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annoying middle names

  • 25-07-2001 9:55pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,698 ✭✭✭✭


    Just curious

    does anyone here have those really irratating middle names your family puts onto you??

    and dont u h8 when u get your leaving or junior cert registation form thing (to say wha subjects your doing) that it says your full name and everyone sees it:


    If so

    join me


    my full sig is........

    Connla Padrig Seamus Peader Lyons


    yess tha is right a father who loves Irish gave me a near 100% irish title

    anyone else have irratating middle names?

    People of the Boards

    I have a cunning plan

    and before u ask how cunning

    just trust me its cunning

    oooo thats cunning


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    No, afraid not.
    In fact my parents just gave me a first and surname, that's it.
    Still I collected a fair number of nicknames, some even printable. smile.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,523 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    One of the lads in school was Micheal Mary Murphy. Poor soul. Another guy was called Val (then we found it was really Valentine).

    Kill, kill, kill the laser mice.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Lucy_la_morte


    I like my middle name, more so than my forename. Hayley Alexandrá Thomson.

    Senretsukyaku
    Kikosho!
    SPINNING BIRD KICK

    Chun-Li la morte.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,389 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lenny


    I don't mind mine really,
    yea don't really need your middle name anyway
    but mines
    Sean Matthew Leonard.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,587 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself


    Brendan Joseph Patrick Tinnelly

    nothing to complain about really

    Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,698 ✭✭✭✭BlitzKrieg


    Lucky B*sterds such normal middle names have u ever tried saying mine fast i remember when i'm in school and this topic comes up everyone says their full name and when it coems to me its like i'm reciting irish poetry or something ahh. I'm not even sure wha my name means. Its meant to be illegitamete son of fionn or something

    People of the Boards

    I have a cunning plan

    and before u ask how cunning

    just trust me its cunning

    oooo thats cunning


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭bugler


    Middle names....mine is ok.My first name is very very wrong for me.It really is.It means something that is just not right for me, though my second name does me more justice. Apparently it stands for more accurate qualities(according to my plaque/scroll) than the 1st name.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    I used be the only guy in my class who didn't have a middle name. bit annoying when you're thinking "bloody hell they gave me a diddlee-eye first name and not even a middle name to fall back on". In retrospect, what would I do with a middle name. No-one else in my family had a middle name either.

    "First name?" "Seamus"
    "And you're baptismal name?" "My what?"
    "Your baptismal name." "Hah"
    "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realise..." "No, I was baptised, not that it's any of your business, I just don't have a second name"
    "Oh, right ho, then"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,698 ✭✭✭✭BlitzKrieg


    LOL scep your middle of my name hehe


    but still tha must have made u augh when they say tha?


    consider yourself abit luckier i get the same look from everyone when i say my name.

    and its as bad when i say only the 1st try pronouncing Connla i mean everytime i meet someone they spend 4 minutes trying to say it right and then give up.


    "i think tha is why jag just calls me Blitz"

    People of the Boards

    I have a cunning plan

    and before u ask how cunning

    just trust me its cunning

    oooo thats cunning


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    well at least you have Irish in you're names, mine is allenglish FFS mad.gif it's Darren John Paul Bowes..yes Bowes, the queen bítch's family name.....I HATE IT.

    That island has freedom written all over it" Sir, that's Cuba. [url="HTTP://WWW.thesimpsons.com"]look at that smithers!![/url]


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    one of my mates has {emmanuel} as his middle name though

    That island has freedom written all over it" Sir, that's Cuba. [url="HTTP://WWW.thesimpsons.com"]look at that smithers!![/url]


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    Mine's plain and boring... Niall David Philip O'Keeffe - I should probably renounce the 'baptismal' and 'confirmational' names though, as I'm hardly a true member of that church which conferred them on me... tongue.gif

    However ... I do know someone with an annoying middle name - me own mum wink.gif and that name is ... PIUS (after Pope Pius VI, I believe).

