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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 10:11 AM
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Poll question: Which one of these boys would be LEAST like to endure the label "geek"?
Edited on Sat Mar-25-06 10:23 AM by BlueIris
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 11:29 AM
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1. Maylon is getting votes?
Curious.
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Twillig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 11:45 AM
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2. let's see:
Aalon
Baylon
Caylon
Daylon
Eaylon
Faylon


Nope, no way to get teased about that name.


(from The Simpsons where Homer was pondering Bart's name and stopped at 'Eart')
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 11:48 AM
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3. Oh.
Okay.

Well...hmmm.
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dorktv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 11:51 AM
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4. that was a funny episode.
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 11:55 AM
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5. "Mother May I" Maylon? Sure I know him!
It's a gift, what can I say. :eyes:
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Katherine Brengle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:31 PM
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26. HAHA "Gay"lon--I just got it!
Really, before I just thought it was lame, lol.


:rofl:
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 01:23 PM
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6. Dillard will undoubtedly be changed to Dullard...
by some wiseguy.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 04:58 PM
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11. Actually, as much as I love this name, I probably won't use it because
I think said wiseguy will use the term, "Dillwad/weed/hole" as the mean nickname.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:34 PM
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29. You're right - "Dillweed" is a distinct possibility.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 01:27 PM
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7. You are sadistic
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 01:34 PM
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8. YOU FORGOT RUDDIGORE
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 01:35 PM
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9. Why not just name him Fuckface and be done with it?
What is it with you and these horrible, horrible names that NO child should ever be assigned.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:00 PM
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12. Well, Midlodemocrat thinks I should name him "Robert," which is far worse.
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fleabert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 01:39 PM
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10. cooper reminds me of that commercial...
'oh, cooper.' another woman says - and the woman who's about to go on a business trip with Cooper gets a visual of the super-seventies guy with gold chains and an open shirt, sitting on the airplane, pointing to himself with his thumbs, saying the punchline, "This guy!" (referring to the joke: What has two thumbs and loves blow jobs?)

I can't vote for any of them, sorry.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:01 PM
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13. Not even Sumner?
Sumner is so great.
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fleabert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 06:53 PM
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40. The only Sumner I have knows was a trust fund ass...and fit the stereotype
sorry- I associate names with people I know first, then impressions second.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:02 PM
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14. To the person who voted for Parrish--you rule.
I love that one.
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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:12 PM
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17. That was me!
Glad I could help out.:hi:
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:17 PM
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18. Yay!
Parrish is one of the better ones I've found. I adore it.
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:05 PM
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15. These are all dreadful names
Sorry, BlueIris, but it's the truth. Someone has to tell you. :hide:
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:18 PM
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19. Thanks.
Perhaps you would like to suggest some suitable replacements.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:23 PM
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20. Kick "Lunchmoney" McFadden. Archibald "Moneybags" McGillicuddy
Shoehorn O'Plenty

These are but three better names than your suggestions. Stop trying to be original, because your ideas are fucking horrible, and I'd hate you forever if you were my mother.
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Katherine Brengle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:23 PM
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21. I don't know exactly what you are looking for, but judging from...
the current list, I put together a list of 10 suggestions in another new thread :).
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Katherine Brengle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:10 PM
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16. I spent a lot of time thinking about this...
when I was trying to come up with ideas for my daughter's name. Kids are really cruel, and if we aren't going to at least give ours a fighting chance, then what's the point?

We ended up deciding on Emily--simple, pretty, and fairly impenetrable. The best I have been able to come up with so far is "Smemily," which doesn't actually mean anything...

What about Thatcher?
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:25 PM
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22. Gosh, I'm sorry, but none of the above. They're all pretty equal, geekwise
But then, I named my kid a boring old name. :hi:
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:27 PM
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23. Howdy Mrs. G!
Haven't chatted with you in awhile. How's it going???
:hi: :hug:
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:28 PM
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25. It's going good! Just really tired and blah of late. I'm trying to kick
myself back into the game. :hug: :loveya: How are you?
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:46 PM
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37. I am pretty well.
I am at work now but it's kind of slow. going to eat some pizza soon! :hi:
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:27 PM
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24. I just read this list again

ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND?????
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Katherine Brengle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:32 PM
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27. What's your name?
I am sensing some repressed childhood anger lol...
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:34 PM
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30. It's Martin
and I'm okay with it

Yet, when someone's setting up their child for a life of beatdowns, something inside me has to say something.
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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:38 PM
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34. Take your ass out of hot water and make some suggestions
:rofl:
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:43 PM
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36. Joseph, Joe, William, Bill, Roger, Mike, John, Steven
Or to continue in the other direction

Keelhaul
Horndawgle
Muttle
Angloid
Compac
Alero
Smithsonian The Great
Dubyastic
Freetard
Pooh
Diddyduddy
Flanders
Burn
Wood
Steel
Iron
Jaws
Can
Bag
Mint
Pill
Cap
Tub
Cork
Plug
Cup
Snitts
Squirrel
Happy
Afternoon
Fall
Pluto
Uranus
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:47 PM
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38. Flanders has potential.
Thanks!
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:33 PM
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28. Dude, you're the one who just posted in like, 50 point bold font.
Edited on Sat Mar-25-06 05:34 PM by BlueIris
You might need to take a little vacation in GD if this place is stressing you out that much.

I just want my kid or kids to have classic, slightly unusual names. Names with panache, and a little quirk. I've been told that may make people think my male kids are geeky. Well, maybe. I'm trying to lessen the chances that my kid will get called a geek by the likes of the Lounge. Hence, the poll.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:35 PM
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31. Your options are all equally terrible
I can't even believe I read some of them
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:36 PM
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32. there's always "Lestat"
;-)

I've known some Coopers, but I'd steer clear of the others.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 06:05 PM
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39. Good one.
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:37 PM
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33. Sumner wouldn't be called a geek in the deep South.
That's a great Southern name. :hi:
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:39 PM
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35. I know! That one has a great deal of universality.
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 06:57 PM
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41. Is there a reason for sticking your kid with a surname for a first name?
And of all of those, 'Halsey' is the least bad (but only because you can call him "Hal" for short).
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 07:12 PM
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43. I just...really like all of these names.
Not boring or common in my eyes. Many convey a kind of stark regality and beauty that I like very much.
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 07:27 PM
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46. To each their own, I suppose...
Edited on Sat Mar-25-06 07:35 PM by Spider Jerusalem
I don't see anything very 'regal' about some of them ('Cooper' means 'barrelmaker', for instance). More to consider than just the way it sounds or looks; what does it MEAN? What history does it have? What cultural connotations? ('Halsey' will probably make people think of Admiral William Halsey.) Some cultures believe that names have power, but if they do, it's because of all the associations they carry, not in and of themselves.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 06:59 PM
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42. Am I the only one who doesn't know who these people are?
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jmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 07:20 PM
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44. Don't take this the wrong way but
asking which of these names is least likely to endure the label "geek" is like asking which Bush crony has the most integrity.
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Briarius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 07:25 PM
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45. I'm a geek, been a geek my whole life
and my name is John. It's not the name, it's the personality. And there's nothing wrong with it. Remember, without geeks, you wouldn't be able to be insulted on the internet :D
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