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Clive

88 replies

Buttercup54321 · 12/08/2021 16:21

What do you think of Clive?
Is it old fashioned?

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allycat4 · 12/08/2021 18:17

Makes me think of Hi-de-hi (shows age)

fatvegan · 12/08/2021 18:29

This was my father's name but I still used his middle name when I named my son. Clive is an awful name!

TatianaBis · 12/08/2021 19:20

We have a hamster called Clive.

TuesdayRuby · 12/08/2021 19:26

Clive always makes me think of a smooth talker in a toupeè

SunShinesBrightly · 12/08/2021 19:28

Clive is in the same boat as Roy, Cliff, Ken, Keith, Wilf, Ray.

SunShinesBrightly · 12/08/2021 19:29

Yes, Nigel and Terry too.

reallyalurker · 12/08/2021 19:42

I can't get past the clerihew about Clive of India:

What I like about Clive
Is that he is no longer alive.
There is a great deal to be said
For being dead.

Yardley42 · 12/08/2021 19:56

Aw! It is old fashioned but reading your post I just thought it sounded so cute! I like it.

Reckon it's the kind of old fashioned name that will be in the next wave to come back to popularity.

Violetlavenders · 12/08/2021 20:24

You can't have a baby Clive!
It'll be like bringing a middle aged man into the world.

You know that all the middle aged Clives were once babies too Grin

I like it

Spyro1234 · 12/08/2021 20:38

I think it's awful - sorry 😬

WrongKindOfFace · 12/08/2021 20:39

We’re not yet ready for baby Clives. Give it another 20 years though and the playgrounds will be filled with little Clives and Roys.

HumphreysCorner · 12/08/2021 20:47

No, my nearly 70 year old neighbour is called Clive x

bluedomino · 12/08/2021 20:52

Fucking hideous

AlohaMolly · 12/08/2021 20:57

I know one Clive and he is 44. I’ve known him for ten years and he is, inexplicably, the sexiest, most ruggedly down to earth charming man that I’ve ever met. I still couldn’t call my child Clive.

LondonElle · 12/08/2021 21:07

I hate it sorry.. reminds me of a 60 year old man.

toolazytothinkofausername · 12/08/2021 21:21

I like it :D

Buttercup54321 · 13/08/2021 01:21

Maybe not then . Athough its due a comeback, along with Clifford and Colin.
Had a cat called Clyde lol.
Kevin isnt so bad though, is it?

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Blondiney · 13/08/2021 01:26
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ElizabethTudor · 13/08/2021 01:27

Clive, Clifford, Kevin and Colin are not yet due a comeback IMHO

BabyRace · 13/08/2021 01:54

I know (adult) brothers named Kevin and Clive.

Just don't.

ItzANoFromMe · 13/08/2021 02:10

Awful. Along with Alan, Ian, Nigel, Trevor, Colon, Rupert, Cecil, Keith, Kevin. I can't understand the appeal AT ALL.

ItzANoFromMe · 13/08/2021 02:10

"Colin 😆
Not Colon.

urbanbuddha · 13/08/2021 02:10

Kevin is interesting.

alwayscrashinginthesamecar1 · 13/08/2021 02:15

Oh hell no. As an Aussie, I beg of you to google Clive Palmer, because that is what springs to mind for most Aussies.

PlainJane1000 · 13/08/2021 02:33

I'm sure this is the reaction that Arthur got 10 years ago and now look! Clive will have its day again (not on a DC of mine though!)