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Does anyone read the Times birth announcements?

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deaddei · 13/01/2010 10:58

There are some corking names there. Walter appeared yesterday- haven't seen that for a while.
Also the obituaries have some lovely old names- most people seem to be about 93 when they die.
(I obviously have far too much time on my hands)

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StrictlyKatty · 04/03/2010 16:46

My 2 special names are on there as siblings. Clearly someone's DH is more reasonable than mine!

allydennis · 04/03/2010 13:06

brilliant link mrs w - thanks...

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Xavielli · 20/01/2010 22:52

Very nearly wet myself with glee @ Hatch, Match and Dispatch...

Very good, very good. applause

DitaVonCheese · 20/01/2010 22:34

Loving that list - though I am also very taken with A-Go-Go

I read the Telegraph announcements in my granny's paper most days, no one I know takes the Times, though I did find them online the other day.

Favourite Telegraph one so far is Kingsley Paddington, though I am reeling a bit from Aliena the other day (how do you even pronounce it?).

pranma · 19/01/2010 21:08

Versasi!!! a variation on Versace maybe

sweetkitty · 19/01/2010 17:28

Just found DSs name - Pacey-Jay although Bradley-Soul is lovely too

MrsvWoolf · 19/01/2010 12:15

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SnotBaby · 18/01/2010 16:41

The only vaguely classic name in the "bonny babies" list is Leland, and the only popular use of Leland that I can think of is Laura Palmer's dad in Twin Peaks. :/

pickupthismess · 18/01/2010 16:20

Sure it wasn't Lakeland?

crumpet · 18/01/2010 16:17

Lakelan is fantastic!

crumpet · 18/01/2010 16:17

O.M.G. at the bonny babies

pickupthismess · 18/01/2010 16:07

My kids were in The Times (but only because we all read it). They have 'normal' names though unlike their cousin Ludo.

sowhatis · 18/01/2010 15:49

this thread is hilarious!!! loving some of those names!

JumpJockey · 18/01/2010 15:36

The best birth announcement I ever read in the Times was for a girl that said "Millicent A-Go-Go Frenegonde. Welcome little one"

I still think it was the person who does the column doing it for a dare.

campion · 18/01/2010 15:30

Can't wait to teach that lot

Bucharest · 17/01/2010 11:32
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shockers · 17/01/2010 09:38

I think Hony Boo might have been Honey Boo as well... not half as much fun.

MamaLazarou · 16/01/2010 21:51

Surely Chole is a typo, though...?

CHOLE?

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PollyPoo · 16/01/2010 19:47

I have to say I'd prefer Alfred H J B to most all of the bonny babies ones.

PollyPoo · 16/01/2010 19:40

What about this one from the Times last week...

Alfred Huckleberry Jack Beowulf Middlemiss. Brilliant!

thesecondcoming · 16/01/2010 19:25

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bamboostalks · 16/01/2010 19:14

That list is a wind up surely? I really cannot believe it.

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