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I was reading the obituary of an 80-year old man in my home town newspaper. His long deceased mother's first name was Dimple. I guess idiot names have been around a long time.
 
at first i thought you said first name. oh well, i have to use this anyway:
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may2 said:
I was reading the obituary of an 80-year old man in my home town newspaper. His long deceased mother's first name was Dimple. I guess idiot names have been around a long time.
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...and in every culture: some Dutch people name their kids Jikke, Antke or, my father in law's full surname, Hippolytus!
 
solemole said:
When I have kids, I'm gonna name them after pharmaceutical products for corporate sponsership-- so I can get royalties everytime I call my kids' names.

"Prozac, finish your veggies."
"Ritalin, go back and clean your mess."
"Haldol, stop playing War of Warcraft."
"Viagra, I'm confiscating your contraband porn."
"Celexa, don't be out too late."

I'll be set for life.
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*facepalm + giggle* You are awesome.

I always liked the name Michael, despite how common it might be.

I think that creative spellings can be sort of cool, but there's a point when your eye starts twitching...and you wonder why these people hate your brain so much.
 
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Purplereign said:
this thread :up: :lmao: with a reasonably liberal sprinkling of :doh: . . . midwives and maternity ward nurses should have a special *what were you thinking* stamp for the foreheads of the parents of some of these poor kids . . . Bruce's out there . . . clearly it is a name you need to grow into.
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During my ridiculous number of trips to nepean hospital for 4 shitty pregnancies, I got to know a midwife there in the day stay unit and we had an awesome time over the years discussing the most shitful names the western suburbs could think of. Their worst recorded (they had a physical list!) was Poison Rose. we'd be in hysterics most days discussing names.

And all this said in the NICU was an innocent little baby called Kevin. KEVIN! Why? In 2010, why would you do this?
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Angela Harlem said:
During my ridiculous number of trips to nepean hospital for 4 shitty pregnancies, I got to know a midwife there in the day stay unit and we had an awesome time over the years discussing the most shitful names the western suburbs could think of. Their worst recorded (they had a physical list!) was Poison Rose. we'd be in hysterics most days discussing names.

And all this said in the NICU was an innocent little baby called Kevin. KEVIN! Why? In 2010, why would you do this?
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I'm suprised there was no 'special spelling' involved. . . Poyzun Roze is so much classier non? :cute: :wink: . . . and Kevin, Kelvin, Alwin, Melvin, Norbert . . . you know who you are and, well . . . I'm sorry :(


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pst - lovely to see you round these parts again Ms Angela :hug:
 
There might have been bogan spelling, we never got that far in the conversation. This child was born in the 90s. I actually think the registry of births deaths and marriages can/will refuse names. I'm not 100%... We can only hope. I'm really glad this thread was started. So many poor kids these days have awful names. My husband jokes that I'll be seeing them all in a few years when they've grown up, left the juvenile justice system and made it to big people prison.
The sociologist's nature vs nurture debate ends here, everyone. You call your kid myckenzey-leigh interflora chameeka and they'll get into petty crime. It's a given. And the father of your grandkids will be blaydon-chase manhatton eddison jaiyedan.

... Or something.


:kiss: miss k. How the damn hell are you?
 
The Sad Punk said:
My brother works in child care, and there was a kid called Boston the other day.

Boston.

Boston.
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:doh: I'm sure some parents just want their children to be beaten to death in the playground or to spend a lifetime lying on a therapists lounge!

LuckyNumber7 said:
What about the name September? or America?
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No, just no
 
I have a female friend named Kevin--her mother named her after an uncle who had died. Her middle name is Joy, but she goes by Kevin. Talk about confusion everywhere!

And then there's the old guy who lived across the street from my ex-husband's parents--the old guy's name was Harry Peters. I mean, really . . . .
 
The mama bird in Up was named Kevin.

I'm with the group taht can't stand kids named after proper nouns, i.e., Brooklyn, Boston, etc. Or girls with surnames for their first name. You know there's at least one Muse fan out there who named their daughter Bellamy.
 
Reggo said:
I'm with the group taht can't stand kids named after proper nouns, i.e., Brooklyn, Boston, etc. Or girls with surnames for their first name. You know there's at least one Muse fan out there who named their daughter Bellamy.
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omg yes. i've encountered so many little girls with names like that, named taylor (yeah i know that one's common as a first and last name but it's all i can think of so go with me on it, guys) or something. not to mention how many little girls in the south are named adelaide despite their parents probably couldn't name what country it's in, let alone finding it on a map. it should be a requirement if you're going to name your kid after a city: find it on a map.

and yeah, i'm not a fan of people who name their kids after famous people (sorry anyone who has). when it's a common name like john that's fine. but like your bellamy example is...yeah i don't like those kinds.
 
kafrun said:
Unique is good, but there's a fine line. :up:


Then there's all the cutsie names that drive me bonkers. Mackenzie, Mykayla, Skylar, which are just trendy now. Ugh. Don't parents understand that their adorable tots are going to grow up one day and need big-people names? I saw an example just the other day. A woman named Sparrow. :crack: Why?
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Hey now! :p
 
I like a lot of boys names, but there are few girls names I like. All I can consider is the names and spelling 'Rayleigh Anne' for a little girl but probably in a few years it a long lost thought. I tend to like names that are named after a place like Cheyenne and Raleigh, or the spelling Cheyanne, but that name is intriguingly ugly.
 
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