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Husband insistent on Elvis

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Pootletrinket · 24/10/2010 16:21

Apart from hoping against hope that it's a girl (!) he's been on about this name for YEARS - reckons he went all soft on me when DD was born and let me choose, so this time around it's his turn.

Are my instinctive reactions (against the name) right?!?!?

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Appletrees · 24/10/2010 22:06

I think it's ok Blush I think it's sort of so bad it's good, sort of kitch but.. I don't know. I don't think it's cruel, not as bad as some of the crappy crap one hears, I think if you have confidence, it could be ok.

SirBoobAlot · 24/10/2010 22:05

Leave him immediately.

Simbacat · 24/10/2010 22:04

I think it was conan as in conan the barbarian rather than any Irish connectition.

LostArt · 24/10/2010 22:03

I think Elvis is a lovely name for a fish. Grin

LetThereBeRock · 24/10/2010 22:00

Absolutely not.It's terrible,and cruel.

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Pootletrinket · 24/10/2010 17:23

Based on the goldfish idea, I compromised (DH has wanted a dog for years and we may be able to move somewhere soon where it could be possible/practical) and said he could call dog elvis if he wanted - initially the reaction was "what a strange name for a dog" (hello?! Confused!) so I said, fair enough, will buy DD a goldfish and call it Elvis - he came back with more reasonable response.

And Quattro, I know Mums of 2 teenage Elvises (Elvi?!)

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Quattrocento · 24/10/2010 16:50

ROFL at Thor. It's still better than Elvis though.

Did your DH have any alternatives from Valhalla?

Kirk1 · 24/10/2010 16:43

My DH wanted to name DS Thor. I stamped firmly on that idea...

tvfriend · 24/10/2010 16:38

There's an Elvis in DD's class. He is very normal so seems a bit more of a normal name to me now (although if DH had suggested that DS had been Elvis I would have been very Hmm

Quattrocento · 24/10/2010 16:36

See, well, I could just about swallow Jesus, would work if you are Spanish or Latin American.

Elvis

Dear god

And you tell me that you know two little Elvises?

Say it ain't so

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Pootletrinket · 24/10/2010 16:34

Am LOVING the goldfish suggestion!!!!! Divorce would be too expensive as I'm only breadwinner!!!!

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LostArt · 24/10/2010 16:33

Divorce him so he can't register the birth himself (you can always remarry later). Or buy a goldfish and call it Elvis - he'll never name his child after a goldfish, would he?

Divatheshopaholic · 24/10/2010 16:33

lol at pack and run

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Pootletrinket · 24/10/2010 16:29

Now Conan (as Irish name) I wouldn't mind.

No, Quattro - not joking at all. MIL and SILs keep saying to him "you just can't" but I don't see why they think he'll listen to them when he won't listen to me!!

I don't think he'd go ahead without me (despite his jocular threats to run to registry office while I'm incapacitated - think this is just to wind me up) but am I going to have to put up with this for another 6 months?!?!?

His other fave is Jesus (Brazilian pron.) - another no-no from me.

And I do actually know 2 people who called their boys Elvis, so have to be careful about what I say!!!

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Chaotica · 24/10/2010 16:28
Simbacat · 24/10/2010 16:26

I has conan as his favourite- yes right.

lollipopshoes · 24/10/2010 16:25

dp wanted to call ds Horatio. He said it was fate because ds was born 200 years after the battle of Waterloo so we HAD to call ds Horatio after Horatio Nelson.

I said if we called him Horatio I was taking the girls, the boy and leaving and moving far, far away.

As soon as he knew I was actually serious (not particularly about leaving him, but about hating the name) he let me have my way compromised

Quattrocento · 24/10/2010 16:24

You're joking

Please tell me you're joking

It's the 1st of April, right? And I've been in hibernation for the winter.

If you are not joking, then seriously this probably constitutes abuse. Others will be along to give you the link to Women's Aid. I just say pack and run. Preferably before the baby is born.

Divatheshopaholic · 24/10/2010 16:23

Big no.
Poor lad.

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