Mungo: Cool or cruel?

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hatrick have you had DS then?

Only you refer to 4 DC and I was worried I had missed it

BTW what will you be called when he's here(if not already)

Sorry flum, not mad on Mungo personally but offer this fromDS1 who has an unusual name like Bridie's DS:

"I like my name because I am the only one in school"

(there are an awful lot of Jameses and Matthews in his year - very nice names I hasten to add)

My son is also a Mungo. It's a nice name and better than being Josh number 27 or Harry number 33.

We're not pretentious--Mungo is a family name. How rude to judge people like the way some people have here. Sheesh. As for the suggestion that those of us who have children with that name should ignore the thread, how about teachers avoiding the threads which discuss poor teachers, or SEN parents avoiding threads in which SEN children are discussed? Doesn't make sense, does it?

just dounds like something you would eat to me.

Froggy,

I made a pretty valid point that if people can't cope with seeing their child's name bashed then they shouldn't cruise the baby name board.

People who haven't yet named their children want to get an real feel for how a name will be received, then, if the first poster to weigh in says, eg, "Margaret is my daughter's name and everyone who doesn't like it is very roooooooood" then what's the point.

If people criticise you children's names, live with it!! Especially if your child has such an unusual name. YOu must have known that 'the masses' won't all love Mungo. And I bet that's about 50% of what you like about it. SO don't get uppity when people come out and say they don't like it.

I for one, do not mind it.

Well tell us what your children are called, ChopstheDuck and we'll tell you that your names remind us of something really disgusting, too.

whats disgusting about food?
no need to get so sensitive, I'm only stating my opinion. If you like it then it's your choice.

Actually it was the comments about how ugly children who have that name must be that pissed me off.

I don't mind if my children's names come in for a pasting. Couldn't give a t0ss. They are Margot and Richie..

Madamez, If I had another chlid tomorrow I'd call him Victor though.

I like those names but even if I didn't I would never say that I thought your children must be ugly and stupid. Because why the feck say it? Why be that fecking unpleasant to someone you've never met?

I think Mungo is the penguin in happy feet......

BTW, MadameCholet, just to clarify, not saying that YOU have been unpleasant, just making a general point. Some people sounded as though they were taking great delight in pointing their comments at another poster whose son has the name.

My cousin is Margot.

I never said that a Mungo would be ugly.. That was definitely somebody else!?

I'd expect a Mungo to be quite angelic looking.

There are quite a few Margots about, and if I hadn't moved, there could have been two in my dd's class.

I think I x-posted with you there.

No--my bad because I should have made that clearer.

sorry. very cruel. if you're into unusual scottish names, how about Sholto?

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Oh God what an AWFUL name. A child with that name is going to have a time of it

I don't normally look at baby name threads and only came on this one as it was about a name I love. However, I'm really surprised by some of the posts on here and how unpleasant they are. The OP is considering the name for her baby, a few posters have said that it is their child's name. Surely it is enough to say 'well I don't really like it' without the frankly ridiculous comments like 'screams middle class trying to be different'.

Perhaps this is par for the course on these sorts of threads. But it makes me feel a bit .

I know a Mungo who is about 18 now, but he is 1 - Scottish and 2 - Very posh, which I think is the only way Mungo can work as a first name.

To me, Mungo will forever be Mary's dog in a flat in Wandsworth, with a freindly mouse called Midge.

Thank you for that, Beachcomber. We, too, love the name we gave our son.

I used to watch Mary, Mungo and Midge, AHLH! It was great.

It makes me think of the word mongol, which for anyone too young to remember, was what people with Down syndrome were called when i was a kid.

Shite by name and shite by taste, darling.

shitemum's allowed to state her opinion, just because you don't like it bridie

Absolutely. And I'm allowed to state my opinion on her opinion too.