Interesting names

[beboots]

 Why don't we have as interesting names anymore? Granted, George Brown and John Alexander MacDonald wouldn't look out of place in today's phonebooks, but what ever happened to names like D'Arcy McGee? Or G.E. Eyre? Or, my favourite: W. Spottiswoode?

What interesting names have you run across in your travels? I recall a girl in my third grade class whose name was "Heaven-Leigh" (AKA "Heavenly"), and I was very jealous of the cleverness of the pun. 

Comments

[boko.livejournal.com]

Yup. Manlove. and I have to note that in my last entry I meant "antagonist", not protagonist. At least I think he was an antagonist... Japanese videogames and anime do a good job of blurring that line.

And yea, kids can be mean. There was a girl in my class with the last name Ho. Yeah kids were really imaginative in High School. But she was a trooper about it. As far as I know she never really gave them a second glance, so good on her.