Wossis name

[woofmarkthedog]

Try P.Nurse & A.Nurse

http://www.myspace.com/puddlesofskypress

I mean what kind of mother would do that, what a gal I'd like to meet her.

W**F

[giggirl]

I rather like biblical names. Obviously not the scary Old Testament ones like Methuselah and Og.

Musicians and actors and so called celebrities have a lot to answer for though. "Apple" and "Peaches" anyone? More fruit salad than creche.

[dulwichmum]

Woof dear, you are clearly living in Peckham. Why have you not mentioned this in the past?

Every child on our road is called at least one of the following: Iris, Charlotte, Olympia, Freya, Hector, Columbus, George, Max or "Stone", but his paerents are from North Dublin (lottery winners, clearly!). OHMYGOD!

[woofmarkthedog]

dulwichmum Wrote:

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> Woof dear, you are clearly living in Peckham. Why

> have you not mentioned this in the past?

>

> Every child on our road is called at least one of

> the following: Iris, Charlotte, Olympia, Freya,

> Hector, Columbus, George, Max or "Stone", but his

> paerents are from North Dublin (lottery winners,

> clearly!). OHMYGOD!

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No,not Peckham DM , Pinot twisted your bearings ?

"Stone" jeeezus poor kid .

"Max", are people really still calling their "Little darlings" that ?

What is the world coming to & where did the "Tarquins" go ?

WLLM still rings in my ears like an auditory tattoo though......arghhhhhh

W**F

[Mick Mac]

My wife and I are playing the name game at the moment. Shes expecting and its a boy.

I'm keen on Rory. She has asked for a shortlist of > 1 name.

This means she is not keen on Rory (see how I deduced that..).

[woofmarkthedog]

Here's what to do, think up a munter of a name like say "Montmorency"

Then say

"He can be Monty then, as in python "

She'll say

"God no ! I prefer Rory to Monty anyday "

Bingo, the boy is named ( not "Bingo" but "Rory" BTW )

Poor kid anyway, "Rory" he's bound to have a milk allergy ,Asthma & eczema with that name, I mean really

Try harder Mic

Report back later with list

W**F

[SteveT]

'Mini Mick Mac' for the boy?

Sounds like a chocolate bar though.

[Y'man]

Colleauge of a friend had twin girls, eldest was Ella, youngest Samantha. She'd never turned the names around, Sam & Ella, (Salmonella).

Daughter went to school with twins named Windy & Breezy, surname....Fairweather. I kid you not.

[Brendan]

Where I used to work there were 2 guys who made up a team. Their names were Dick and Wally. I kid you not.

[Pickle]

My Dad uses a plumber with surname Mains, and a carpet fitter with surname Pile. I wonder if they felt they just didn't have any other option when it came to career choice?

My favourite "Dulwich" name is Milo (which in NZ is a type of malty bedtime drink, but here seems to be the choice of name for the nouveau rich).

[gwod]

I went to school with a girl called Ophelia Balls....really

[woofmarkthedog]

gwod Wrote:

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> I went to school with a girl called Ophelia

> Balls....really

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Did she .....I mean did you ?

[gwod]

....and this really is my mother-in-law's dental practice....really.

http://www.dentithanddentith.co.uk

[HonaloochieB]

gwod Wrote:

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> I went to school with a girl called Ophelia

> Balls....really

Ophelia, what was wrong with her parents? They must have been snootical as all hell.

I assume her folks thought she would exist in a rarified world of creatives, bankers, artists or possibly in a PG Wodehouse novel.

Didn't they have domestics to advise them? If in doubt consult the help.

Sharon Balls says soap star, Tracy Balls a girl group 'diva' and Natalie Balls could be a new British artist.

Always opt for a common first name if you have a risible surname.

[Mick Mac]

gwod Wrote:

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> I went to school with a girl called Ophelia

> Balls....really

Isn't that an old one that Ed Balls tells about his sister

[HonaloochieB]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> gwod Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

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> > I went to school with a girl called Ophelia

> > Balls....really

>

> Isn't that an old one that Ed Balls tells about

> his sister

Oh stop it MM. Ed Balls? Now you're just making stuff up.

No one of any importance could be called Ed Balls. It sounds like a character from an Ian Dury song.

His biographer's name was Kevin Balls, which was good, though no Patricia Plaistow or Trevor Clever.

Still ne'er mind, eh?

[david_carnell]

I have heard rumours of a child named Shackleton in the ED environs.

Secretly, I'm quite impressed.

[????]

...or indeed Richard Billericay

[gwod]

Also, I got talking to a mother of twin boys at London Bridge last month, she told me she had called them Tristram and Beowulf. I wasn't able to muster the correct response...I think I just made a face.

[woofmarkthedog]

All the Tristan's I have meet have turned out to be bratts, but "Beowulf" is shockingly good in the "pardon, come again " stakes. Will it be shortened to "Be-o" or "Wulfy" either way......erm.. "Way"

In the year below my son is a boy called "Tu-pac".

Though when I heard "Tu-pac" someone joked

"Oh yeah, his brother's called Biggy"

My jaw dropped "No"

" No ,not really he's called "Shakur"...."Yeah for real"

My mouth opened again but no words came out

W**F

[gwod]

Not Tristan...at least that would be "All Creatures Great and Small" ish. Tristram as in "...and Isolde"!

Also I think I can trump your Tu-pac with the kid at my kids' school whose name is Enoch. For real.

[mockney piers]

From the ever marvellous Half Man Half Biscuit on this topic

"...a woman who described herself as "a little bit Bridget, a little bit Ally, a little bit Sex In The City" and chose to call her baby boy Fred as a childishly rebellious attempt at a clever reaction to those who might have expected her to call him Julian or Rupert. Bit of advice: call him Rupert. It fits, and besides, its a good name. Don't be calling him Fred or Archie with all its cheeky-but-loveable working-class scamp connotations unless you really do have plans for him to spend his life in William Hill waiting for them to weigh in at Newton Abbott."

I have these dilemmas looming large. Current short list includes Ichabod and Croydon.

[Brendan]

What about Penge?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Mockers probably can't now change the place where minimockers was conceived, so Croydon it is.

[HonaloochieB]

And at least you'll have a song to play at his christening/naming ceremony.

http://www.last.fm/music/Captain+Sensible/_/Croydon