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Babies names

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alex2 · 22/01/2002 11:43

I don?t think I?d choose the same name that a close friend had chosen, even if it was a personal favourite ? it just doesn?t seem very original. It?s not that I think it?s a particularly big deal just that I?d want my baby to have a special name at least amongst close friends. Also that friend?s baby would take on the name, I would imagine. Isn?t it amazing how children grow into even the most bizarre names? First time you here them, you think no! A few meetings later and you couldn?t imagine them called anything else. I guess I?d be quite flattered if a friend named their child the same as mine ? but I wouldn?t think them particularly imaginative.

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Enid · 22/03/2002 09:35

Grizzler - Kate?

tiktok · 22/03/2002 09:51

I've known a Lesley who married a man whose surname was Leslie, and a Kelsey who married a man whose surname was Kelsie!! The first changed her name, the second didn't. On dh's side there was a cousin called Dot, and she always signed her name . which is quite sweet! Dh's surname is also an ordinary first name, and his first name is also a fairly common surname, and people often get them the wrong way round...same with his brother (you'd think FIL and MIL would have thought of this wouldn't you...).

Grizzler · 22/03/2002 10:19

Enid - You rumbled me. Reckon you should apply to appear on Countdown.

SueDonim · 22/03/2002 10:48

My nephew is called Justin. On the Mat Ward when he was born there was a Mrs Case who also wanted to call her baby Justin.......

Hilary · 22/03/2002 11:30

I really did lol at Russell Sprout, I'm still laughing now. On a slightly different theme but something which still makes me laugh 2 years on is when my sister and brother in law (Tim) went on holiday to a house owned by a lady called Topsy. He had to phone her about something to do with the house and uttered the words, "hello Topsy, this is Tim," Other people have chuckled a bit but I have been known to still be giggling half an hour after I thought about it. I'm afraid my sense of humour is kind of childish! This thread is just my wavelength...

WideWebWitch · 22/03/2002 12:24

Grizzler, Thea?

WideWebWitch · 22/03/2002 12:25

Sorry, totally wrong, someone already guessed it! Ah well.

leese · 22/03/2002 19:16

Hilary - must have the same sense of humour, because now I'm giggling like a schoolgirl!...

Hilary · 24/03/2002 09:19

I once read in a teen magazine (it's ok, I was a teen at the time!) a quote from a man who said that his girlfriend called his willy 'Justin' and he had no idea why. It was really obvious to me and I laughed a lot! Does everyone else get it or do I have a weird mind?

Lollypop · 24/03/2002 13:07

Justin Time?

emsiewill · 24/03/2002 13:26

Just in!

Inkpen · 24/03/2002 15:57

JoAnne427 - Humphrey Bogart? Why? This has me puzzled!

Enid · 24/03/2002 16:08

Cary Grant maybe?

janh · 24/03/2002 17:39

Yep - Cary Grant. Only it was 3 Judies ("Judy...Judy...Judy" I think.
(Unless - help - it was Tony Curtis "doing" Cary Grant...!!!)

janh · 24/03/2002 17:40

Oops - don't know how that smiley got in there!

clary · 24/03/2002 19:49

This thread is so funny esp russell sprout. But to answer your question dixie, i too worried about second child's name "going with" the first one - luckily it was a girl as even at due date we could not decide on a boy's name. Prefer old-fashioned names and ones that don't shorten so the "going with" bit just made it even harder (ie so many criteria to fulfill). Anyway we managed to pick two names that my mother doesn't like - still can't please everyone!

JoAnne427 · 24/03/2002 23:47

Definitely Cary Grant - total lapse there!

mollipops · 25/03/2002 05:55

I recently had a very embarrassing moment over a name... I visited a customer I had only spoken to over the phone before, and when I arrived at the house a woman was standing in the driveway. I couldn't be sure of course if it was actually her, so I asked "Are you Gaye?" She didn't flinch - but I'm sure I went bright red!

ChanelNo5 · 25/03/2002 08:12

What was her answer?

mollipops · 25/03/2002 14:05

Well it was simply "Yes" since that is her name! But it wasn't until I had said it that I realised how it sounded, didn't think about it until the words were already out there! As I said, she didn't seem fazed. (Incidentally she is a lovely lady in her mid-late 40's with daughters in their 20's!) I don't know anyone else by that name, so it hadn't occurred to me, but I guess she's had that question before and doesn't really think about it like that!

ChanelNo5 · 25/03/2002 20:26

You'd have thought that she'd have a well-rehearsed, witty put-down by now with a name like that (made me laugh though, Mollipops)

janh · 25/03/2002 20:33

I know someone called Gaye; she called her children Sam and Ella.

ChanelNo5 · 25/03/2002 20:49

You just reminded me janh, of someone with the surname Commode who called his daughter Honour (I kid you not!)

Inkpen · 25/03/2002 23:26

Sorry - but I'm still mystified!! Why Cary Grant either?? Please put me out of my misery.

mollipops · 26/03/2002 06:45

Oh Chanel you can't be serious - that's awful! Definitely a case for sueing (sp?) your parents if ever I heard one!

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