I noticed that a lot of Africans and Chinese give themselves western names, to make life easier for Westerners. There's a chap in our Nigerian office who calls himself Divine, which always makes me smile as I can't but help think of the Drag Queen by the same name:
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Banana Bill Shaw (1919-2003)
Charlotte **** (1799-1870)
Fanny Felcher (b. 1874)
Willy McBum (b. 1870)
Eliza Boobies (married in 1861 in Tiverton)
Earwacker Deadman (b. 1849)
Thomas Vegetable (b. 1825)But for all you people who think you're being original:
From mine and Ms Maccruiskeens family trees in the late 1800s and early 1900s: Booster Breckenridge, Spoof MacSkimmings and Bluey Green and several genrations of guys with Fleetwood as a first name.
I mentioned on another thread if you're going to give your baby a fancy conversation-peice name stop for moment and consider how you'll feel about having to yell it in a supermarket in three years time when they're having a toddler tantrum.
In Costco this morning "Javelin! Javelin! put that down! Javelin! Are you listening to me? put it.... Javelin! Javelin! I'm only going to say this onc..... put it....... Javalin!. Right I'm walking away............ Javelin!" repeat to fade.
That aside though, I'm working with a bunch of school kids just now, and while non have got any wacky names the interesting thing is out of 40 of them there are no two share who share the same name, where as when I was that age we only had about half a dozen names the share between the lot of us. The girls were all called Julie, Joanne or Nichola, boys were called Andrew or Stephen (or perhaps for variety Steven) There was one group of friends who all sat on the same table and they were [i]all [/i]called Andrew.
Tonight I actually shouted stop there/put that down/get here now but not once his name. Maybe these folk have a misplaced pride in the childs name.
My last dog was called bingo. My next will be called Elvis.
Imagine stood on my own in a quiet park shouting Elvis!
Imagine stood on my own in a quiet park shouting Elvis!
Used to know a guy with a dog called 'Knackers'
Imagine stood on my own in a quiet park shouting Elvis!
we named our dog 'Piggy' because we used to exercise her in the grounds of the police station across the road.. 😳
I used to go out with a girl called Gill Ingham, always thought her parents were Kents
Today I received an application from a K Hunt.
My last dog was called bingo. My next will be called Elvis.Imagine stood on my own in a quiet park shouting Elvis!
If I had a dog I'd call it Fenton.
an ex of mine was called "Fuchsia".......she always wore a lot of flowery orange dresses so we used to say "the Fuchsia's bright, the Fuchsia's orange".
Having said that a mate of mine named his baby Algernon....proper name that.
Montgomery....there's another proper name....might call my son that although I would be highly tempted to name my daughter Lyra after the Northern Lights character - childhood book that I read dozens of times and all that.
Today I received an application from a K Hunt
I know his brother Michael
Allways corrected to Michael if you call him Mike
When my wife went to register our son she overheard the woman in front spelling out her sons name, (imagine a thick manc accent) .... "It's jackson spelled J-A-X-X-O-N"
The registrar was quite relieved that ours was called Ben (infantile diminutive I know but whatever) although she did ask to confirm the spelling.
Don't understand how people come up with these stupid names, we couldn't manage to think of second names for either of ours so they are A Smith and B Smith.
Been threatening to name the first born D'Brickashaw. Chances are we'll go with James or something like that though.
I wouldn't mind a more interesting name- in 1978 about 90% of all boys born in edinburgh were called Andrew 🙁 What I wouldn't give to be called Thor, or Diesel. Though admittedly it'd probably have reduced my chances of making it through school alive.
In hospital this week as my wife has just given birth, there was a newborn called, wait for it....
Kacper......
We think its some odd spelling of Casper?
We think its some [s]odd[/s] [b]Polish[/b] spelling of Casper?
In the Cyrillic alphabet, 'C' is indeed an 'S' sound. But it would read more like Kacnep in English.
My dog is called Kasper, incidentally...
Northwind same with me- 'Mark'.
Still it could have been Derek or Mohammed.
I might change my name to Strava. Surname !
Someone that I know recently named his son first name North and middle name William. I can't say that I've ever met anyone named after a compass direction before...
I live in a small rural town in Devon in which there are not one but two young chaps called Merlin. Make of that what you will...
I'll wager that's Totnes. Weird bunch of hippies.
Did anyone see One Born Every Minute the other night? No, of course you didn't.
One young girl there have her son the Irish name of Kale. Baby Kale. 😆
If either of mine were girls she would have been named Chlamydia.
Might have kept the boys away if nothing else.
I'll wager that's Totnes. Weird bunch of hippies.
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My last dog was called bingo. My next will be called Elvis.Imagine stood on my own in a quiet park shouting Elvis!
My ex's sister's cat was called Blackie - and she moved to a more ethnically diverse area of the country. Not sure if they survived.
I accidentally named my friend's son Corey, after both Haim and Feldman.
Thread resurrection.
Went a to a swimming contest with Mrs MTG and her daughter last night.
A lot of the kids had their names alongside their club name on their shirts.
I found it reassuring to see so many normal names.
It's almost as if being the sort of parent who gives your kid a stupid name, and being the sort of parent who makes a bit of an effort by supporting your kid to take part in sport, are mutually exclusive.