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I want to call my baby Ianto after him in Torchwood: why is everyone on my case about it??

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 14:54

I am having a boy in a month or so's time. I really like Torchwood and I want to call my boy Ianto (pronounced Yanto) after that lovely guy in Torchwood. In fact the plan is to call him Ianto Owen Tosh (and surname). Whats wrong with this? DP is being very funny with me over it and I am really starting to get the hump. They are all proper names! I am not calling him after a football team, or Ikea or Nintendo or anything!

My parents aren't speaking to me over this. And my sister says I am losing it and should not be naming my child after people in weird cult spin-offs in which people constantly have sex with anything which happens along, male, female or alien especially when it has nothing much to do with the plot. Which is really HER going off on one in typical style!

They are just names. And I LOVE them, as I love the characters.

Please give me some feedback. I am on my sister's PC so probably won't be back to thread until later this evening but it people could give me constructive feedback in the meantime I would be most grateful.

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RubberDuck · 22/02/2008 19:47

FINALLY got around to watching the episode.

ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 22/02/2008 17:22

Twas a joke I believe, Rebelmum

rebelmum1 · 22/02/2008 16:24

You shouldn't have told them it was from Torchood..

rebelmum1 · 22/02/2008 16:23

Your watching too much TV, you need to name him after someone in a classic like Yury or Heathcliffe

phlossie · 22/02/2008 16:12

Ianto's a fab name Torchwood or no Torchwood - it's your bloomin' decision... BUT, it is also your dh's decision - you can only g with something he's happy with - forget everyone else.
I bet loads of people went for Luke after Star Wars and there was no outcry about that because Luke's a much more common name.

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AuntyMable · 22/02/2008 12:15

I was just sitting here thinking why Pippin??! I don't want a terrier type at all..!

DUH!!!

I swear I have identity issues.. I never know who I'm posting as.. recipe for disaster!

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MrsCarrot · 22/02/2008 12:14

Surely Pippin would be better

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AuntyMable · 22/02/2008 12:12

[muses] I might ask DH to have his vasectomy reversed so we can have another boy and call him Ianto...

[not chuffin likely!!!)

(Re another baby, not the name!)

We may get a dog some time in the near furture. If a boy we may call HIM Ianto..

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Chuffinnora · 22/02/2008 12:07

Auntie Mabel - My brother is Ian and my Dad used to call him Ianto Full Pelt because was always rushing about.

Very good wind up though.

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AuntyMable · 22/02/2008 12:02

You can vent at me for winding you up Chuff, I don't mind, I deserve it

"Ianto" is not that diffucult surely though... it's basically IAN with TO on the when you say Ian fast it can sound like YAN. It's not phonetically non-sensible like Siobhan for instance

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Chuffinnora · 22/02/2008 11:59

Grrr read most of the thread - got nicely uppity about Ianto being a perfectly nice, easy to spell and pronounce welsh name and found out it was a joke.

I'm all revved up with no where to go now!

RubberDuck · 22/02/2008 11:56

God lol yes... that cardigan did him no favours did it...

DEFINITELY his confidence and cynical sense of humour, imo.

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AuntyMable · 22/02/2008 11:55

Wasn't it funny seeing Owen all frumpy and insecure in the Adam episode?

His attractivenss - not that he floats my boat personally - is all in his confidence, clearly!

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AitchTwoOh · 22/02/2008 11:52

not really, i've seen the eps in advance, it's nothing in the scheme of things i can assure you.

RubberDuck · 22/02/2008 11:51

No Aunty.... I'm in luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurve with Owen

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AuntyMable · 22/02/2008 11:50

Martha Rose is lovely Bobsmum

Hasn't Aitch just made it worse for you RD. not better??!?

No I'm not Rhubarb.

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bobsmum · 22/02/2008 11:45

Dh wants Martha Rose if this baby is a dd. Lovely names IMO, but he's an OG member too so would get no end of stick I think. And that's not a wind up

TotalChaos · 22/02/2008 11:43

First thought on reading OP last night - was it a Rhubarb windup . Now does Rhubarb have to write essays???

RubberDuck · 22/02/2008 11:39

Oooo...

AitchTwoOh · 22/02/2008 11:33

let me unspoil it for you, then Rubberduck, by reminding you about those wacky gloves.

RubberDuck · 22/02/2008 11:09

Yeah, but this was a thread about names ... didn't occur to be there'd be plot in it too. Have avoided the main discussion thread for a reason - just didn't occur to me not to read this one, doh.

And it's a pretty major spoiler about my favourite character - boo.

Am just feeling sorry for myself really. Carry on...

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AuntyMable · 22/02/2008 10:58

Rubberduck, to be fair, if you are behind with an episode, spoilers are going to be everywhere you see the word Torchwood; you can't really ban people from discussing it. It's a different matter to someone having watched the whole series somehow and posting about that.

I don't feel it was one of my better windups.. I was just filling a hour or so.. No disrespect whatsever to any Ianto-s out there.. I really do like the name.. the joke was really in that someone might name their child after a whole string of characters.. including tosh .. and then, when that seemed possibly believable I added in Captain Jack for good measure..

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kayzisbroody · 22/02/2008 07:49

I really like this name. I also love Torchwood(Jack is lovely). Dh suggested Ianto for our babies name if we have a boy so if you like it and can persuade Dh go for it.

expatinscotland · 21/02/2008 22:31

We haven't had a really good wind-up in ages!

Thanks for that.

twospecialgirls · 21/02/2008 19:19

this is one of those joke ones again isnt it !!!!
i really hope it is as that names awful !!(sorry) he will be called ian - to as no one will pronounce it right

it is a joke isnt it lol