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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 02:46 PM
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Alright, so no one liked my hypothetical babies' names. I have #2 picks:
Edited on Thu Mar-23-06 02:47 PM by BlueIris
If it's a girl: Anastasia.

If it's a boy: Sebastian.

These actually used to be my #1 picks. There's only one problem with these lovely names. My college roommate, a good Mormon woman who got married the year after we moved out of the apartment we shared, found them highlighted on a page of potential baby names I'd written down as a joke, and stated her intent to use them for her kids. I just...I can't live with the idea that my kids would have the same names as the offspring of that roommate. She was insane. And also--my kids' names must be original, goddamnit. The theft of these first choices necessitated the creation of Agatha and Alastair as names.

Thoughts?
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China_cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 02:47 PM
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1. Try a random letter generator
for truly unique possibilities.
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 03:38 PM
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2. How about Seven ?
(seinfeld joke)

Seriously, those are pretty nice names. Much better than Agatha and Alastair.
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 03:42 PM
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4. How about Mulva?
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 03:54 PM
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11. we named our dog Seven as a Seinfeld homage
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amitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 03:41 PM
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3. Name it Toonces. n/t
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 03:42 PM
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5. here you go
girl: Beryl

boy: Clinton
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 03:44 PM
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6. Sebastian? Dear God, I hope you hypothetically have a girl.
Seriously, what about Matthew or David or Michael or Robert.....
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:16 PM
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30. You and me both, Midlo.
I don't want to use a name that is entirely too common, though. Sorry. Not gonna happen.
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 03:46 PM
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7. Your kids are going to get beaten silly
Original names = schoolyard poundings. Unless your mate is a 6'6' cagefighter please consider more normal names.
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lukasahero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 03:49 PM
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8. I love Sebastian
but then, I liked Fletcher too.

Agatha is nice, I love old-fashioned names. Alastair isn't my favorite (a little too Masterpiece Theatre...) but I liked the idea that he'd be probably be known as AJ anyway. That's cute.

As for those suggesting Tom, Dick and Harry, I offer you my motto in life: Why be boring? ;)

:hug:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 03:50 PM
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9. They're both pretty good in terms of nicks
Anastasia > Ana, Annie. And perhaps Beaverhausen to the hip kids.

Sebastian > Sab, Sabby.

I think parents must consider what name-based cruelties other kids will come up with.
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 04:09 PM
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15. I think the names are fine as they are
Edited on Thu Mar-23-06 04:10 PM by u4ic
in their long form ;)
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 04:19 PM
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17. Agreed — but y'gotta consider
what other kids are gonna call 'em, and even what you're gonna call 'em most of the time.

I mean, c'mon — parents use the long form only when they're mad or somethin'.



ANASTASIA BEAVERHAUSEN! GET IN THIS HOUSE RIGHT NOW!
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 04:50 PM
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22. With those types of names,
one can learn assertiveness at a young age. ;-)
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 04:57 PM
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24. Maybe you've got a point
Assertiveness.
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:04 PM
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26. En garde!
http://web.archive.org/web/20030212212022/



:7
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:16 PM
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31. Thrust!
:evilgrin:
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:24 PM
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33. ...
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 03:51 PM
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10. .
Boy: Beavis Demerol

Girl: Rhubarb Angina
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 03:54 PM
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12. for twins --- bezoar and phlegmon
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 04:02 PM
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13. Why must your kids names be original?
They're not YOU. Don't use helpless babies as a blank screen on which to project your social anxiety about how "unique" you may or may not be.

Oh, and Sebastian? HE WILL GET HIS ASS KICKED THRICE DAILY JUST FOR LAUGHS.
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 04:05 PM
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14. What he said.
^
|_________ :thumbsup:
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 04:31 PM
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18. Again what he said.
I can picture Sebastian morphing into Basty out in the schoolyard...
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miss_american_pie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 04:40 PM
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It sucks having the most common name
of the decade in which you were born.
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 04:53 PM
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23. False dichotomy
I didn't advocate for the most common names. I asked why the fuck a person would use their child to show off how "unique" she was. It's horseshit. It seems fun and cool to new parents of a certain type but a human being is stuck with that parent's bullshit for life.
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miss_american_pie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 04:59 PM
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25. Only until they're 18
are they legally stuck. And kids that want to pick on others will always find a reason to do so, whether it be someone's name or haircut or the shoes they wear.

Why do some parents use their kids' names as advertising? Why do some name the kids after the wealthiest grandparent? Exactly what is acceptable naming criteria?
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:07 PM
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27. Real funny, coming from someone whose kid is named "Exhibit B."
Okay, to be fair, you didn't pick the name. But are you going to hide behind "prosecutorial misconduct" your whole life?

Grow up, dude.
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LibertyLover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 04:09 PM
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16. Check out
this web site for some truly awful kids' names

http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/index.html

After you read some of them Anastasia and Sebastian will look downright good.
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 04:40 PM
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19. Funny site
What were they thinking?
I actually like both Anastasia and Sebastian.
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Throd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 04:42 PM
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20. Sebastian means "Take my lunch money and push my face in the mud"
in ancient Sanskrit
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Blue Belle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 04:47 PM
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21. They're a little too "Disney" for me... but they're better than some
names that kids have these days. I was at my niece's soccer game a few months back and one of the girl's on her team was named Citrus. CITRUS!!! I couldn't believe it.

If you're looking for original names you could do what my cousins did and name them after rivers (McKenzie and Hudson).
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mikeiddy Donating Member (218 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:10 PM
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28. Go for it
Don't listen to the naysayers, I was Garth long before Garth Brooks was famous and I never got beat up for it. I've got kids named Gerhardt (after his great grandfather) and Alexandra (for a friend) and they never got beat up either.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:18 PM
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32. Thanks. And it's good that your kids haven't been beaten up.
I've been alarmed by how many people think my hypothetical son is going to be kicked around simply because he has an unusual or just slightly less common first name.
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bloom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:14 PM
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29. I think you should go with the names that you like
Are you even going to ever have much contact with the old roommate, anyway?

I wouldn't worry about it. She might go with something else, anyway.


Maybe she was just trying to bug you. :shrug:
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:27 PM
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34. I love the name Anastasia!
One of my favorites!

Though if you want original, none of your choices work.

But I bet you will be hard pressed to find very many Anastasias.
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