Yes I know it’s a popular name-I should have clarified that I personally don’t know any Madison’s. I didn’t mean to make it sound like I’ve been living on another planet. 
We live in a pretty rural area, and while there’s a good possibility she could have another one in her class, I don’t think they’ll be overrun with them. She’s only two (well-Dec 19), so time will tell! 
'Nuff said. :rolleyes:
A friend of a friend named their child…
Anakin
I kid you not.
Seriously.
People with such poor judgement need to not reproduce.
Beats Yoda!
I did company clerk work for the year I spent in the Army Reserves, after I was active duty for three years. We had one gal whose parents had desperately wanted a boy to name for the husband. They got a girl instead, so they hung “Floydene Earlene” on the poor kid.
If you have siblings or twins, for the love of god, please do not give them similar names. It might seem cute at the time, but after approximately six years of confusion on the phone and misdirected phone calls, it won’t be.
::: jumps up and down!! :::
Ya know, I might have been waiting eagerly for this, but I’m not sure. As I’ve said in other threads devoted to this topic, you’ve got to love what a friend of mine’s mother did. Her name was Vonda Wynette, followed were sister Rhonda Annette and Shonda Lynette. Wanna hear the really bizarre part though? Instead of varying it a little, they all went by their first names. Definitely 'twas a nightmare, majorly as they got older.
(And if any of you are reading the board, I humbly apologize for stating the obvious. But you’ve got to admit, that’s just too good to pass up!)
In a case where I was reviewing discovery documents, there was a woman employee at one of the involved companies named Candida. Many jokes were made in the litigation workroom…
Could be worse - one of my oldest childhood friends is named Gradiva, and her brothers are Nimbus and Odilon. Hey, it was the 60s, and I’m thinkin’ there may have been some illicit substances involved.
On the other hand, you never know - my name IRL is, in Western Judeo-Christian tradition, the absolute oldest female name, and I still get all kinds of flak for it. People spell it wrong, people think it’s short for Eva (it’s not, though I am named for an Eva) or Evelyn, and well, you can imagine how fun it was in second grade when I had an Adam and a Noah in my homeroom class.
THANK YOU!
In my mother’s defense, she really didn’t think about it until after it was pointed out to her. When I came along first, I was Kathleen Mary. Seven years later, surprise surprise-Baby Sis shows up! Mom and Dad picked out Colleen Marie.
My uncle started calling us “The Leen Sisters”.
:smack:
As long as it’s clear that you’re saying that the poster willfully lied.
Based on the baby naming website… http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/ that was linked in the pregnancy website thread, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if it WEREN’T a UL. Nor would it surprise me if Eczema had been used, based on the preponderance of similarly bad names in that site, and the “reasoning” of the mothers behind them. That, along with a tendency to believe people unless they’ve proven themselves to be liars, is what made me believe the other poster.
As to the rest…
yeah, yeah, what you’ve already said in this thread several times.
Wel, you asked us why we had a beef with it. And continued to ask us, or complain about our opinions. We heard you, opinion noted…And? We answered, now you wanna argue with why we answered the way we answered.
Not exactly “you get to think what you want, and I get to think it’s petty”. More like “you get to think what you think, and I get to think it’s petty of you, AND I get to keep asking you why you think the way you do, and then ignore your answers and keep on asking/complaining”.
There’s a kid in my art class named Cartier. I know a lot of kids with odd names.
Denver (who is actually named for his grandfather)
Shanelle (like Chanel, I guess)
Chardonnay
Crecia
Rian (a girl’s name. pronounced Ree-Anne)
Ryne (a boy’s name. pronounced like Ryan)
Tixo (boy. Tee-co)
Taquisha
LaRia (yes, with the capitalization)
D’Ana (not Dana)
Chimwemwe (ok, not so odd, because it’s African, just unusual. But very pretty, I think)
Ray-Ray (a girl)
DeJuan
DeMarco
Nathinel (not Nathaniel)
Catlin (boy. Cat-lynn)
Gailan (boy. he doesn’t seem to get teased as much as you’d think)
Jamont
Pookisha (I am not making that up, I swear)
Huh. I don’t think my mom and her sisters ever had any problems and with the exception of the oldest, they have names in the same vein - Madeleine, Kathleen, Maureen, and Eileen.
