Tell me what you think about Percy...

[watchingitallagain]

..... for a boy.

Penis.

Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin was nicknamed Percy because the tight pants he wore showed a certain something.

Byron had had sex with a dog, or the tour guide had? Because I'm not convinced that the latter was relevant to the tour.

Tour guide told us that Byron had sex with a dog! Thing is... I can't find any evidence to agree, maybe she was feeling bored that day

OP for the record I don't like Percy as is but I think Percival is nice

Blackadder.

Awful

Point Percy at the Porcelain!! 😬

I loved it for #2 until, when potty training my Mum started asking #1 if he needed a Percy poo

Hate it

I wonder where the idea that it sounds weak comes from?

Probably largely via Tim McInnerny's character in Blackadder

Byron had had sex with a dog, or the tour guide had? Because I'm not convinced that the latter was relevant to the tour

Just did a snort at that.

I like it.

Really like Percy. It's gentle but it's masculine. I can imagine it growing with someone too. People tend to think it's dated and dislike it...which for me makes it all the better.

Just makes me think of Percy Whetmore out of Stephen Kings Green Mile. He didn't wet the sponge

I prefer it for a girl actually, short for Persephone, though spelling more like Persie...

Percy Jackson is positive association, but my 'worry' (this is at least the second time in a week Percy has been mentioned! ) is that it might date, if it becomes popular again and is short lived

Percival only if you're landed gentry and it's a family name, and even then it's not good.

I'd forgotten about the penis connection. And there's the Ralph thread somewhere, what's going on

Good...for a budgie!

I think its adorable.
I picture a very polite and well behaved little boy with red hair and glasses.

Destinysdaughter: "Good...for a budgie!"

When my DH was a little boy he had a budgie called Percy. I didn't realise it was a stereotypical budgie name!

Definitely Blackadder for me!

When I was growing up in the seventies and early eighties all of the boys seemed to refer to their willies as Percy.

For that reason alone I wouldn't use it, even if I did like it.

Of course, on the plus side, there's Sir Percy Blakeney - the Scarlet Pimpernel. Definitely not weak, though he pretended to be!

over riding memory of Percy the Park Keeper

Lord Percy the thick dopey one from Blackadder

I prefer Percival

Terrible. Really bad.