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Weird baby names

  • 29-07-2008 08:59PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭


    So I was watching some show last night/this morning about parents training their kids for the Olympics and whatnot. Now there was this one family who called their kids names like:

    Spartacus
    Aphrodite
    Caesar Augustus
    Venus
    Angel

    Like whats wrong with Jack or Jill?? I suppose its grand when theyre very young but what 15 year old in school wants 'Caesar Augustus' read out on the roll! Or if your 20 year old guy and someone asks you your name they're gonna assume your taking the piss:cool: Mad parents


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    Hemroid


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    I'd love to be named Caesar Augustus, god damn parents!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Violence


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Captain Ginger


    Abortion


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,440 ✭✭✭GirlInterrupted


    Venus is a big risk because your daughter may turn out less than gorgeous.

    Spartacus is a risk because your son may not turn out to be Kirk Douglas.

    Angel is a risk because your other daughter may turn out to be a devil.

    And the rest are just silly.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭Munya


    Riot
    Miz'Unique


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    I think it was Practchett who wrote of four daughters, Hope, Chastity, Charity and Faith.

    They were, respectively, a manic depressive, a hooker, in jail for theft and an athiest.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Dennis the Stone


    Michael Moran, the books editor for Times Online, has discovered a book that makes every Jane Doe or Tom, Dick and Harry thank their lucky stars.

    We're familiar with the celebrity trend of giving children playful, silly, impractical names on the basis that they'll never have to endure the vicissitudes of a real school or workplace. The first one most of us noticed was probably Zowie Bowie, or perhaps Marc Bolan's little boy Rolan, and probably reached its apotheosis in the wilful christening flightiness evinced by Bob Geldof or Gywneth Paltrow.

    Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback, the authors of a new book, Bad Baby Names, have looked into a century of US census reports and discovered that the history of weird names is longer, and stranger, than most of us could have possibly imagined…

    Here, in ascending order of weirdness, are the 20 strangest:

    20: Wanna Funk

    19: United States

    18: Lotta Bacon

    17: Hysteria Johnson

    16: Waitress Seholley

    15: Nail Rambo

    14: Jump Jump

    13: Tackle Feigenbutz

    12: Mustard M.Mustard

    11: Jelly Bean Cook

    10: Fat Meat Fields

    9: Geography Bryan

    8: Zero Pie

    7: Cylinder Klinefelter

    6: Nice Veal

    5: Cylclops Walthour

    4: Envy Burger

    3: Cancer Grindstaff

    2: Young Boozer

    1: Dracula Taylor

    And, just to demonstrate that not all parents are capricious and michevous come christening time, here are an even dozen names that I’d prefer to plain old Michael Moran:

    Peach Skeeters

    Watermelon Pete McNeil

    Experience Fairweathers

    Limbo Holloway

    Bluebell Plopper

    Beauty Outlaw

    Darth Wilson

    Christian Devil

    Welcome Darling

    Sexy Chambers

    Love Catts

    Permelia Buckaroo


    http://timesonline.typepad.com/alphamummy/2008/07/20-strangest-ba.html


    :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭what2do


    Two sets of unfortunate twins in NZ - fish and chips, Benson and Hedges!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭StormWarrior


    In the daily mail recently was a story about a boy who was refused a place at a Christian primary school because his name was Max Hell!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito



    Spartacus is a risk because your son may not turn out to be Kirk Douglas.

    .

    Probably more likely to turn out to be kirk douglas than to lead the roman slaves to an uprising. :p

    Spartacus would be a cool name to have btw.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Sherifu posted this already today, but it's worth repeating:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭Al_Fernz


    Slasher FTW


  • Posts: 11,928 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm calling my ginger kid Blaze and I don't shiote what any of you think!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 226 ✭✭alexjk


    When I used to live in Ballymun,I heard a woman shout "Shakiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiira, get off the bleedin' balcony!".Brightened up my day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Moonbaby wrote: »
    I'm calling my ginger kid Blaze and I don't shiote what any of you think!

    He'll just called 'Blazer' in school...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭Al_Fernz


    stovelid wrote: »
    He'll just called 'Blazer' in school...

    .....or jasper/gingerpubes/giinger.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭kittensoft1984


    Sitting in the cinema last night and the name effy popped into my head!

    I have no idea why..... For a girl obviously!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭Loomis


    Wivoney


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,210 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Angel is a very common name in French and Spanish-speaking countries.

    Useless allegedly of the day.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,079 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    Sitting in the cinema last night and the name effy popped into my head!

    I have no idea why..... For a girl obviously!
    Wouldn't that be pronounced like "Evi", short for the not-very-wierd "Evelyn"?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭gogglebok


    Sitting in the cinema last night and the name effy popped into my head!

    I have no idea why..... For a girl obviously!

    I like Effi. Isn't it a straightforward German name? There's a novel called Effi Briest.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭lolly22


    Hardrock...for a boy ofcourse, and chardonnay for a girl.

    Hmmm :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    I wanted to call my son Man From Atlantis but my wife vetoed it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭lolly22


    And im sure your son will thank her for it :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭kittensoft1984


    gogglebok wrote: »
    I like Effi. Isn't it a straightforward German name? There's a novel called Effi Briest.

    Thats the one. I heard it a while ago and liked it instantly!


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    my cousin called his new baby Willow
    :confused:

    big baby willie


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,062 ✭✭✭all the stars


    So former customer told me

    She treats kids for stutters/ speech problems...
    One of her kids was called....

    Thumbelina.....
    :eek:

    with some mad regular surname like Daly... poor child.
    She was saying she just cant bring herself to call the lil un anything but "pet".. Talk about advertising to bully the poor kid..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,062 ✭✭✭all the stars


    alexjk wrote: »
    When I used to live in Ballymun,I heard a woman shout "Shakiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiira, get off the bleedin' balcony!".Brightened up my day.

    i heard that in a shop in Portlaoise, followed by "Britney i said no fookin chocolate" in bit Dub accent... amybe same woman? ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭gloobag


    My first born will be named 'The Hulk', boy or girl, it doesn't matter to me :cool:


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