Oh god....I can't stop loving the name Tostig...but i can't, can I?

[minouminou]

Can I?
Be as blunt as y'all like.

No, you really cant.

Torsten is ok, quite popular here in Germany.

Tostig is Ikea Bargain of the Week

this ikea business is making me have a quiet chuckle, as my surname was a range of bedroom furniture a few years back
do you think i should just go for it and then demand huge discounts from said store, as i'm clearly advertising?!

"By mrsbabookaloo on Wed 02-Jul-08 11:49:31
No, you can't. I do see why you like it. But I like Pocket and Silky and I've just had to resign myself that they are names for imaginary children and not to be inflicted on real ones"

There's a German girl's name Silke, pronounced "Silka". In case you have real children rather than just imaginary ones!

Thanks bikerunski; I was just thinking about that the other day, and thinking..."Even if I told people that it was German, I still couldn't get away with it."

I'm not really losing any sleep over it...but if you knew what my surname was...it sounds v cool.

Imagine my surname is "Rainbow"... Pocket Rainbow, Silky Rainbow... brilliant, non?

lol at Pocket and Silky, mrsbabookaloo.

tres bizarre, really!

couldn't you get a couple of hamsters, would be perfect for them. Or Siamese cats. Yes, I can see the tv series now - kind of like 'Itchy and Scratch' but with two sleek and sadistic moggies...

'Itchy and Scratchy' of course

Torben ?

He wasn't even a very nice character in the Julian Rathbone novel!

It'd never work. Stigan would be OK. I imagine any teenage boy would rather be called 'Stig' than 'Tosser'.

I knew a Silky when I was little. And she wasn't an 'imaginary friend'. Or German for that matter. I think her father was American.

I love the idea of a thread for imaginary children's names though. I generally put those names aside for possible future cats, but as I can only ever contemplate having a rescue cat all my cats tend to come ready named.

I know a family here with a Torben. There DCs have fab names. Torben's twin sister is Viviane. The older sisters are Rebecca and Berenike.

The names appeal to me but I would never have used them as they are so unusual (apart from Rebecca).

Wouldn't it be great if we could call our DCs what we want without anyone sniggering.

I always liked Gretl and Liesl when I was younger (can you tell that my mum liked the Sound of Music?) but DH fell of his seat laughing when I told him that.

It just occured to me that all the old fashioned names of the children are popular again. We have a Martha, Friedrich, Greta and Maria in our Kindergarten.

I don't know what the German for toasty is, but tostig sounds like it should be it. Kind of like it though...

Really awful - he'll be a tosser or a tosticle through school.

Tostig is off the table, guys
Except for in my imagination...............

Lulubai: I love your name: is just a cool spelling of Lullaby or is it after the lullaby that goes "lula lula bye bye"..?

Actually, that's almost dd's name: so she does have quite a silly name anyway...

i love it.