Dumb Celebrity Names

[Yossarian]

Axl Rose!

Chosen by a teenage William Bailey because it was an anagram of "oral sex."

[defaultusername]

Get ready for the birth name of Kirk Douglas, it's a mouthful:Issur Danielovitch Demsky. Whew.

[divasahm]

I think we need to recognize the marketing whiz who thought John Mellencamp couldn't make it big with his real name and who redubbed him Johnny Cougar.

[MissPandora]

Axl Rose!

Chosen by a teenage William Bailey because it was an anagram of "oral sex."

I know it's Wikipedia (and therefore suspect), but I remember reading years ago that his birth dad's surname was Rose.

Axl Rose (born William Bruce Rose, Jr. on February 6, 1962 in Lafayette, Indiana) is an American hard rock singer and songwriter. His mother remarried when he was an infant, and changed Rose's name to William Bailey, using the last name of her new husband Stephen Bailey. At the age of 17, he readopted the name William Rose, and would later legally change it to W. Axl Rose.

[plainjane]

I think you guys are giving Axl Rose to much credit thinking he could think up an anagram for anything.

[Yossarian]

misspandora said:

Axl Rose!

Chosen by a teenage William Bailey because it was an anagram of "oral sex."

I know it's Wikipedia (and therefore suspect), but I remember reading years ago that his birth dad's surname was Rose.

Axl Rose (born William Bruce Rose, Jr. on February 6, 1962 in Lafayette, Indiana) is an American hard rock singer and songwriter. His mother remarried when he was an infant, and changed Rose's name to William Bailey, using the last name of her new husband Stephen Bailey. At the age of 17, he readopted the name William Rose, and would later legally change it to W. Axl Rose.

I think that's true. I also read somewhere that he actually wanted *Axel* as his name but couldn't spell it properly. So maybe, yes, plainjane is right in thinking that there is no way that Axl could come up with an anagram on his own. Either way, the man's a tool.

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Beyonce. M'nique. Carrot Top. ODB's little spell calling himself Sweet Baby Jesus. Diddy. Slash.

[hobocamp]

Excuse me Karl Marx, but it was BIG Baby Jesus. Which isn't stupid at all, really.

[Mutagen]

Wait, "Big Baby Jesus" is stupid, but "Ol' Dirty Bastard" isn't?

Also, I thought Axl picked the name Axl because the initials of William Axl Rose spell WAR.

[foxyepicurean]

Either way, he's a dicksmack.