    Bard
    Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.

    [This message has been edited by Bard (edited 26-07-2001).]


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,658 ✭✭✭✭The Sweeper


    Back in the early days of my university career, I realised you could ID people who were using internal email... so I went browsing around my class and discovered one poor schmuck whose name was Joseph had been burdened with the middle name, wait for it,

    Camillus

    Well naturally I shared this information biggrin.gif and it ended up sticking, to this day he is known by his pals as Joe Cam.

    It's never too late to have a happy childhood.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 The Pinky


    Richard Thomas James Ward writes.....

    Where I grew up (Loughrea Co. Galway) I knew a guy called Terence McGlynn who everyone thought was cool, until they founf out his middle name..... CORNELIUS. Speaking of that name, remember that ****e cartoon that used to be on at eleven in the morning called Ulysesses??? That had a bucko by the name of Cornelius.

    I reckon parents give children bad names so that they can laugh at something when the child in question gets older and starts to annoy the parents

    We all had a friend in school who had a hidden secret...., he thought he got away, but when they put up his full name for the leaving cert, his plan was rumbled... his name was STANISLAUS Burke, or just Stan to his mates.

    Narf!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    David Chris Micheal Thomas Patrich Walker

    I used to ****ing 0wn that red letter game thingy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,698 ✭✭✭✭BlitzKrieg


    Well well well... Latin and Irish names cause the bigges problems by the looks of things and too think i was alone.

    just to add my sisters name is Cliodhna (pronounced clean -a) simple if u hear someone say it a pain when reading

    People of the Boards

    I have a cunning plan

    and before u ask how cunning

    just trust me its cunning

    oooo thats cunning


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭Puck


    My middle name is Joseph and my confirmation name is Patrick (I don't count that though).

    You might not think that Joseph is too bad but on some forms I have to use my full name :
    John Joseph O'Donnell

    Yes that's right my name is John Joe!

    As a result it now says John Joe on all my college IDs and letters they address to me.

    John (yes THE John!)
    "Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭Illkillya


    no americans can pronounce Cathal


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭klong


    Me: kieran michael colman costello
    my mum: mary rosarie murray (maiden name, obviously)
    And i think mine are bad!
    Aloysious, Pius etc. are definetely the worst, in my humble opinion


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 973 ✭✭✭ThrAx


    my weird name is

    Séadna Ciaran Smallwood

    my confirmation name is Liam

    Séadna is pronounced as shane-a its irish and also the modern version of setanta which was cú Chullain's original name before he was renamed by that guy who's dog died due to a hurling accident.

    smallwood is an english name though, my grandad was english, from yorkshire

    and ciaran is the name of my dads friend who died in a motorcycle accident

    oh and i know a guy whos middle name is valentine, and he liks firstyears in secondary school
    im a robot in disguise

    [This message has been edited by ThrAx (edited 26-07-2001).]


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,626 ✭✭✭smoke.me.a.kipper


    i got timothy. im ciaran timothy jenkins. for those who care.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭klong


    ThrAx, i know just how you feel.
    Four years ago, i was on a schools radio quiz. On my team was a gut named Seadhna, and the quiz master kept on calling him Sheena. Seadhna got very ****ed off, as you can imagine.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    Davitt John Peter Waldron

    Baptism and Confirmation names (but I never use them any more) - I'm grand.

    It's my first name that's a problem - Davitt.

    y'see, Michael Davitt is an ancestor of mine, so there's loads of Michaels and Michelles in the family, so Mam decided on something different.
    It's grand, I like the name, but so many people just say David without even looking at it and that wrecks my head. A teacher in school used to call me Emmet until I spend 5 minutes bollicking him about not being able to do something as simple as get my name right.

    Here's a weird one for y'all...

