Can't find a funny baby name thread to add to, but these are corkers

[MrsJohnCusack]

I know names are a personal choice and everything and I try not to make fun, but these are great, had to share them. haven't included surnames. hope the proud parents aren't mnetters...
from today's newspaper (in Christchurch NZ)

Zephyr Artemisia Ahriman Vulcan Kelsey (a boy, in case you were wondering)
and
Tintin Java Rocket

couldn't make it up could ya

ahhh well I've decided not to pick out names for these baby names threads anymore.....I get enough comments about how "wierd and wonderful" our DS's names are........when in actual fact they're pretty common names in Zimbabwe......

HRH QoQ, are you from Zimbabwe then?

No - but DH is - and we met out and married out there.....and DS1 has a "made in Zimbabwe" tag on his bum

Oh, I see, so that unfortunate list of names are all Christian names. Hmm. Wonder what on earth their surname is. Bet when you combine it with the first names it sounds even worse!

LOL edam - I think any name with our surname sounds odd .

Riab IME people don't 'choose odd/wierd/plain stupid names for their kids?' They choose names they like.

Some prefer names which they've heard before. Others prefer more unusual names and, crucially, are confident enough to go for the names they love rather than feeling hidebound by the predjudices of others.

I'm often surprised by the number of people who say, ' I couldn't possible call my child something uncommon in case he/she gets slagged off in the playground'.
Number 1. There's more to life than the playground.

1. Sadly playground culture means that if children want to tease each other they'll find a way to do it be it name, clothes, glasses, the way they speak, what's in their luncboxes - whatever. It's the institution of school which is to largely blame for this, (as well as the attitudes of judgement and insecurity passed down by some parents). It has little to do with the decision of some parents to opt for a name which isn't in the top ten.

With some of the names mentioned here, you can substitute 'confident' for 'stupid'. Yes, all in favour of people having free choice, but some make extraordinarly daft choices. Cartier, for instance. Let alone Icy Eight Special K - not even mentioning Urhines...

Spidermama, you honestly think that calling any poor kid:

Urhines Kendall Icy Eight Special K

is a GOOD idea? I don't care if the parents want to be 'different' and not hidebound by prejudice. A kid with that name will have hassle to deal with. Yes kids get picked on for a whole host of reasons but why on earth give the bullies a readymade handle?

HRHQoQ, totally understand why you would want names for your kids which reflected part of their cultural heritage.

JackieNo, I think Kynu is just a novel spelling of Keanu - but I like your idea!

"Yes kids get picked on for a whole host of reasons but why on earth give the bullies a readymade handle? "

Let me ask you something - if you someone introduces themselves with the shortened version of their name - and it was "taffy"......what would you think.....especially if this was a 6yr old saying it???

Surely that's a fantastic 'handle' for bullies to get hold of?? Especially since we're no where near Wales........well DS1 doesn't seem to be having any problems whether they call him Taffy, Taf or his proper name Tafara.

Infact the only person that's ever had a 'laugh' about his name was a parent at a toddler group I once attended.

I have a Welsh first name and grew up in Yorkshire and Bedfordshire. (and no we didn't think about the connections of Taffy and Wales - plus my first name being Welsh when we chose his name - we were 5000 miles away in Zimbabwe when we picked the names LOL). I was also bullied ALL the way through school...........I remember most of the bullying vividly if I sit and think about it......but I don't remember anyone ever picking on me because of my name - it was other things they used. My name never came into it.

On the other hand - there were 4 Lynsays (all different spellings) in my class - one of them was also bullied......and they used her name to bully her......yet the other 3 never got picked on!!

If a 6yo told me their name was Taffy, I'd assume it was short for something. No more than that.

If a 6yo told me his name was Urhines I'd assume either a. his parents are very odd or b. it's a foreign name reflecting their background in some way. If I discovered that b. wasn't the case I'd snigger quietly to myself!

Btw, people sometimes assume my name is a shortened version of another. It isn't, it's been a name in its own right since the middle ages. But doesn't bother me as long as they listen when I tell them my name is x, not y.

For about a month while I was pregnant, ds was genuinely called Redgrave, after Sir Steve. I still think it has a certain ring to it but i do believe children have a right to a name that at least has the potential to blend in, if that's what they want to do.

oh I thought your full name was Edam Cheese

ds1 has an irish name and we have no irish connection whatsoever so when anyone asks what his name is and i tell them they all say: 'what?, what's his name?'

i have given him a more 'normal' but biblical middle name shold he prefer to use that.
but, dammit, he must use at least one of the names i gave him!

I know someone who changed her surname to Le Bon in honour of Simon. Then she decided that she wanted to be known as Squirrel and when her boss refused to call her that because it was not her real name she changed it by deed poll. Squirel Le Bon classy eh?

just out of interest Special K is the slang term for the drug Ketamine. This is a tranquilser for large animals, horses and the like, which is a drug of abuse.

So classy choice of name!

I went to school with a boy called tafara QoQ
Urhines Kendall - Ok personal choice
Icy Eight Special K - What the ??

ds2 has a 'different' but biblical first name and mediocre middle name.
i'm sure they will both get bullied knowing my luck!!

I used to work for someone called Endurance Arthur

exactly mb. really classy.

ooh. i worked with a tabitha.
a cats name imho

ooo really Xena -

I tell you if this DC is another DS people are just going to be looking at us going "what" when they hear me call their names.

Tafara
Tongai
Takunda

........actually think I'll just do what I do now "BOYS!!!! COME HERE NOW"

Mind you a girl would have a more 'normal' - she'd be Alexis - with her middle name being the Zimbabwean bit.

My friends grandfather was pissed when he regestered the birth of his son (friends dad)

He was given a number of boys names, two girls names and then finied off with javelin, pyramid Davies.

Spider, his father didn't love the name he was pissed and had no bloody sense at all!

My midwife was telling me about a woman who'd just given birth who'd decided to call her child Simeon.

Fine.

Except that when it came to writing it on the birth certificate she insisted on it's being spelt...

Simian.

Poor little monkey.