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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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EyeballsintheSky · 20/05/2008 19:25

Nursey here too, but that's not to say I'm dead against it...

MadBadandDangeroustoKnow · 20/05/2008 19:23

I think it's fine. It is

a) a saint
b) quaint (like Stanley, Arthur and Archie, of which we have a lot around here)
c) not a place name
d) not a surname
e) obviously not generated by mixing syllables from your, your partner's and the goldfish's name or however it is that people create 'unique' names

If you like it, go for it!

yesno · 20/05/2008 19:21

Is it Bernard matthews corny ads on TV? from years ago

Kimi · 20/05/2008 19:20

That he was santas head elf

ElizabethBeresford · 20/05/2008 19:17

I know of THREE Stanleys WT. All under 5. I like the name. Two are in London say no more and one is a relative.

funnypeculiar · 20/05/2008 19:17

I would think of my little brother - it's his middle name - after a much loved uncle of my mum's who died the day before he was born.

WanderingTrolley · 20/05/2008 19:15

I love names like that

I am on a one idiot woman campaign for someone to call their son Stanley, so you may consider my opinion mad void.

suedonim · 20/05/2008 19:13

I'd think they were joking. Then I'd think "Not Now..."

jasper · 20/05/2008 19:08

I like it!
cool name but not one of those ridiculous modern made up ones.

Candlewax · 20/05/2008 18:51

I have to say my favorite Uncle in all the world is called Bernard and you could not wish to meet a kinder, gentler more charming person. So I am biased and think it is a brilliant name.

NotABanana · 20/05/2008 18:47
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ButterflyBessie · 20/05/2008 18:46

I would think "why didn't she call the poor thing Kennedy instead"

MaloryBoden · 20/05/2008 18:44

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Blu · 20/05/2008 18:42

Would sound good as pronounced in France, though. And France is nearer than America, so he might go more often.

vermilion · 20/05/2008 18:40

I'd think "Oh how cool" because I know a very cool guy called Bernard - he is in his sixties and he's been a fabulous person for a good chunk of my life.
We always called him Bernardo or Bernard. Never Bernie.

NotABanana · 20/05/2008 18:39

I would think he has been named after grandad/great grandad.

MaloryBoden · 20/05/2008 18:38

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TheFallenMadonna · 20/05/2008 18:37

I would also think of Blackadder. Or Four Weddings and a Funeral. And probably say it to myself in an exaggerated fashion

DarthVader · 20/05/2008 18:33

It's cute

Gobbledigook · 20/05/2008 18:32

I would think of nursey in Black Adder II

expatinscotland · 20/05/2008 18:32

she lives is California. but she is Welsh.

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lucyellensmum · 20/05/2008 18:29

i would think of my dad!! cos that was his name BUT sorry to say he had everyone call him tony when he was younger

edam · 20/05/2008 18:24

Misdee, if you do go for Bernard, please promise you will NOT get a dog named Schnorbitz. Please.

bidibidi · 20/05/2008 18:23

Unusual. Nothing wrong with unusual.