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if you met someone with a baby named Bernard, what would you honestly think?

138 replies

misdee · 20/05/2008 17:44

go on!

i can take it

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edam · 20/05/2008 23:04

(off topic) ANT, he wasn't the editor when they had the big libel case, was he?

ButterflyMcQueen · 20/05/2008 23:01

i truly think it is fabulous but then it helps if you know cool men!!!

makes it uber cool in my eyes

even my ginger king is a dude in the feline world! i am proud to holler his name out the front door!

you dont know what your bb is yet do you misdee??

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misdee · 20/05/2008 22:45

i wonder if we can get a bernard revival going...

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ButterflyMcQueen · 20/05/2008 22:42

i have two GORGEOUS male friends called Bernard

dudes!!

i also have a big ginger Tomcat Bernard!!

I love love love it!

Janni · 20/05/2008 22:42

Keep thinking of the story 'Not now, Bernard'.

Bernie Taupin

Bernie Winters

Struggling really to think of any great Bernards or Bernies

ninedragons · 20/05/2008 22:31

I'd be pleased I didn't know you well enough not to blatantly steal your name for future DS.

Deeply cool.

BettySpaghetti · 20/05/2008 22:19

I just asked DP "if you met someone with a baby named Bernard, what would you honestly think?" and his response was "top move" so you've got one vote

Amapoleon · 20/05/2008 22:15

My dh calls our dd Bernard as a joke, don't ask me why.

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misdee · 20/05/2008 22:13

i had Isaac all lined up for years, and now its having a bit of a revival, i have gone off it.

i liked Alfred, but dh said it was his grandad name (i only knew him as grandad), and we have a no family names rule, so as not to upset people (and considering my mum has 10 brothers and sister average 3 kids each thats a lot of names out of the picture straight away)

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ANTagony · 20/05/2008 22:13

Its my elder sons middle name. Named after my grandfather who was an incredible man - went against his very posh family and married for love, worked hard, edited Yachting World and was an incredibly supportive husband when his wife developed Alzheimer's.

I wanted his name to be Edward Bernard (Teddy Bear for short) but a close family member before we'd mentioned names said what ever you do don't use Edward!

Piffle · 20/05/2008 22:13

Defer to hunker... En francais it is an entirely different kettle of poisson

Cappuccino · 20/05/2008 22:10

I would think "the child is called Bernard"

come on now the kids he is at school with aren't going to know what 'not now Bernard' means

that will be some ancient old thing that nobody hears about

also Blackadder and Schnorbitz

these are all the kind of things that insane aunties will say to him at weddings and funerals and no-one will know what they mean

Piffle · 20/05/2008 22:09

ah hankering to Celtic shores for a name misdee?
ah we are a family of them here!

hunkermunker · 20/05/2008 22:09

I don't think it quite goes with your DDs' names, Misdee - it's a bit "thud" after them. Bernie less so. Not sure if you'd mind that though - after all, they're separate people! I knew a wonderful Bernie - really lovely, gentle, kind man. And a French exchange dad called Bernard (v handsome) and, of course, the Blackadder thing, which I thought of first.

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misdee · 20/05/2008 22:08

lol piffle no. i had a Sinead thread the other week

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Shitemum · 20/05/2008 22:07

I'd ask you why he wasn't dressed in brown corderoy and smoking a pipe.

Thomcat · 20/05/2008 22:05

No, not a fav sugar, but I still love you, xxxxxxxx

Piffle · 20/05/2008 22:00

misdee do you suspect a boy baby then or is there some incredible thread about misdees baby being gender identified and I've missed it?

Piffle · 20/05/2008 21:59

all the bernards I've met are bastards
and 3 of them are relations
so I'd assume any child called Bernard was a future asshole!

ElizabethBeresford · 20/05/2008 21:52

I think that when I hear Arthur (which is not all that rarely) it crops up here and there. At least Bernard is properly original and not fashionyforwardy.

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misdee · 20/05/2008 21:51

lol tc, so bernard not a favourite of yours then.

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Sidge · 20/05/2008 21:50

I would think dear god, who decided to saddle a gorgeous little newborn with a hideous name like Bernard?

LyraSilvertongue · 20/05/2008 21:49

I'd think I'd been transported back to the 1920s.

Califrau · 20/05/2008 21:48

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Thomcat · 20/05/2008 21:39

ber NARd

ber NAD

how ever you say it, it ain't getting flowered up, it is never gonna be a winner.

Come on. Be serious.

Stop it.

How about Jago or Kasper or Dave. Dave is nice!