to suggest that Ben is the most drippy mans name ever?

[TenaPenny]

its just so wet.

No balloonslayer or was someone who said dan wasnt a proper name. I am now singing Andrew Lloyd webber, damn "Jacob & sons "

Some of the wettest names are nicknames though. I used to overhear a mother shouting Luke-eee. Though I used to add -an eeeebobs to my nephews name. I still do occasionally to make him laugh now he's 6ft 5

Oh dear. My husband's, brother's and son's names all appear on this thread. None of them are Ben though. And none of them are wet or poncy.

Not wet, but one name I can't imagine ever giving to a baby boy is Barry.

Hhahaha at Barry!

its like calling a madeleine Maddie moo - everyone does

Or baby Wayne, baby Malcolm, baby Brian.

Ha I've remembered the wettest of the them all, the bloody mn favourite.

StJohn or however you say it. Never heard of it before mn and it still gives me a good laugh now.

Names like StJohn and Bertie make me feel very pleased to be as common as muck.

Pissing in carrier bags, GOML? Was there a dispute over which ones were de riguer? A bag for life surely the only non leak option.

There's a guy called Max Plaxton in the Olympic mountain biking. That's a future robo-name.

It was a row because someone pissed in a carrier bag in tesco and then put it in the trolley.

It was a very odd thread but I was delighted to find MN.

There was a kid called Ulysses on the school trip I once saw-the teacher was shouting at him.

Finlay's pretty normal here - some ordinary Scottish names v posh in England, aren't they?

Ben fine. Timothy bit wet. Nathan fine if only because of Nathan Fillion.

Wow. And there was a row? With many defending the rights of people to piss in bags willy nilly?

Albert becoming Bertie, is bad, but the one I met was full name Robert and about 3. I just hope his parents saw sense before he started school.

Ann's Ben link is rather nice

Unfortunately no Nathan will ever be taken because he was my DSISs very dim BF.

Ben - I think it sounds drippy because of that Michael Jackson song. Having a friend like Ben etc... Dear me!

LOL - DH, and 2 of 3 DC have been named on here.

Tim is an interesting one - to my ears Tim sounds fin, but Timothy sounds a bit drippy. Every Tim I can think of uses Tim and not Timothy - I know a couple of Professors who are Tim, Tim Henman, Tim Berners-Lee, Tim Rice. Tim, Tim, nice but dim comes to mind, but doesn't match any I know of.

I used to think Rupert was drippy, until I shared an office with one - he was one of the most strong (physically and mentally) people I have ever met.

I knew a Nicki a long time ago. He was South African.
He got quite cross at getting letters addressed to "Miss LongCapeDutchName".

Tim Henman is the archetypal drippy Tim. Nice, sportsmanlike, but never really makes it.

If being top in your own country, and pretty highly ranked in the work in your particular profession is not making it then most of us are total failures - whatever our names are !

I have been out with a Tim, Nigel & Brian, all wet unmanly names that you feel embarrassed about when introducing them.

Why TF would you feel embarrassed about introducing someone because of their name?

A male Ashley is the kind of person to take photos of their tea and put it on Facebook with the caption "nom nom nom".

Neil is the totally drippy boys name

Neil, Neil, Orange peel.

"Brian, all wet unmanly names that you feel embarrassed about when introducing them."

I've known a few Glaswegian Brian's that could never be described as unmanly (been around smiley).