Awesome McCoolname: Difference between revisions
Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.8
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (→Fan Works: copyedit) |
(Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.8) |
||
Line 1,095:
* Volkan Demirel, Turkish goalkeeper. Why? His name roughly translates as "Vulcan Steelhands".
* Dutch football (soccer) trainer and former player Leo Beenhakker, whose last name literally translates as "leg chopper".
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101003100017/http://www.cbs3springfield.com/news/local/Lord-Jesus-Christ-Claims-Discrimination-103963198.html Lord Jesus Christ Claims Discrimination.] He's apparently the third of his name. He was also [https://web.archive.org/web/20111021103355/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37015837/ Hit by a car... in a CROSSwalk.]
* [[Garth Nix]]
* Puritans of the New World used names like this frequently, including some that have become respectable, not-weird names, like Chastity, Hope, Constance. Other names didn't quite catch on. Praise-God Barebone was a significant Puritan figure in the [[English Civil War]], and named the Barebone's Parliament. The middle name of his son was "If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Wouldst-Have-Been-Damned." He was a pioneer of free-market economics and tended to go by the much less awesome Nicholas Barbon.
| |||