harry Beaver.
    True story.
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  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,251 ✭✭✭
    OUCH!
  • Tedw9Tedw9 Posts: 1,424 ✭✭
    There used to be two kids who lived a couple of towns over from me years ago. The family had a daughter named Blueberry Independance who was born on the 4th of July. Blueberry had 3 other siblings, the last being a boy named Fournomore. True, I swear.
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  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,182 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>There used to be two kids who lived a couple of towns over from me years ago. The family had a daughter named Blueberry Independance who was born on the 4th of July. Blueberry had 3 other siblings, the last being a boy named Fournomore. True, I swear. >>


    Friend of mine is in the Air Force reserves. Saw this guy in his unit wearing overalls or something with the name "Star Destroyer" on them. Knowing it's supposed to be your last name on the overalls, he asks the guy if that is, indeed, his last name. Yep, it is. Gets better...

    First name? Mars.

    Middle name? Chewbacca.

    So the guy's full name is Mars Chewbacca Star Destroyer.

    True story.

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  • BuccaneerBuccaneer Posts: 1,794 ✭✭
    I have a friend whose cousin was named Noah Rection. Sadly though, he was born with a heart disease and died when he was a toddler (I think).
  • TheVonTheVon Posts: 2,725 ✭


    << <i>I have a friend whose cousin was named Noah Rection. Sadly though, he was born with a heart disease and died when he was a toddler (I think). >>



    My apologies for being cruel here, but with a name like that, is life really worth living anyway? Especially if he was going to live up to his name.
  • rbdjr1rbdjr1 Posts: 4,474 ✭✭
    Shiner? Bet he was a bright kid?

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  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,251 ✭✭✭
    Are you saying you hit that, Rbd? image
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