Xanadu?

[heyitisthegirls]

Will people have trouble spelling this in the UK?

I've been thinking of it for a boy but not sure if people will endlessly try and spell it as 'Zanadoo'

It is indeed Agadoo.

It’s from Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree”
As a name for a child it’s plain silly!

This has to have been a joke surely? Surely? Xanadu? Xanadu?! Have you really never heard the song? And I thought Persephone and Ptolemy were awful/never quite sure if people are joking or not!

It is. But it just leapt into my mind as soon as I said Xanadu to myself.

I love the song

Not Abba. It was Olivia Newton John.

You can't call a child that!

Sounds fine Olivia.
Now that I'm here
Now that you're near

Fgs thought mumsnet higher brow than this! Yes it’s an Olivia Newton John song but it’s a Greek myth land of wonder or something

Oh dear, please don't call your child that name. I don't understand the need to go for wild out there names, just choose something normal!

Yeah, this.

as soon as a saw that name I couldn’t help singing agadoo!

Xanadu du du du, push pineapples, shake the tree…..

no you can give a child that name

As John McEnroe used to say....You cannot be serious!
Just don't it's ridiculous. Stop trying to be Younique.

Fucking love this board - it’s never not funny 🤣

“Xanadont” 🤣🤣 genius

It was a film, Gene Kelly's last role, with muses, Gods and all sorts in it. ONJ is a muse if memory serves and falls in love with a mortal.

If you look for it on YouTube, the video starts with Gene Kelly on roller skates leading a load of rollerdancers around the night club!

The film was widely slated at the time but now has something of a cult following. Personally I think its crap but love the soundtrack as am a HUGE ELO fan!

It means a luxurious exotic place.

I’m going to have that song stuck in my head all day now.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published 1816

Kubla Khan

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

It sounds like a fabulous pre-op sedative 😊

Perhaps OP should go for Kubla Khan - KK for short? Or Alph?

Trying to work out if this was serious or taking the piss.

Now you are here in Xanadu. Xanadu ooooooooh ooooooh. I love that film lol

Which bit?

Xavier

The bit where you dismiss Coleridge

Still can't work out if you are or not but now leaning towards you genuinely didn't know what this meant.

I wish I was this witty!

It's a real place in Spain! I work for a business with a branch in Xanadu, and those of us the UK call it Xanadont as it's always tricky.