    My Mum is Catherine Frances Forde. Everyone calls her Frankie and always has done - it's amusing to think that no one bothers with her first name at all!
    She's put it to use and her "stage name" is Frankie Forde Waldron (she's a musician) - it sounds good, but it's always puzzled me. Her dad started it off by calling her Frankie when she was a baby and so everyone followed his lead.

    That happen to any of you?



    All the best!
    Dav
    @B^)
    So Bob Hoskins was about to roll a spliff when in walks Dana with her 3 foot Bong
    [honey i] violated [the kids]
    When the Beefy King arrives, I shall be paying homage with Puunack The Receiver in a haze of green curry.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭Steven


    No one outside of my immediate family knows my middle names. I have two of them in case it was difficult to make up insulting nicknames about one of them cool.gif


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭CriminallyInsane


    Kevin Edward Luke Thompson

    Jesus, apart from "Kevin", I have the snobbiest name there is, I HATE IT.

    Why oh why did I pick Luke as my confirmation name? Why do I even have a confirmation name? I DONT EVEN BELIEVE IN GOD

    Anyone think that I should drop the Kevin and go as Eddie?



    How Do You Prove You Exist? What If We Don't Exist? - Vivi Ornitier, Final Fantasy IX


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭The Corinthian


    Try growing up with this yoke for a name:

    **** Finnian Luca Alessandro Benedetti dei Setti di Forlí

    (the 'Finnian' is 'cos me mummy is Irish wink.gif)

    "Just because I'm evil doesn't mean I'm not nice." - Charlie Fulton


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,698 ✭✭✭✭BlitzKrieg


    I have to thank you people i dont feel so depressed about my name anymore everyone has problems ith their names and after the last one i must thank you

    People of the Boards

    I have a cunning plan

    and before u ask how cunning

    just trust me its cunning

    oooo thats cunning


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,984 ✭✭✭✭Lump


    John Michael Joesph James Loughman.

    John


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    Dre "AS IN" Dray .

    As In !!! What was my mother thinking .


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭The Corinthian


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by BlitzKrieg:
    I have to thank you people i dont feel so depressed about my name anymore everyone has problems ith their names and after the last one i must thank you</font>

    If you want to feel better about your name, just be glad that you’re not an Italian or German born during or just before WWII.

    Some of the more popular names of the period are a bit embarrassing now wink.gif

    "Just because I'm evil doesn't mean I'm not nice." - Charlie Fulton


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭Littletinyman


    Patrick Miles Lucy.

    Weh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,154 ✭✭✭✭Neil3030


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"> originally posted by Blitzkrieg
    my full sig is........

    Connla Padrig Seamus Peader Lyons
    </font>



    oh my gawd.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 822 ✭✭✭Kastro


    John Alan Roche..
    thats me.
    nothin to bad with that.


    i know a guy that writes (graffiti)
    he tags "mag" its short for his first name..
    "Magnis" (little toy) the rest of his name is un pronucible..! he has about 8 diffrent parts to his name.. none of them easy to say!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,698 ✭✭✭✭BlitzKrieg


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Neil3030:

    oh my gawd.
    </font>

    see

    very Irish name

    People of the Boards

    I have a cunning plan

    and before u ask how cunning

    just trust me its cunning

    oooo thats cunning


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Kenneth Micheal John Cronin


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,967 ✭✭✭adnans


    i dont have a middle name, my surname alone will confuse the hell out of anyone though.

    causevic!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭Jimi-Spandex


    have a laugh at this one

    Ruairi Padraic Xavier de Burca

    twood be alright if i could drop the first two


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    Mine is simply Joseph. No problems there.

    Friends have the following middle names:

    Hubert (Really got a good laugh on the Exam list - and was henceforth called Pubert)

    Levi (Biblical referance)

    Stanlislaus (My grandfather - he was known as Stanley)

    "I'd rather have a bottle infront of me than a frontal lobotamy"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,136 ✭✭✭Bob the Unlucky Octopus


    Mine's hardly a typical European one, as most of my family don't originate from there, but here it is:

    Govind Jnamejaya Sri Ram

    And if you're wondering how to pronounce my middle name, I'll explain it if any of us happened to meet in person.

