Korvar
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« Reply #435 on: August 08, 2009, 05:19:16 am » |
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Rhiannon is not nearly as bad as Cerridwen. Rhiannon doesn't go around eating bards.
Bards. The other other other white meat. |
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« Reply #436 on: August 08, 2009, 09:06:39 am » |
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Rhiannon is not nearly as bad as Cerridwen. Rhiannon doesn't go around eating bards.
Bards. The other other other white meat. Also, a really bad idea to name Cerridwen's brother. |
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« Reply #437 on: August 08, 2009, 05:57:31 pm » |
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Rhiannon is not nearly as bad as Cerridwen. Rhiannon doesn't go around eating bards.
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« Reply #438 on: August 10, 2009, 12:05:17 pm » |
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A friend of mine named his first-born "Winter." In an attempt to save the child from grade school, I suggested that he could go by his middle name. I was told that it was "Sterling." At the time, I predicted that the boy was be bully bait, but with all these wacky names going into the populace, he might actually be relatively safe (because, you know, no one's really safe from bullying in elementary school).
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« Reply #439 on: August 10, 2009, 02:58:48 pm » |
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ISTR overhearing someone calling her son Tarquin a while ago, which I thought was just asking for trouble. A former colleague of mine considered deliberately inviting bully-trouble by naming his son Zeus, which would have been alliterative with their surname -- his theory was that it would force the poor kid to be tough. Another ex-colleague's wife will probably have a fight on her hands if she wants to stop him calling their firstborne Isombard (which would be rough on a girl  ). I think these last two are proof that geeks really shouldn't be allowed to name anything without adult supervision |
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« Reply #440 on: August 10, 2009, 05:38:29 pm » |
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In the geeks naming things category- a friend of mine spent the entire time his wife was expecting their first child telling anyone who asked they were going to name the baby Throckmorten. I gather the reaction of the in-laws was pretty epic. (The key, he said, was not deadpan but wide eyed sincerity.)
His thinking was that no matter what they eventually did name the baby the relatives would view it as a narrow escape and leave them alone about it. Being as the kids ended up with names that could easily be googled (especially as a pair) I think I'll omit them. Let it suffice to say that the parents were SCAers and could have done a lot worse by them.
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Jezabella49
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« Reply #441 on: August 10, 2009, 06:13:38 pm » |
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All of the unusual baby names make me very very glad that I was able to name my girls. They have rather traditional names, and do quite well with them. All are named after family or friends, or friends' family.
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« Reply #442 on: August 11, 2009, 07:53:59 am » |
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An old friend of mine named one of her sons Atreyu. And then told us all we were under no circumstances allowed to use Trey as a nickname. *shakes head* Poor kid, he's a doll, but I wonder if he gets made fun of at school for that one.
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« Reply #443 on: August 11, 2009, 08:10:25 am » |
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I can almost see naming a kid Atreyu (although that's pretty bad), but seriously, forbidding anyone to use a natural nickname? Not OK by me. Argh. If you're gonna give 'em weird names, at least let them be ones with decent nicknames.
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« Reply #444 on: August 11, 2009, 03:42:04 pm » |
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An old friend of mine named one of her sons Atreyu. And then told us all we were under no circumstances allowed to use Trey as a nickname. *shakes head* Poor kid, he's a doll, but I wonder if he gets made fun of at school for that one.
I once saw a baby announcement in the local paper for a kid name atReyU. Bad name made even worse by random use of capitalization. My younger brother has always insisted he will name his first born Falkor. Luckily, no woman has yet agreed to reproduce with him and I'm 90% sure he's joking. |
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« Reply #445 on: August 11, 2009, 04:28:58 pm » |
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An old friend of mine named one of her sons Atreyu. And then told us all we were under no circumstances allowed to use Trey as a nickname.
And how does she plan to enforce that on his friends? She might as well try telling the tide to turn back.... |
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« Reply #446 on: August 12, 2009, 07:49:47 am » |
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An old friend of mine named one of her sons Atreyu. And then told us all we were under no circumstances allowed to use Trey as a nickname.
And how does she plan to enforce that on his friends? She might as well try telling the tide to turn back.... Well, exactly. We, of course, immediately started calling him Trey when we weren't around his mom, but if we slipped and did it within earshot of her, she would throw fits about her kid's name being Atreyu, not Trey, blah blah blah. Kakiphony: I can't decide if Falkor is better or worse than Atreyu! |
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« Reply #447 on: August 19, 2009, 01:07:45 pm » |
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An old friend of mine named one of her sons Atreyu. And then told us all we were under no circumstances allowed to use Trey as a nickname.
And how does she plan to enforce that on his friends? She might as well try telling the tide to turn back.... Well, exactly. We, of course, immediately started calling him Trey when we weren't around his mom, but if we slipped and did it within earshot of her, she would throw fits about her kid's name being Atreyu, not Trey, blah blah blah. Kakiphony: I can't decide if Falkor is better or worse than Atreyu! You could remind her of the Pictish curse: "May you never be given a name by a friend." If she actually researches that, tell her it's extremely obscure, and it might have been another tribe than the Picts, and you're paraphrasing. |
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« Reply #448 on: August 20, 2009, 06:49:23 am » |
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When I was pregnant with my daughter, a colleague tried very hard to convince me to call the baby "Flash". He would ask after "little Flash" and it got to the point, with my pregnancy addled brain, that I could have considered it.
Fortunately, my husband put his foot down and she has a very traditional name that I love.
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« Reply #449 on: August 20, 2009, 06:51:09 am » |
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Another ex-colleague's wife will probably have a fight on her hands if she wants to stop him calling their firstborne Isombard (which would be rough on a girl ). I think these last two are proof that geeks really shouldn't be allowed to name anything without adult supervision My son has a classmate called "Brunel" . . . |
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