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sleepdodger · 24/02/2013 21:03

Texas
Would you think boy or girl?

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IwishIwasmoreorganised · 24/02/2013 21:05

Boy probably, but I would be a bit like this Confused.

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LilyAmaryllis · 24/02/2013 21:05

boy?

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HyvaPaiva · 24/02/2013 21:05

I'm afraid I'd automatically think 'that's not a name, it's a state' Blush. Sorry.

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Flossy78 · 24/02/2013 21:05

Boy I think

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monkeyfacegrace · 24/02/2013 21:06

I wouldnt think anything.

Id either search for a dog or laugh.

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SandStorm · 24/02/2013 21:07

I'd think girl but I would also think "poor child".

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sleepdodger · 24/02/2013 21:08

It's not me
It's a fb friend
It's a girl
I was Shock and thought I was being all like my mother but thank you it would seem I'm er not? Blush

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scaevola · 24/02/2013 21:08

Boy.

Or alien - like Ford Prefect?

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Lucyellensmum95 · 24/02/2013 21:09

I don't know but id wonder if they had a brother or sister called "Paris"

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CarriedAwayAnnie · 24/02/2013 21:10

Boy.

Awful.

Esp for a girl.

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sleepdodger · 24/02/2013 21:10

There is a sister and she has a less common but conventional normal girls name Shock

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Flojobunny · 24/02/2013 21:10

Boy, though would probably say "Haha what did you really call her? Nobody would he that stupid or cruel"

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MortifiedAdams · 24/02/2013 21:11

Boy.

Id be Hmm too but there have been some weird baby names round my way lately (Payton and Bram to name but a few) so I am starting to feel immune.

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IHeartKingThistle · 24/02/2013 21:13

There was a girl on hollyoaks called Texas. Might that have been the inspiration? !

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CarlingBlackMabel · 24/02/2013 21:14

Part Boy, part calculator?

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raisah · 24/02/2013 21:16

Boy
awful to be named after the state George W Bush is from. What were they thinking?

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akaemmafrost · 24/02/2013 21:19

Bram? As in Stoker? The author of Dracula? Shock

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surroundedbyblondes · 24/02/2013 21:20

There's a recent baby boy in my SILs family named Texas. His parents have genuinely explained that their inspiration came from an on-line poker game Hmm

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Mononoke · 24/02/2013 21:21

Boy, I think Tex sounds quite nice as a nn.

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Rivergirly · 24/02/2013 21:23

I'm with I heart - think they took inspiration from Texas on Hollyoaks. Also have a fully grown male friend called Dallas and oddly it really suits him!!

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MortifiedAdams · 24/02/2013 21:25

Yup Bram, Emma

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BigGiantCowWithAKnockKnockTail · 24/02/2013 21:27

Was she conceived in Texas? I can honestly think of NO other reason to inflict such a name on a child. Not that even that would be a good one.

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Hassled · 24/02/2013 21:28

I think I'd think girl - on the basis that aren't all US states female? Like boats, or summat?

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Trazzletoes · 24/02/2013 21:29

Makes me think of Texas Pete from Superted. That was his name, wasn't it?

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montmartre · 24/02/2013 21:31

What the heck is wrong with Bram? At least it is a real name for a person, unlike Texas Hmm

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