more baby name ridiculousness

pumpkinpumpkin

A girl I know just gave her son this name:

Lincoln Ronald Max Todd Hypenated-Lastname. A little long, no?

Stackeye210

Wow.  Is she typically an indecisive person?  That kid won't understand what his name is until he's like 17. 

pumpkinpumpkin

I don't know her very well...she lives in town, she's a huge AW.

laurenclaire1386

Holy hell. Of the four names he has, which one are they going to call him? I'd call him LRMT.

BecW2be

she's a huge AW.

Well, that's obvious. I hope at age 4 that kid starts only answering to "Bob".

[Deleted User]

I went to school with a kid named Lincoln and we called him Stinkin Lincoln.

kate51485

Well duh P2, the longer your kid's name is the more important they will be the instant they emerge from the womb!!1!!111!!!!

i'm glad to see you here this week.

BecW2be

I wonder how many jokes will be made about his log.

rhodesign

perhaps he's going to be their only child and they decided to name him all the names of all potential children that they will not be having?

pumpkinpumpkin

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[QUOTE]i'm glad to see you here this week.
Posted by kate51485[/QUOTE]
Enjoy me while I'm here for the next 33 minutes :)
I have a CRAZY week...in meetings all day yesterday, all afternoon today, tomorrow all day, so hopefully Friday life will be back to normal!

kate51485

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[QUOTE]I wonder how many jokes will be made about his log.
Posted by BecW2be[/QUOTE]

HAHA!

[Deleted User]

Yikes, that's awful.  Lincoln is getting so overused anyway but to add 3+ names to that!  Wow.

cengle

I actually like the name Lincoln, but that's a whole lot of names for a kid.

A friend of mine from high school just had a baby girl and named her Persephone.  What do you all think of that name? I think it's a bit odd.

tidetravel

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[QUOTE]I actually like the name Lincoln, but that's a whole lot of names for a kid. A friend of mine from high school just had a baby girl and named her Persephone.  What do you all think of that name? I think it's a bit odd.
Posted by cengle[/QUOTE]

I like the name, but I don't know that I would name my kid after the wife of the ruler of the Underworld.

cengle

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: more baby name ridiculousness : I like the name, but I don't know that I would name my kid after the wife of the ruler of the Underworld.
Posted by tidetravel[/QUOTE]

Ha, that's funny. I didn't even think of that.
Although, this is the girl that had the medieval-themed wedding, with her flowergirls dressed as fairies, so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. 

sarabellam

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[QUOTE]she's a huge AW. Well, that's obvious. I hope at age 4 that kid starts only answering to "Bob".
Posted by BecW2be[/QUOTE]

Nope, he needs to answer only to "Ty."

pumpkinpumpkin

I liked the name, but there's a guy I know from when I lived in a different town - his name is Lincoln, and this fall, he threatened to blow his wife up with dynamite. He's a fuckingfuckwad.

ac_in_dc

A good friend of mine has a niece names persephone. It works for her b/c her parents are very crunchy, raw-foodie, co-op running kind of folks.

(edit) Oh, and I like lincoln, too. Although I know a golden retriever named lincoln and I can't seem to shake the association.

I'm still clueless on what I'm going to name the little guy, but the good news is that DH is on board with ditching his family's weird naming tradition (even FIL said he didn't mind) so we can at least have productive discussions about it...but finding a name is hard!!

cengle

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[QUOTE]I liked the name, but there's a guy I know from when I lived in a different town - his name is Lincoln, and this fall, he threatened to blow his wife up with dynamite. He's a fuckingfuckwad.
Posted by pumpkinpumpkin[/QUOTE]

Do what?!?

pumpkinpumpkin

Yep, he has his dynamite ticket I guess, so he's legally allowed (or was) to buy dynamite. He threatened his wife (ex wife, I suppose) that he was going to blow her up with dynamite...she called the cops, the cops searched his place, found that he in fact did have dynamite (so a threat he could actually act upon), and arrested him. He's out now, but he's still a fuckwad. Somehow he got a pardon to travel to Mexico....

kate51485

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[QUOTE] I'm still clueless on what I'm going to name the little guy, but the good news is that DH is on board with ditching his <strong>family's weird naming tradition</strong> (even FIL said he didn't mind) so we can at least have productive discussions about it...but finding a name is hard!!
Posted by ac_in_dc[/QUOTE]

Curious...details?

ac_in_dc

I posted about it a few weeks ago. Since it's the firstborn son (barf), the tradition is to have a first name that begins with "P" and a middle name the same as DH's. DH had his dad's middle name and a first name beginning with "B". BP, PB, BP, PB, ad infinitum...

tidetravel

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[QUOTE]A good friend of mine has a niece names persephone. It works for her b/c her parents are very crunchy, raw-foodie, co-op running kind of folks. (edit) Oh, and I like lincoln, too. Although I know a golden retriever named lincoln and I can't seem to shake the association. I'm still clueless on what I'm going to name the little guy, but the good news is that DH is on board with ditching his family's weird naming tradition (even FIL said he didn't mind) so we can at least have productive discussions about it...but finding a name is hard!!
Posted by ac_in_dc[/QUOTE]

Ooh.  Yay for breaking wierd naming traditions!  I thought of you the other day when my father informed me that our first born son WILL be named John, because that's how "italians do it" and the last three or four generations of first born sons on his side have been named some variant of John.

Um, no.  Sorry dad.  We've already got names picked out for 2 boys if we were to have them, thanks.

kate51485

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[QUOTE]I posted about it a few weeks ago. Since it's the firstborn son (barf), the tradition is to have a first name that begins with "P" and a middle name the same as DH's. DH had his dad's middle name and a first name beginning with "B". BP, PB, BP, PB, ad infinitum...
Posted by ac_in_dc[/QUOTE]

I feel like the Duggars would excel at this formula.

:p glad you don't have to comply!

baby green bird

Here's an odd pne for a boy: Texas Battle. Yep, true story.

Celles

FI:  If we ever have a daughter, we should name her Sorah.
Me: Sorah?
FI: Yes.  It's pretty, don't you think?
Me: ... it's the name of your D&D character, isn't it?
FI: (silence)
Me: We are not naming our kid after your D&D character!


I frequently have to remind him that there's a very distinct line between the level of geekery I'll embrace and the level of geekery that ends in divorce.  This was definitely one of the latter.

JessAndTrav

Wow. That's ridiculous.

salt78

I cannot stand the name Todd. No offense if any of your FIs are named that.

Morfudd

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[QUOTE]FI:  If we ever have a daughter, we should name her Sorah. Me: Sorah? FI: Yes.  It's pretty, don't you think? Me: ... it's the name of your D&D character, isn't it? FI: (silence) Me: We are not naming our kid after your D&D character! I frequently have to remind him that there's a very distinct line between the level of geekery I'll embrace and the level of geekery that ends in divorce.  This was definitely one of the latter.
Posted by Celles[/QUOTE]

Brilliant.

So, we're both medieval history grad students, actually, so occasionally he'll come up with a name he's found in a text. That's not so bad, though, as when he tries to enforce medieval political theory. Example:

M: Would you like something specific as a wedding present?
T: The best gift a wife can give to her husband is a surviving male heir.
M: ...
T: Otherwise the kingdom falls into chaos!
M: ...how about a watch?