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To: Kaslin
There is a reason why most people don't name their kids Adolph, Jezebel, Damien, or Beelzebub these days. The name Benito actually means blessed. A perfectly nice name except that it is associated with a dictator. Time has passed, but I still wouldn't name my kid Monica, as in Lewinsky.

This mom/aunt/whatever-she-is ought to be more concerned that the little child's name is the same as the name of the world's greatest threat to world peace than that she can't get a personalized jar of Nutela, which has the name of a horrifying terrorist organization on it. On a different topic, whenever I see someone with one of those huge ear piercings, I can barely look at them in the eyes. Their piercing is so distracting. Having the name of ISIS is distracting as well. It makes me cringe just reading the news about ISIS. I would not want to be reminded of ISIS every time I was this child, and I would not saddle her with the name either. Which name came first is irrelevant. I would at the very least start giving her a nickname rather than call her ISIS. BTW, a member of my family named their son a very nice name that had some alternate ways of spelling it. Unfortunately, it was one of those names that became very trendy as a girl's name shortly after he was born, and it was frequently assumed he was a girl as a baby because of it. So rather than saddle him with the now feminine name, they changed his name. Because they loved him. Life is tough enough without having to add to the difficulties of a "Boy named Sue" scenario.

32 posted on 11/30/2015 10:09:17 AM PST by Nevadan
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To: Nevadan

Monica Lewinsky wasn’t the first one with that name and won’t be the last one. I had a classmate in the late 40’s and 50’s whose first name was Monika


33 posted on 11/30/2015 10:20:46 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Nevadan; Kaslin

Monica has been a popular name for the Irish for years.

I’ve known several-—that go way back.

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41 posted on 11/30/2015 10:55:36 AM PST by Mears
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