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Clive

88 replies

Buttercup54321 · 12/08/2021 16:21

What do you think of Clive?
Is it old fashioned?

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bluedomino · 12/08/2021 20:52

Fucking hideous

HumphreysCorner · 12/08/2021 20:47

No, my nearly 70 year old neighbour is called Clive x

WrongKindOfFace · 12/08/2021 20:39

We’re not yet ready for baby Clives. Give it another 20 years though and the playgrounds will be filled with little Clives and Roys.

Spyro1234 · 12/08/2021 20:38

I think it's awful - sorry 😬

Violetlavenders · 12/08/2021 20:24

You can't have a baby Clive!
It'll be like bringing a middle aged man into the world.

You know that all the middle aged Clives were once babies too Grin

I like it

Yardley42 · 12/08/2021 19:56

Aw! It is old fashioned but reading your post I just thought it sounded so cute! I like it.

Reckon it's the kind of old fashioned name that will be in the next wave to come back to popularity.

reallyalurker · 12/08/2021 19:42

I can't get past the clerihew about Clive of India:

What I like about Clive
Is that he is no longer alive.
There is a great deal to be said
For being dead.

SunShinesBrightly · 12/08/2021 19:29

Yes, Nigel and Terry too.

SunShinesBrightly · 12/08/2021 19:28

Clive is in the same boat as Roy, Cliff, Ken, Keith, Wilf, Ray.

TuesdayRuby · 12/08/2021 19:26

Clive always makes me think of a smooth talker in a toupeè

TatianaBis · 12/08/2021 19:20

We have a hamster called Clive.

fatvegan · 12/08/2021 18:29

This was my father's name but I still used his middle name when I named my son. Clive is an awful name!

allycat4 · 12/08/2021 18:17

Makes me think of Hi-de-hi (shows age)

FreeSpirits · 12/08/2021 17:52

@flipflopslap

You can't have a baby Clive!

It'll be like bringing a middle aged man into the world.

Thats what people said to me when I called my son Stanley
kaleidoscopeheartless · 12/08/2021 17:44

NO NO NO NO NO NO!

flipflopslap · 12/08/2021 17:43

You can't have a baby Clive!

It'll be like bringing a middle aged man into the world.

IVflytrap · 12/08/2021 17:42

Love it!

FreeSpirits · 12/08/2021 17:39

Seems like a bit of a marmite name lol
But I really like it

FawnDrench · 12/08/2021 17:37

Clive is a brilliant name.

Moonlaserbearwolf · 12/08/2021 17:28

God no! I know a few Clives and none of them like their name.

AvantGardening · 12/08/2021 17:26

I like it. I also like Clyde if that’s better for you.

DH has vetoed both.

GoodnightGrandma · 12/08/2021 17:25

No.
I like Vinnie, but not Vincent.

Violetlavenders · 12/08/2021 17:25

Clive, better on a cat

Clive does not suit a cat imo GrinHmm

sunglassesonthetable · 12/08/2021 17:25

Not keen no. ( though I would like it on a cat as above ).

Associate it with Keith, Kevin, Nigel, Terry...

Can't believe that one day those names will be back. It's inevitable I suppose.

Violetlavenders · 12/08/2021 17:24

I like it. Strong name.

It sounds refreshing after all the cutesy Alfie, Albie, Archie, Teddie type names.