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Quoth BeckySunshine View PostI'm sorry, but that just kinda creeps me out.
Along with people naming their twins rhyming names. I'm so grateful Mommy didn't do that for me and Bella.
My mother and youngest aunt are twins. Their names have the same initials and the same number of letters. And they used to have the same outfits, too, which annoyed the hell out of them as soon as they were old enough to consider it.
Oh, and to make it even better, they're named for Janus. You know, the god most often depicted as having two faces.
^-.-^Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden
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Quoth BeckySunshine View PostAccording to himself and his parents, the man of the household was named after/for Mikey in the LIFE cereal ads.
I'm disturbed.The Rich keep getting richer because they keep doing what it was that made them rich. Ditto the Poor.
"Hy kan tell dey is schmot qvestions, dey is makink my head hurt."
Hoc spatio locantur.
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Quoth Geek King View PostI like to kid that I'm already famous because I already have a road named after me.
In Eagle, WI, two streets are named after my great grandfather, and one after one of my great uncles. (Andrew, Laurence {sp?}, and Schroeder.)
Since Schroeder is my last name (kinda long story, really), I'd tell people that I don't need my own corner--I have my own street.
I gotta take pictures again.Unseen but seeing
oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
3rd shift needs love, too
RIP, mo bhrionglóid
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About 6 years ago, when my husband's now-ex-wife was pregnant with their first child, she was telling us the names she wanted. The one for if it was a girl was Mercedes. I told her that wasn't a bad name, except that they have a cat named Lexus, and well.... make the connection and your own little jokes about it. She got SO pissed at me. I am like "Why? Cuz I pointed out something someone else might have AFTER the kid was born and named? I save you and your potential girl the barrage of jokes and comments about naming your next one Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Honda, or Ford"
They ended up having a boy... and they named him Ethan, lol! Though she did have a girl a couple years later (4 years TBE), and they named her Paris. Yeah. Poor kid. She'll never be thought of without connecting "Hilton" to her name.
My first name is Lea. No 'h'. My grandma named me, but my mom picked the spelling. To this day, I give my mom crap about her being 16 years old and wanting to be a 'trendy/cool' mom. I hated my name for years. I always wanted a cool name like Kelly or Elizabeth, or Jennifer. My name wasn't common (I was the only 'Lea/Leah' in a high school with over 3,000 students), but not unusual. Just the spelling. I have never put an 'h' on my name, and yet people still add it on their own for some reason. As if they think *I* misspell my own name. Even my kids' school does it. I have corrected them several times, and still they spell it wrong. I pretty much have just given up at this point.
My own kids have normal, pronounceable, spellable names. Nathan Jon, and Benjamin Martin.
Quoth Rubyred View PostThe names that we have (hypothetically and out of boredom) picked out for our future children are:
Marlee Kathleen
Preston James (for some reason I really dig the name Preston)
Paige Elizabeth
Maxim Valentine (I know I know but it was my great grandfathers name)
I don't think they're too bad."We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am."-Thomas Keller
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Quoth FuzzyKitten99 View PostMy first name is Lea. No 'h'. I have never put an 'h' on my name, and yet people still add it on their own for some reason. As if they think *I* misspell my own name. Even my kids' school does it. I have corrected them several times, and still they spell it wrong. I pretty much have just given up at this point.
My own kids have normal, pronounceable, spellable names. Nathan Jon, and Benjamin Martin.
I know a Lia. Pronounced the same as Leah.
As for misspelling, it took 12 years for the school district where I grew up to spell my parents' last name correctly. My parents live within 3 hours' driving distance of Holyoke, Massachusetts, and have the surname of Holyoak. The school constantly misspelled our name to be that of the town. Of course, then there were the random letters we'd get sent to our home with misspellings, some likely due to our own poor handwriting but others due to goodness-knows-what. Like letters addressed to So-and-So Hollindak, or Halycak, or even just Hollyoak (one too many L's). It got to the point where I'd say my last name as "Holyoakholyasinbibleoakasintree" if someone had to spell it.
Then I moved to Utah for University and suddenly everyone could spell it (the majority of my Holyoak relatives live in southern Utah), but nobody could pronounce it (pronouncing "holy" as "holly" for some inexplicable reason).
As for my current last name, there are only two names we can't give our children, ever. William and Gromit. And despite it being a very easy surname, we've still had at least two people misspell it since I married into the family (and apparently none before; I'm cursed!)."Enough expository banter. It's time we fight like men. And ladies. And ladies who dress like men. For Gilgamesh...IT'S MORPHING TIME!"
- Gilgamesh, Final Fantasy V
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Quoth Rubyred View PostYeah...I'm not completely happy with Maxim Valentine either but like I said it was my great grandfathers name and I adored him. I'm thinking more along the lines of Maxwell Valentine though.
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Quoth FuzzyKitten99 View PostI save you and your potential girl the barrage of jokes and comments about naming your next one Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Honda, or Ford"
Could be worse though--imagine if your first name was Edsel. Imagine going through your entire life...if your name was tied to one of the biggest automotive failures ever...Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines. --Enzo Ferrari
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Quoth Sheldonrs View PostMy HS Principal' name was Seymor Hyman. Would have been great if he were a gynocologist.The Rich keep getting richer because they keep doing what it was that made them rich. Ditto the Poor.
"Hy kan tell dey is schmot qvestions, dey is makink my head hurt."
Hoc spatio locantur.
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