# It's a Baby Girl for Paul & Heather Mills McCartney **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 31, 2003, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-baby-girl-for-paul-heather-mills-mccartney/210640 "2003-10-31T14:18:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-baby-girl-for-paul-heather-mills-mccartney/210640/1 "2003-10-31T14:18:05Z")
[http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/30/mccartney.baby/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/30/mccartney.baby/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smoke)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-baby-girl-for-paul-heather-mills-mccartney/210640/2 "2003-10-31T14:33:38Z")
Should’ve named it Vera. Congrats, Paul and Heather. ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-baby-girl-for-paul-heather-mills-mccartney/210640/3 "2003-10-31T14:38:49Z")
Unfortunately, McCartney was reportedly outbid for the newborn by Michael Jackson. 😛 Actually, I’m joking. ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-baby-girl-for-paul-heather-mills-mccartney/210640/4 "2003-10-31T16:39:19Z")
Yay! I bet she’s very pretty. Welcome baby Beatrice! I wonder what kind of gift MoMo sent them… ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-baby-girl-for-paul-heather-mills-mccartney/210640/5 "2003-10-31T17:04:14Z")
Wait a minute. How do we know that Billy Shears isn’t the real father? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-baby-girl-for-paul-heather-mills-mccartney/210640/6 "2003-10-31T18:14:00Z")
Beatrice. What an ugly effin’ name. I don’t care if it was her mother’s – my father’s name was Melvin, I wouldn’t saddle a kid with that. ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-baby-girl-for-paul-heather-mills-mccartney/210640/7 "2003-10-31T18:24:50Z")
Beatrice sounds much nicer in Italian: Bay-ah-tree-chay. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-baby-girl-for-paul-heather-mills-mccartney/210640/8 "2003-10-31T18:27:53Z")
I like the name Beatrice. It’s sweet and old-fashioned, and besides, she’s going to share a name with one of the coolest Shakespeare characters ever. I like the names Stella and Mary too. Paul has good taste. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-baby-girl-for-paul-heather-mills-mccartney/210640/9 "2003-10-31T19:03:45Z")
I agree **Fretful** , I love the names he picked for his little girls. And I’m so happy for him! ---
**Author:** ![minega](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@minega](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minega)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-baby-girl-for-paul-heather-mills-mccartney/210640/10 "2003-10-31T19:41:26Z")
One of the major British papers-i think it was ‘The Mirror’ published its ‘scoop’ saying Mccartney had given birth to a boy named Joseph. oops! But otherwise ive been stunned by how much attention the story got in the British press. ‘The sun’ and ‘The Mirror’ both led with it-front fucking page! Is it just me or was that a little stupid? the guy might be popular and all, but give me a break! And it wouldnt take a genius to guess 'The sun’s headline: ‘Let it bea’ hehehe. ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-baby-girl-for-paul-heather-mills-mccartney/210640/11 "2003-10-31T19:53:22Z")
Milly Mills?:smack: :wally ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-baby-girl-for-paul-heather-mills-mccartney/210640/12 "2003-10-31T19:59:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by minega \* > \*\*And it wouldnt take a genius to guess 'The sun’s headline: ‘Let it bea’ hehehe. \*\* Could be worse. Something like ‘Let It Be Bea, Baby!’ ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-baby-girl-for-paul-heather-mills-mccartney/210640/13 "2003-10-31T20:00:43Z")
Isn’t that sweet? And he’ll only be 79 when she graduates from high school. Or perhaps by then he will be trying to Explain a Few Things to Linda . . . ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-baby-girl-for-paul-heather-mills-mccartney/210640/14 "2003-10-31T22:14:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*Isn’t that sweet? And he’ll only be 79 when she graduates from high school. \*\* All these old coots having kids are spawning a mini-generation of people who will only have known their fathers as old old geezers who died when they were young. I’ll bet there will be a support group for them all. Heaven forbid women over 50 have kids, that always causes an uproar. I used to think Beatrice was ugly, but then Fergie named her daughters Beatrice and Eugenie (sp?). If those kids are halfway cool, they’ll put a modern stamp on the names and they won’t seem so old fashioned anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-baby-girl-for-paul-heather-mills-mccartney/210640/15 "2003-10-31T22:28:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Equipoise \* > \*\*I used to think Beatrice was ugly, but then Fergie named her daughters Beatrice and Eugenie (sp?). If those kids are halfway cool, they’ll put a modern stamp on the names and they won’t seem so old fashioned anymore. \*\* Cool? Offspring of Fergie?? :dubious: You jest, surely! ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-baby-girl-for-paul-heather-mills-mccartney/210640/16 "2003-10-31T22:39:35Z")
(I probably came off meaner than I meant to be. Congrats to them. I just feel sorry for the kids. And their kids. “Grandpa” is not going to be part of their vocabulary.) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-baby-girl-for-paul-heather-mills-mccartney/210640/17 "2003-11-01T01:12:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Equipoise \* > \*\*I just feel sorry for the kids. And their kids. “Grandpa” is not going to be part of their vocabulary. \*\* That’s hardly a given. Besides the obvious reason–that everyone gets _two_ grandfathers–Heather could remarry. (BTW, my parents had me when they were only 21, but neither of my biological grandfathers lived to see the event. It happens.) ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-baby-girl-for-paul-heather-mills-mccartney/210640/18 "2003-11-01T01:43:40Z")
Will you still love me, will you still breed with me, when I’m sixty-four? ---
**Author:** ![Sigmundex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Sigmundex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmundex)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-baby-girl-for-paul-heather-mills-mccartney/210640/19 "2003-11-01T05:28:57Z")
Heard this yesterday, and please don’t kill the bearer of bad jokes… What has 5 legs and lives on a farm? The McCartney Family ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-baby-girl-for-paul-heather-mills-mccartney/210640/20 "2003-11-01T05:46:14Z")
I’m with the “Beatrice is a horrible name” camp. Also the “way to go Paul, producing a baby you probably won’t live to see grown” camp as well. Didn’t he prove his virility enough by marrying a woman nearly half his age? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-baby-girl-for-paul-heather-mills-mccartney/210640.md?page=2)