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It Is Not Fair To Name Your Child Something Wacky Or Crazy.
It is not you that has to live with it for the rest of your days. Kids named Apple or Blossom, their parents should be ashamed. I met a girl called Dairylea. Poor soul.
 StBalders  26 Nov 2008 23:00
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People are running out of original names; Jessica, and James, and David; were basic popular names at one time. Now things like apple, blossom, and tellulabell are popular. I feel bad for the children, they have to grow being ridiculed by the cruel youth of our society today. I will not exp ell it but i grew up with a tough last name. I was made fun of from third grade on, people are still immature about it today. So i can only imagine being named after a fruit, or like new baby Bronx Moguli Wentz. Named after the town, and the boy from the jungle book. Why didn't they just name the poor kid after Babalou the bear in the story. Ridiculous if you ask me.
 
 ReAxIon08  29 Nov 2008 01:47
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Not to common, but not jocular, makes nameless a happy child.
 
 Balance_92  28 Nov 2008 22:34
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Aye! Guess you are right Saint, who'd want to be called 'Something Wacky' just plain old 'Wacky' is bad enough, however, I've heard many people called 'Crazy', and they have turned out to be some of the finest geniuses in society...;-)
 
 joe9  28 Nov 2008 11:34
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 I was about to type something similar when I noticed that you wrote the same thing.
by  Homestar
 28 Nov 2008 20:02
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They are only doing it for themselves which make you think if they actually had the child for purely selfish reasons.
 
 keepmindok  27 Nov 2008 08:30
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 I guess we all have kids for selfish reasons but I agree. It is not the name the parents themselves have to be burdened with. Call my father in law by his real name Hamilton and he flips out. It is John now, originally his middle name. Ask him if he appreciates the rather odd christian name.
by  StBalders
 27 Nov 2008 15:58
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I agree
 
 wolf111  27 Nov 2008 03:29
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It's not like kids are cruel or anything. They are kind individuals that are open to different things and new experiences. They especially are kind to those who stand out from the rest.
 
 innomen  27 Nov 2008 00:00
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 You have the sarcasm mode on your computer stuck
by  StBalders
 27 Nov 2008 00:43
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Of course. I feel bad for my brother his name is Jasper. That is a strange name.as a baby a cute name but when he grows into an audult yikes.also i think it is hostail to name a kid a wacky name like jasper or jose Luis(all a first name)because that is going to be joke centeral when they grow up.
 
 josie  26 Nov 2008 23:44
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 Jasper is actually pretty cool/.
by  Homestar
 26 Nov 2008 23:45
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If I ever have children I will give them funny middle names like "danger" so they can say things like, "Danger's my middle name..."
 
 Specter87  26 Nov 2008 23:13
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 I like it. I will try and sell that one to the missus but I doubt she will go along with it. I think you should have a bit of a crazy middle name, mine is David. i remember at parties girls often asked middle names and when it came to me I got "oh" and onto the next one. So I stole my dad's, lied and said Hartley and got much more attention.

Danger - yeah that's good.
by  StBalders
 26 Nov 2008 23:19
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I agree with avoiding names which sound crazy or are easily teased, although the examples of Apple or Blossom aren't quite extreme enough to me. I went to school with a "Neatsy", and my brother married a woman related to someone named "Drewla" which was a combo of other family names such as Drew and Carla. And Drewla had a sister named Grula for similar reasons. I'm not making this up. Real people with real names. Oh and I had a debate coach in college named Richard O'Dor (as in Dick Odor) and he admitted once that he added the apostrophe himself, and also his dad had the same name and they were big dick odor and little dick odor. Again, I'm not making this up.
 
 Grenache  26 Nov 2008 23:05
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 lol. Man you have me genuinely laughing out loud. Ha Ha, you couldn't make that up. Brilliant. Surely the parents must have thought about the connotations for Dick O'Dor before settling on that or were they just proper pranksters. Bet he was good at fighting like the Boy named Sue. And to become a teacher of all jobs.
by  StBalders
 26 Nov 2008 23:13
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Unusual fine but downright ridiculous is just pathetic and desperate. I am having my first nipper in a few weeks time and want a name that is not too common (in either sense of the word) but not outrageous.
 
 StBalders  26 Nov 2008 23:02
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 Name the lil' Satan spawn after me, "Rocket Jumbo Boots III".
by  Homestar
 26 Nov 2008 23:44
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Horatius poncembury winstone is my real name , and i turned out r8 good, mate
 
 Epicfailgy  01 Dec 2008 17:31
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 except that you spell right with an 8
by  StBalders
 03 Dec 2008 10:20
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It's the "boy named Sue" thing. I have a friend who has a name I will not tell you, but went to a tough school, and of all the ones I grew up with, has a high powered job which takes him all over the world. Was possibly more driven by his ridiculous name. It can possibly be a good thing.
Not in the celebrity way though, that's just sad.
 
 2free  29 Nov 2008 01:21
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Wacky and crazy names are fun, it sets your children up for a life of individual expression and stops them from simply blending in to the crowd. It's hardly cruel. However I would draw the line at calling a boy Sue
 
 Kirsty08  27 Nov 2008 22:37
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I do think some names are wierd...but how do you know that those names don't mean something to the parent? It's like tattoos; don't get one because it's cool, get one because it means something personal to you.
 
 bookworm3  27 Nov 2008 22:26
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 The difference there is the tattoo is on you, the person who it means something to. The given name is something that another individual is burdoned with. To make your analogy consistent you would have to say the tattoo is on the child. You wouldn't draw your own personal tattoo on someone else would you?
by  StBalders
 27 Nov 2008 22:31
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