What Is In A Name - Does It Matter?

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    I've worked in some very high-end technical fields (ion-microfabrication, legacy software developing, etc), and have known some very smart people who could likely not tie their own shoes. Some folks are like savants. It seems we all have a finite capacity, with our capacities either being evenly distributed, or in the case of savants (and the Musks of the world), one facet consumes the capacity meant for other skills.
     
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    Yeah, like the Adams Family governing Pennsylvania :confused: I worked at Intel and supported (as an Admin) I can't remember how many were in my department. Pretty sure several of them asked me if I could schedule them in to tie their shoes :p
     
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    That's pretty funny. Back in the day I managed vendors/purchasing/inventory for a large PC Reseller, and Hal Lashley (of Ashton-Tate dBase fame) was on our board. One day I saw this homeless-looking guy wandering around the warehouse, and as I went to confront him, someone grabbed my sleeve: "Don't you know who that is???" Yup. Hal was wandering around in clothes that even Goodwill is too good to sell.
     
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    Yep, we only have to look at that guy that did run Twitter right :D Looks dazed and confused to me:
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    Dumb names aren't anything new. Back in the 1960s, I knew a family who named their daughter " Crystal Shanda". Not the worst choice, you'd say, until I tell you their last name was Lehrer, pronounced like "leer".

    Yep, Crystal Shanda Lehrer. Say it aloud. And, yes, it was deliberate.
     
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    I knew a guy named Bryne Hart (Bryne is pronounced "burn.")
     
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    I almost forgot Reba (McEntire.) I find no discussion of why her parents named her Reba.
     
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    Back in the 70 when I had my second daughter, a nurse told story of patient who could not come up with a name for her girl child. Until she went to the restroom and was handed a box of pads (kotex back then) bingo, the child name appeared - Kimberly Clark . Mfg of the product.
     
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    Reba is not that rare, at least in the south. I think some use it as a nickname for Rebecca.
     
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    I have mentioned her a couple of times but one of my x’ s was a full blown ionospheric level high IQer and excelled in the field of genetics but that said, she literally couldn’t go to the Alpha Beta grocery store with a hand full of coupons on double coupon day and make any sense of it.

    She got bored with genetics and wanted to go into real estate so I paid for real estate school and she memorized her books in about an hour and was ready to take the Arizona State exam but she couldn’t balance a check book.

    Edit: Oh yeah, to be on topic, her name is Gay. Dunno if that would be a good name today. Hello, I’m gay.
     
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    My sister's husband was a Mensa member. Too bad he didn't like to work. He could have made a good life for his family...but he was too smart to do any of that stuff.

    Regarding "Gay." I have a cousin with that name...either Gay Ann or Gayanne, I'm not sure which. She was born in the mid 50s.
     
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