Please, for the love of GOD, will you please STOP ....

[ghosty]

with the Baby Names threads?
Just call your baby what you like when it is born ... and then people can get used to calling your baby Tooty Frooty Smith or whatever as it is a done deal ....

But please stop listing names like:

Dante
Hector
Edith (Does anyone remember "'Allo 'Allo")
Blaise
Milton
BAYARD??? WTF?

I can't stand it anymore ....

well I remember seeing babyname threads on here when I first joined - maybe not quite so long as some posting on this thread - but still nearly 4yrs ago.......they were just posted under topic headings.........

I post on them - some names are plain ridiculous so I usually offer up some in a similar vein.

Dante is a character in that school thing with Neil Morrisey (can't remember name of it now)

Dante was a poet from the late 1200's - early 1300's.......

I suggested Kyle and Kendall (my American friend's name and her sister) on a thread where someone has dc with American sounding names and is a looking for a name for a girl.

Another poster came on and told me that all names that contain a K were Chav.

PMSL at that - can you imagine all the Kates/Katherines etc out there being told they are Chav.

that contain a K or start with K ??

lol...oh dear...really no hope for me....because my name is Kerstin...so, I am a chav....hohum.....

shame, I was going to suggest Kami for the kitten (short for Kamikaze, to go with Ninja) - but you don't want a chav name for your kitten, do you?

I put a snotty reply tbh.

This is the answer:-

I stand corrected Fimbo, maybe not Katherine and Kate. But Kayleigh, Kyle, Kai, Kendall, Kieran, Kacey, Kaitlin, Keaton, Kennan, yes.
When I was in hospital after having ds1 ther was a baby called "K". Ffs!

You can bet some mn'rs have dc with names on that list.

don't worry, it's actually very chavvy to call someone a chav.

I HATE that word.

For some reason it always makes me think of inner thigh and intimate area chafing. I have no idea why.

I really like Dante, didn't use it though, and my cat is called Dave.

I love the crazy babyname threads - they give dh and me something to giggle at over dinner...

Caitlin's fine if spelt correctly with a C. And are you sure the baby you think was called 'K' was not in fact a Kay or Kaye? Very respectable names - read The Snow Queen, The Box of Delights or The Once and Future King.

Edam, that was a direct quote from the poster not me (just to clear that up!).

lol Fimbo...
hecate, I agree...what especially gets me is when people are all h, that is so chavtastic!
About names that are clearly NOT mispelled or made up....it's only that a different spellingvariant is used...
Also, I suppose every single name was made up at one point....lol....

lol at VS @ having a cat called Dave....sorry that really tickled me....it is kinda a cool cat name of course....is he a fat and lazy cat? Don't know, but I have a Garfield version in my head when thinking of a ca called Dave...no idea why though, lol!

thumbwitch...lol...now can't have a chavtastic Kitten....poor thing would never live it down....

I know a Bayard.

He wasn't bullied!

Oh, I know Fimbo, don't worry!

He is only five weeks old, DS1 named him. He is the greediest kitten of the four though. And sleeps loads.

name threads also start so many scraps
I like bilious it is a beautiful name
Oi no i hate it makes me sick
Shut up thats my baby name
blah blah

i have no idea why one would ask strangers to comment on their baby name.something so personal and unique to you

might as well ask a wee woman in asda
or the postie

do you ask strangers to help chose yer knickers?

probably not (i hope not) so why ask opinion's on something that pertinent to you

out of interst would you change names if folk didnt like Verruca or Verrukka?

Mouldida
Rancidica
Odourata
Bilious

That is part of my point Scottishmummy - why do people open themselves up to these things? If you want to call your child Topaz or Gertrude then just do it ...
Please.

What do you think of Cystitis Vergina?
That's what my next child will be called ...

labia minora is a gorgeous name too. classy and sassy

What I'd like to know is how many of these people asking about really ridiculous unusual names actually follow through with it. I bet their kids are all called something nice and normal like Emma or James in the end.

would one veto a name on basis of MN opinion?would Verucca become verrucae or plantar wart to appease

Yes, it's getting beyond a joke now when I see a thread title like "Yakult or Actimel" and just think "oh, another baby name thread"