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Loz Wrote:

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> ultraburner Wrote:

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> -----

> > My first (proper) girlfriend was called Jenny

> Taylor.

>

> I know a Jenny Taylor. No one twigged for 30-odd

> years until the day someone pointed out the joke.


I had to google this because i didn't get the joke! It doesn't really work as a gag with an Irish/Scottish accent.


PS - Also heard a woman calling out "BEYONCE!!!" in a park in Dublin.

Jeremy Wrote:

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> A useful tip for parents arguing over baby

> names... start with the most awful names you can

> imagine, and when you finally suggest something

> vaguely sensible/normal, your partner will gladly

> agree.



Haha, is that how you managed to score your (very cool) nane for your daughter?


I got quite lucky in that I suggested my okder daughter's name and my wife agreed straight away. Then she suggested the next one and after a quick read of a classic novel I was happy to agree.


Glad wr didn't have a boy as I had no ideas.

uncleglen Wrote:

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> I was surprised at Phaedra for a boy. I knew that

> Phaedra was a female from Greek mythology and then

> had to re-read that it was a boy!


xxxxxx


Yeh, I thought the same! But hey, language changes .....


Finding this thread a bit off, tbh. Fine line between humour and smug middle class superiority.

But the middle classes are some of the worst offenders... Tbh, it's more of a cultural differences issue, since a couple of the names I found funny are non-UK. And I am sure that other cultures would find some of our names funny since they sound like something rude in their language.


As for the made up names or unusual ones, I may think they sound silly, but at least they involve a bit of imagination.

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