    Bob the Unlucky Octopus


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Kix


    Kieran Laurence Gerard Coughlan

    :/

    Grandfather's names. "Laurence" usually leads to "of Arabia" leads to "was fond of little Turkish boys' bottoms".

    Not an association I relish, I must admit.

    Still, at least I got the formal versions. I would hate even more to be:

    Kieran Larry Gerry Coughlan

    YIKES! eek.gif


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭kayos


    hmm Kealan Peter Patrick Murphy so I kinda got off kinda easy on the middle names part but my first one is a bit of a bugger as its a girls name as well (different sp). I remember once ringing someone who had a sister called Kealan the conversation went something like follows when Keelan answered
    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">
    Me: Hi Can I talk to <Name> please
    Girl on Phone: Sure who can I say is calling?
    Me: Kealan
    Girl on Phone: No really whos calling
    Me: Kealan
    Girl on Phone: Stop taking the ****, I'm Keelan
    Me: But..
    end of phone call she hung up
    </font>



    kayos
    When you get to hell tell them I sent you,
    you'll get a group discount...

    tribes.gameshop.ie


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,275 ✭✭✭Shinji


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Patrick Miles Lucy.</font>

    Clearly cheating, as you have three first names and no surname.

    Made up for by welsh people like Ryan Giggs, who has two surnames and no first name.

    "Govind", eh Occy? Oddly enough I was wondering what your real name was the other day and thinking you'd probably told me and I'd just forgotten... Nah... I'd have remembered that smile.gif

    Personally:

    Robert Andrew Patrick Fahey

    Relatively normal names all, but I make up for it by being odd in person wink.gif


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    No offence Occy, but I'll stick with Bob curlydav.gif



    All the best!
    Dav
    @B^)
    So Bob Hoskins was about to roll a spliff when in walks Dana with her 3 foot Bong
    [honey i] violated [the kids]
    When the Beefy King arrives, I shall be paying homage with Puunack The Receiver in a haze of green curry.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19 partyman28


    I got an ivan in there somewhere!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2 longboarder111


    I got Eugene, after my dad. Could have been worse. They were thinking of naming me after my grandfathers -- Verbia and Elwood. Thank goodness for common sense.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by longboarder111:
    I got Eugene, after my dad. Could have been worse. They were thinking of naming me after my grandfathers -- Verbia and Elwood. Thank goodness for common sense.</font>

    But "Elwood" would have been cool!!! Especially if you got a Jake in there too...

    I wonder... if you got ex-communicated, would you lose your baptismal and confirmational names in the eyes of the church?... or would they even be ar$ed with that? wink.gif

    Bard
    Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭schrodinger


    I know a guy whos name i Caolain Mary Ignatius Reid


  • Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 4,599 CMod ✭✭✭✭RopeDrink


    Andrew Jonathan "RopeDrink" Duffy...

    Like Lucy said, I like my middle name better than my last... In fact I detest my last name...

    I couldn't give a flying bar of tofu about my Christian name to be perfectly honest...

    Andrew... Andrew... Why do I love that name?

    [VAR]-RopeDrink***** was killed by IOL NoLimits with Headshot from Disconnect


  • Registered Users Posts: 240 ✭✭karl tyrrell


    one of my mates has {emmanuel} as his middle name though

    That island has freedom written all over it" Sir, that's Cuba. [url="HTTP://WWW.thesimpsons.com"]look at that smithers!![/url]

    Thats my name Karl Emmanuel Paul Tyrrell
    karl the devil/emmanuel jesus what were they thinking


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭cazzzzz


    Rosalind, after my aunty. Don't actually mind it- it seems very proper though.

    P.s. I went to school with a girl called Lottie Tortoise (didn't know her middle name but, not really sure it matters)


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