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Tinsley for a girl?

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Cortina · 27/09/2009 11:55

I've always secretly liked this. Is it as bad as I fear?

And Rhett for a boy. Has anyone ever met one out of interest?

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MrsVik · 27/09/2009 18:53

How about Ainsley instead?

In all honesty, Tinsley sounds like a word you'd used to describe a Christmas tree.

Rhett - not my taste, but it doesn't sound too bad to me.

BexJ78 · 27/09/2009 21:38

Yes, Tinsley is in Sheffield right next to the M1 motorway. there is very bad air pollution there..... i have to say it wouldn't be top of my list, but each to their own!

StayFrosty · 27/09/2009 21:43

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hocuspontas · 27/09/2009 21:49

Only if you are completely naff and your names are Tina and Lesley.

As for Rhett, words fail me...

BikeRunSki · 27/09/2009 22:08

Tinsley - aaa, a viaduct and motorway bridge, formerly famous for it's neighbouring cooling towers.

thesecondcoming · 27/09/2009 22:16

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stepaway · 27/09/2009 23:09

what about Catcliffe?

TigerDrivesAgain · 27/09/2009 23:12

hahahahahahahaha

These threads get better and better

Ronaldinhio · 27/09/2009 23:15

as in Brian and Ivy???

Clary · 27/09/2009 23:20

norktastic that's exactly what I was going to say!

Well, a nearby village anyway. Tinsley will always mean processed veg to me, sorry OP.

The only Rhett is Rhett Butler which is a bit like calling yr kid Elvis IMHO.

Lol @ stayfrosty, right classy bird indeed.

florence2511 · 28/09/2009 02:09

A friend of mine has a DD called Kinsley (she's American) and I think it's an awful name. It sounds made up.

Tinsley is along the same line as Kinsley as is just as bad IMHO.

Rhett is too twee.

AitchTwoToTangOh · 28/09/2009 02:16

ronaldinho, that's what i thought... 'as in Gail?!' lol at Baubley.

AitchTwoToTangOh · 28/09/2009 02:18

florence... twighlight's girl is named kinsley...

for some reason i find tinsley infinitely worse than kinsley. and as for rhett, it's bonkers. have you been drinking, OP?

WhereYouLeftIt · 28/09/2009 02:45

Tinsley - wasn't there an Ivy Tinsley in Coronation Street years ago, face like a wet weekend, worked in Mike Baldwin's factory? Or was that Tilsley? .

And Rhett - I've got to agree with Clary, the poor boy will fart burp and there will be muttered comments of Gone With The Wind ...

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Cortina · 28/09/2009 06:17

No, I actually know a young Rhett believe it or not!

The family are quite an interesting one. It struck me as a brave but interesting choice and one I might think about but probably not use. Just musing as not sure.

As for Tinsley again I know of one. American and older but again an intelligent and interesting woman. I shall keep quiet about the Newcastle connection, she'd be mortified.

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BikeRunSki · 28/09/2009 07:39

LOL at Catcliffe, in S Yorks clique way.

Catcliffe Meadowhall Cooling-Tower has a ring to it I think!

BikeRunSki · 28/09/2009 07:41

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinsley_Viaduct Tinsley]

Bathsheba · 28/09/2009 08:37

Its a restrospective name...in that, if she does go on to become an editor of a fashion mag, or have her own highly successful Interiors business, then it works as a name...

However if she doesn't, then it doesn't...

simplesusan · 28/09/2009 08:51

I actually like the sound of Rhett but would never be brave enough to use it myself.
It's kind of in the category of admiring someone who shaved their hair off but deep down you know you will always keep your hair long.

Tinsley didn't sound too bad until I read all the Sheffield connotations. (No offence to anyone from Tinsley!)

GingGangGillyGilly · 28/09/2009 08:52

Would you really be so bitchy in real life to say that the name someone had chosen for their dd was awful and sounds made up? Sometimes MNetters really take the biscuit.

In answer to the OP I wouldn't choose Tinsley.

Kinsley I have never heard of before but even if I hated it I wouldn't say that to someone who had used it.

I hate when these threads turn bitchy.

AitchTwoToTangOh · 28/09/2009 09:29

much more likely that florence was just responding to the OP and hasn't read the thread, don't you think?

pinkx4 · 28/09/2009 09:45

Stay Frosty:

Same here! My Nan was from Darnall. But that made me laugh! Classic. If you knew Tinsley, you wouldn't even dream of meaning your daughter that!

stepaway · 28/09/2009 09:55

GingGangGillyGilly, you ask "Would you really be so bitchy in real life to say that the name someone had chosen for their dd was awful and sounds made up?"

Well, if the baby was already named, then no of course not. If, as the case is here, the parent asked for my opinion BEFORE they used the name, then YES, absolutely. I would really try to discourage someone naming their child after a cooling tower in S Yorks.

AND, to be fair to Cortina, she has taken the comments very well and didn't get het up about it.

GingGangGillyGilly · 28/09/2009 10:01

No I wasn't referring to Cortina/Tinsley. Some else - TwilightSurfer - came on and said I like Tinsley my daughter is Kinsley. This was responded to several posts later by florence saying God Kinsley is dire.

I just think that was quite mean.

stepaway · 28/09/2009 10:05

GingGangGillyGilly, sorry misunderstood you.

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