Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Names I find amusing

This is a list of real names of students, separated by class, that I find amusing. In Thailand, all students have a long name and a "nickname". The nicknames are completely unrelated to their long names, and are often quite funny.


Earth
Bambam
Nut
Eark
Big
Boat
Boo
Ad
BB
Boeing

Pretty
Beer
Yee
Now
Cherry
Look Tan
Jeep
Ice
Mo
Milk

Guitar
Brite
Guard
Klit (hard to say this one when calling roll!)
Gun
Build
Safe
Jam
C-Game
Phai (pronounced "pie")
Bar
Faris
Boom

Cream
Mint
Chompoo ("pink" in Thai)
Thangkwa ("cucumber" in Thai)
Noon

Sim
Phone
Nice
Armani
Tin
Ball
Bank
Front
Hummer

Santa
Fluke
Keen
Auto

Bossy
Poopa

Dream
Grid
Tangmo ("watermelon" in Thai)
Dear

Punchy
Sim
Turk (he's not Turkish)
Beach
Net
Donut
Dam

Please
Cheer
Phu (pronounced “poo”)
Pager

Mickey
Ton
Sky
Piano
Phair (pronounced “pear”)
PP
Nonee
Peterpan (seriously Mom and Dad???)

2 comments:

Rachel said...

Oh man, they are all so good. I especially like Boeing and Look Tan. And Donut. And Peterpan. And all of them, really.

Karen said...

Ha ha! Yeah Look Tan is a good one. And Santa. How do they come up with their nicknames?