Eeeeeee

[dangermousie]

I have no excuse. I just want to show off my new Aoshi icon (by gravitykills).

I am a sad sad fangirl.

To make this not completely fruitless, check out this site about the crazy baby names scary parents give their kids:

http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/index.html

Comments

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

I've been to that site many times, but I always find something new to love. My favorite gem today:

i need a name w/ the "sin" sound, not the spelling! lol! i am not fond of jaxon, but my dh likes aryxon (erikson) and i am fond of tycen. ...

New naming rule: If in typing the name out you have to follow it immediately with another version in parentheses, because otherwise no one would have the slightest clue this was supposed to be a name and not Klingon for "Wax my forehead, supple wench," this is a bad, bad, woah bad bad name.

I really need an "I see stupid people" icon for this comment =). I won't even comment on the fact that all the people typing these names are actually reproducing. *shudder*

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

My favorite is this one:

I love the Lord, am a LDS woman, and would like to name my baby baby Jesus.

Wait, she wants to call him "Baby Jesus"? How will that work after he's 33?

My husband says this is ridiculous because we are not latino and he does not even go to church anymore. I looked and it is a popular name in the US so it must be that others like me are out there spreading His love. His full name would be "Jesus Joseph Dewey". Can any one tell me if when you are at the hospital can you refuse to let your husband have a say in what the birth certificate says? I 18 years old and am a first time mom.

Issue 1: Jesus! (Praise the Lord!) Joseph! (Hallelujah!) Dewey. (.....um.....He's a duck, right?)

Issue 2: Have you ever heard anything so romantic, and yet so filled with Our Heavenly Father's purest love alighting from heaven to his children upon the earth as an 18 year old Mormon girl wanting to have her husband barred from the hospital where she's just given birth so she can name their child Jesus. Joseph. Dewey.

Never has my icon been more appropriate.

Humanity is lost.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

How is Aryxon even pronounced Erikson? There's no K sound in it anywhere, no matter how I tried to pronounce it. It also looks like it's from a warlike race of humanoids or possibly ancient Greece.

Jesus Joseph Dewey just sounds like a creative cuss word.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I guess an 'x' is pronounced as eh-k-s, so you can claim there is a k sound there.

And Aryxon sounds like a minor Athenian historical figure, noted for his dirty limerics and discus throwing, who died from a bizarre accident involving newts. Either that or a washing appliance.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

I also get cracked up at kids with ethnic names who obviously aren't that ethnicity or the sudden wash of kids we suddenly have named after random occupations (this is my son Hunter, Rider, Walker, Racer, etc.).

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes.

OK, Wales is presumably a cool place, but if you name your kid Llewelyn, you better be Welsh.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

EEE! BABY NAMES???

My friends gave their daughter name made out of their names - second half of dad's name plus second half of mother's name .. WHY OR WHY???

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

That sounds a bit too "and I shall brand the children so everyone will know they are miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine"

[callmecaito.livejournal.com]

"I once met a lady named Rodana. I think she runs a successful internet business."

You get three guess as to what kind of internet business first popped up in my mind, and the first two don't count.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

ROTFLOL. No guesses necessary :)

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

I have never understood the need to spell your kids name the most bizarre way possible (this is my daughter Krystalle). I work somewhere that we have to make medical charts and it kills me when the parents get all indignant when we ask them how to spell their kid's name. It's as though we should know that their kids name is spelled "Cyerra" or "Macksim". One of the kids was named Bicarrdi. Seriously.

I personally like the names Alek and Dean. I understand the spelling of Alec is a bit bizarre, but it's short and I'd be expecting to have to spell it to people all the time.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Bicarrdi.

The Hell? Like the drink only misspelled? That poor child.

I know which names I'd like for my kids and they are all pretty normal and are family names that husband doesn't hate. But I suppose I should be wanting to name the hypothetical offspring Glenfinnich.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

I've also had to deal with a person named Malicious. No joke. I think the parents of that one just took a stab in the dictionary and named her that.

My children shall now be named after states in the nation and foreign countries.

Britain Madagascar
Mississippi Nicaragua
Oregon Djibouti
France Monte Carlo
Kentucky Kahzakstan
Louisiana Albania

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Malicious? That's horrible. Makes one almost hope the child will never develop any verbal skills to speak of.

Ha! Your children's names are entirely too traditional.

How about:

Toxicodendron Radicans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_ivy) for a boy (a good strong name) and Lycosa Tarentula (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula) for a girl. Sounds so fancy.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Her last name was Ivy, which made it worse since she sounded like a bad Batman villain.

I would prefer my children all named after obscure gods from The Silmarillion. One of the children will also be named "Silmarillion".

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Silmarillion Hobbit Beleriad Jones III is a name for my dream man...

[kaseido.livejournal.com]

One of the waitresess at our local breakfast place was named Bacardi, after the drink.

I confess I always referred to her as "that nice booze chick".... :P

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

At least she wasn't a temperance advocate! :P

[katranna.livejournal.com]

That site seems rather... uh... I can't find the word. Imperialist? Racist? White-oriented?

Several of the names they list seem perfectly fine to me; just foreign-sounding.

[katranna.livejournal.com]

But maybe I clicked wrong. Where do I find the real crazies?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Well, the point she makes is that Welsh names are fine, if you are Welsh. If you are a suburbian yuppie (she trolls American baby boards) not so much.

The one where a mom wanted to name the kid Toolio or baby Jesus or America or all the people who want to have fake Native American names are priceless.

[cosmicviolet.livejournal.com]

"Big Chief Mucous Stink"? Oh man. My mom knew someone called Kandy Kane once. If that's not begging for her to become a stripper, I don't know what is.
It's funny you should bring this up, because I was reading an article in the paper this morning about this very thing. It said that food themed names are popular after Gweneth Paltrow named her baby Apple. Except the food names they're using are things like Peapod, Gherkin and Beans.
I don't get giving ordinary names weird spelling either. It's not unique if you spell it ginafer (or whatever)-it's pretentious and it makes you look illiterate, IMO.
Apparently in some countries, like Finland, the name has to be approved by the government to avoid any names that might scar people for life. I think it would be a good idea if the US and Canada did that too.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Food names? That's it, my kid is being named Polenta. Doesn't it sound exotic? Argh.

Yes, the name vetting seems like an excellent idea after reading that webcite.

[catdecember.livejournal.com]

thanks for the link! i havent done reading but it sure is funny!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

some of the names have to be seen to be believed!