What would be a terrible name to have? I have been mulling this over. Mrs Mask knows a woman who called her daughter Miracle, because she was, apparently a 'miracle baby'. I went to school with a girl called Precious. And a brother and sister called Righteous and Virtuous. Just imagine if they had siblings called Delicious, Spacious and Pretentious. Although, then you could get loads of mileage out of the 'Pretentious? Moi?' joke.
So. What would be a terrible name to have?
Posted by philomel (Member # 586) on :
My old work colleague knew someone called Minty Clinch. But she must have adopted that herself. Surely?
My parents considered Hermione for me, which would have been all well and good until the advent of Harry Potter.
Did you see this article?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by philomel: My old work colleague knew someone called Minty Clinch. But she must have adopted that herself. Surely?
That's crazy. Everyone knows 'Minty' is a boys' name. Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Ginger Minge.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Dennis Table
Posted by saltrock (Member # 622) on :
One of my sisters is called Morag - which would have been fine if we had continued to live in Paisley but meant that she had the piss ripped out of her constantly when we moved to Cornwall.
I also have an ex who is called Hal, middle name Owen. Guess his birthday.
I think the worst names are things like Mercedes, Ferrari, Paris, Brooklyn - you know, just bollox. They aren't proper names! It's just someone trying to be showy - you wouldn't get a kid named Walthemstow or Citroen, would you now?
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
quote:Originally posted by saltrock: Mercedes
this is a real name you know
[ 29.10.2004, 07:57: Message edited by: mart ]
Posted by saltrock (Member # 622) on :
Is it really? Did it come before the car and the car was named after it? Rather like people saying "what a lovely old house - such a shame they built it so close to the new motorway!"
Well, I've learned something today and I will sleep all the better for it tonight - thank you Mart!!
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
also i think ferrari is an italian surname, and paris and brooklyn are names of places
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Didn't the designer of the car name it after his daughter Mercedes? Or am I hallucinating? Also, isn't Paris a right old name? It was in Troy and everything.
I would imagine a fairly bad name situation would be to be saddled with a moniker which is patently unsuitable for the way you turned out. Such as being called Grace if you're 14 stone and 6ft, with a talent for shotput. Or Jed Thrust if you're a tiny little man who likes embroidery and doilies. Or Charity, if you're a mean-spirited scrooge. Etc.
Posted by squeegy (Member # 136) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: also i think ferrari is an italian surname, and paris and brooklyn are names of places
Huh! Now I've learnt something new too!
Posted by saltrock (Member # 622) on :
I could call my daughter "the" which would then make that a name, but it's still not the original purpose of that word to be used as a person's name. That is wot I did mean.
Posted by squeegy (Member # 136) on :
Didnt Gwennyth and wathisname call their kid Apple? And there was a Tigerlily somewhere too.
Posted by saltrock (Member # 622) on :
O! for heavens sake! I meant that "type" of name, the sort you usually find on the sew on labels of celeb kids.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
The Masketeers were taken to a poncy Pottery Café this week, where there were two boys called Anselm and Mellitus!
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Our greengrocer is called Cock Bras.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
I worked with a guy once called Jerry Knobout....
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
A friend of mine called his son Titus.
A client of mine has the surname 'Badcock'
Posted by discodamage (Member # 66) on :
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: Our greengrocer is called Cock Bras.
i would like my brain not to be conjuring up images now please.
also, i am prepared to bet actual cash money that at least once a stuttering office boy has found himself calling minty clinch minty clit.
i know the name minty clinch. shes a journo innit?
my latin teacher named his daughter etheldreda. poor girl, she was actually very beautiful and cool and rollup cigarettes/ floaty-fabrics. and went out with hippy simon my maths teacher's son, the boy who was going to be a tree surgeon but couldnt bear the idea of hurting the trees, who we all fancied. and there she is saddled with a name like etheldreda. she changed her name to rosamund as soon as she hit 18.
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Posted by Petite (Member # 539) on :
Hillary.
Especially bad for a boy. I can not take anyone with that name seriously.
Posted by philomel (Member # 586) on :
Yup, Minty Clinch is, to the best of my knowledge, a journalist.
Another Minty FACT: I also knew a man known as Minty, so called because he was always in work after eight.
Posted by Fionnula the Cooler (Member # 453) on :
Would you ever swap hearts with a boy called Lionel? This is a conundrum I find impossible to resolve.
Posted by damo (Member # 722) on :
why because he might be jewish? racist.
Posted by dervish (Member # 727) on :
Mercedes is of Latin and Spanish origin and means ransom or the Virgin Mary. Chelsea is Old English and even Elvis is Anglo Saxon. So claims this site Baby Names
As a kid Nicholas always made me snigger.
Fifi and Trixie take some beating; calling your kids after a poodle or a porn star sucks.
I grew up with Christopher Robin; went for walks with Theresa Green (who claimed her maiden name was Brown, but I don't believe her) and socialise with Jimmy Riddle. His father was James Riddle and thought it so funny he christened his only son Jimmy (not even James).
Some parents are bastards.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: also i think ferrari is an italian surname
Yes, surname, not forename. It would perhaps be more fitting to call your child Enzo, but I doubt many people would get it.
Enzo = a great name.
Posted by ally (Member # 600) on :
A woman of my acquaintance had a particularly difficult labour (36 hours +) and called her daughter Agatha as a consequence.
