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Open Editorial: You Named Your Baby WHAT???
Onyx Magazine ^
| March, 2006
| Josephine Hammond
Posted on 03/30/2006 12:41:35 PM PST by twippo
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
I'm thankful my parents were sane enough (in that regard at least) that they gave me a normal name. Unfortunately, the name doesn't fit me. It's a class president/head cheerleader beauty queen type of name, and I was as far from those things as you could get.
A few years back I met a very beautiful blond woman -imagine Anne Coulter with about 25 more lbs on her- whose name was Edna. It made me feel better about my name.
To: ErnBatavia
Gads. Practically a neighbor. Well, a sixty miles away neighbor...
962
posted on
03/30/2006 8:39:26 PM PST
by
null and void
(Perhaps hating America is for those for whom hating Jews just isn't enough. - Philippe Roger)
To: Ax
To: Petronski
I think with a name like Giovanna, you'd need a cute nic, like Gigi.
To: pepperdog
Regardless, they will come to regret it, their children will someday tell them how embarrassing and illiterate their names look when written. Several years ago, one of my co-workers named her newborn daughter "Mysti Dawn." Not only was the spelling backwards, but the whole name sounds like a porn star's name. Poor kid.
To: Alkhin
good to hear from you - hows it goin?OK, Back in the yob market again...
966
posted on
03/30/2006 8:47:00 PM PST
by
null and void
(Perhaps hating America is for those for whom hating Jews just isn't enough. - Philippe Roger)
To: stands2reason; cyborg
If Giovanna could be nicknamed Gigi, I'm all for it. !!!
967
posted on
03/30/2006 8:47:47 PM PST
by
Petronski
(I love Cyborg!)
To: jocon307
If you're gonna go that way, Deacon is a cool name....
To: pookie18
"That's supposed to be The Little Train That Could..."
Keeping fingers crossed, don't want to say too much.....
969
posted on
03/30/2006 8:51:04 PM PST
by
jocon307
(The Silent Majority - silent no longer)
To: Beagle8U
I used to work with I guy called Les, everyone thought it was short for Lester. It wasn't. It was short for Leslie.
For some reason, I was the only person he knew who could call him Leslie, and not have it bother him.
Go figure.
970
posted on
03/30/2006 8:59:02 PM PST
by
null and void
(Perhaps hating America is for those for whom hating Jews just isn't enough. - Philippe Roger)
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
One of the baby name books I've read had a short section that basically said that no matter what you name a girl, she's going to go through a phase where she doesn't like the name, either because it's too common or too unique. I know of at least two people who have names spelled wrong because the parents goofed on the birth certificate.
To: antiunion person
AMEN!
972
posted on
03/30/2006 9:08:00 PM PST
by
null and void
(Perhaps hating America is for those for whom hating Jews just isn't enough. - Philippe Roger)
To: jocon307
Yes, I agree. Hapro just doesn't make it!
To: stands2reason
I happen to like Edna, and Lydia for that matter...
974
posted on
03/30/2006 9:09:52 PM PST
by
null and void
(Perhaps hating America is for those for whom hating Jews just isn't enough. - Philippe Roger)
To: eyedigress
shi-thead always a favoriteDon't forget Wa'tanah Siam
975
posted on
03/30/2006 9:15:39 PM PST
by
delacoert
(imperat animus corpori, et paretur statim: imperat animus sibi, et resistitur. -AUGUSTINI)
To: null and void
Lydia's nice. I liked Livia till it got too popular.
To: delacoert
977
posted on
03/30/2006 9:21:39 PM PST
by
null and void
(Perhaps hating America is for those for whom hating Jews just isn't enough. - Philippe Roger)
To: null and void
I had both an Uncle and a Sister named Leslie.
978
posted on
03/30/2006 10:35:13 PM PST
by
Beagle8U
(John McCain, you treasonous bastard)
To: Gone GF
Grace and Spencer are good, solid names, but like you say, rare. Hopefully new parents will start looking back towards the older names for their babies : )
979
posted on
03/31/2006 1:14:25 AM PST
by
TheSpottedOwl
("Life is a box of chocolates. Eat them before they eat you ".---me.)
To: twippo
I'm sure this is common among many areas...giving a weird name. Yet our company has grown from 4 people to over 50 in our building in the past 6 years and now there are a number of black guys I work with in various departments. Two have foreign names but assumed typical names like "Tony". This, plus each of them speak better English than I do. Everyone I work with is "good people" and they just add to the environment. So just to throw this out there, there are quite a few black men who simply alter the circumstances and continue to perform with excellence.
980
posted on
03/31/2006 1:22:35 AM PST
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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