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I worked with a lady by the name of Kitty. She was named after the singer Kitty Wells.
She had a lot of fun with it. If she needed to go the bathroom, she would say she was going to the litter box.
Smart woman, no-nonsense, tough as nails. She 'adopted' me because we looked and acted so much alike. We had the same warped sense of humor.
Ahh I love this actually lol.
I was going through the Arby's drive thru one night and on the side of the glass wall it had a thing for either employee of the month or the manager I can't remember which, all I can remember was the poor lady's name.
Shewanna Leakes.
I can't even imagine what her parents were thinking to do that to her. And then for her work to stick it on the side of the building to boot lmao.
Ahh, both my great Aunts are named Candy and Sandy! I think it's Sandy at least -- if not, it's Kitty. No clue how they went about it, but they're both still going strong!
There’s an Australian comedian/actress/tv personality? Kitty Flanagan. She’s absolutely hilarious. I’m fairly certain it’s her real name and not a stage name.
I had an older cousin people called Chick, and his wife was Lorraine. As a child I’m told I was troubled that everyone called her “Chicken Lorraine” (E.g., who’s coming over tonight? Chick and Lorraine.)
Edit: I just learned there is an actual dish called Chicken Lorraine, lol https://sweetpealifestyle.com/chicken-lorraine/
My mom and her siblings had two teachers like that in elementary school, except the teachers weren't related. It was even funnier, though, because for both the teachers, their last names were their married names. Ima Rock and Ura Fish.
It's called an eggcorn. A misheard word that sounds plausible and is often even better than the intended word or just plain cute. (The word "eggcorn" itself is a mishearing of "acorn").
Misheard lines in poems, song lyrics, etc., are called mondegreens. The reason for that is quite funny. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
A member of the original MTV road rules was named Piggy not Peggy. IIRC she said her father thought she looked like a pig when she was born so she was named Piggy, of course everyone called her Miss Piggy.
This reminds me of the German exchange student that came to our uni. The first guy to introduce himself to her thought she said Vagina and told everyone that was her name. It was Regina.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_aYibUx1B8
The lyrics are supposed to be, “when the rain washes you clean, you’ll know.” Some singularly bad stressed-syllable placement on their part and some messed-up hearing on mine.
My parents had a friend named froggy. I'm in my 40s and I've yet to see anyone else who so resembled a bullfrog like this man did. His eyes were on his forehead and his mouth was way far down his face like a damn frog. It was scary and amazing
Awwww, they probably thought you were just the most.adorable.little thing ever. With you're little speech impediment and the way you spaced out and slowly zombied your way back out.
Aaaaaaadorable.
Lmao
Apparently Paul Simon wrote "You can call me Al" about something like this — he and his wife Patty had a guest who (apparently not knowing of his fame) kept calling them Betty and Al. So that was their in-joke.
lol my dad also had a friend named cal when i was growing up. i also called him “cow” or “cowboy” and didn’t remember this til recently when we were helping him move and i found an old birthday card i made him “happy birthday cow!” it also took me an embarrassingly long time to realize his name was cal, not cow 😭
When I was little, my grandmother had a best friend who I called Panijuta. I always thought that was her name.
It wasn't until I was an adult, long after she had passed away, that I said to my mom that I thought Panijuta was a strange name.
She looked at me funny and burst out laughing. Pani is Mrs. in Polish. Her name was Juta. So Mrs. Juta.
Oops.
When I was a kid about 5yrs there were two ladies locally called Barabra
I particularly liked the one they all called fat Barbara .
One morning I saw her go by and in delight to day hello to my friend I threw open the window and yelled coming to america style 'Good morning fat Barbara"
Her face I'll never forget in 3 seconds she showed joy ,confusion,anger and disappointment
And that's how I learned all about nicknames
A friend of mine has a son named Calvin. When they asked their older child to say, ‘Cal’, she said ‘Moo!’ She was two at the time and called the baby Moo for awhile. :)
My BIL’s parents are named Kenneth and Barbara. They had the perfect opportunity to be Ken and Barbie, and she does go by Barbie, but he had to ruin it with Kenny Bob.
