what would you think if you met a boy called...

My ds is called Alexander shortened to Xander and i promise he has no allergies and i'm not that precious

< for TRM. Will pop over. Thanks Maggie>

lol @ pandavark and her Reuben comment!

I think Clark was the best of the list. I hate Reuben, makes me think of a boy with skin like a pink meat sandwich.

I agree with Maggie about the allergy faking type. i know a few mothers like that. their children never have a cold, always a "chest infection".

ps, math, pop over to the NPD thread if you have a moment. It's been resserected. TRM's x has tracked her down and read her posts on the Irish forum so she can't post there for a bit.

I thought Paddy McPaddyson was quite funny. When I was living in the UK I wouldn't have used anything 'ultra Irish' either. So I know what she means too, and I don't enjoy being offended .

lockets my niece is Kitty so we can't have that one anyway but thanks for the warning.

maggie you have only dug yourself in deeper whilst 'apologising'.

And yes I probably did 'love' to talk about Rosie's excema- could be due to the fact that every fucker on the street stopped me asking questions about 'What had I done to her face?' and the fact that she didn't sleep for m ore than a few hours for a year, we spent many a night washing blood off her bedding/clothes and explaining why her hands were always covered up.

Clearly all in my imagination.

Paddy MacPaddyson?

I think Paddy's a great name. Clark, I would say noooo. Gregor I like.

Oisin is a nice baby boy name -- I just can't imagine anyone over 5 being taken seriously with a name like Oisin. Owen, Eoin or Eoghan, on the other hand, I can imagine at various stages of life.

Have you considered Ronan? Killian /Cillian? Lorcan? Declan? Anton? There are loads of nice Irish names for boys that sound masculine and grown-up.

Eoghan is not Owen. They sound alike, but Eoghan means Eugene.

Maxim to me is a magazine with nekkid girls.

Like Clark. Like Gregor.

I rather like Clark and I do not know of any so probably highly individual and I like that too.

But I like Yorke better!

hugh is much gay er !!

Hugo is nice. Hugh is nicer. Clark isn't very masculine IMO

I love Gregor.

But I do imagine he would not watch Tv until he was 7yrs old (and only then David Attenborough docunemtaries), he would only have wooden toys and transfats would never pass his lips.

Still love it though.

Love Hugo too. He would be less delictae than Gregor or Xavier though, and would live an almost ferral life in the large tree house and build go carts from the old silver cross prams and build dens and dams in the wood at the end of the garden.

I think most of us knew what Maggie meant, and don't imagine she actually laughs at kids with life treatneing illnesses or tried to kill her brother.

Or maybe she does and did.

to get back to the OP, I love 'Clark' as a name. It would suit boy, baby and adult.
Is male, friendly not too common or unusual. Everyone would know how to spell it. I'd like to call a boy of mine that if I hadn't stopped at 3.

Love it.

No, I fibbed a bit there. I watched Rebecca last night and Maxim was played by Charles Dance who I do like - a lot. I think I may have been swayed a bit, temporarily!

lockets i do not at all believe it but...if i search hard enough there was a piece in torygraph last week about adult 'allergies' HUGE proportion were not actually allergic - shockingly big

Yes, it's become a weird old thread, that's for sure. One innocuous post and whoosh - off it goes. Ho hum.

Still don't like Clark, Reuben, Zander or Xavier, but love Hugo. And Maxim. Just without the allergies

What's wrong with Irish names Two4One? and what's an ultra-Irish name? How prejudiced...

And seeing as you ignored my admission that I'd made a bad joke, and my request for a truce (white flag?) I might as well go ahead and tell you that you are missing a very important point here. If there weren't so many people going around pretending to be allergic to things then when people were genuinely truly allergic to something it would be taken more seriously than it is.

THere is a kind of cumulative 'cry wolf' syndrome in effect with allergies now. Every second person claims to be allergic to something. And they're not at all.

I think you imagine I go 'round trying to trick children into eating nuts. This is obviously an issue which is overwhelming you, but it is not MY fault tbh. I am totally supportive of anybody whose child has a real allergy.

AGain, I can't quite believe I am having this conversation on a names thread....

Balloon, at the end of that post I said "white flag?".

I can't believe the way this thread has turned out. If I hadn't known my xbil very well, well enough to know that he was full of munchausens bullshit, then I wouldn't have done it. Anyway, he's alive and well I assure you.