Names

Thank you, Steph I didn't need to go to bed on time. I needed to browse your link to a collector of truly horrible baby names and laugh til it hurt.

Sample:
(message board post followed by snarky comment from bad name collector)

my hubby got on a kick of the names rhyming, believing we would have no more. lol, we are due in nov! so, i am in a tight place. my dd is kaesyn paige,(jason w/ a "k"), and my son is richard brycin (goes by mn).

if this bb is a girl, her name will be adecyn shai (addison shay)...

i need a name w/ the "sin" sound, not the spelling! lol! i am not fond of jaxon, but my dh likes aryxon (erikson) and i am fond of tycen. ...

New naming rule: If in typing the name out you have to follow it immediately with another version in parentheses, because otherwise no one would have the slightest clue this was supposed to be a name and not Klingon for "Wax my forehead, supple wench," this is a bad, bad, woah bad bad name.

Jim, I hope you have time for this. It's a fabulous stress reliever and that's all I can offer you right now.

!!extend_body!!

Posted by Poppins at 1:03 am

- Jill in OK | 06.25.04 | 1:49 pm

I should've posted this on Stephanie's blog, but that bad baby name link was one of the best gifts I've been given in a long time (:sniff:).

Oh...the hilarity!

My favorite involved the name Tierraney (If you're going to give a kid a cool name like 'Tyranny', at least spell it right!)

The Christian equivalent of this can sometimes be: We want to do a Bible name, but yet be original, so let's find the most obscure Biblical name we can! (Dh and I have an ongoing joke about this; he always suggests Zerubbabel, and I volunteer Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz).

(Please don't be offended if you spent a lot of time looking for original Biblical names...I'm poking fun at myself, too!)

- Rainer | 06.25.04 | 4:28 pm

Nothing to do with baby namz, but a report of my travlz.

Hot Hot Hot. Today it was 34. Sweater? I laugh in the face of sweater! Nice and humoid too. Trust me you would not enjoy it.
Went on a walking tour of Winter Gardens, saw a Tiffany glass museum. Great stuff that. Went with Linda. Had lunch at a great Cafe. Had spicy tuna, done rare. They even let me lick the plate. No, that was good food.

Tonight we are heading out for Thai. $20-$25 US a plate. Life is good, until you have to pay the bill.
Pooltime tonight. It is already after 4 here. Had a very relaxed day.
ANd bought a librarian action figure and some Harry Potter stationary for Sandra. I think she would like to write her friends and family on Hermione paper. Don't you think?

Love and miss you all.
Rainer

Call me at about 6 your time.

- Jim | 06.25.04 | 10:33 pm

because otherwise no one would have the slightest clue this was supposed to be a name and not Klingon for "Wax my forehead, supple wench,"

::wiping eyes::

OK, thanks. That was... inspiring. And I say that as the mother of Merlin and Wolf, both of whom would have been named Chinook had they been girls, and as the godmother of Turtle and Zany.

We want to do a Bible name, but yet be original, so let's find the most obscure Biblical name we can!

How about Hezekiah and Bathsheba? For real, in the same family, in Kingston. Last I heard the parents were planning on naming their next child Levi or (I think) Hosannah.

- Sarah | 06.25.04 | 10:39 pm

A commonplace name like Levi? I think not! Perhaps they were thinking of changing the spelling. Leevii. Levai. Leevy.

Or maybe Canaanite. That's an unusual name taken straight from the Good Book. ;-)

- Jim | 06.26.04 | 5:05 pm

A commonplace name like Levi? I think not!

Yeah, I wondered if they were losing their nerve and might eventually just name their last kids Mary and Bill.

Or maybe Canaanite. That's an unusual name taken straight from the Good Book. ;-)

Or Philistine! Picture giving out business cards with "Philistine Smithers, Software Engineer" on them.

- TulipGirl | 06.26.04 | 9:17 pm

Oh, my. . . We've been reading through that site and laughing so hard. Thanks, Sarah, for the amusement tonight.