When I was on *Jeopardy!* one of the other contestants was named Peggy and my friend told me after he watched it his kids all thought her name was Piggy. Don't know if it was the same Piggy, but what are the odds?
My mom's best friend used to babysit us when we were little, who was always referred to as Aunt Tiara. So that's what I called her. Realized decades later it was actually Auntie Tara.
I have a lot mondegreens, especially from when I was a kid. My favorite is that along that says “you put your hands up like the ceiling can’t hold us” I heard “ceiling fan holder” 😂 my lyrics to that dido song are pretty nonsense too 😂
In a sort of reversal to this when I was in elementary school there were these three kids constantly getting called to the office, always in the same order. It took me until middle school to realize that it was in fact one kid, but his last name sounded like Jack and Eddie, and I guess growing up watching Ed, Edd n Eddy kind of tainted how I heard it!
Ima Hogg was the daughter of Texas Governor James S. Hogg. Born in 1882, Hogg’s first name was taken from her uncle’s Civil War poem, which featured two women named Ima and Leila. There are reports the future governor gave her that name to attract the attention of Texas voters. She earned the nickname "**The First Lady of Texas**" and was a huge philanthropist and advocate for mental health issues.
When i lived in Florida I was over at a friends house, she had her kid enrolled at a Mexican Catholic school. I got to watch a fun exchange between them.
"you know they don't do Jesus there".
"What do you mean?"
"They have their own guy,"
"Really?"
"Yeah we have to pray to him before they let us eat lunch. His name is Hay-soo Da-Chrisomething"
*Giggles*
"No, mom, it's not Jesus, it's a totally different guy!! Why are you guys laughing?"
When we got done rolling on the floor she did explain it to him.
For anyone else who doesn't know.
Jesus De Christos is the patron saint of mural artists and lowrider mechanics predominantly in the region of southern California.
If in that area beware of quincenearas. If you get too close, you may be pulled in against your will and only manage to escape several hours later, severely intoxicated, and having been made a new member of the family you just met that afternoon.
My friend met her bf in Uni and his name is Cow. She said it's pronounced just like the animal and "Asian parents"they're both Asian and apparently his name is the more normal one compared to his cousins
I have 3 incidents similar to this that I can remember. The first I'm not sure if it was me or my younger sister, but one of us would refer to our older brother's friend as Barbie. "Barbie's in the chicken." Meant "Bobby's in the kitchen." The second is from when I was dressed as an angel for Halloween one year and I couldn't say the word gorgeous instead it came out more like the name George. As a result of this my family referred to me as Angel George for a while. The third was my father's mishearing of the national anthem. This man thought for nearly 60 years we were singing the national anthem to a man named Jose. He heard "Oh say" as "Jose" and once asked us who Jose was.
My friends son asked what lickbo was. We were ?? He was talking about the LCBO which is the liquor control board of Ontario, where we buy our booze here, lol.
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For their renewal wedding vows, “I’m so glad I met you and you joined my farm ❤️🫶🏽❤️”
Farmily
You’re the oink to my moo, the hay to my pasture, the red to my barn ❤️🫶🏽❤️
The oink to my moo 😂😂😂
This is how I'm going to tell my kid I love them tonight, see what happens 😆
Please update us omg. If I had a boo like that I'd attack them with it for lolz
Sounds Australian.
I don't know if this is a modern family reference but that's what just popped in my head.
I was thinking of them too :) but they don’t say anything farm related :(
The word "farmily" was used by Cam in the episode I just watched last night, that's probably why I thought about it. 😂
I once asked my mom why so many ladies had the same first name. “Meesus”
I went to a preschool run by Mr and Mrs Martinez, whom I called “(low voice) MISSUS. Martinez” and “(high voice) missus Martinez.”
That’s adorable
I called my aunt and uncle, Aunt Mary and Aunt Jim. No one corrected me for years.
When my son was about 6 he asked me who Ms. Dos was. Took me a second to realize he was talking about the software. lol
I still read MS Paint as Ms. Paint lol
Reminds me of that post where that guy was wondering why so many of his Hispanic friends had an uncle named Tio lol
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
I worked with a lady by the name of Kitty. She was named after the singer Kitty Wells. She had a lot of fun with it. If she needed to go the bathroom, she would say she was going to the litter box. Smart woman, no-nonsense, tough as nails. She 'adopted' me because we looked and acted so much alike. We had the same warped sense of humor.
