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Myrtle

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tummytickler · 26/06/2009 14:22

What do you think of the name Myrtle?

OK, i am ready - give it to me straight!

Possibly Jean as a mn.

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Greensleeves · 28/06/2009 17:35

I think Myrtle is really sweet!

janeite · 28/06/2009 17:34

Not good imho.
Jean not great either, sorry.

TheChilliMoose · 28/06/2009 17:31

Reminds me Moaning Myrtle from Harry Potter. It's not the bast name IMO. As for Myrtle Jean: no way. It's old fashioned and ugly sounding.Campion is right. Jean is dowdy.

boodleboot · 28/06/2009 17:21

Myrtle Jean sounds lovely to me. MJ is a great nickname should she hate it.

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womma · 26/06/2009 20:38

Portblack - deffo not you then, phew! The Myrtle mini owner I know is a complete bag, and you seem far too nice.

mrswoolf · 26/06/2009 20:37

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dawntigga · 26/06/2009 20:34

Sorry meant to add for mrytle, jean is fine

BTW mrytles a very nice plant

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dawntigga · 26/06/2009 20:33

Erm straight you say? Do you want to have your dd getting the cr*p beaten out of them every day verbally?

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SugarSkyHigh · 26/06/2009 20:18

Myrtle.... Just.Appallling.

Jean - i don't know, i rather like it. I suppose I think of Jean Shrimpton, who was the Most Beautiful Woman Ever.

or how about Jeanne?

Frasersmum123 · 26/06/2009 20:16

Yuck - its awful. When I was a student I lived on Myrtle Avenue and the houses were drab and horrid!

campion · 26/06/2009 19:15

at Tambajam. Awful. Jean is just...err...a bit dowdy. ( Yes, I know some lovely women called Jean too, though they're all over 70)

angrypixie · 26/06/2009 18:17

Bleugh!

Nancy66 · 26/06/2009 17:57

Don't like it - just doesn't have a nice sound.

I like Jean though.

Tambajam · 26/06/2009 17:52

I don't like it. Sounds like someone spitting out a bad olive.

MIAonline · 26/06/2009 17:49

The first thing that popped into my head was myrtle the turtle.

Really don't like it, sorry.

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tummytickler · 26/06/2009 17:35

Oh - it was me posting about Jean a while back too - it is still in our top 3 (along with Hilda and Aphra).
Maybe I am ghastly

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mumzy · 26/06/2009 17:35

Moaning Myrtle is a jokey character in Harry Potter and not a good one I think the potential for teasing will be high

elvislives · 26/06/2009 17:19

You can't be serious?!

What's with this fashion for Jean too? It's ghastly.

Thunderduck · 26/06/2009 16:58

Noooo. It's awful.

MamaLazarou · 26/06/2009 16:48

It's a brilliant name.

Fimbo · 26/06/2009 16:29

It's also the name of a street where I live

niccibabe · 26/06/2009 16:26

How about one of these instead?

Mirren
Miriam
Mariam
Mariama
Marianne

stillstanding · 26/06/2009 16:20

No, seriously, no

piscesmoon · 26/06/2009 16:19

It suits a mini. I think that a person would have to be about 60yrs before they 'grew' into it!

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