The worst kid's name you've ever heard?

RacoonQueen wrote: »

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Imagine sitting there with your newborn in your arms, the two of you blissfully looking down at your new bundle of joy and one of you turns to the other and says.

"Honey, I think he looks like a Conor or a Bear"
"Oh god yeah honey he DOES look like a Bear"
"Lets call him Bear so"
"Bear it is"

The reverse is true too
Bear Grylls and the wife (I know it's not his real name) staring down at their newborn:
'I think he looks like a Marmaduke'
'What, like the cartoon dog?'
'Yes, the very same'
'Marmaduke it is. Jesse and Huckleberry will be pleased'

Posh idiots

Beer was the first thing that came into my mind once I left the labour ward.

Temple (a boy).

LynnGrace wrote: »

Heard Savannah and Ontario recently...
Couldn't wait to post on this thread, tbh.

I met a little girl called "Omaha" (pronounced O ma haw) at a wedding a few years ago. It's a town in Midwest America apparently!

Alf Stewart. wrote: »

The man that lives across a few fields from me calls his lad "Arthur the third" and I mean literally calls him Arthur the third (young bucks about 9 or Ten)

"Arthur the third, come in here and get a coat on"
"Arthur the third, hurry up and get in the car"
"Arthur the third, dinners ready"

Etc etc etc.

They're a fairly well off family, and they live in a fairly big country abode. But ****ing royalty they are not. :cool:

What's Royalty got to do with it. The kids name is Arthur, the Dad's name is Arther Jr, and the grandfather's name is Arthur senior. Therefore the kid is Arthur III

Jaxon

Also since moving to Scotland I've met a few Morags.

ibarelycare wrote: »

People love throwing redundant letters into Irish names to make them more obnoxious. Laoise is a beautiful name, spelling it like "Laoghaise/Laobhaise" is ridiculous.

Other similar examples are:

Caoilfhionn -> Caoilinn
Maedbh -> Maebh
Caoimhseach -> I don't know any other version of this but I just thought I'd throw it in there cos I hate it :pac:


And before any Gaelgeoirs attack me, I know some of the above are the more traditional spellings, but that doesn't mean I can't complain about them

The traditional spellings were officially abolished sometime approx. 1950-1960.

E.g. Eoghan -> Eoin

So any Eoghan who is under 60 has tossers for parents.

I'm an Eoin and the inability of anyone in a call centre to spell a not unusual Irish name consisting of only four f**king letters never ceases to bug the sh*t out of me.

It's not like I even like it, but I'm stuck with it. My surname is a well known Irish name but without fail I have to spell it out every time I talk to a call centre monkey :rolleyes:

D0NNELLY wrote: »

It was also a beach in France for a while a few years ago.

I was at Omaha Beach in Normandy for the D-Day +60 commemerations in 2004, a good number of US veterans made the trip, due to their advancing age it was pretty much their last opportunity... poignant.

They put their ass on the line to free Europe from Europe's f**k-ups. They didn't have to. And thousands of them never made it home.

A particularly poignant moment - one evening we were having a few beers in a bar near the beach watching the sun go down. A US vet and his extended family were at the next table, people started walking up to him and shaking his hand (he was >80). One of the recreationists (who drive around in jeeps wearing WWII uniforms) lent him a WWII US helmet and he put it on. "It's been a long time" he said, and everyone applauded.

heldel00 wrote: »

Are they just pronouncing this as "Leo" or is there some bizarre way that we must decipher?

LIO,it reminds him of the time he slipped...League Is Over:):):)

Overheard a lady today call her son Deveney...the more I say it the more I like it.

Avaeah. I think it's pronounced Av-ia. But fancy spelling that one out for people your whole life...