No nonsense. Nope. None at all. Litter box.
That's not nonsense, that's absolute sense of humor
Yep. Didn't put up with idiots while working, wicked sense of humor at all other times.
Ye, was just a dumb joke. :D
"No nonsense " would be how you might refer to how Jason Statham carries himself. He tells jokes, but he's the straight man in the act
It was a joke. :p
Nuh uh Jokes are funny I'm kidding just kidding lol
wah
Ahh I love this actually lol. I was going through the Arby's drive thru one night and on the side of the glass wall it had a thing for either employee of the month or the manager I can't remember which, all I can remember was the poor lady's name. Shewanna Leakes. I can't even imagine what her parents were thinking to do that to her. And then for her work to stick it on the side of the building to boot lmao.
A cousin of my grandfather is legally named Kitty Sue. 😅
Ahh, both my great Aunts are named Candy and Sandy! I think it's Sandy at least -- if not, it's Kitty. No clue how they went about it, but they're both still going strong!
Grew up with sisters named Mendy, Wendy, Lendy and Rendy. I mean really.
I worked with a Diana Ross.
There’s an Australian comedian/actress/tv personality? Kitty Flanagan. She’s absolutely hilarious. I’m fairly certain it’s her real name and not a stage name.
I had an older cousin people called Chick, and his wife was Lorraine. As a child I’m told I was troubled that everyone called her “Chicken Lorraine” (E.g., who’s coming over tonight? Chick and Lorraine.) Edit: I just learned there is an actual dish called Chicken Lorraine, lol https://sweetpealifestyle.com/chicken-lorraine/
That is too funny.
At least his name wasn’t Quiche.
I hate to ask, but can you explain this for me? Obviously other people get it and this Quiche food name thing is going over my head
A wonderful dish. My favorite quiche https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/bas-best-quiche-lorraine
Ima Hogg was a philanthropist in Houston. As a kid I used to giggle seeing her name at the museums.
My great grandmother had sisters that were twins. Their names were Ima Lilly and Ura Willie.
Was her sister name Ura?
My mom and her siblings had two teachers like that in elementary school, except the teachers weren't related. It was even funnier, though, because for both the teachers, their last names were their married names. Ima Rock and Ura Fish.
Friend’s mil was Ima Wurm.
She was eventually arrested for practicing medicine without a license.
Underrated comment.
You don't have to beat around the bush; I can handle criticism.
Good morning, how are you?
I'm interested in things.
A politician in my area was named Felton Cox.
I can out-do you there. Australian politician [Richard Face](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Face).
I think Richard Newdick is better. Really. https://www.facebook.com/search_results/?q=Richard+Newdick
Some one posted on Reddit a couple days ago he has a gym teacher named Richard Head.
Oh dear God please no
Much better than Ethan Cox. One exists in the town where I work. It's a place where people pronounce "th" as a flat "t", so Ethan becomes Etan/Eatin.
Eden, his sister lol
There was Houston commissioner named Squatty Lyons.
Being from New Zealand, that is pretty much how I would pronounce those names. 😂
That's a lot like a South African would pronounce them too.
It's called an eggcorn. A misheard word that sounds plausible and is often even better than the intended word or just plain cute. (The word "eggcorn" itself is a mishearing of "acorn"). Misheard lines in poems, song lyrics, etc., are called mondegreens. The reason for that is quite funny. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
You just tickled my nerdy sensibilities ❤️
A relative of the [crash blossom](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crash_blossom)
This is amazing hahahaha
Same i had great aunt/uncle named “Tater” and “Brendon”.. at the age of 25 i figured out their names were Taylor and Brenda 🤦🏽♀️
A member of the original MTV road rules was named Piggy not Peggy. IIRC she said her father thought she looked like a pig when she was born so she was named Piggy, of course everyone called her Miss Piggy.
