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Oh god....I can't stop loving the name Tostig...but i can't, can I?

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minouminou · 02/07/2008 11:22

Can I?
Be as blunt as y'all like.

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mamalovesmojitos · 04/07/2008 21:42

i love it.

mrsbabookaloo · 04/07/2008 12:31

Lulubai: I love your name: is just a cool spelling of Lullaby or is it after the lullaby that goes "lula lula bye bye"..?

Actually, that's almost dd's name: so she does have quite a silly name anyway...

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minouminou · 03/07/2008 21:40

Tostig is off the table, guys
Except for in my imagination...............

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zookeeper · 03/07/2008 18:42

Really awful - he'll be a tosser or a tosticle through school.

EyeballsintheSky · 03/07/2008 18:39

I don't know what the German for toasty is, but tostig sounds like it should be it. Kind of like it though...

MmeLindt · 03/07/2008 18:18

I know a family here with a Torben. There DCs have fab names. Torben's twin sister is Viviane. The older sisters are Rebecca and Berenike.

The names appeal to me but I would never have used them as they are so unusual (apart from Rebecca).

Wouldn't it be great if we could call our DCs what we want without anyone sniggering.

I always liked Gretl and Liesl when I was younger (can you tell that my mum liked the Sound of Music?) but DH fell of his seat laughing when I told him that.

It just occured to me that all the old fashioned names of the children are popular again. We have a Martha, Friedrich, Greta and Maria in our Kindergarten.

LuLuBai · 03/07/2008 12:24

I knew a Silky when I was little. And she wasn't an 'imaginary friend'. Or German for that matter. I think her father was American.

I love the idea of a thread for imaginary children's names though. I generally put those names aside for possible future cats, but as I can only ever contemplate having a rescue cat all my cats tend to come ready named.

ravenAK · 02/07/2008 23:22

He wasn't even a very nice character in the Julian Rathbone novel!

It'd never work. Stigan would be OK. I imagine any teenage boy would rather be called 'Stig' than 'Tosser'.

piratecat · 02/07/2008 23:19

Torben ?

harpomarx · 02/07/2008 23:19

'Itchy and Scratchy' of course

harpomarx · 02/07/2008 23:18

lol at Pocket and Silky, mrsbabookaloo.

tres bizarre, really!

couldn't you get a couple of hamsters, would be perfect for them. Or Siamese cats. Yes, I can see the tv series now - kind of like 'Itchy and Scratch' but with two sleek and sadistic moggies...

mrsbabookaloo · 02/07/2008 23:13

Thanks bikerunski; I was just thinking about that the other day, and thinking..."Even if I told people that it was German, I still couldn't get away with it."

I'm not really losing any sleep over it...but if you knew what my surname was...it sounds v cool.

Imagine my surname is "Rainbow"... Pocket Rainbow, Silky Rainbow... brilliant, non?

bikerunski · 02/07/2008 21:33

"By mrsbabookaloo on Wed 02-Jul-08 11:49:31
No, you can't. I do see why you like it. But I like Pocket and Silky and I've just had to resign myself that they are names for imaginary children and not to be inflicted on real ones"

There's a German girl's name Silke, pronounced "Silka". In case you have real children rather than just imaginary ones!

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minouminou · 02/07/2008 20:49

this ikea business is making me have a quiet chuckle, as my surname was a range of bedroom furniture a few years back
do you think i should just go for it and then demand huge discounts from said store, as i'm clearly advertising?!

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MmeLindt · 02/07/2008 20:03

No, you really cant.

Torsten is ok, quite popular here in Germany.

Tostig is Ikea Bargain of the Week

Hulababy · 02/07/2008 19:57

No, not keen sorry.

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minouminou · 02/07/2008 19:51

ghaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaghggggghghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
don't talk me back into it!

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Anglepoise · 02/07/2008 17:52

I rather like it. But then I think Stig of the Dump was fab and therefore the connotations don't bother me!

Desiderata · 02/07/2008 15:59

I just think tosser.

Sorry.

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minouminou · 02/07/2008 15:58

stigmata?

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minouminou · 02/07/2008 15:56

well, this is it.....we may well find out it's a girl at 20 weeks, then it'll be academic
stigella, tostette?
(i am jesting btw).

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pookamoo · 02/07/2008 15:49

Stig of the dump was written in 1963 so it's been around for 45 years already...
I like both Tostig and Stigand, but then, like MrsBabookaloo the names "Derra" and "Tomlin" were on my list for imaginary children. Funnily enough now I'm PG I didn't even think of them!

There's an idea for a whole new thread!
"What names (real or made up) would you give your DC in an ideal world?"...

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minouminou · 02/07/2008 14:46

well, yeah, but i don't think stig o't dump will be in anyone's frame of reference in a few years
I'm not talking myself back into it here...honest

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MrsMattie · 02/07/2008 14:40

Reminds me of Stig of the Dump.

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minouminou · 02/07/2008 14:38

I don't like the name ptolemy, i'm afraid, wilbur, but thanks for suggestion.
I'm not now considering tostig....well, i am, but i won't use it.
sigh.............chunky little blondie thing..........i can see him now

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