My brother’s and my name mean the same thing, mine in Hebrew, his in Greek.
ya know what?
FUck you.,
No, really, fuck you for accusing me of calling some one a liar.
I did not claim that the poster lied. I did not claim that the poster’s friend lied. I said exaclty “Sounds like an Urban Legend to me”>
and wow, guess what, seems that it is.
See, a coworker of mine also told me a story one day about how his cousin, a schoolteacher, had students named lemonjello and orangejello. Only, there it is on the Snopes site as well. What do you think the fucking odds are that both my coworker’s cousin, and this poster’s coworker actually knew some one who did something that is exactly reproduced on the Snopes web site?
See, I believe that if we tracked it back to my coworkers cousin and that poster’s coworker, they’d say "Oh no, it wasn’t me who knew that person, I heard it from a Friend of a Friend (or as it’s known “FOAF”) that’s why they call 'em urban legends.
But no, here you again fucking claim that I called some one a liar.
I don’t appreciate such accusations. I take my reputation here seriously.
you posted that story as “this is why it’s a problem”. however, if it’s a fucking urban legend of significant proportions enough to be included on the Snopes site, I’d suggest to you that even if there was a single human being who did name their child that, it doesn’t amount to be “a problem”.
so, bottom line, you don’t like what some people choose to call their children. Somehow, you think that your opinion on the matter should hold some weight, that it’s a “problem”. I think that parents, for the most part, actually care about their kids, and choose names that mean something to them, that they don’t generally select names to humilate or otherwise traumetize their kids(note that wordg enerally, I’m not claiming that never in the history of human endeavor has a parent intentionally named their kid something screwy, just that I don’t think that i’ts a problem of any significance)
and that you don’t get a vote in how they name their kid. and that it’s a petty thing to complain about. IMHO.
1/ It’s easy here coz everyone’s called Bruce. Even people who aren’t.
2/ Why does it annoy people so much what others names are? Get a life.
3/ In my grade in high school, 10% of the boys had the same name as me. That strikes me as a much more practical problem than the “ewwww” factor apparently experienced by socially conservatives who can’t stand to see non-traditional names. Fucko off and find something useful to whinge about.
So, will she be changing his name to Nextel now? 
We met a young man of nine months at Thanksgiving whose name is Quasar. According to him mom, the name has no meaning for her, it was just something that came to her. (My husband asked me if his middle name was Motorola.)
Okay, I have a question. What do you guys think about naming one twin after the father, like a junior or III, and the other just a regular name?
Really? I read your link, I didn’t see any Klamidea in that link. The poster said her friend worked in the PICU and that she (the friend) had had this experience.
Based on the entries in the site I provided, I’m not in the LEAST bit surprised.
Occe again, as I’ve already said, the problem is NOT that urban legends potentially arise from these over the top baby names. But yes, I should have qualified it to this and other names LIKE this. Which, as you can see from the website there are many names that are enough like that in the smirk factor. Way to miss the point.
Asked and answered.
Regarding the sex-oriented names…
[rant]My first name is Ashley. Granted, it used to be a male name, but that was decades ago. Why do I still get name/address stickers from charities made out for Mr. Ashley ? I don’t know how many times I’ve sent those things back with my contribution and a note simply stating “I AM NOT A MAN!” Yet the same companies send me “Mr.” stickers. AAARRGGGGHHHH!!![/rant]
once again. FUck you quite seriously for claiming that I called some one a liar.
you made a serious fucking claim against me. back it the fuck up.
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