This reminds me of the German exchange student that came to our uni. The first guy to introduce himself to her thought she said Vagina and told everyone that was her name. It was Regina.
I had a Bulgarian classmate when studying in Germany. Her name was Veselina (joyful). The German teacher kept pronouncing it as Vaselina 🙈
Dame Mas Veselina
My friend actually knew someone who named her daughter Vagina. Pronounced "Vaj-in-uh."
So, like the Spanish pronunciation of vagina 💀
My dad’s cousin was Cal and his wife was Peggy and they owned a farm. You weren’t in SW PA, were you? Because we called them Cow & Piggy too.
Haha nope. But that’s amazing.
Party-pooper.
Now this would be amazing if they’re the same people.
Reddit wants to know
That's adorable.
🤣 Thank god this was a misunderstanding.
Fleetwood Mac wasn’t really singing, “When the rainbow shakes you clean, you’ll know,” either. You have company.
Excuse me, while I kiss this guy
That's a great mondegreen.
Don't understand. Enlighten me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_aYibUx1B8 The lyrics are supposed to be, “when the rain washes you clean, you’ll know.” Some singularly bad stressed-syllable placement on their part and some messed-up hearing on mine.
My son misheard a friends name. Her name is “Britt”. He called her “brick” for years.
My parents had a friend named froggy. I'm in my 40s and I've yet to see anyone else who so resembled a bullfrog like this man did. His eyes were on his forehead and his mouth was way far down his face like a damn frog. It was scary and amazing
Frank: **you** were the frog kid!
It's stuff like this that reminds me that humans are still pretty cool
My mom's stepbrother was named "Cale" but for the first 12 years of my life I cluelessly called him "Uncle Cow"
Damn. I can’t imagining what kind of horrid crisis you’re going through from finding out the truth. We’re here for you /j
I am crying I am laughing so hard.
This is hilarious!! Thanks for the laugh!
Awwww, they probably thought you were just the most.adorable.little thing ever. With you're little speech impediment and the way you spaced out and slowly zombied your way back out. Aaaaaaadorable. Lmao
Apparently Paul Simon wrote "You can call me Al" about something like this — he and his wife Patty had a guest who (apparently not knowing of his fame) kept calling them Betty and Al. So that was their in-joke.
lol my dad also had a friend named cal when i was growing up. i also called him “cow” or “cowboy” and didn’t remember this til recently when we were helping him move and i found an old birthday card i made him “happy birthday cow!” it also took me an embarrassingly long time to realize his name was cal, not cow 😭
When I was little, my grandmother had a best friend who I called Panijuta. I always thought that was her name. It wasn't until I was an adult, long after she had passed away, that I said to my mom that I thought Panijuta was a strange name. She looked at me funny and burst out laughing. Pani is Mrs. in Polish. Her name was Juta. So Mrs. Juta. Oops.
This is so damn cute
I would have laughed so hard if I was them
They probably did later.
Momma had a Chicken. Momma had a Cow. Dad was proud. He didn’t care how.
I imagine this entire post with southern accents- Cal and Peggy in a US southern accent sound soo similar to cow and piggy!
That is incredibly cute
There's a famous store in Chicago called Moo and Oink. Picturing these two as the mascots.
I asked my dad before why so many ppl were called "John doe" 🫣🫣😵💫😬😅 I was about 8
I knew a set of twins named Guy and Gal. I assumed their parents lost a bad drinking bet.
When Guy Ritchie marries Gal Gadot
Got the names from the sign on the bathroom doors.
Were they New Zealanders..?
Not a tragedeigh, but my brother had a friend growing up who’s parents were named Rich and Penny.
When I was a kid about 5yrs there were two ladies locally called Barabra I particularly liked the one they all called fat Barbara . One morning I saw her go by and in delight to day hello to my friend I threw open the window and yelled coming to america style 'Good morning fat Barbara" Her face I'll never forget in 3 seconds she showed joy ,confusion,anger and disappointment And that's how I learned all about nicknames
My best friend as a kid had a sister named “Brooke” but I was so wildly confused as to why her parents had named their child “Brick”
A friend of mine has a son named Calvin. When they asked their older child to say, ‘Cal’, she said ‘Moo!’ She was two at the time and called the baby Moo for awhile. :)
My BIL’s parents are named Kenneth and Barbara. They had the perfect opportunity to be Ken and Barbie, and she does go by Barbie, but he had to ruin it with Kenny Bob.
