Best name suggestion I've seen for the newborn drain on the taxpayer...

[SolidGoldBrass]

I popped into a pub this afternoon for a wee and a pint and they had a Royal Baby Name sweepstake board behind the bar.

Someone had suggested 'Dodi.'

I thinks she's on a wind up tbh.

Well at least I hope she is.

Just one little miniature bottle of vodka,Toys?

Hmm, tempting. I am eyeing up the beer tbh. All cold and yummy. And cold... hmmm...

OK so the Dodi joke is unacceptable because people are reading it as someone saying 'how hilarious if he was named after someone who died in a horrible car accident'?

Not just, as someone else said, that the royals just weren't keen on the bloke generally so they would have to grit their teeth at the name because of that?

I would have thought the humour (such as it is, there's not a lot!) came from him having being an unpopular addition to the fringes of the royal family, not the way he died.

Really the idea that the joke is all about a car accident is an very odd conclusion to jump to and possibly says a lot more about the people objecting than anyone else!

If there's some unwritten rule that says even suggesting the idea that a baby be named after someone who's died tragically is sick, then how do you explain the baby's actual second middle name (Louis)?!

Scottishmummy, people do that to you all the time.

I don't think I've ever actually lobbed dog's dinner personal insults at you, although I admittedly disagree with you VEHEMENTLY and VOCIFEROUSLY on most threads. There's still time though .

Now I've got "Say Say Say" going round in my head. I'm getting that beer. Pretty sure they sell the same ones in the local shops, so will restock before checking out.

sm you seem to have a fan

And I do now think you're right, actually, usual.

I have a fan too! Just sat in the corner there.

Oh, I AM a fan. Huge! Who doesn't look forward to SM's perpetually scintillating and aphoristic ejaculations? I'm not being funny .

Maca: Are you as inefficient as my fan? You certainly seem to be noisier. How are your blowing skills? My fan has some room for improvement..

I love the sheer fuckwittery of mn outbursts. The histrionics
As if Recipient will say oh yea,thanks. I'll take that Feedback on board
Genuinely laugh out loud funny esp when peppered with psychobabble dribble

Bunt, you do talk some shite. Where did I say that republics were all flowers and rainbows?? It's the bread and circuses shit that gets me - no job? No benefits? Don't worry, this baby's just been born so let's have a party.

If you want to swallow the bullshit go ahead but why the hell should I leave the country I was born in just because I vehemently disagree with a hereditary head of state?

It's such an unbelievably crap argument but gets trotted out time and time again by royalists who have little else to say.

Drat, I missed the rant that got deleted. Was it a good one? Was it even better than the delicious piece of information I have just received, to the effect that in Scotland a reasonably common 'short form'/nickname for George is.... Dodi?

Sm, what season of Frasier are you on now?

You've not missed owt,usual indignant youse a baddie and offend sensibilities of all

Solid: It was rather uninteresting. Boring and contrived, really.

"Dodi" is not a Scottish nickname for George!

That would be "Dod" pronounced Dode.

Not the same at all.

Who told you that?

they were wrong

Naw,never heard that as diminutive of George
SomeOne yanking your chain

A dodi (dodee) is a common term for a dummy

Or pacifier practising my American ready for the move

scottish - round these parts the older generation used Dod for George.

And "Peem" for James.

No idea why!

Dod , Dode, near enough to make me chortle

Dod, as in dough-ed apparently but that's not dodi

CEO - be a dear and stfu if your going to rant on so. I haven't suggested anyone leave the country. And I am as entitled to an opinion as anyone else. Fortunately I tend to proffer it in a much more manageable and less crazed tantruming manner than you appear able to do so.

On the other hand, this had moved on quite nicely and become fairly friendly.

SM:Well, Dod is close enough to be amusing.