I’m sure there must be some out there, but in the English speaking world I’d say it’s the most unique name I’ve heard.
theres a women called Sojourner Truth.
I think Moon Unit Zappa might have one of the most unique names. Or perhaps her brother Dweezil Zappa. There’s a lot of countries that wouldn’t even allow a child to be named that. (thank goodness)
I’ve met 3 other people called Moon, as well as some Divas and Ahmets. No Dweezils (although his actual given name is Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa)
actually, the nurses refused to allow frank zappa to name his son dweezil, so he put down the names of a couple roadies and band members. once dweezil was about 5 years old and found out he was originally going to be named dweezil, he demanded they change his name officially to dweezil
Dweezil is an amazing name
Hell of an underrated guitarist, too.
but in the English speaking world I’d say it’s the most unique name I’ve heard.
Probably because it actually a French surname, which is itself based on a place name in France that no longer exists… and it is not her actual given name, but something she adopted from a character in The Great Gatsby.
I’ve had this exact thought!
I know a Sigourney in real life. But I think she might have been named after the actress.
Good thing she wasn’t a boy. They were going to name them Rodney, after Dave.
Neither has sigourney weaver, seeing as her name is Susan. Wikipedia says she took it frk. The great Gatsby at 14
Her name was Susan or did she not change it?
Susan Alexandra “Sigourney” Weaver (/sɪˈɡɔːrni/ si-GOR-nee; born October 8, 1949) is an American actress. Prolific in film since the late 1970s, she is known for her pioneering portrayals of action heroines in blockbusters and for her various roles in independent films.[3][4][5]
Yeah, the only place I heard it was from that story, Sigourney Howard, a peripheral character. No other Sigourneys ever (in my experience).
I’m sure somebody must know a real one.
Please stand up.
Please stand up.
I’m Si-gourney
Yes I’m the real 'gourney
All those other Si-gourneys
Are starting to bore me
So won’t the real Sigourney
Please stand up
Is it not a historical name? Like people have great great grandparents with this name maybe?
There is Sultana al-Sigurnai of the Ummayad Caliphate, but I don’t know if that name would have been quite as popular in Western countries because I just made that up
Wikipedia has a couple of them! Sigourney Thayer was an American theatre producer born 1896, Sigourney Trask was an American missionary born 1849, and Sigourney Bandjar is a Surinamese footballer born 1984
Nothing on Sigourney Weaver? She played Dr. Venkman’s girlfriend in Ghostbusters.
I still find it upsetting that nowhere in the ghostbusters lore have they ever touched on why a ghost randomly gave Ray a blowjob, or how he knew to let it happen.
Like…first off. HOW was that in a kids movie??? Secondly, it’s just there. Like the ghost knew Ray wanted it, and Ray knew to let it happen. Then the movie just moves on, and other than Ray being embarassed to explain he had it happen, it’s never mentioned again.
And speaking of not making sense…the second movie starts off with the city of NYC not believing in ghosts. They JUST had a 50 foot marshmellow man make global news a few years earlier! It would have made more sense for them to be out of business because they think all the ghosts have been busted, and therefore nobody hires them. Instead, we see people snickering and calling them crockpots.
Just imagine if in 2008 nobody remembered 9/11 and called TSA crazy for thinking planes could be hijacked. Thats the level of news coverage a 50 foot tall marshmellow man destroying NYC would get.
And and and!!! What about at the end of the movie when they cross the streams, and blow up a building in NYC, but are somehow perfectly fine afterwards? And then Winston yells I LOVE NEW YORK!!!
Why did he yell that? That makes no sense! The mayor spent the whole movie trying to shut you down. The citizens treat you like criminals. The city has attracted an invasive species of afterlife spirits that seek to kill you. You just attempted a move that had a 50/50 chance of destroying the universe. And AFTER surviving a massive bomb on the roof of a building, you randomly yell that out.
Ya know what? Winston had a concussion. I’m going with that. It’s the only thing that makes any sense. He’s suffering from a concussion and doesn’t know what’s going on.
So how’s your guys day going? I’m doing fine as you can see. I’m clearly not a lunatic.
It might be dangerous to say here, but I always thought it was a mediocre movie.
I think you’re being too kind to it.
From what I heard: There was a sequence where the team had to sleep in a haunted mansion (for whatever reason) and Dan Aykroyd insisted on having a ghost come in and blow him. And when they cut the entire scene, he insisted on keeping that part as a dream.
