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A very unusal baby name in my local paper today...

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Linnet · 12/10/2006 23:37

Was reading the birth announcements in my local paper today and came across the following...

To Paul and Pinkie a daughter, Panda, a sister for David and Bumble.

Your thoughts?

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snowleopard · 12/10/2006 23:38

I'd rather be called Panda than Bumble.

beckybraAAARGHstraps · 12/10/2006 23:38

Girls come off worst in that family...

Or is Bumble a boy?

sorrell · 12/10/2006 23:38

Lucky David.

snowleopard · 12/10/2006 23:39

Poor David though - he must think he's wandered in from a different family!

CarolinahowlingattheMoon · 12/10/2006 23:39

feeling a bit sorry for poor David actually.

What's he done to be the odd one out?

Gillian76 · 12/10/2006 23:39

Surely a wind-up?

beckybraAAARGHstraps · 12/10/2006 23:39

I think Pinkie may be the worst actually.

CarolinahowlingattheMoon · 12/10/2006 23:39

snowleopard

BATtymumma · 12/10/2006 23:39

maybe they are nicknames?

emkana · 12/10/2006 23:39

pmsl

snowleopard · 12/10/2006 23:40

x-posted sorrell!

It depends on whether it's more tragic to stick out like a sore thumb or have a ridiculous name. maybe David lies about it and requests that peple call him Zippy.

alexsCURSEDMUMMY · 12/10/2006 23:40

that is child abuse isn't it? really?

i rmeebr reading an article about names like that when preg with ds1 and the author had a list of possible names for her baby. panda was one of them. disco was another.
as a result we had a joke that we were going to call ds1 disco spangler!

CarolinahowlingattheMoon · 12/10/2006 23:40

Pinkie's real name is prob Ethel though, isn't it?

sorrell · 12/10/2006 23:40

Or Bramble?

snowleopard · 12/10/2006 23:41

CarolinaMoon, shall we adopt david?

and call him Zippy?

beckybraAAARGHstraps · 12/10/2006 23:41

Would you put a nickname in a birth announcement? JUST a nickname.

There was a boy called Tiger in dd's swimming group. I assumed it was a nickname. It wasn't.

sorrell · 12/10/2006 23:41

Puddle?

TortUREoiseChamber · 12/10/2006 23:41

Nothing wrong with Bumble! My Dad calls me that. Just a nickname im stuck with from being clumsy!!

snowleopard · 12/10/2006 23:41

I love the name Tiger! Better than panda by a mile.

snowleopard · 12/10/2006 23:42

Is it Bum for short?

alexsCURSEDMUMMY · 12/10/2006 23:42

paul should change his name to perky!

CarolinahowlingattheMoon · 12/10/2006 23:42

I think we should, snowleopard.

Or at least pay for his shrink.

beckybraAAARGHstraps · 12/10/2006 23:43

No! Cute on a kid, but a lot to live up to as you get older.

snowleopard · 12/10/2006 23:44

Tiger Woods is cool.

The only thing that puts me off actually naming a child Tiger is the thought of people their whole life going "easy tiger! Grrrrrr!"

beckybraAAARGHstraps · 12/10/2006 23:47

Well yes. Tiger Woods is cool. But what if he doesn't want to be a sportsman. What happens if he wants to be an accountant. Or an MP. What happens if he's just not cool?