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if you shouted your kids name down the bacon aisle

159 replies

ocd · 28/07/2006 21:11

wodl poepe turn t heir head ans dhtink
"hat a twatty name"

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Twiglett · 30/07/2006 15:41

I am frantically going through characters in Lord of the Rings to find a somewhat sane name now

CountessDracula · 30/07/2006 15:39

oh and no dd's name not silly though her nickname is Weezle and I do get odd looks shouting that.

It is a risk of using an unusual or silly name that you will end up with some twit in Eastenders called by that name the week after you register it.

Blackduck · 30/07/2006 15:38

say Atticus to my son and he'd expect you to take him to our local cafe/wine bar and buy him a juice and cake

FioFio · 30/07/2006 15:38

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SpaceCadet · 30/07/2006 15:38

i dont shout my kids in supermarkets, their names are fairly common i usually get when addressing ds1, oh youve got an xx too, so i have i, is yours a right so and so??
dd1 has not used her real name for years, even her teachers address her by her choosen name.

CountessDracula · 30/07/2006 15:37

atticus is cool

atticus of mockingbird is so great that the name transcends riducle IMO

Cressida on the other hand....

Blackduck · 30/07/2006 15:33

I don't shout ds's name down the bacon aisle - I get dp to do it - thou' usually it's not necessary as the pair of them are in the magazine aisle - dp reading about computers and ds scanning Thomas the bl**dy tank engine....

HonorMatopoeia · 30/07/2006 15:30

I'd probably just get the usual 'Did you name her after a character in Lord of the Rings?' NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I DIDN'T!!!!!!! However, poor little mite gets called everything apart from her real name anyway so people would probably wonder why on earth we named her Noo Noo!!

Twiglett · 30/07/2006 15:28

I do however know of siblings called ... cressida and atticus ..

Twiglett · 30/07/2006 15:27

I love the name Maude

If I did ever go supermarket shopping, what's wrong with ocado all of a sudden? .. and hollered after my kids I would probably get a funny look for DD because we call her Moo or Mooster (although that's not her name ..but it really suits her )

MacSporran · 30/07/2006 15:17

I am constantly hollering to my dd and ds in Twatrose just as they are about to ram the children's trolley up some old biddy's ankles. They have bog standard names.

I heard "Rooney" being shouted at in the centre of town last summer.

Also met two little sisters in the library a few weeks ago called Maude and Blanche.

FioFio · 30/07/2006 15:03

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Pierre · 30/07/2006 15:02

Cod - my daughter is called Maude

drosophila · 30/07/2006 14:56

I used to work with a guy called Captain. Part of my job at the time was inspecting traders premises in an official capacity and you can imagine the reaction he got. They all thought that he was the Big Cheese. he was in fact a trainee.

fisil · 30/07/2006 14:51

exactly the same here!

fullmoonfiend · 30/07/2006 14:50

Oh Fisil, isn't it so annoying? Ds was born 6 monthsbefore this particular young star's world cup triumph. And if I was naming my son after him, I'd have called him Michael, not his bloody surname!

fisil · 30/07/2006 14:46

Grrrrr FMF - I have the same with a tennis player - ds2 was born only 6 weeks BEFORE his namesake "burst" onto the tennis scene!

fullmoonfiend · 30/07/2006 14:45

yes, taht's right; Snowman, well done!!!

(Clue: there is now a football with Ds's name as his surname, first name Michael. And if one more person asks me if I named my son after him, I may slap them.

fisil · 30/07/2006 14:45

Last week we had:

in a toy shop (from the assistant) "they are really cool names"

from a friend's neighbour, when she introduced us: "they're posh names"

I realise that I shouldn't call my children by their nicknames in Tesco, but hey, so what if they don't like Finty or Mo Mo - that's what I call them!

NotAnOtter · 30/07/2006 14:41

snowman?

fullmoonfiend · 30/07/2006 14:39

No, it rhymes with Rowan...

NotAnOtter · 30/07/2006 14:38

is it ethan? elliott?

fullmoonfiend · 30/07/2006 14:37

No, but just come back from scarborough where i found out one of my son's name is a bit 'chav' and common, judging by the amount of times we heard it being bellowed by lobster-pink women in too few clothes with mis-spelled tattoos.
(it was quite rare 8.5 years ago..!)

NotAnOtter · 30/07/2006 14:37

MY DS'S 3 AND 4 have knobby names but i love them
ds2 is Theo - i call him Boo

at the lido last week i called out'Booby' he is nine and a half - the cluster of girls he was playing with thought this hilarious
I love Terry Scott

NotAnOtter · 30/07/2006 14:33

i take it they wouldn't with yours!
do you have a William Ben AND rOBERT?