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Pegasus and Philomena?

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GetOutOfMyBath · 18/07/2017 09:37

for twin boy and girl...? I appreciate its a bit unusual....

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GinSolvesEverything · 21/07/2017 09:48

What about Dionysus and medusa?

The computer software I use at work is called Pegasus. It's the biggest pile of crap system I've ever had to use.

TheLegendOfBeans · 21/07/2017 09:38

Isn't Buzz the name of the progeny of Tom Fletcher from McFly? Not forgetting the lovely Giovanna of course.... Hmm

BertrandRussell · 21/07/2017 07:57

Frank Skinner's son is called Buzz after Buzz Aldrin.

willawonder · 20/07/2017 22:50

Pegasus. Sorry but I'm actually howling with laughter.

BogQueens · 20/07/2017 21:08

NC4, I don't think so -- Baby Buzz's dad was an early adopter of the hipster man-bun, and it's conceivable he'd never actually left Shoreditch. Grin

Baby Buzz would be five or six now, and is probably insisting on being addressed as Captain America.

GeorgeTheHamster · 20/07/2017 21:04

Well of course you're in north London.
Don't call him Pegasus, he may have to leave London sometimes AND HE'LL LOOK LIKE A TWAT.

ToothTrauma · 20/07/2017 20:32

Please don't call your child Pegasus.

squoosh · 20/07/2017 20:31

Personally, I'm all about giving people garments stained with poisonous centaur blood.

Ah see that would be a bit subtle for me. At least if I tie someone to the back of my chariot and then take off at top speed everyone knows where they stand Grin

noodlebum · 20/07/2017 20:14

Bwahahaha!! Grin

Sorry, this made my day... Peggy and Phil

nappyrat · 20/07/2017 19:48

Ok...so I thought this was a wind up but obvs not!

TheNaze73 · 20/07/2017 18:22

There were 4 boys called Pegasus in my year at school.
Very popular at Hogwarts Wink

NC4now · 20/07/2017 18:21

I think I once met a baby Buzz at a bus-stop with his dad, too

Are you sure he wasn't from up my way and referring to his chosen mode of transport?

Deianira · 20/07/2017 18:20

That was an accident. Anyway it only happened the once. Blush

BogQueens · 20/07/2017 18:18

Speak for yourself, squoosh. Personally, I'm all about giving people garments stained with poisonous centaur blood. Grin

OhtoblazeswithElvira · 20/07/2017 18:05

Too old to have another but if I were to & a boy - John it would be. Much underrated in my book

I recently met a 3-year-old Michael. I honestly did a double-take when I saw the name written down!

WellErrr · 20/07/2017 17:51

Tristan and Isolde?

squoosh · 20/07/2017 17:51

Hector had a very grim ending indeed - heels slit, Ajax's girdle passed through them and his body dragged behind Achilles' chariot. And the Achilles continues to abuse the body for several days. It's a particularly grisly death/aftermath

To be fair, which one of us hasn't done that at some point or other in our lives?

BroomstickOfLove · 20/07/2017 17:49

I don't think the casual observer would be able to tell which Elektra was which.

Deianira · 20/07/2017 17:47

Hector had a very grim ending indeed - heels slit, Ajax's girdle passed through them and his body dragged behind Achilles' chariot. And the Achilles continues to abuse the body for several days.
It's a particularly grisly death/aftermath.

Yes - but he himself didn't spend as much time raping/murdering innocent people as Apollo, which has been suggested as an alternative! Hector was quite nice, really.

BogQueens · 20/07/2017 17:40

The unusual names are around 50% normal-but-foreign and 50% deliberately unusual. So one of the Elektras is Greek and one has parents who like less usual classical names

And do people respond differently to the Greek Elektra to the English-with-parents-who-like-the-Oresteia Elektra?

MarchEliza · 20/07/2017 14:58

Persephone and Perseus instead??

Not Pegasus...

BroomstickOfLove · 20/07/2017 14:54

The unusual names are around 50% normal-but-foreign and 50% deliberately unusual. So one of the Elektras is Greek and one has parents who like less usual classical names.

BogQueens · 20/07/2017 14:38

I'm finding myself strangely attracted to Charybdis. And his twin Scylla. Grin

BogQueens · 20/07/2017 14:37

I'd expect that, Broomstick. I was a bit taken aback by what was considered 'unusual' here. It's not even about people wanting to choose an unusual name, it's people of different ethnicities giving their children names that are the Sophie and John of their cultures -- e.g., my son has an Irish name which bog-standard in Ireland but very unusual in the UK. The Diletta, Thiago and Blessed I knew in London just had names from their parents' culture, not some north London desire to be zany.

MissHavishamsleftdaffodil · 20/07/2017 14:31

I live in an area full of Kayden, Kaylan, Kavan, Kayleigh, Keeley and Byron.

I suspect if I tried calling a child Charybdis around here the local WI would rough music me. Grin

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