Spellbound454
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Post by Spellbound454 on Feb 18, 2014 15:15:27 GMT -5
I gave my kids a different initial to ourselves and each other. Didn't fancy letters arriving for ie J. Smith..... and nobody knowing who they were for. They have strong traditional names, which shorten nicely for a child..... but will take them through adulthood.
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Post by chiver78 on Feb 18, 2014 15:17:25 GMT -5
I know Melissa/Melinda twins - Missy and Mindy. So cutesy!! lol. My 4 nephews all have names starting with A, but they're good, normal names. My poor DH has a long-ass, unpronounceable Greek first name (he goes by a nickname) and he hated having it growing up. Luckily he has no desires to name any future son of ours after himself, even though I like his name! I have a college friend with the same unpronounceable Greek first name. he goes by Pete.
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Post by milee on Feb 18, 2014 15:22:53 GMT -5
I actually like the name Graham and believe it or not, IMHO Allistair Neville is slightly less nerdy than his actual name.
Beer, I'll PM you and you can let us know if you think the reality is worse...
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Feb 18, 2014 15:27:31 GMT -5
I actually like the name Graham and believe it or not, IMHO Allistair Neville is slightly less nerdy than his actual name.
Beer, I'll PM you and you can let us know if you think the reality is worse... me too, me too
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Post by cael on Feb 18, 2014 15:48:47 GMT -5
I know Melissa/Melinda twins - Missy and Mindy. So cutesy!! lol. My 4 nephews all have names starting with A, but they're good, normal names. My poor DH has a long-ass, unpronounceable Greek first name (he goes by a nickname) and he hated having it growing up. Luckily he has no desires to name any future son of ours after himself, even though I like his name! I have a college friend with the same unpronounceable Greek first name. he goes by Pete. I guess that's the Americanized nickname, my DH got the Greek nickname which I like, but he said he got made fun of in school all the time when he was young... kids are just jerks I guess! (he also lived in a super rural white area, so there was probably almost zero ethnic diversity for the kids to have been exposed to)
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Post by milee on Feb 18, 2014 15:55:38 GMT -5
For the record, I PM'd DH's name to both Beer and Lena. Beer sent a polite reply that the name wasn't that nerdy. Lena is so consumed with laughter that she has been unable to reply.
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Post by Works4me on Feb 18, 2014 17:23:55 GMT -5
Nigel?
Used to work with 2 British guys named Nigel - called the sweet, cool one Nigey - lol - and he let me get away with it! Almost smacked the other one when he put his hand on my knee under the table while telling me about his family - spilled a very good glass of red wine on the white table cloth at the restaurant instead. Was a business dinner and I was pretty naïve - now days I would return his hand to him while stating, "You seem to have misplaced this - better be careful not to lose it."
Milee - PM me too?
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Feb 18, 2014 21:11:40 GMT -5
When she was eleven or twelve, my DD used to tell me that she was going to have two daughters and name them " Bambi " and " Barbie." My skin used to crawl when she said those two names together, and I'd say, " * Don't * SAY * that ! "
It's just the ickiest pair of girls names I've ever heard, especially when put together. Blech.
Sorry if anyone named their kid Bambi or Barbie, but not my cup of tea.
She has no daughters, by the way. And I think those names would be out if she had one or two, thank goodness.
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Post by grits on Feb 18, 2014 21:26:02 GMT -5
My wife and I had triplets. We had 2 girls and a boy. My wife was out of her head when they asked her the babies names. She said Angel Soft, Cottonelle, and Scott. I was relieved for Scott. He could have caught a butt whippin' every day on the way home from school.
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Post by Sunnyday on Feb 18, 2014 22:00:45 GMT -5
my dad and his siblings all had either Joseph or Marie as middle names, and it got all f'd up when they moved to the States in the 60s. my grandparents misunderstood the directions to fill out the immigration forms - last name first. as in, Last, First Middle. they just wrote all the names in reverse - Last, Middle First - so all 7 were either Joseph for Marie on their green cards. one uncle went by Joe at work, dad and the other uncle go by their "middle" names. all my aunts go by their "middle" names, but they are all back in Canada anyway - where their names are registered correctly. my husband has those exact middle names and about three others. it's a tradition among the Catholics here. I have both my children first names that start with the same first letter of my first name. Every one always asked me if it was intentional, and it wasn't. I would never do something so cutesy.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2014 22:04:24 GMT -5
None in my family. Girlfriend has 9 D named sisters and 2 D named brothers.
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Post by grits on Feb 18, 2014 22:08:47 GMT -5
Grandma Bambi, can I have a cookie?
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Post by busymom on Feb 19, 2014 0:08:41 GMT -5
Oh my! When I think of Bambi, I always think of a stripper. Or some college girl posing for playboy. I actually had a former neighbor with that name, & she fit her name. (Sorry if anyone here has that name.)
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Post by toomuchreality on Feb 19, 2014 2:33:38 GMT -5
The only good themed names are the ones which work well with the last name, i.e., Shanda Lear or Jack Pine. No, just kidding. No themed names in my family, thank goodness. LOL Someone I know is named Chandra. When she was little, her dad used to call her "Chandra-lear". Ugh. I knew someone that wanted to name their daughter Brooke (last name Waters). I compared it to naming her toilet water. Why would you do this?! They completely disagreed with me, but she didn't get named Brooke! Reminds me of a skit I saw once- An old cow hand, traveling with his mule, came across various people in his travels. At supper time, he served each of them a meal. All of them inquired if the dish he was serving their food on, was clean / washed. Each time he answered "Why, yes indeed! It has been cleaned by three rivers!". Graciously, the people ate the food he had prepared. This happened several times. Then one night, having no guests, the man ate dinner alone. When he finished, he whistled and called to his dog, to finish what was left on the plate. "Here, Three Rivers! Here, Three rivers!" A rose by any other name...
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