Posted on 11/26/2001 9:13:15 AM PST by Phantom Lord
Alright, this is a total vanity. I didn't post it under "Breaking News" so relax.
My mother and aunts have been pestering my wife and I about when we are going to have children. Lately, we have taken to coming up with the worst possible names for babies and telling them we are considering names first. Well, they get real upset with some of them and even get angry with us for even considering them.
My mother in law is coming down for Christmas and it is inevitable that when she, my mother, and my aunts get together they will gang up on us about having kids. So, what I need from my fellow FReepers is a good list of really bad baby names to suggest to them as names we are considering. You help and creativity is greatly appreciated.
Oh, the last name is Terwilliger if that helps at all.
We used to laugh about them and call them hicks until I started to study a little of the geneology of the family. They were the common folks, the real pioneers. They came to this country in 1632 and were involved in every major event in the history of the US. They fought in every war, they sailed on ships to explore the west coast and open the trade with Hong Kong, crossed the country in wagon trains to Oregon and WA, were killed by Indians in Ohio, helped build the railroads and the Panama Canal. They were soldiers, pirates, ministers and school teachers. They were never wealthy or great (except for one opera singer), but they were the backbone of America.
I went to high school and was on the swim team with a Mike Potteran. His fathers name... Clem.
I knew a guy whose father's name was Claris Orilla Mills. Claris had a sister named Eppie Lelola Mills. I also personally knew a Jimmy Othas Watkins.
I would have posted earlier but I spent 15 minutes laughing over the Nimrod Buber. That one just killed me. I've still got tears in my eyes and my face hurts from laughing!
Replying to my own post, but a couple of other names came to me. A lot of Alaska natives out in the villages take "Christian names" but many of them end up with odd combinations of what we'd consider first names. When I went to high school, there was named Joe Pete. One of the schools we used to wrestle against had a native named Willie Hooch.
I also knew a guy in the service named Joe Bob Ringer. He could sing country music and play the guitar. Why he never went to Nashville is beyond me.
Robert Underdunk Terwilliger or
Apple Martini Terwillger if it's a girl.
Zakara Zenith. No, it's not a black name. The first name is akin to the word "remember" in Hebrew.
Make that Zakara Olivia T. Her nickname is ZOTTIE.
My son Matt and I had a good laugh over this years third place in "young champions" tour de france...Matieu Sprick.
How 'bout... Seven?
Soda?
Camden.
Going to call him Cam like the Stanley Cup Champions Hurricane's goalie.
Forget the unisex names!
I find it ironic that a person with the last name of "Terwilliger" would be laughing at names. You should:
1. Change your last name
2. Have a baby
I don't see a problem with it if the last-cum-first name is given to honor an ancestor or close family friend--then it's more of an upper-class habbit. What's terrible is when some trend-obsessed couple uses a last name to which they have no connection, just because they like it--or worse, because it was used on some TV show.
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