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Re: Fantasy Name League
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:20 pm
by MrsD'ville mkII
Green Aura wrote:Do you think your name helps define you?
Maggie
No, I wouldn't say that, but inevitably it will create a preconception in some people's minds. If you named your children Araminta and Tarquin there would be an assumption you weren't living on the breadline, however wrong that assumption might be, and just the same kind of thing the other way round if they were Chardonnay and Jason. So, having offended everyone within sight...! Isn't it funny that when we hear a name that creates an instant image in our minds we don't think 'poor sod, what were their parents thinking of?' but instead project the negative feelings onto the person?
Re: Fantasy Name League
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:08 pm
by Green Aura
I knew I should have called her Lucinda, it might have given her a leg up! Although I'm not sure where
Re: Fantasy Name League
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:26 pm
by circlecross
for all those Terry Pratchett fans out there, I am most definitely a Susan.
Re: Fantasy Name League
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:40 pm
by Mrs Moustoir
Green Aura wrote:I knew I should have called her Lucinda, it might have given her a leg up! Although I'm not sure where
The only Lucinda I know likes to be called Cindy or Cin...which isn't quite as classy!
Re: Fantasy Name League
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 2:07 pm
by shell
ooh,one of my daughters is Alice mary
Re: Fantasy Name League
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:34 pm
by charlie
Our little one, born last week, turned out to be pink, so she's named Willow Mae.
Didn't want anything too conventional or too "out there".
Re: Fantasy Name League
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:41 am
by Mrs Moustoir
Congratulations! And a lovely name for the new arrival.
Re: Fantasy Name League
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:20 am
by jim
When our eldest was on the way we had tried the bibliomancy method of naming. (Yeh, we're REALLY old hippies) You open the Bible and stick your finger on the page. First try came up with Lucifer, second was fleshpots.
In the end we called him Joe. (Hendrix was another scrapped option) Even now, at 37 he's referred to as Lucifer Fleshpots to his annoyance.
Love and Peace
Jim
Re: Fantasy Name League
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:00 am
by citizentwiglet
ROFL!!!
My parents had a similar way of trying to name my sister and I...they were so fed up of arguing about names that they decided to name each of us after the first advert they saw when they turned on TV. By rights, my name should be Harpic, and my sister should be Playtex. Sadly, in the end, they plumped for the far more conventional Jacqueline and Elaine.