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Baxter?

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meadowlarks · 23/06/2010 17:08

WDYT? I like the 1920's NY feel to it, but I realise it may qualify as being in the "LOL WTF" category.

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Horton · 27/06/2010 14:30

I thought soup, too. Sorry. But there are worse associations so if you love it, then why not? People tell me my daughter has a cat's name but I'd rather she had a cat's name than a beetle's name or an elephant's name, IYSWIM.

JennyPiccolo · 27/06/2010 13:02

my brother had a mate at school called Baxter who was well hairy. He got called Chewbaxter.

too funny.

Effjay · 26/06/2010 16:07

Kitty My first thought was Baxter Dury too (son of Ian Dury of Ian Dury and the Blockheads fame ICYWW!!) Very cool in that context! Like it for that reason

scottishmummy · 26/06/2010 16:01

baxters= granny tinned soup.imagine the titters of derision upon shouting "baxter come in for yer tea"

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meadowlarks · 26/06/2010 15:55

OK, so I see soup nor dog names being entirely popular on here

Diplodoris - Thanks for the list, I'm already thinking about Arthur, Stanley, Louis and Clyde. Floyd is one of my guilty pleasures actually, if I could get away with it, I would.

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Loriycs · 26/06/2010 01:08

baxter...reminds me of grange hill!

muminthemiddle · 25/06/2010 23:41

Sounds like either a dog or soup.

KittyBigglesworth · 25/06/2010 22:28

Are you liking it for the rock n' roll association? Baxter Dury? Remembering that iconic photo of the two of them in front of a shopfront.

CakeandRoses · 25/06/2010 21:13

Love the suggestion of Rex!

mrsfred · 25/06/2010 18:31

My dog is called Baxter. We think it suits him... he is big and ginger, has very floppy ears and weighs over 42 kilos.

diplodoris · 25/06/2010 18:19

A few names popular in the USA in the 1920s.

Donald
Frank
Walter
Henry
Eugene
John
Edward
Arthur
Albert
Ralph
Clarence
Franc is
Herbert
Lawrence
Ernest
Alfred
Stanley
Samuel
Louis
Eugene
Leo
Edwin
Floyd
Lloyd
Elm er
Frederick
Cliffod
Theodore
Clyde
Alvin
Philip
Leon
Lewis
Martin
Victor
Peter

Tidey · 25/06/2010 18:17

I overheard a woman call her son Baxter on the Tube. I think it's got problems. The soup issue for one, but my immediate thought was that it would be tempting for bullies to use in a nasty way cos it sounds like a naughty word: 'He's a complete baxter' 'I don't like him, he's a little baxter'. D'you see?

That might just be my odd imagination though.

KittyBigglesworth · 25/06/2010 18:10

Baxter would be good for a character. I associate it with names like Dexter, Murdoch, Declan.
My first thought was Biddy Baxter, of Blue Peter and then a grandmother stirring soup in an old cottage kitchen.
Buster is awful. It has very thuggish associations and worst still - Phil Collins!!

mathanxiety · 25/06/2010 16:31

Rex? Franklin? Jay?

CakeandRoses · 25/06/2010 09:19

I once knew of a rather unpleasant shellsuit-wearing 'gentlemen' whose dog (a bull terrior natch) was named Baxter. So for me it is forever connected with that type of chap and actually not soup at all.

Soup would be preferable.

Buster - nooo!

cityangel · 24/06/2010 23:45

What about Harper?

Magalyxyz · 24/06/2010 22:45

I prefer Buster

MrsvWoolf · 24/06/2010 22:14

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IwishIwasmoreorganised · 24/06/2010 21:46

Baxter = soup

Buster = dog.

Get your thinking cap on again OP

janeite · 24/06/2010 21:37

Sorry but I agree that Buster is even worse than Baxter.

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meadowlarks · 24/06/2010 19:55

Floopy - Cheers I'm surprised the response for Baxter has been so overwhelmingly negative actually, but not for Buster xD

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Floopy21 · 24/06/2010 15:33

A lone voice of dissention...I love Baxter. Original & cool. Most people have name associations for lots of different reasons (can't name my child Rueben for example). I don't think of dogs or soup!

flopsy1974 · 24/06/2010 11:38

Reminds me of soup. Not keen sorry.

MmeLindt · 24/06/2010 08:33

Terrible. Sorry. Made me think of soup.

Buster is even worse. Good name for an English Bulldog, not so good for a child.

flibbertigibbert · 24/06/2010 08:16

Buster, Baxter, Dexter... they all sound like dog's names to me, sorry.