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July 01, 2011
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September 08, 2009
Here Comes Trouble - Naughtiest School Boy and Mean Girl Names
From BBC News
Teachers spot trouble in a name
British teachers think they can tell which pupils are likely to play up by looking at their names, a survey suggests.
The poll of 3,000 teachers found more than one in three expected pupils with certain names to be more disruptive.
Pupils called Callum, Connor, Jack, Chelsea, Courtney and Chardonnay were among some of the ones to watch.
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online survey by parenting club Bounty.com found 49% of UK teachers
made assumptions about a child when they first looked down the
register.
But it is not all bad news, with 57% of the teachers surveyed saying the naughtier children tended to be more popular than their better behaved peers.
More than a third said the naughtiest pupils were often the brightest and the more sensitive.
Naughty list
Many teachers (69%) said they had difficulty pronouncing some of the more obscure names chosen by parents.
And 71% of teachers admitted to have a private chuckle over some of the more unusual names.
The survey also asked teachers what the brightest children tended to be called, with Alexander, Adam, Christopher, Benjamin, Edward, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Emma, Hannah and Rebecca coming in as the brainiest names.
Names of the most popular children in the class included Jack, Daniel, Charlie, Callum, Emma, Charlotte, Hannah and Anna.
Faye Mingo from Bounty.com said: "Teachers are only human and make assumptions like the rest of us.
"Rightly or wrongly, most of us make assumptions based on something as simple as a person's name and we base these on our previous experiences.
"It's only natural for teachers to make judgments based on the behaviour and performance of former pupils with the same name, but I'm sure that they are happy for to be proved wrong."
August 13, 2009
You would have to be really thirsty to drink this...
A photo submitted from our pal Rich Binell of Get Rich Quick!
August 11, 2009
50 Funny Store Names (with photos)!
Best Week Ever scoured the internet and pulled together these 50 store names that have fun with puns. Enjoy!
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46 More Pun Stores (Seriously) After the cut.
And they’re pretty much all brilliant.
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April 08, 2009
Hail to the Obama Ch-Ch-Chia Pet
Mik spotted this latest product to cash-in on the Obama name...
From the website:
Can you grow one? YES YOU CAN.
Easy to do... Fun to Grow.
Full growth 1-2 weeks
Reuse your Chia indefinitely
Contains:
* Chia Obama handmade planter
* Chia Seed packet for 3 plantings
* Convenient Drip Tray
* Planting and care instruction sheet
March 31, 2009
Not a good Valentine's Day gift: Fat Pig Chocolate
Mik spotted this little piggy...
March 30, 2009
A not very lady-like name...
Another bad name submitted by my friend, humor columnist Mary Hanna... unbelievably, this company is owned by 3 women.
I am not making this up!
My friend, humor columnist Mary Hanna sent me this photo of a new lens cleaner that she spotted. Mary reports that she asked the clerk why they called the product "Cat Crap" and the clerk said, "Well, it made you look at it!"
March 22, 2009
The onomatopoeia for a phlegmy cough
Mik was in the hippie health section of the grocery store yesterday and came across this Head Scratcher, Umcka. I believe "umcka" is the sound one makes when trying to clear phlegm from their throat, making this irritating name an onomatopoeia, or what is also called imitative harmony (or in this case, an irritative harmony). An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound it is describing, such as noises like "oink," "meow," and in this case, "umcka."
Umcka is "new to the US," from Germany, the same country that brought us "Obama Fingers" and Wienerschnitzel.
