Gee, I’m overwhelmed. Taking the piss out of the Americans? Why would I do that? I’ll show the list to Natalie tomorrow and she can choose a middle name for herself. Personally, I like Jack a lot, being a bit of a CS Lewis fan and all. I’ll try to sell it to her by saying it’s the name the author of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was called. I’m also thinking seriously about the sponsorship angle.
Keep them coming, please. Horatio for my camera is okay, but I was thinking something a bit more Cecil Beaton.
Not so fast Salem…We’re going to need to know a few things about this camera?
What’s the brand? How about the megapixel capacity? What’s your zoom range? Does it fit in your pants pocket, or your shirt pocket, or no pocket? What color is it? Does it have red-eye reduction & low light modes?
If it helps, I had a Cannon that I named Agassi. I have 2 Nikons named Mega-mambo-boy & Fred. My Point & shoot digital is Bydig. I named the dog Indiana.
I think you should name your camera AndyPolley! Why not? Everytime you take a picture, you’ll be forced to think about that crazy yank who hates potential employees who wear jeans. Don’t I deserve a tribute?
I’m partial to Penelope myself. (pronounce either way)
When my daughter turned five I told her that she had to have a new name. I told her that everybody has one name for the first five years of life and then when they start kindergarten, “real school”, they have to get a new name. Then I told her I had chosen Penelope The Fruit (the fruit added because “penelope” rhymes with “cantelope”).
Had her going for quite awhile until she started crying. Poor kid.
Make her middle name that of a city or state. Examples include:
Natalie London
Natalie Las Vegas
Natalie Bristol
Natalie North Dakota
Natalie Tennessee
Or, with a new first name, they can get even cooler:
Charlie Baltimore
Jack London (Jack’s a guy’s name? Since when? And Jack can always be short for Jackie.)
Syndey Las Vagas (has the advantage of being two different cities in one name!)
Or you could just make Danger her middle name.
It’s my name, and I’ve never met a Jess I didn’t like. And I am the master of not liking girls
I also like Colleen as a name. It’s kind of ethnic but I had a good friend growing up named Colleen and I always found it to be a soothing name. And I don’t think she was even Irish.
Natalie is a lovely name - I was almost named Natalie (for my grandfather Nathan) but they (my loving parents) gave me a tease-worthy name instead - Naomi
Now mind you -I love my name now - in Hebrew it means My Delight - but in grade school. I was “naomi-baloney” (not too much rhymes with Naomi)
and way too many people pronounce it “Nigh-oh-me”
In college, there was gal in my dorm whose name was Niomie (and her last name had one letter more than mine) - We got each other’s mail all the time and never met, until junior year when we ended up in the same cartooning class
Natalie Elizabeth is one of my alter egos (i used to write short stories - my middle initial is E)
Norma Elaine was another one
Andy, it’s a Canon PowerShot A70. 3.2M pixel CCD and 3x optical zoom lens. The colour is “metallic grey”.
And no, calling it AndyPolley is out. I’m sorry, but it sounds too much like Andy Pandy, which was the tweeest of twee children’s TV programmes when I was growing up. Shocking, right?
How about Presidential names for young Natalie? Natalie Woodrow/Natalie Theodore/Natalie Grover.
What about Natalie Swansea? or how about name her after the town where Natalie in Love Actually is from (the dodgt end) can’t remember the town’s name…
