From the "You can't make this shit up Dept."

[PCIntern]

Suella Braverman who is the Home Secretary who made those xenophobic statements which have caused all the ruckus in Great Britain, of Indian descent, was actually named after the Sue Ellen Ewing character from the TV show Dallas.

Which reminds me of a story from many years ago, when I had a patient named Brandy. We got to talking one day, and I mentioned that that was a hit song which I absolutely despised when I was in college. She proceeded to tell me that she was actually named after that song because both her parents loved it so much. It taught me a valuable lesson: to not make such statements in the workplace to people who are essentially strangers . You just never ever know…

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Remember Piyush "Bobby" Jindal?

He took his "Americanized" name from the youngest son on The Brady Bunch. It's a shame that immigrant descendants find it necessary to change their birth names (like Nikki Haley) to "succeed" in this country.

[WalkerinSC]

3. Nikki is actually her middle name

It means Little One or cute/beautiful in Punjabi. Haley is her married name. It's a far right belief she goes by the name to hide her heritage.

[SCantiGOP]

35. Nimrata Nikki Randhawa

Was her birth name. Haley is her married name.

[Walleye]

2. You are a good person to be sensitive to other people's feelings like that

I have learned not to make strong statement of opinion about things. You never know when you’re gonna hurt somebody’s feelings.

[TNNurse]

13. I worked with an MD who said to several nurses,

"remember how you worried as a child that one of your parents might die". I responded that I did not worry about it, because I knew. My father died when I was 10.

People really do not think when they say things to other people.

[Walleye]

19. It upsets me that women can no longer keep their pregnancies and miscarriages private

[erronis]

26. There are a lot of possible pitfalls there. My doctor took a maternity leave and when she returned

I didn't feel right asking about her new child. You never know how the birth went.

However, she did take the initiative and let me know that her newborn son and the rest of the family are doing well.

Oh, and don't ask a woman when she is due just because there's a bit of extra tummy fat....

[róisín_dubh]

27. To put a lighthearted twist on your last sentence...

I was over at a friends having some beers on their deck and their then-4 year old walked up to me (I knew the whole family very well), poked me in the belly, and asked when my baby was coming. I responded immediately that it was a beer baby and it would be there forever. Her parents were mortified (mom) and in hysterics (dad).

[Walleye]

31. Great answer. Way to put the parents at ease

[Walleye]

30. Yes I had the same thing my doctor took a maternity leave

When I saw her again after, I first saw the nurse and asked her about the baby so I knew I was on safe ground. She had a healthy baby boy. My mom was very good about these things. She had lost both her parents when she was in her twenties and had lost a baby sister when she was a child. Grew up an only child She was very sensitive to other people’s feelings. To her the worst sin was to hurt people’s feelings. I wish we had 100 million people like her today in this country

[Aristus]

40. Mrs. Aristus turns 63 today.

Not long ago, someone asked her when she was due. (!)

Sure, a little belly bulge; she’s in her sixties. But pregnant?

[Freddie]

43. My daughter did that when she was 4

Saw a woman who was quite obviously (to me) beyond childbearing years and yelled out “that lady has a baby in her belly!” Thankfully the lady thought it was funny.

[treestar]

44. lol there's the hidden compliment

that she looks young enough for a pregnancy!

[malaise]

4. ROFL

I also hated that Brandy song. Thanks for my early morning laugh

[wnylib]

7. I liked it.

Classic ballad style.

[Trueblue Texan]

16. I loved that song because...

...I was a romantic young girl who lived in a harbor town and worked "laying whiskey down". I never EVER saw a seaman I would have wanted to connect with and was known to pour their drinks right in their laps when they dared to put their hands on me...but all the other elements in the song were present in my life, including that young girl's romantic heart.

[Farmer-Rick]

33. I liked the song too

But because I wanted to go to sea and be a sailor. Any song with sailing or the sea in it was immediately my favorite.

[Captain Zero]

46. Lots of girls named Brandy born in 1975-76

The name of the girl in the song.

[Walleye]

21. I liked it too

[malaise]

48. So did one of my sisters

and the worst part was that she had a copy

[Walleye]

49. The song did suffer from over exposure

[Hortensis]

47. I disliked it too. Irritating. It was a new song, not an old ballad,

and I was a product of the civil rights/second wave era. Definitely the wrong mood for this Brandy's times.

Just realized, with all the guys who hit on anything breathing in those days, I don't recall even one promising to dump me as his approach. Guessing that line had a low success rate.

[DFW]

5. I once asked a woman I met to repeat her name three times. I was sure I had not heard correctly

I thought I had heard "Journey" and thought that CAN'T be right. As it turned out, she spelled it Jurnee, and she was some famous actress (how was I to know?).

[wnylib]

8. Not famous enough, apparently.

[DFW]

11. Not here in Germany, anyway

I mentioned it to my roomies in Dallas, and they were in instant awe. You met "HER??"

[Maeve]

6. One reason there are so many Boomers named C/Kathy is a soap character

From "Guiding Light", IIRC

[PCIntern]

9. Wow. That's interesting.

[LisaM]

36. The name Olivia is a soap opera name.

Is it Susan Lucci's character's daughter? Anyway, when it first started being ubiquitous, it was become of some soap.

[FoxNewsSucks]

37. Not sure which character Olivia was, but

there weren't any Olivias on All My Children

Erica Kane's daughters were Kendall and Bianca. Sarah Michelle Gellar played Kendall for a while, may have been one of her first roles.

[Freddie]

41. Possibly Young & Restless again

There was a Dr. Olivia Barber Hastings back in the 90s - 00s. (Wish they’d bring her back to set her son on the right path!)

[Freddie]

39. So is the name Ashley

Wasn’t real popular (actually was a man’s name) til Ashley Abbott appeared on the Young and the Restless.

[3Hotdogs]

10. One of my high school female students is named Jazzman. I often wonder if it was meant to be the

phonetic misspelling of Jasmine.

[DFW]

12. Or had parents who are Carole King fans n/t

[Trueblue Texan]

17. Carole King had a song about Jazzman...nt

[Conjuay]

14. I came across a person at Disney

who said her name was “Princess”

‘Everyone at Disney is a princess’, I said to myself.

Lo and behold, she pulled out her CC to complete her purchase, and guess what-
her name was actually “Princess”!

[Delmette2.0]

15. Years ago my family adopted a dachshund mix puppy.

My sister wanted to name her Cassidy. Why? Because we can't call her Butch.

Skip ahead ten years. All the kids have flown the nest so Mom and Dad moved. Cassidy true to her bossy ways, kept barking at the new neighbor. Mom shouted out the back door "Cassidy, shut up!" Then Mom noticed the neighbor quickly going into her house.

A few days later, getting acquainted over the fence Mom apologized for yelling at Cassidy the dog. The neighbor smiled she explained that she thought Mom was yelling at her. Her last name was Cassidy.

[MyOwnPeace]

20. That's funny!

Amazingly, I was watching some of the Jan. 6 Committee meetings and I heard Mark Meadows yelling the very same thing!

[Delmette2.0]

24. I heard that, too!

I'll never stop missing my little loveable brat.

[mountain grammy]

18. My husband served in the Army

one guy in his boot camp platoon had Mexican parents .. they named him Jose but it was spelled H-O-S-E on his birth certificate.
Hubby said most of the guys called him Jose, of course, but the drill sargeant was relentless. screaming HOSE at roll call and whenever he had the chance. It became a real joke among the guys and they had to stifle their giggles at roll call. My husband remained friends with Hose for many years. When it came to having a positive attitude, Hose was the best. Have lots of Vietnam pictures of those two, both smiling with middle fingers raised.

[EYESORE 9001]

25. That's hilarious

I knew someone whose given name was ‘Pornsak’. He chose to go by ‘Jeremy’ instead, for some reason.

[EYESORE 9001]

22. I have worked in a couple of places where I felt like I was in a minefield

In both places, a large number of employees were all part of extended families. To make things worse, a lot of those folks liked to talk shit about one another. I mostly just nodded, smiled, frowned or grimaced to mimic actually listening. Miraculously, I never opened my mouth to repeat anything I’d heard to anyone else.

[sarisataka]

23. Why in the name of all that's holey

Would you make such a comment about a client's name? Especially one you don't know very well?

[PCIntern]

28. I was referring to the song itself. Not her name, obviously.

And she wasn’t offended particularly, why are you?

[sarisataka]

32. Not offended,

Just incredulous a professional would make such an offhand comment to a patient that could easily be heard as 'I hate your name'.

[PCIntern]

42. Ok

I did say I learned a lesson from it, didn’t I? I’m certain that in your life you never made a comment that was unintentionally inappropriate, unbeknownst to you.

[momta]

29. My daughter's best friend, Layla, is named after the Eric Clapton song.

I absolutely adore her, and never had the heart to tell her that that is my LEAST favorite Clapton song.

[SCantiGOP]

34. I was just telling this to my sister,

Eleanor Rigby, the other day.

[geardaddy]

38. LOL

[treestar]

45. There was a James Taylor

involved in a case, another attorney. I refrained from saying anything. I figured he'd be tired of hearing references to his being a Handy man or having seen fire and rain.