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Velveteen - cool, cruel or just mental

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xxEvadneCakexx · 03/09/2010 21:09

A friend of a friend is slightly obsessed with the name Velveteen for a girl.

I can't figure out what I think about it - on one hand the name Velvet does seem kinda boho and pretty but on the other it's reminisant of a stripper. Grin

Whats your opinion on it?

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amistillsexy · 03/09/2010 23:35

Habbibu oh don't dare me, please! I'm always tempted by dares!!!

(Plus I've not started my own thread yet...shy emoticon)

Dad used to swear blind the woman in the queue in front of him when he was registering my name wanted to name her girl Utensil. She was very insistant and the registrar not keen and suggesting alternatives. Turns out she'd overheard a mum on the bus call her DD Hortensia...but knowing my Dad he probably made the whole thing up heard incorrectly. Grin

pranma · 03/09/2010 22:32

Natinal Velvet?The girl is called Velvet Brown in Enid Bagnold's book.
Velveteen is just plain stupid as a name imho.

lovebeingmum · 03/09/2010 21:45

Sounds like toilet paper.

Habbibu · 03/09/2010 21:44

Dare you to start an Annatto thread, ami.

NomDePlume · 03/09/2010 21:43

Not great

amistillsexy · 03/09/2010 21:41

Here is the ingredient list on the package: MILK, WATER, MILKFAT, WHEY, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, ALGINATE, SODIUM CITRATE, APOCAROTENAL (COLOR), ANNATTO (COLOR), ENZYMES, CHEESE CULTURE.

Maybe if op's friend has any more children they could be called Alginate (for a boy, obviously!); Annatto is also nice, for a liitle girl. Enzymes might get him teased at school, though...Grin

ASmallBunchOfFlowers · 03/09/2010 21:38

Still snorting here at Polly-Esther.

seeker · 03/09/2010 21:37

Ort Slub for a boy.

BrigitteBardot · 03/09/2010 21:37

Terrible.

seeker · 03/09/2010 21:37

Ooooh - how about Binka?

Quenbioz · 03/09/2010 21:34
Biscuit
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xxEvadneCakexx · 03/09/2010 21:33

Maybe i should suggest Minky to her and see what she says?

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stillbobbysgirl · 03/09/2010 21:33

Yeah sounds like either - name of fake cheese spread, man-made fibre for cheap tracksuits, or prostitute psuedenom (spelling!).

scottishmummy · 03/09/2010 21:32

lol leatherette.does have a nice feel to it

LittleBoxes · 03/09/2010 21:30

I'd go for Leatherette, myself.

BettySuarez · 03/09/2010 21:29

I bet mummy buys all her clothes at Gudrun Sjödén Grin

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xxEvadneCakexx · 03/09/2010 21:28

Herjazz - sorry, what?

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Habbibu · 03/09/2010 21:27

Well, precisely, seeker. Polly-Esther it is.

herjazz · 03/09/2010 21:23

Hehe wonder if op's friend is? Clue would be her responding to snorts of eh velveteen? with baby I don't care

LynetteScavo · 03/09/2010 21:23

Does she have a partner? If so, fear not, for surely 2 grown adults couldn't think this was a suitable name for a child.

seeker · 03/09/2010 21:23

Velveteen is actually a fabric which is a cheap, nasty alternative to velvet.

scottishmummy · 03/09/2010 21:22

rank.imagine shouting come in for yer tea velveteen...and what would traipse in

MummyLovesSadie · 03/09/2010 21:21

Atrocious. Truly truly atrocious & hideous.

Northernlurker · 03/09/2010 21:20

x post - you must be the same age as us Grin

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xxEvadneCakexx · 03/09/2010 21:20

Habibu - Cheese food product? boaks

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