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Originally Posted by cricket_factor
I went to vocational school a few years back with a down-to-earth, actress/model-looking woman in her early 30s whose name, believe it or not, was Cloud. She said her parents weren't hippies, either. Go figure.
Y'all are assuming that these kids are stuck with these names for the rest of their lives and there is simply nothing that they can do about it. The fact of the matter is if they are not happy with their names it is extremely easy to change it.
^^ Or how about Nicholas Cage naming his kid Kal-El?
Hee hee, funny you mentioned Nicholas Cage. Reminds me of an SNL skit where Cage's character and his pregnant wife are debating names for their baby. Every name she comes up with, he finds a way that kids will inevitably make fun of it.
William. Good. "Wee Willie!" "Chilly Willy!" "Willie Wonka! Hey! Where's your chocolate factory?! Oompa-Loompa" every day of his life!
Please.. Fred, Frank.. , the F's are no good. If he's fat, it's just a disaster.
Great. Sam. "Uncle Sam." "I want you.. to be ostracized!"
Finally he settles on the Icelandic name Bjaardker, "that'll be hard to crack."
Then a delivery man comes to the door with a package for Cage's character's, whose name turns out to be A_s_s_w_i_p_e (pronounced az-we-pay, or something like that).
Of course people are entitled to name their children whatever they like, but childhood and adolesence are difficult enough for kids with traditional names. Why give them an additional cross to bear?
And if I were named Marijuana Pepsi, I'd have been in court on my 18th birthday having it legally changed. Poor woman!
I seem to remember a thread several months back that complained that parents gave their kids too conventional of names--maybe it was WHITE parents that were being complained about. The names some black parents give their children seem pretty nonstandard. Aisha and Ashanti come to mine initially, but there are plenty of others.
Location: The Chatterdome in La La Land, CaliFUNia
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Speaking of Pet peeve, I just named my new Lhasa Apso "Little One Kenobi".
I hope this doesn't scar her down the road one day.
That's cute for your Lhasa Apso but would be embarrassing for a child. I think too many parents are naming their children cutsy names that would be more appropriate for pets as pets do not need to survive in a brutal job market. I'm ok with nicknames but I think parents should take into consideration the child's future when deciding upon a name.
Location: The Chatterdome in La La Land, CaliFUNia
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I seem to remember a thread several months back that complained that parents gave their kids too conventional of names--maybe it was WHITE parents that were being complained about. The names some black parents give their children seem pretty nonstandard. Aisha and Ashanti come to mine initially, but there are plenty of others.
Yeah but many of these names are gaining in popularity and employers are becoming more and more used to ethnic names though.
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