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i REALLY dont like the name my sister has named her baby

314 replies

juliaroberts · 03/03/2008 21:21

i know people will say its none of my business but i will be watching him when she goes back to work and i really cant imagine myself shouting this name out around tesco's.

is there ever a right time to tell someone the name they have chosen is terrible or is it always best to not say a thing.

i can see his whole life being spoilt by this name (yes it is that bad)

OP posts:
onebatmother · 04/03/2008 15:12

those are my eyebrows in the middle of easily-adaptable btw. They are arched in pain at the terrible playground memories that are only now resurfacing.

theyoungvisiter · 04/03/2008 15:16

rofl!!

Well I have a very NON adaptable surname and people still managed to make an, ahem, "humorous" nickname out of it.

I think the sad truth is that if you are going to get teased at school, you will be teased about something. The Queen Bee can be called Penelope Poomeister and no-one will say a word as long as she rules the roost, whereas the poor unpopular child can be called Elizabeth Smith-Foss and she'll become Lizzy Spit-Face. Or else they'll just tease about something else.

onebatmother · 04/03/2008 15:18

Elizabeth Smith-Foss is jolly specific, visiter. You wouldn't, by any chance, be...?

Twinkie1 · 04/03/2008 15:21

Bloody Hell - its a lovely name - if you said that to me I would laugh at you - what is so horrid about it?

theyoungvisiter · 04/03/2008 15:25

NO!!! Definitely NOT! And [disclaimer] I do not know any Elizabeth Smith-Foss (wracks memory wildly to make sure there isn't some hidden subconscious primary school friend lurking there)

It was just an example from my fertile imagination

VictorianSqualor · 04/03/2008 15:25

Oooh, I know OBM's surname.

onebatmother · 04/03/2008 15:29

HOW????? you bugger VS. Give me a first letter, dammit, or I won't believe you.

theyoungvisiter · 04/03/2008 15:30

dammit now I want to know!

Let me guess - were you Penelope Poomeister after all?

onebatmother · 04/03/2008 15:31

ABSOLUTELY NOT. Do I have the scent of Queen Bee about me visiter?

theyoungvisiter · 04/03/2008 15:37

Wendy Windermeier?

Winifred Wankster?

Margaret Fecker?

Charlotte Sheet-Head?

Am I getting any closer?

VictorianSqualor · 04/03/2008 15:40

You emailed me about UQD.
Either it's a D or I've mixed you up with someone else who emailed me about something else and had a name that could have been joked about too.

onebatmother · 04/03/2008 15:47

Damn damn damn! But luckily you have crap memory too - it is not a D.

lmao at Charlotte Sheet-Head!
and Margeret Fecker sounds totally feasible. I shall google her. She will be an irascible academic with a considerable oevre beneath her belt.

this is reminding me of my very favourite Father Ted episode, where Mrs Thingy tries to guess the name of the priest.

VictorianSqualor · 04/03/2008 15:48

Ah, that means there is another person on MN whose surname is Dover.
Hence the confusion.

VictorianSqualor · 04/03/2008 15:50

W

onebatmother · 04/03/2008 15:51

Ben..jamina Dover
Bern..adette Dover

katierocket · 04/03/2008 15:53

FGS, I bothered to read through the whole thread just to find out it was henry, is that it?!! Henry is a lovely name.

EiWishFor3MoreWishes · 04/03/2008 15:55

i think that YAB slightly unreasonable IMO
henry is a nice name and it is personal preference as to what names you like or dont like your sister would likely be quite offended to hear how badly you dislike the name so i think it would be best all round to keep it to yourself
i grew up hating my name and had a (extremely) well known song relayed to me almost every day (still do in fact) it hasnt caused me any lasting damage and i dont think your nephew will be too bothered esp as he will prob be in a class in school with more than one other henry
i pmsl at a few of the suggestions here though like TYV lizzy spit-face and hecate hagrid
it has been rather amusing
xx ei xx

katierocket · 04/03/2008 15:55

"lets face it he will never be one of the popular boys at school with a name like that, he will spend his school days giving out his dinner money."

That post makes you sound really rather horrible. "he will never be one of the popular boys at school with a name like that"!! WTF

theyoungvisiter · 04/03/2008 15:57

Father Lempicka Fenoonagannon?
Father Pringle Madingle?

Sorry, we're doing schoolgirls not priests, aren't we.

Irma Butt?
Fredericka Waister?
Samantha Smellie?
Desirée Sidebottom?

Oh dear, running out of inspiration. Some of these must be worse than yours surely?

I think you're right about Margaret Fecker. She is probably a German expat working in a British University, and an expert on Old Norse literature.

EiWishFor3MoreWishes · 04/03/2008 15:58

dover was a suggestion as my surname in the past as it goes ever so beautifully with my first name...
xx ei xx

KnickersOnMaHead · 04/03/2008 16:45

Message withdrawn

onebatmother · 04/03/2008 16:58

lol youngvisiter, esp at Old Norse

I'm afraid the reality is very disappointing and pedestrian.

alicet · 04/03/2008 17:14

None of your business what she has called her son. think too that you will find the name grows on you as you start to associate it with him who you presumably will grow to love.

For what it's worth I think Henry is a lovely name although my dh would disagree!

MsPontipine · 04/03/2008 19:52

Henry's lovely - my son could have been a Henry.

I did hear a name being shouted down an aisle the other day that did make me wince slightly - shall duck and cover as soon as I've posted . . .

Tobias

kerryk · 04/03/2008 20:01

is that even a name