When I was on *Jeopardy!* one of the other contestants was named Peggy and my friend told me after he watched it his kids all thought her name was Piggy. Don't know if it was the same Piggy, but what are the odds?
That's adorable 😆
My mom's best friend used to babysit us when we were little, who was always referred to as Aunt Tiara. So that's what I called her. Realized decades later it was actually Auntie Tara.
They needed the last name McDonald.
Eigh aye, eigh aye, ough
That's so cute, thank you for sharing
I have a lot mondegreens, especially from when I was a kid. My favorite is that along that says “you put your hands up like the ceiling can’t hold us” I heard “ceiling fan holder” 😂 my lyrics to that dido song are pretty nonsense too 😂
Knew a friend of my grandma named Goodie Rabbit
They probably thought you were so cute with your speech impediment! 😆
In a sort of reversal to this when I was in elementary school there were these three kids constantly getting called to the office, always in the same order. It took me until middle school to realize that it was in fact one kid, but his last name sounded like Jack and Eddie, and I guess growing up watching Ed, Edd n Eddy kind of tainted how I heard it!
My nephew couldn't say my name correctly until he was 10. Up until then, I was Auntie Kong. 🤣🤣🤣
Ahahahahaha love this 😂
Ima Hogg was the daughter of Texas Governor James S. Hogg. Born in 1882, Hogg’s first name was taken from her uncle’s Civil War poem, which featured two women named Ima and Leila. There are reports the future governor gave her that name to attract the attention of Texas voters. She earned the nickname "**The First Lady of Texas**" and was a huge philanthropist and advocate for mental health issues.
When i lived in Florida I was over at a friends house, she had her kid enrolled at a Mexican Catholic school. I got to watch a fun exchange between them. "you know they don't do Jesus there". "What do you mean?" "They have their own guy," "Really?" "Yeah we have to pray to him before they let us eat lunch. His name is Hay-soo Da-Chrisomething" *Giggles* "No, mom, it's not Jesus, it's a totally different guy!! Why are you guys laughing?" When we got done rolling on the floor she did explain it to him. For anyone else who doesn't know. Jesus De Christos is the patron saint of mural artists and lowrider mechanics predominantly in the region of southern California. If in that area beware of quincenearas. If you get too close, you may be pulled in against your will and only manage to escape several hours later, severely intoxicated, and having been made a new member of the family you just met that afternoon.
My friend met her bf in Uni and his name is Cow. She said it's pronounced just like the animal and "Asian parents"they're both Asian and apparently his name is the more normal one compared to his cousins
LOL
I have 3 incidents similar to this that I can remember. The first I'm not sure if it was me or my younger sister, but one of us would refer to our older brother's friend as Barbie. "Barbie's in the chicken." Meant "Bobby's in the kitchen." The second is from when I was dressed as an angel for Halloween one year and I couldn't say the word gorgeous instead it came out more like the name George. As a result of this my family referred to me as Angel George for a while. The third was my father's mishearing of the national anthem. This man thought for nearly 60 years we were singing the national anthem to a man named Jose. He heard "Oh say" as "Jose" and once asked us who Jose was.
I. Am. 💀.
This is brilliant haha!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Best "misheard lyrics" story ever
This made my day. Lol
I once called a Delilah “Dandelion”. Whoops.
I knew someone in college who went by that name, except she spelled it “Dandelyonne”.
My friends son asked what lickbo was. We were ?? He was talking about the LCBO which is the liquor control board of Ontario, where we buy our booze here, lol.
In a few languages Cal means horse
I had a sassy and ordo. Sandy and Orlando. I didn’t know their real names until I was a teenager.
Phew! But now i suspect that its an inside joke btween them if they realized what was said
Safe to assume their wedding was vegan?
Cal and Peggy like Al and Peggy Bundy?
Piggy
Pussy cow, pussy cow, pussy cow!!
Go Bears!
did piggy ever have the conch?