Strange names

And each of THOSE names can be spelled four different ways.

 

No Soda?

 

Five pages on this thread, and nobody has mentioned the most famous effed-up name in sports.

Meta World Peace

I've done a lot of PA, and had a lot of odd names (had one name that was literally one letter away from the N word), but I could never take myself seriously with that guy.

 

I suppose so, but to me there's a difference between a name someone chooses for themselves to get attention and a name that someone's parents stupidly (or at best, unwittingly) shackled them with.

 

I met a kid today -- by that I mean between 18 and 24 -- named Novastarr.

 

The best one I've ever heard of was a guy named De'End Parker.

As made up as it sounds, he was the last of a long line of kids (double digits, I think) and his mom named him "De'End" because it was "The End" of her having kids.

 

We need a minimum weight requirement on the nickname "Moose." Covered a baseball game today with a "Moose" on the roster and he was a wiry pitcher who needs to hold a couple of barbells to hit 100 lbs. on the scale.

 

Little Anthony Gordon -- he went by Anthony -- is the younger brother of longtime major leaguer Tom Gordon. Was a Mariners draftee in 1987, I believe.

 

What an imperial name, though I think I'd go out of my head if someone called me that. I would hurt so bad there might even be tears on my pillow.

 

Very well done...

 

Back in the early 1970s, there was an all-state basketball player in Iowa named Fonda Dix.

 

It's actually worse. Her last name was spelled Dicks, not Dix. She's now married and her last name is Hopp.
She played for Moravia from 1969-73. That was in Iowa's 6-on-6 days, for those who didn't know.