I also know a woman (I stopped calling her a friend when she told me I needed a baby) who has moved from London to Cornwall with her son-of-a-millionaire husband and their two daughters - Dolores Honeybee and Betty Bubblegum. She's terribly fulfilled, apparently.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Oh, I've just remembered. My friend Arry, has been known as Arry for years becuase he didn't like is original name. I only found out because I was sat out the back of his video store (titled Arrys Video Shack) and his life insurance rep was trying to get his real name. 'Paul Chaves' he said between gritted teeth.
I couldn't work out why he hated it so much. Seems suitably inoffensive to me.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
quote:Originally posted by dervish: Mercedes is of Latin and Spanish origin and means ransom or the Virgin Mary.
Well, it's the plural of merced, which means favour or reward, and comes from Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes or La Virgen de las Mercedes, known in English as Our Lady of Mercy, a title promoted by the religious order of the Mercedarians, with the idea of Mary redeeming Christian captives from their Muslim "torturers" during the Islamic occupation of Spain.
Posted by Grianagh (Member # 583) on :
i would prefer to have an odd name than a popular name. i went to school with a zillion - amber, tiffany, melissa,kasi and sue ellen's. the guys all seemed to be - jon, dave, ian, todd and kenn. with the exception of one thadd and one destrey. my own full name is slightly unusual and I have never really been that bothered by it.
Posted by rooster (Member # 738) on :
quote:Originally posted by Grianagh: i would prefer to have an odd name than a popular name.
I wholeheartedly agree. Though when I was little I hated my name (I would guess that maybe two people on earth have it – my parents completely made it up), now, I love it – it is always a conversation piece at job interviews…even though I use my nickname 95% of the time, but the nickname is also unusual enough.
[ 30.10.2004, 11:42: Message edited by: rooster ]
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Go on, tell us yer name, go on go on go on go on. I'll tell you TheGree's real name if you do.
By the way what are you doing for Halloween? TheGree is currently sewing us black capes for our Dracula+Witch outfits which we're wearing out tonight to, er, an Irish bar (which this weekend is advertising itself oh-so-amusingly as a bloody Irish bar).
Which is nice.
Posted by dervish (Member # 727) on :
quote:Originally posted by Grianagh: i went to school with a zillion
Oh. The sister of that character from 'Hitchhikers Guide'?
quote:Originally posted by mart: Well, it's the plural of merced, which means favour or reward, and comes from Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes or La Virgen de las Mercedes, known in English as Our Lady of Mercy, a title promoted by the religious order of the Mercedarians, with the idea of Mary redeeming Christian captives from their Muslim "torturers" during the Islamic occupation of Spain.
I WAS genuinely puzzled by the link between ransoms and the virgin of epic proportions (sic). Google search? Or did you actually know that?
I wouldn't put it past you to actually know it, you clever bastard.
Posted by dervish (Member # 727) on :
quote:Originally posted by rooster: I wholeheartedly agree. Though when I was little I hated my name (I would guess that maybe two people on earth have it – my parents completely made it up), now, I love it – it is always a conversation piece at job interviews…even though I use my nickname 95% of the time, but the nickname is also unusual enough.
"Scott and I......???"
Doh! You are a woman?
Bugger that.
rooster? Red coxcomb? Very small penis? Noisy at 3 am?
[ 30.10.2004, 12:36: Message edited by: dervish ]
Posted by rooster (Member # 738) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: Go on, tell us yer name, go on go on go on go on. I'll tell you TheGree's real name if you do.
By the way what are you doing for Halloween?
My name is Teomara, but I go by Teya. And what you are doing sounds heaps more exciting than our Halloween plans, which I imagine will entail Froopy catching up on missed sleep and me handing out candy to the little ghetto children that live in our apartment complex.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
quote:Originally posted by dervish: did you actually know that?
I live in Spain, so it's my job to know these things.
Posted by dervish (Member # 727) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart:
quote:Originally posted by dervish: did you actually know that?
I live in Spain, so it's my job to know these things.
Lucky bugger.
Posted by rooster (Member # 738) on :
Hey Mart, where's my prize? Though I think I know her name because froopy knows it.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Your prize is ...
Teomara =
ool
[ 30.10.2004, 17:41: Message edited by: mart ]
Posted by rooster (Member # 738) on :
Ah, and she goes by edited, because it seems mart edited his part and I don't want to do something wrong, right? That's neato: a name that cheers people up Mine usually gets initial responses of "huh?"
[ 02.11.2004, 08:58: Message edited by: rooster ]
Posted by damo (Member # 722) on :
being called damiAn when that fucking film damiEn is imprinted on every fuckers brain kind of ruins your childhood. that and being born in hong kong.
makes people think you is like the chinese devil boy.
[ 30.10.2004, 14:44: Message edited by: damo ]
Posted by rooster (Member # 738) on :
Oooh, "The Omen" was the only horror movie I had seen by the time I was 18 or so (my parents wouldn't let me watch any, but I snuck that one). It still has a spot in my heart Posted by 69 Comeback Elvis (Member # 9) on :
lool
(conjoined twins 'hopeful' of successful operation)
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Posted by Bill Oddie (Member # 114) on :
Paul Merton claimed on HIGNFY that his name used to be Randy Starfucker. Sadly, it was in fact the considerably less interesting Paul Martin.
I'm sure someone named their kid Kawasaki ZX-6RR (or something like that) after their favorite motorbike.
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Seems suitably inoffensive to me.
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