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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.


961 posted on 03/30/2006 8:31:29 PM PST by stands2reason
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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)
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To: Ax

I believe you

Scroll down to child #3

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963 posted on 03/30/2006 8:40:28 PM PST by stands2reason
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To: Petronski

I think with a name like Giovanna, you'd need a cute nic, like Gigi.


964 posted on 03/30/2006 8:46:39 PM PST by stands2reason
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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.

965 posted on 03/30/2006 8:46:45 PM PST by RightField
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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)
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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!)
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To: jocon307

If you're gonna go that way, Deacon is a cool name....


968 posted on 03/30/2006 8:47:55 PM PST by stands2reason
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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)
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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)
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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.
971 posted on 03/30/2006 9:07:36 PM PST by Question_Assumptions
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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)
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To: jocon307

Yes, I agree. Hapro just doesn't make it!


973 posted on 03/30/2006 9:09:10 PM PST by texasbluebell
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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)
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To: eyedigress
shi-thead always a favorite

Don'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)
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To: null and void

Lydia's nice. I liked Livia till it got too popular.


976 posted on 03/30/2006 9:17:54 PM PST by stands2reason
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To: delacoert

O'Watta Goo Siam...


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)
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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)
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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.)
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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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