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Silly names.
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While I was avidly reading my local churches parish magazine I came across the christenings section. Some poor child has been given the name..Hari BLADE Oswald ! Have any of you lot got a sad name you were lumbered with? Or know of anyone ?
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Here's a few I've come across:
Audie Carr (a kid my dad used to teach)
Gordon Bennett (my ex boyfriend's father)
A Chelsea fan living near me has called his son Stamford-Bridge. (He also called his daughter Chelsea).
Kayleigh Dance (someone a relative used to know).
William Myc0ck ( a friend of the above mentioned ex)
Geoffrey Jeffrey (a headteacher at a school in the next county)
Richard Aird (another headteacher. Yes, he actually chooses to shorten his name that way, and yes, someone has pointed it out to him.)
Audie Carr (a kid my dad used to teach)
Gordon Bennett (my ex boyfriend's father)
A Chelsea fan living near me has called his son Stamford-Bridge. (He also called his daughter Chelsea).
Kayleigh Dance (someone a relative used to know).
William Myc0ck ( a friend of the above mentioned ex)
Geoffrey Jeffrey (a headteacher at a school in the next county)
Richard Aird (another headteacher. Yes, he actually chooses to shorten his name that way, and yes, someone has pointed it out to him.)
In the late 1980s, I worked at a music college with Sarah Milburn, a grants writer. She was married to Tom Moore. They were both Arthurian nuts. When she had her second child, a boy, they chose his first name and let their 8-year-old daughter Emma pick the middle name. Emma was a fan of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
This combo meant trouble from the get-go. Somewhere in central New Jersey walks a young man with the name Merlin Raphael Milburn Moore. **sigh**
This combo meant trouble from the get-go. Somewhere in central New Jersey walks a young man with the name Merlin Raphael Milburn Moore. **sigh**
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Blimey could have been worse carrust, they could have called him Lee Harvey Oswald!!!
All of our kids have 3 names, one dead ordinary one (Richard, Joe etc), one slightly unusual one (Kestor, Ari etc) and one fairly unusual one (Rivka, Lucius etc).
This has worked well as some choose to be known by their bog standard names and some by their unusual ones, so the idea of giving them a choice depending on how their characters mature has worked, so we can spot the future accountants from the flamboyant artists at a very early age :)
I think Bob Geldhof's kids have to pretty much take the biscuit for dodgy names though, Fifi-Trixibelle, that's a hell of name to live up to when your 95, or Frank Zappa's (Moon unit) what was he on when he thought of that?
All of our kids have 3 names, one dead ordinary one (Richard, Joe etc), one slightly unusual one (Kestor, Ari etc) and one fairly unusual one (Rivka, Lucius etc).
This has worked well as some choose to be known by their bog standard names and some by their unusual ones, so the idea of giving them a choice depending on how their characters mature has worked, so we can spot the future accountants from the flamboyant artists at a very early age :)
I think Bob Geldhof's kids have to pretty much take the biscuit for dodgy names though, Fifi-Trixibelle, that's a hell of name to live up to when your 95, or Frank Zappa's (Moon unit) what was he on when he thought of that?
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