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Moriarty

34 replies

loveofotters · 16/06/2009 21:35

My oh is set on this, if not for a first name then a middle.
I was pleased with the comments our (probable) girl's name received: Joyce Isabella.
So what do you think of Moriarty for a boy?

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Thunderduck · 16/06/2009 21:35

No. It's awful and it immediately makes me think of the villain from Sherlock Holmes.

nickytwotimes · 16/06/2009 21:36

Why, it's elementary, ,y dear.

Grammaticus · 16/06/2009 21:39

Definitely connotations of evil, sorry

Bonneville · 16/06/2009 21:42

Farty Moriarty.

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loveofotters · 16/06/2009 21:43

I was hoping few people would have heard of the CD Moriarty

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chubbymummy · 16/06/2009 21:47

At first glance I thought it said Mortuary!

womma · 16/06/2009 21:49

It's awful - hope it's a girl!

Thunderduck · 16/06/2009 21:54

Joyce Isabella is a truly beautiful name. Moriarty is not I'm afraid.

pointydog · 16/06/2009 21:56

wasn't he also the dick in kerouac's On the Road?

Greensleeves · 16/06/2009 21:57

Moriarty isn't for me, personally.

How about Malachy?

Thunderduck · 16/06/2009 22:03

Malachy was that creepy child from Children Of The Corn.

Greensleeves · 16/06/2009 22:04

well yes, but also countless thousands of other children, many of them Irish

Thunderduck · 16/06/2009 22:07

whispers..I think it's a horrible name.

playftseforme · 16/06/2009 22:09

not nice, sorry

janeite · 16/06/2009 22:12

Dreadful. Sorry.

Joyce Isabella is nice.

pasturesnew · 16/06/2009 22:12

hilarious DH suggestion! No way.

MoominMymbleandMy · 16/06/2009 22:12

I would think of the Reichenbach Falls, I'm afraid.

I think Mycroft would be much nicer, and he was even cleverer than Sherlock.

Boco · 16/06/2009 22:16

If we're going fictional villains, how about Fu Man Chu?

nigglewiggle · 16/06/2009 22:18

The Hooded Claw?

slowreadingprogress · 16/06/2009 22:19

it's hysterical! If your other half wants a child named after a pathological criminal mastermind, then.....

but I think you may as well call a child 'Hitler'

Tambajam · 16/06/2009 22:23

Evil villain.

BelleWatling · 16/06/2009 22:29

I LOVE it!

Seriously

VeryAnnieGertie · 17/06/2009 08:56

He's fallen in the water!

MachuPicchu · 17/06/2009 08:59

It just makes me think

'are you there Moriarty, are you there?'

Sorry

bettybeetroot · 17/06/2009 10:42

my dh calls ds Moriarty when he is being naughty (which is alot at the moment!) dh says my fil called him this also as a child when he was being a brat!