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Help!! Difficult choice of boys names: Sean, Daniel or Balonz?

368 replies

TheoGB · 30/09/2014 17:20

Dear MNers. Hoping you might all be able to help us out as we’re having real difficulty agreeing a name for DS due soon. For DD, we went 'rare'. Weren’t sure we were quite ready to find some ultra-weird name, but equally there are millions of Kates, Elizabeths and so ons.

For DD though, we’re thinking a much more traditional name, perhaps inspired by close friends/family. What are MNers’ thoughts on either Sean, Daniel or Balonz? Many thanks in advance!

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Pipbin · 03/10/2014 21:12

This has give me such a laugh.

Welcome new people to MN.

TheBananaStand · 03/10/2014 21:11

Shit the bed, I got a fright when I saw the email there and there's a weird DiS/MN crossover happening!

I used to spend hours lurking/occasionally posting about music/telly etc. on DiS and now I mostly post/read on MN about excretions and baby clothes...I never expected the two to meld!

BotoxednSpanxed · 03/10/2014 20:01

Data entry.

O m g

Crazycat11 · 03/10/2014 19:58

Hi new on here but saw the thread on email and had to read whole thing ... Now googled and come accross this so funny! I think you all have some admirers! drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social/4454505

PacificDogwood · 03/10/2014 19:36

I am so going to demand a GP epitaph when my boys go Grin - genius!

Castlemilk · 03/10/2014 19:27

God I loved that thread Tortoise - and have to repost:

Natural prey
Bedecked in hay.

Awesome squeak
And yet so weak.

I heard you munch
I yearned to crunch.

Carrot eater
Jaw cheater.

Ahhhhh

BoreOfWhabylon · 03/10/2014 19:20

Ah, Balonz Brian from Hull. The only troll ever to get banned yet still get his thread into classics.

BotoxednSpanxed · 03/10/2014 19:19

Daniel
Seán

And then the other one Confused

TortoiseUpATreeAgain · 03/10/2014 19:18

Guinea pig epitaphs.

Castlemilk · 03/10/2014 19:13

Actually, kill two birds with one stone and get to understand my reference to Hull in the post above by starting with this one:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/1729276-Yoni-Vaginal-Massage

TortoiseUpATreeAgain · 03/10/2014 19:13

Classics are here.

And you might enjoy the hamster casserole thread which for some reason hasn't been moved to Classics yet.

Castlemilk · 03/10/2014 19:12

No no DiStopia, I love bedwetters - I was a Ride fan, once, way back when Balonz was in the top 100, probably. Happy days.

Patty - www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics

PattyPenguin · 03/10/2014 18:56

Just read the whole thread. There's coffee and cheesecake base all over the keyboard.

Now, could someone please tell a dumbass where the Classics are? Will I find any funny there? I've had a crap week and I need some funny.

DiStopia · 03/10/2014 18:53

thread of the year and it isn't even on DiS. great stuff by all (except (whoever was pretending to be) thewarn). I would ask you all to stop by at drownedinsound but you've probably all had enough of bedwetters

Castlemilk · 03/10/2014 18:36

Hey Peter, spiritual wellness coaching eh - I'm intrigued. You're not from Hull by any chance are you?

If so, do you find it more of a challenge to advise on names from a different region of the UK, such as Surrey?

lugwump · 03/10/2014 18:12

I suspect this is some sort of in joke that has gone over my head, but to me Sean is Irish, which I presume you are not; and Balonz just sounds silly. If it is "traditional" which tradition?

So into the Lion's Den it is.

AllYouNeedIsTea · 03/10/2014 18:06

Another vote for classics. This thread has literally made me cry with laughter. Grin

longest · 03/10/2014 17:52

Love the review

I enjoyed this thread and would recommend it to my cousin Smile

pobbliboos · 03/10/2014 17:45

The Balónz thread is truly hilariously wittily brilliant
Instantly conjured the French musician eager to jam at my party shouting to the DJ :
" Turn off zat stupide bal - ÓX "

Authentic pronunciation should
hold til his teens if the babe is reared near Frensham Ponds.

PacificDogwood · 03/10/2014 17:33

S/he is a troll advertising, tsk tsk.
V much frowned upon.
I have reported.

How dare you think HS could be one of us?
Shock

foppyish · 03/10/2014 17:24

Is HealingSpirit one of your people mumsnetters or ours? I can't tell anymore.

PacificDogwood · 03/10/2014 17:22

Ach, nonononono, HealingSpirit, it just won't do to be peddling your rubbish advertising your business on this Thread of Comedy Gold!
Get thee away before MNHQ do it for you
Grin

Castlemilk · 03/10/2014 17:02

LOL at foppyish providing an 'Amazon review' of the thread Grin

foppyish · 03/10/2014 16:59

Good thread, would read again.

spiderlight · 03/10/2014 14:02

I'm so glad you're going for it, Theo - everyone knows that Balonz have more fun.