My brother insulted my brother's pick for his baby's name, RUINED mood!

I like Sebastian as a name. Unfortunately it always makes me think of this guy.

I’m sure all the grade-school kids will mock him for it as well: “Hey, you gonna go march into Morocco with no real strategic plan and get the bulk of your country’s nobility slaughtered, Sebastian?” :stuck_out_tongue:

A kid on our rugby team was named Sebastian. We called him “Seabass.”

A former co-worker named his kid Clark Addison. Poor kid is going to be a loser all his life.

I’m going to name my kids Thing One and Thing Two.

That’s different from “Sep”, right?

I would have pitted your Dad, for failing to put a stop to this.

He’s the Dad, surely this isn’t the first time the 3 boys have been quarreling. That they are all adults and grown & married and living on their own doesn’t matter – he’s still Dad, and able to tell them what to do.

And he was hosting, another reason for him to step in and stop this. But he didn’t.

This was my thought. Bastian Schweinsteiger is a pretty awesome player for Bayern Munich.

Sebastian is a perfectly nice name. It’s uncommon, but it’s not invented out of thin air, it’s easy to spell, and it doesn’t sound stupid or cutesy. I’m usually surprised these days when parents, particularly celebrities, name their kids something sane. It was completely shocking to me, for example, when Tom Brady named his son Benjamin.

Yep - I had a friend in art college who also went by Seb.

I know a young boy and a young girl both named Ryker, which is actually a Dutch boys name.

And what the hell is up with that walk anyway? He walks like he’s trying to drain water out of his ear.

Which Ryker are you referring to?

I always found Sebastian to be one of the most obscure and underrated names, in a good way. Another good one is Pexall.

Sebastian is a very elegant, high-class name. Not quite a million-dollar name like Wellington or Vaughan or Palmer, but good enough for any board of directors.

If your name is Eddie or Joe or Vinny, you may successfully steal from a large company, but if you are a Sebastian, you may steal the whole damned company.

Words for young Sebastian to take to heart.

“Me and Caspar Weinberger are gonna beat this!”

The Sebastian I went to school became known as “Spastic Man”.

Ah, kids.

Seabass!

Sebas and Tien. One of the Sebas I know is Italian, too, so it even counts as honoring the family’s ethnicity :smiley:
Tien sounds better after “Vice-Secretary”, Sebas goes better with baseball bats.

I know three Sebastians, two of whom go by “Seb” and one (the one who went to Eton and Cambridge) who goes by “Sebby”.

Sebastian is a terrible name for a child, your older brother is wrong and could cause his son years of teasing.

Well, he could grow up to be a famous athlete who spearheads a successful Olympics bid (and who was referred to as “Seb Coe” by commentators too lazy to say the full name.)

We have a rabbit – a Flemish Giant – named Sebastian. We normally just call him “Bun”. So there you go.

You need to come down here to hear that :wink: