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Some people are really crazy!
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My desi friend in Chicago named his newborn son Michael Jordan!! I thought that was crazy!!
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My sister-in-law had a classmate whose name was "Straight Line"...no kidding.

When I was in High School, there was a girl in town (she was there only for a year or two) and her name was "Disco".

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gbelday wrote: My desi friend in Chicago named his newborn son Michael Jordan!! I thought that was crazy!!

I was pondering names like 'Autokaran' , 'billa',  'baatcha'  (characters or names from Rajini's movie) for my son    :tomato:
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Varma wrote: My sister-in-law had a classmate whose name was "Straight Line"...no kidding.

When I was in High School, there was a girl in town (she was there only for a year or two) and her name was "Disco".

:D

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Where did you go to school, varma?  That must have been a math teacher who named his kid "Straight Line." Imagine if that kid was German - could have been "Straight Line Graf."  And if they had named a sikh boy "Disco," then he could possibly be Disco Dan Singh!!  :D
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You want some weird names?  Look at this link and some names therein.  I was amazed to find that the NZ law has the provision to rule some names unacceptable.

Judge: Girl's name, Talula Does The Hula, won't do
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Atithee,

This whole discussion started after Prasen posted about "Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii" a couple of days ago :).

JIC,

"Straight Line" was my sister-in-law's classmate at Osmania Dental College in Hyderabad in late 90's . :)
As per Dan Singh's daughter "Disco", she briefly lived in my hometown Eluru (a coastal Andhra town). This was in mid 80's. IIRC, Dan Singh was a veterenarian. :D

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Oops!  :tomato:
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Varma wrote: Atithee,
"Straight Line" was my sister-in-law's classmate at Osmania Dental College in Hyderabad in late 90's . :)
As per Dan Singh's daughter "Disco", she briefly lived in my hometown Eluru (a coastal Andhra town). This was in mid 80's. IIRC, Dan Singh was a veterenarian. :D
Since you are from AP, Varma, wouldn't it be funny if somebody from the Reddy community names their kid "Ever?"
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I had a friend named "Banduk Singh", "Bimbarka", "Daku Singh"

Beat them
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Some pretty funny pictures here...somebody at work sent me this..

http://mihailfedorov.ru/toys/russia/
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gbelday wrote: Some pretty funny pictures here...somebody at work sent me this..

http://mihailfedorov.ru/toys/russia/
The women and beer bottles aside, I would have thought that these are pictures from India.  Funny nonetheless.
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Actually I fond it pretty sad.  I found it sadder that we as a country picked that hellhole country as our "big brother partner" for decades and people like we grew up hearing how great Russia was!

I am reminded of all the stories I heard from Sunil Kumar about what all he went through, dealing with unbelievably corrupt rip-off artists in Russia, when he went to play tennis out there once.  I also remember getting stuck inside the transit lounge at the Moscow airport a couple of years back for nearly a day, and how terrible and depressing the place was.

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Umm!  Jay, you and I are of the same generation.  I don't ever recall growing up thinking that Russia is a great nation nor did my peers.  All the admiration was reserved for the US and perhaps the only thing I/we admired Russia was for taking on the US as a superpower AND helping India (though I didn't know anything at all to understand either of the issue).  I can't say conclusively that India would have been better aligned with the other big brother but it is possible.
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