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What do you think of Tasker?

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Buntyray · 19/02/2010 11:14

Anyone know another Tasker.....?

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yellowcircle · 02/03/2010 18:07

Ridiculous

birdofthenorth · 02/03/2010 18:06

Makes me think of Talisker, which is a bit like naming your baby Glen Morangie. Sorry!

remaincalm · 01/03/2010 14:05

Not for me I'm afraid.

Pineapplechunks · 01/03/2010 13:46

Awful.

venusonarockbun · 01/03/2010 13:44

stupid-sounding beyond belief.

Sophie78 · 01/03/2010 13:37

I knew a horse of this name!

jabberwocky · 27/02/2010 04:50

MrsJohnson, love Amelie. You may want to consider your own thread as it will be hard to sort out which responses are to you and which to the OP.

thesecondcoming · 27/02/2010 01:26

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RoseWater · 27/02/2010 00:20

Name of a shop in nearby town

MrsJohnson · 27/02/2010 00:17

What do you think of these names? Our surname is Johnson......

For a girl: Amelie Florence

For a boy: Iestyn Miles

Appreciate your thoughts x.

thereyet · 21/02/2010 18:39

Tasker? Sounds like a lower managment job title at multi-national monolith corporation. Have another go.

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Buntyray · 20/02/2010 18:44

And Sonnet - so pleased to hear there's another and yes, we pronounce it the same.

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Buntyray · 20/02/2010 18:43

Love the comments! And he's 10 months old. It's Welsh. The head of the RFU used to be Sir Tasker Watkins. He has a statue in Cardiff. It's a name I came across with DH a long time ago - about 15 years in fact - long before we had kids. And my mother also used to talk about Tarka the otter which used to give me very cold feet, but now that Tasker is here - it all seems quite normal. And because we live in the Middle East - everyone has such funny names, noone bats an eyelid.

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Sonnet · 19/02/2010 21:21

I know a Tasker...I always presumed he was called after a "surname"

But the Prep School Mums called hiam Tasker ( not Tarsker) even though we're in the south!

(He is a lovely boy BUT Don't do it I say!)

Toggy · 19/02/2010 21:17

Surely you can't choose a name based on these sharp comments?

Look up Sir Tasker Watkins for a truely inspirational Tasker

mathanxiety · 19/02/2010 14:29

Hang on, that's Tuskar.

mathanxiety · 19/02/2010 14:29

A big rock off Wexford with a lighthouse on it.

MaggieMaeve · 19/02/2010 13:15

I agree with Duchesse! got to be one of Sarah Palin's children!

Normally I don't like 'er' names (sur names) as first names. I could rearrange my face in to a bland 'oh that's nice' for some of them though. Spencer and Fraser are nice. Cooper ,Carter, Thatcher,Parker, Hunter, all dreadful.

mrsvwoolf · 19/02/2010 12:49

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Ziggurat · 19/02/2010 12:45
Grin
paisleyleaf · 19/02/2010 12:44

I know a girl called Talisker (after the distillery I guess)
LOL at multi tasker!!

duchesse · 19/02/2010 12:41

Oh god, Ziggurat just said it before me.

duchesse · 19/02/2010 12:40

Yuk. Sounds like one of Sarah Palin's boys.

thumbwitch · 19/02/2010 12:39

just remembered that one of the Hogs in Terry Pratchett's The Hogfather is called Tusker - a bit too close for comfort.

Ziggurat · 19/02/2010 12:34

Makes me think of that penchant some Americans have for choosing random nouns and assigning them to their children as names.

See Sarah Palin for the definitive list of said nouns:

Track
Trig
Bristol
Willow
Piper

The last 2 not as bad, but the first three? Come on...