Fun Fact: in the original script, Winston was ex-Army/Marine and an important member of the team. But instead they just made him some unemployed schlub because he was black and it was the 80s.
I thought the original script Winston was written specifically for Eddie Murphey, who turned it down?
Like…first off. HOW was that in a kids movie??? Secondly, it’s just there. Like the ghost knew Ray wanted it, and Ray knew to let it happen. Then the movie just moves on, and other than Ray being embarassed to explain he had it happen, it’s never mentioned again.
The kids never quite understood what happened but it was so quick they just moved on.
And this is how children’s movies were until like 20 or 30 years ago when everything got soft round edges.
Exactly, at 10 I didnt know what happened but since it wasnt key to the story I did not care.
So that’s what they meant by “fun for the whole family”
What makes you think Ghostbusters was a kids movie?
It came out in the 80s, when I was a kid, and every kid I knew saw it. Because of that, they made a kids cartoon.
Plus the toys, and video games (during a time when video games were only for kids)
As someone else who was a kid in the 80s, I promise you that almost no movie that you or I saw in that entire decade was a kids movie.
What are you TALKING about??? Die Hard is ABSOLUTELY a kids movie! It’s even a Christmas movie for gods sake! Yippee Ki Yay Mister Falcon!
What do you mean? Everything was a kids movie back then.
Your Honor, I rest this guy’s case.
That reminds me of the court scene in Ghostbusters. “It’s true, your Honor. This man has no dick.”
There was also a kids’ animated series and action figures based on Toxic Avenger, which is definitely not a kids’ movie.
It came out in the 80’s, when I was adult, and most adults I know saw it. When you were a kid did you get Rick Moranis’ whole tax/accounting speil at his party?
Cartoon, toys and vidya games are not the movie. Oh and don’t kid yourself, (pun intended) video games were not just for kids either.
I remember something about the bj scene being left mostly on the cutting room floor… there was a whole dream sequence
I honestly don’t know if that makes it better or worse.
Like…imagine being the director.
“OK Ray, now this is where the ghost is going to edge you, and tease your balls with her tongue. Obviously we can’t show your balls, so make sure to express it with facial cues! Aaaaand ACTION!”
Then they review the footage, and decide not to use it. And Ray is like “WHAT THE HELL MAN???” And the director is like "Oh. Yeah. That was just a goof. Bill Murray dared me to see how long I could get you to do that scene for and waste your time.
And just think. There is a non-zero chance that footage still exists, and could be discovered some day. I remember in 2017 they found some long lost silent film era films. So there is a chance that one day they’ll release the directors cut of the BJ scene.
And by then, we’ll probably all be dead. And kids born 50 years from now will be confused by films from the 1980s.
80s movies are already confusing and, believe it or not, I wasn’t born 50 years from now.
… I think.
This. Most of the movies from the 80s and 90s are great, because we haven’t watched them for a few decades and as kids we just didn’t know better and thought any movie we watched was great.
I recently watched Star Wars 4-6 again and these movies were boring as hell. They were just about right to have some background noise while doing the dishes, but it’s really not good enough to warrant sitting down and watching it, let alone spending money and going to the movies for it.
A bold take, let’s see how it goes!
This reminded me of the balls scene in the original Robocop that got cut but found its way into the internet.
It’s not a kids movie. It’s about four men going through financial trouble just trying to stay afloat.
She wasn’t his girlfriend. He found her interesting because she was a client, and she slept above the covers.
Four feet above the covers.
That’s Susan Weaver.
Funny that they’re all in entertainment.
Trask Industries, wolverine creator.
Originating from French, the first name Sigourney carries a powerful and compelling meaning: The Conqueror.
Those name origin sites are full of ai slop.
I could find no ‘conqueror’ connotation, only that the name refers to the French town Sigournais.
Somehow it’s conflated with German Sigi, present in Sigismund, but that German root isn’t part of the toponymy of the town.
Oh, so there really was only room for one Sigourney.
im ok with that
I bet it sounds a lot better when spoken in French too
Damn your right
I have met 2 people with it as middle names though
*you’re
*sigyou’reney
Sigourney Weav’r
the famous actress Sigourney Weaver? (Alien franchise)
No, the other Sigourney that doesn’t exist and no one knows about.
Yeah, that’s the one we all know. The sole Sigourney.
The Sigourneylarity.
The singular Sigourney.
Thats who they’re talking about.
Are you guys talking about Sigourney Weaver?
Weaver. Sigourney Weaver. Shaken not stirred.
That’s an assumed name though, it’s not her real first name.
