To want to shoot my friend

[liverbird10]

...for naming his daughter Tinkerbell?

I know I am actually BU as it's none of my business etc. Also shooting people is generally not the way to approach such matters.

I feel so sorry for the poor kid. She's going to go through torture at school. Not to mention thee rest of her life. Imagine a high court judge called Tinkerbell.

You're definitely going about this the wrong way...

I live near some lime pits. We'll bury the body there and the lime will eat the evidence for us.

Sometimes MN properly makes me laugh out loud

"I hope Tinkerbell grows up into a tough-as-boot-leather woman with a shaved head who wears men's suits and runs her own alligator farm."

😂^^

Will MN be legally obliged to hand over this thread as evidence?

I like it 😜

My 46yo friend is called Tink. Well, technically she isn't, she has another belle name, but no one has called her anything else since the summer of '86. She isn't actually a judge, but it hasn't affected her (professional, not arts) career at all.

Surely you would just pick a belle name and call the kid Tink as a nickname?...

I think its suspicious both Doris and the op have disappeared.

Sadly, I had to go back to work after my holiday.

No idea what Doris is up to!

Still think my mate needs feeding to pigs ASAP.

In the early 90's I taught an Angel (girl) and her sister.... Tuppence to ride horses. Shouting 'sit up, heels down Tuppence' across an arena for an hour a week was weird. Fortunately they rode with the more traditionally named Lucy 🤗

YANBU I heard a mum call her dd Tinkerbelle in the supermarket a while back; I was hoping it was a nickname

Tuppence is a name which has always puzzled me. It used to (in 1920s-1950s) be rather common in the upper class but I could never get my head around name a child after two pence.

Ozzie- people probably thought you were shouting to the horses.

OhGodWhatTheHellNow "I named my Ds after a character in the magic roundabout"

Ermintrude is a lovely name

soup Tuppence in Agatha Christie was a nickname for Prudence I seem to remember; don't know if that was the case generally

Tmi I don't believe it was a standard nickname for any one name, but could be wrong. it's a bit like Lettuce as a name. Sounds ridiculous to us now but it really wasn't all that unusual back then.

Ozzie
Tuppence is a successful actress now.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuppence_Middleton

Tuppence Middleton was born on 21 February 1987 in Bristol, England, to Nigel and Tina Middleton.[1] She was named "Tuppence" after the childhood nickname her grandmother gave to her mother.[2] She was raised in Clevedon, Somerset,[3] with younger brother Josh and older sister Angel

In the Magic Roundabout - the stoned rabbit was named after the singer, who in turn took it from the poet, so yes in deed - the DS is actually named after the poet. even though its in a very roundabout way

I always thought Lettuce was short for Letitia, as was Letty. One of my grandmother's friends was known to me as Aunt Lettuce, and I'm pretty sure that on that famly tree, she's down as Letitia.

Lettice*

I know someone who called her daughter Heaven-Lee

I know it's not my business, but I can't help but cringe for the poor kid

My mums a teacher and she has a girl student called Star which always stood out to me :)

Still think my mate needs feeding to pigs ASAP

Have you any update? Is she officially Tinkerbelles mum? I wonder what would constitute an intervention by the registrar. Probably names like ShitHead.

Lois It's the baby's dad insisting on Tinkerbell as a name, not his mum, although she is obviously equally complicit. It's all official. Poor little mite.

Are there any Registrars around? Are you allowed to try to discourage stupid names, or is comment banned? There must surely be times when it's really difficult to keep a straight face.

Oh well, good luck to them, what can you do?