Obadiah

[tummytickler]

Could you? Would you?
I am starting to like this and nn Obi. Fits with other ds names but is a bit wackier than theirs.
Dh not keen, but is it worth talking him 'round?

No.

Why on earth would you?!

Great name, love it.

Love it!

Obadiah was a particularly odious character in the Sharpe series of novels, but is also a saint in many christian churches...so I guess my references are pretty obscure, and the association of the character from those books is what puts me off. But it is a good name in that it's unusual and better than the all the Joshuas and Noahs kicking about, lovely names but very popular now!

Oh for goodness' sake.

NO.

Oba-bloody-diah.

No.

Obadiah is lovely.

Obi is nice.

'Obladi
Oblada
Life goes on
Lalalala life goes on'

No. I'm not that cruel.

No no no. Terrible.

You might as well call ds Obe Wan Knobe.

Another negative reference: Obadiah Slope in the Barchester Chronicles is the slimy evangelical hypocrite who tries to do down the heroic Warden.(Alan Rickman played him in the 70s tv version - an early manifestation of his sherrif of Nottingham/Severus Snape persona.)

My favourite book when I was about 8 was about Jeremiah Obadiah Jackanory Jones.

I like it.

I like it.

Well, he'll be the only Obadiah in his class, I'm sure.

No. Next please.

If you like Obi just call him Obi.

Just watched Sharpe's Company last night as it happens - Obadiah Hakeswill, rapist and murderer. Lovely...

obi wank n obi

Jeddediah

nn jed

thats better

all solved

We called the cat Obi

Oba-Di Oba-Da, Da-Oba- DI- Dada sweet like chocolate

Makes me thing of that awful Flowrider song that dd plays all the damn time.

Sorry, no, I like unusual names but Obadiah is awful in the extreme. Jeddediah is good (my brother's best friend was called that), Zachariah, Isaiah, but not Obadiah, sounds like a character from a Cecil B De Mille film.

Yes Jeddediah is even better.

And if you wanted to stick with the Starwars theme, you could shorten it to Jedi!

Ooh yes, Jedediah Strutt, who invented ... something or other, didn't he? A bit like Jethro Tull?

I wouldnt just call him Obi as i like the long name better, it is just an eay, short, cute nn.
The Star Wars thing is not deliberate btw! I have never seen any of the films (although dh and ds are big fans!).

Very strong name. Quite like it, actually. Obi is cute.

We used to have a neighbour called Ozias, which I thought was cool.