To not always be sure if people on Baby Names are actually being serious

[Vintagejazz]

I just find it hard to believe that some of the OPs are seriously considering the names they're proposing in their posts. There is a thread on there at the moment and I'm that anyone would consider calling a baby such a name.
And I came across an old thread yesterday where posters were asked what their children were called. If some of them were serious in their replies, it would explain a lot about some of the threads

Lol @ six

A colleague of my DH is pregnant. Her son is going to be called Storm Rocco. Not my taste but we can't all like the same names. How dull would life be. My DD also has a friend called Summer Holliday.

I live in Ireland and sometimes I think we're a bit too conservative about names over here (at the moment every second baby girl seems to be called Sophie, and every boy Jack) but when I read about names like Summer Holliday I think 'well maybe we're better off'.

DD named her doll 'Shenana' (pronounced sh-nar-na) yesterday I was thinking of starting a thread...

I bet you'd have people on it tinker saying 'oh I wanted to call DD that, but DH wouldn't agree' or 'well, I'd prefer it as a middle name' which seems to be a polite way of saying 'it's shite'

I started a thread once and I was surprised at how upset I felt when no one liked my DDs name! hormones

In the end I just decided to go with it as it suits her :)

I love the baby names topic, although there is definitely a strong theme of competitiveness running through it regarding unusual names, which makes me chuckle.

I also sometimes wonder if some posters are just trying to see if they can get the more impressionable posters to call their children hebbdebbiedodah as some kind of personal challenge.

Oh no, burt, never put your own child's name on there!

I did it once and got, variously, "too try-hard", "too posh", "too chavvy" (how can it be both?!), "wasted extra 'i'" and "too long"...

I've hidden them threads to resist the urge to post on them. I hope they are trolls for the children's sake. I've heard someone locally recently registered the birth name and called their child baby bear

I bet if Jonathan Ross had posted on here to ask opinions about Betty Kitten, for example, he'd probably have been laughed off the thread, but I'm sure everyone who knows her couldn't now imagine her with any other name.

Yes, same with Bruce Willis' kids. And i love their names.