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If you're tempted to call your poor daughter Honey, please can you put Honor on the birth cert and nn her Honey 'til you go off the name Honey

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 24/04/2009 19:53

Thank you. That is all

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SoupDragon · 25/04/2009 22:05

Lockets, my only consolation is that my SIL married into the name. Dear god she must have loved my brother

If you think of the most common middle name of the 60's/70's and extrapolate a surname from the fact that Lorraine would have been worse, you're probably close. Using my MN nickname, I'd be Soup Doop.

In a strange quirk of fate (nicely pointed out by my dad in his wedding speech... thanks dad) the short version of my proper first name rhymes with my married surname I am doomed.

I can honestly say that this shaped my life/character. In real life I am painfully shy, have absolutely zero confidence and wouldn't say boo to a goose. Never underestimate the effect a poorly chosen name can have.

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 25/04/2009 22:04

Leannabanana, yes, sorry, I didn't realise that you were the OP of the other thread. I didn't think you would get so offended because you have run millions of names past us.

Sorry this all kicked off and got nasty.

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lockets · 25/04/2009 22:04

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 25/04/2009 22:02

I am not doggytowers Lockets.

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doggytowers · 25/04/2009 22:00

leannabanana You obviously have a linited vocabulary and expressed yourself accordingly.

Leannabanana · 25/04/2009 22:00

lets just put a damp cloth over this now and really annoy all the late joiners who want a fight....make love not war.....shall we do the baby finger thing that the kids do....margot whaddya say??

dizzydixies · 25/04/2009 21:58

tis time to reclaim the crowns I fear lockets

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Leannabanana · 25/04/2009 21:57

moral highground you say?? dammit....i never realised that was up for grabs here....

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 25/04/2009 21:57

It was never personal. I certainly never had a 'gun' for you. I am being hung drawn and quartered for wrong assumptions that people have made. (Not just you.)

A couple of you HAVE been nasty and personal to me. And are still being so. Latest is that I'm a fuckwit and I'm pompous

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doggytowers · 25/04/2009 21:52

leannabanana "you are suck a pompous old f*ckwit....get over yourself..."
You've just shown how foul mouthed you are and completely lost any moral high ground.

can't people debate like adults?

dizzydixies · 25/04/2009 21:51

ROFL at thought of lockets being nasty

I have the world's most basic, boring, plain names and got ribbed for it for various reasons throughout my school years and into adulthood - go figure

Leannabanana · 25/04/2009 21:51

margot i did find it very difficult to not take personal offence with the way that you seemed to have gone to gun for me in such a personal way with your IMO, inappropriately titled thread...there was adequate room to air your views on the other thread and i really did just take it with a pinch of salt and sit back and not say anything else other UNTIL you referred to either myself or the poster on the other thread who you know for sure has a daughter called Honey 'clueless'. I can assure you i am not clueless and you have IMO come across in some of your posts as a pompous f*ckwit BUT it was a bit unnecessary to voice that....so apologies for that outburst. Debate about names is all well and good but nobody likes to be told over and over that they 'cannot' call their child anything......lets all take a deep breath here and play nicely together Life is too short to fall out over something as sweet as honey....

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 25/04/2009 21:47

Leannalebanna 1) I've only just realised you were the op of the other thread, and 2) therefore, your daughter is NOT called Honey, so 3) I didn't refer to YOU as a clueless woman.

Ffs.

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ladybetts · 25/04/2009 21:46

People do make judements about names, surely that is fact?
Honey is not unusual, but that just shows there are lots of parents with poor judgement out there. It's a sometimes patronising and always sickly term of endearment. Oh yes and likely to be found on cards in phone boxes etc
People who say that negative comments about a name should not be made because so-and-so has a dc with that name, need to remember that the discussion is about the name only Why try to make it personal?
If this thread makes a handful of people think twice about such a silly name then much credit to the OP!

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TheFallenMadonna · 25/04/2009 21:42

I think Leannabanana was rather miffed at you referring to her as a 'clueless woman' TBH.

SoupDragon · 25/04/2009 21:41

There is no way that it was down to bad luck that I was teased about my name, trust me. It started in infant school and continued til I married and ditched my surname. The only way it could have been worse (using traditional, common names which mine is) was if it had been Lorraine.

Even now, if I have to give my maiden name, people snigger. Much as I love my parents, I do want to know what the hell they were thinking when they named me (I have asked, apparently my mother always wanted a girl with this name, decided it would be cruel so made it a double barrelled first name and then called me by the rhyming name anyway. AAAGGGGHHH!!)

It has made me very careful when naming my children as I am fully aware that I am saddling them with the name for life and me simply liking the name isn't enough.

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 25/04/2009 21:40

lockets, read the thread and ask yourself if you were rude and personal rude to me.

I'm debating a point here. You were personal. I would have thought that was quite easy to understand.

I've been accused of losing perspective (by a bunch of posters busy arguing with me)
I've been told I'm obsessional.
Leannalebanna says "clueless woman??? you are suck a pompous old f*ckwit....get over yourself..."

Blimey. Tbh, I feel I have the moral highground here. A couple of you got nasty and personal. So I'm going to leave you to it now. But in fairness, Leannabanana, wow, have always chatted with you on name threads in the past, what a post there. Charming.

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