<p>Here's a normal "Black" name: Tyrone.</p>
<p>Winston = from the carribean born in the '50s (Churchill)</p>
<p>Ok, making fun of "black" names is really kind of insensitive...and a complete overgeneralization. Political correctness is overrated, but please try to have some consideration for people of the minority groups in question, geez.</p>
<p>^They aren't making fun of all "black" names. They are talking about made up names with no basis in language.</p>
<p>This thread is racist. But funny. :D</p>
<p>Stephen T. Colbert. The T stands for Tyrone. haha</p>
<p>Stephen Colbert is black for all he knows. Stephen Colbert does not see color. Stephen Colbert has the best ice cream flavor. STEPHEN COLBERT FOR VICE PRESIDENT!!!!! JON STEWART FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!</p>
<p>"They aren't making fun of all "black" names."</p>
<p>exactly. So why refer to them as "black" names if a lot of black people don't use them? And honestly, it's not right to make fun of a culture different from ours...my name is very "Hebrew" and I get comments about how silly it sounds...I take it in good humour, but then again I don't have one hundred people on a message board mocking it.</p>
<p>And, ok, Clitoria is a really, really funny name. But why do we have to stereotype these so-called "black" names and spend an entire thread mocking them? Some of them are actually kind of pretty!! </p>
<p>btw...Jonathan1, there's a difference between being overly politically correct and trying to be considerate of other people's feelings. If there were a thread making fun of "Jewish names" I would, to be perfectly honest, be really offended. All some of the other posters are asking is to refrain from racial stereotypes and overgeneralizations.</p>
<p>Clitoria sounds like a planet or something in the solar system.</p>
<p>or some exotic plant</p>
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<p>@ mochamaven: Because the thread is about any funny name. It started out as a question about the origin of black names -- not funny black names, just "odd" black names. It morphed into something else...a thread about "funny names" of which, yes, some black names supply their fair share of the laughs. </p>
<p>IMO Groenveld9 came up with the funniest names of all. They were Dutch names...which you would have known if you actually bothered to read this thread. Most of the posts here that poke fun at names include caveats or statements that the names have multiple or indeterminate origins. What people have done is prove that names can be funny or odd no matter what. It's the people screaming "racism" here who've jumped to the conclusion that funny names equate to black names.</p>
<p>thanks D'yer Maker :)</p>
<p>I'm "Black Irish"...but with so many people claiming that this thread is about making fun of black names, I'm thinking that you're "Black Dutch." Right?</p>
<p>My favorite of all: Zondervan! And, as you pointed out, the fact that these are surnames that generations are stuck with...that's REALLY funny.</p>
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<p>Not just Clitoria. Clitoria Trembull. <-- Actually I ever so slightly modified the surname...but you get the idea. What's more...I have no idea of Clitoria's race. I'm not being facetious. Where my in-law's family's from, she could just as easily be the daughter of some pistol-packin', chain-smoking, leathery-faced redneck righteous biker mom in afternoon curlers who manages a trailer park.</p>
<p>D'yer maker...the way this thread started out wasn't bad at all! It's just some comments made by other posters were a little inconsiderate. No one ever called you racist either, just several people suggested that you be a little more sensitive. Chill, and lay off the douchebag comments.</p>
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<p>@ mochamaven: Excuse me? What comments? Thanks, but if you want to lower the level of any discussion, throw around foul language like that. So much for that high horse you were trying to take a ride on....</p>
<p>Wasn't there a bit in Freakonomics (written by William J. Levitt) about this, or am I thinking of a different book?</p>
<p>I think that this thread is slightly politically incorrect, and slightly humorous... so i think you are both right... and as for post #78 and #75 ... i have no flipping idea about what you just said.
btw. i'm just caucasian...dutch..american.... i am actually aryan ... but that's a little in depth... and might even go the wrong way with some people.... hmm... how about them Dolphins ???</p>
<p>There are silly names from all races, yet to specifically target Black names, and you're wondering why you're being accused;)</p>
<p>There's every indication that the truly weird i.e. names based on private parts and STDs, for example, are urban legends. </p>
<p>"As the 1917 example shows, this legend has been around for dogs' years. It now exists in two slightly different forms — the parents either misread a word, coming up with an unusual but pleasant-sounding pronounciation of same, or a member of the medical staff is overheard to properly pronounce the word, the parents think it pretty, and thus choose to stick the youngster with it. "
<a href="http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.htm</a></p>
<p>From the same site -- actual weird names (that incidentally were given to white children.</p>
<p>"Ima Hogg </p>
<p>Ima Hogg was real, but not her rumored sister, Ura. Ima (b. 1882 d. 1975) was the daughter of James Steven Hogg, Governor of Texas. </p>
<p>Mark Lemongello </p>
<p>A pitcher for the Houston Astros in the 1970s. </p>
<p>Shanda Lear </p>
<p>Daughter of Bill and Moya Lear (of Lear Jet fame). "</p>
<p>And, didn't a white movie star recently name her child "Apple"? And isn't another white movie star's child's name "Rumor"?</p>
<p>Peculiar names aren't just given to black kids.</p>