Penelope (The Odyseey) Gabriel (Joyce's The Dead) Chloe and Olivia (A Room of One's Own, and on that note) Virginia (Woolf) Vladamir (Not entirely for Nabokov, but it helps) Santiago (The Old man and the Sea and The Alchemist) Clarissa (From Mrs. Dalloway, not the host of AWO.)
and last, but not least, Catlin. No reason, I just like it.
Wow, it's probably good that not many of you have children.
Seriously. A good majority of them are rather silly.
With all due respect, who is anyone to judge what someone names their kid? The fact that I name my kid "John" or "Magnus Harkonnen Blitzkrieg, Destroyer of Foes and Pleasurer of Women" has little bearing on the life he will lead. See?
Fuck, Magnus Harkonnen Blitzkrieg might be the most badass name I have ever thought up. That's a name for your first-born son. The one who you go fishing with and you say, "Son, what is best in life?" And he responds, "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!" And then you go, "...That is good," and shoot down a helicopter with your torpedo boat.
Magnus Harkonnen Blitzkrieg, that's a winner. Now to find a woman who likes Dune, X-Men (or 40K), and the word Blitzkrieg enough to let me do it.
I'm all for the playground cruelty for any potential children. Being made fun of teaches how to deal with social pressures, and failing that teaches you kid how to fight fairly well. Either result is acceptable.
So then, you're going to name your son Sue.n That'll teach him right well.
I happen to like Daniel and Alison as names. They're not weird or anything, but they are both meaningful names to me. Of course if Pete and I have kids, our first son is going to be named Thor, but hey, we might have another one.
I save the weird or ill-luck names, like Interrobang and Loki, for pets.
I'm not sure why but I have always liked the name Alexavier for a boy. It is just different enough catch people's attention but you could still go by Alex.
I'm not sure why but I have always liked the name Alexavier for a boy. It is just different enough catch people's attention but you could still go byAlex.
This thread has pretty much shown me that I nearly universally hate all the short versions of boys names. (that and all the people I disliked or were assholes in childhood had those short versions :-p)
Hardly. It's just a reference to odd children's names via George's brilliant idea to name a kid "Seven" in Seinfeld.
Believe it or not my cousin named his child Seven. I shit you not!
There was a book by Max Barry where one of the characters was called 6(written as the numeral, not the word), because (Spoiler) - Her parents were changing her name to her age every year, until she was old enough to pick her own name, and they died when she was age six.
This thread has pretty much shown me that I nearly universally hate all the short versions of boys names. (that and all the people I disliked or were assholes in childhood had those short versions :-p)
So you hate Alex as a name? How disappointing. I like it much better than Alexander, it's way too wordy.
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Penelope (The Odyseey)
Gabriel (Joyce's The Dead)
Chloe and Olivia (A Room of One's Own, and on that note)
Virginia (Woolf)
Vladamir (Not entirely for Nabokov, but it helps)
Santiago (The Old man and the Sea and The Alchemist)
Clarissa (From Mrs. Dalloway, not the host of AWO.)
and last, but not least, Catlin. No reason, I just like it.
Evelyn
Alexandra
Jayne (Hero of Canton, see also)
Audra
Moira
Gretchen
Sophie
Boys:
Dominick
Erik
Vincent
Gabriel
Iain
Hugh
John
Andrew
Fuck, Magnus Harkonnen Blitzkrieg might be the most badass name I have ever thought up. That's a name for your first-born son. The one who you go fishing with and you say, "Son, what is best in life?" And he responds, "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!" And then you go, "...That is good," and shoot down a helicopter with your torpedo boat.
Magnus Harkonnen Blitzkrieg, that's a winner. Now to find a woman who likes Dune, X-Men (or 40K), and the word Blitzkrieg enough to let me do it.
I happen to like Daniel and Alison as names. They're not weird or anything, but they are both meaningful names to me. Of course if Pete and I have kids, our first son is going to be named Thor, but hey, we might have another one.
I save the weird or ill-luck names, like Interrobang and Loki, for pets.
This is Xander...