# If we named our children like Puritans. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-named-our-children-like-puritans/146098 "2003-01-01T22:07:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-named-our-children-like-puritans/146098/41 "2003-01-04T00:03:15Z")
My wife claims there is a scientist who named his daughter Escherichia coli Lastname. ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-named-our-children-like-puritans/146098/42 "2003-01-04T00:16:56Z")
If bassists named their children like Puritians: 5-String Peavey Rickenbacher & Fretless ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-named-our-children-like-puritans/146098/43 "2003-01-04T00:26:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Barbarian \* > \*\*My wife claims there is a scientist who named his daughter Escherichia coli Lastname. \*\* I’ve always thought _Christian Surname_ was pretty. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-named-our-children-like-puritans/146098/44 "2003-01-04T04:09:18Z")
**Barbarian** , that would be Chuck Gerba, only it’s his son, Peter, and Escherichia is his middle name. I read it in _Muse_ magazine. They dressed him up as an E. coli for Halloween once. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-named-our-children-like-puritans/146098/45 "2003-01-04T04:23:25Z")
No-Animals-Were-Harmed-In-The-Birth-Of-This-Child Smith Bridges-Freeze-Before-Roads Jones (this will only amuse Vermonters…) No-Dancing-With-Drinks Robinson Don’t-Feed-the-Seagulls Arnold And for the waitstaff among us: Oh-Shit-I-Just-Got-Triple-Sat McGee The-Math-Isn’t-All-That-Complicated Reynolds God-Bless-Dansko Schmidt I always REALLY did like the name Seredipity, though. Sera for short. (NOT Sara) ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-named-our-children-like-puritans/146098/46 "2003-01-04T04:46:33Z")
> [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally posted by Lissa > > Brush-Side-To-Side-Not-Up-And-Down Smith\*Originally posted by tlw \* > > \*\*I always thought it was Brush-Up-And-Down-Not-Side-To-Side. Oh oh. > \*\* Circular motions are best because they incorporate both up and down and side to side motions. Beer-is-not-often-good-on-an-empty-stomach Jones Beer-gut Smith ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-named-our-children-like-puritans/146098/47 "2003-01-04T04:49:44Z")
:smack: GAH!!! Bad coding. ::apologizes profusely and hopes for someone to come fix her vb coding, but will be satisfied with a simple smack in the back of the head instead:: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-named-our-children-like-puritans/146098/48 "2003-01-04T05:21:09Z")
[B}Max Carnage\*\* should rename one of his: Shut-up-and-Reboot Adams ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-named-our-children-like-puritans/146098/49 "2003-01-04T06:04:59Z")
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