BS: What were the Parents Thinking

Subject: RE: BS: What were the Parents Thinking
From: Acorn4
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 01:26 PM

In Oliver Cromwell's England, people would give their children weird religious middle names -the famous Daniel "Praise-God" Barebones had a brother called "Worship Jesus or be Damned Barebones" ,but "Put thy Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and Flee Fornication Williams" was apparently made up, though "Deliverance" was a popular name for a girl.

My step daughter lives in Sicily with her partner, and has just had a baby son; they had to choose names from a list provided by the government.

Perhaps that's not SO BAD an idea?,

Subject: RE: BS: What were the Parents Thinking
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 01:35 PM

Oliver Klozov

Subject: RE: BS: What were the Parents Thinking
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 01:40 PM

In Belleville, New Jersey, the library there is named after, Richard Shafter, the author and historian. His son, was a very close friend of mine, and is also a wonderful bass player..He refused to be called 'Dick'..but sometimes would muse about it.

Subject: RE: BS: What were the Parents Thinking
From: Michael S
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 02:29 PM

Here in Austin, TX we have a urologist named Richard Chopp. He is, of course, Dick Chopp, and he performs many vasectomies. Here he is.

--Michael Scully

Subject: RE: BS: What were the Parents Thinking
From: GUEST,MarkS (on the road)
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 05:39 PM

Luckily this guys last name was not Hertz. He would be performing a VERY comprehensive vasectomy!

Subject: RE: BS: What were the Parents Thinking
From: Rowan
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 12:38 AM

Years ago I taught by correspondence a group whose workbooks always had the covers labelled with the "Family Name" listed first, followed by all the "Given Names". One lad had parents who'd read AA Milne but his name on the books was always

Idle Christopher Robin.

And, while I'm on about unimaginative naming, I went through school with a lad whose parents had obviously been impressed by one particular American, without realising his devious disrespect for Australian troops. The lad's name was

Douglas Macarthur Rxxxxxom.

But at least he fared better than the son of the woman who gave birth to a lad on the same day the Wallabies won the Rugby World Cup a decade or so ago. That lad had the surname of every player in the team as his Given Names. "Campesi" as one of two or three Given Names I could understand, but...the whole lot?

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: What were the Parents Thinking
From: Schantieman
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 02:34 PM

Spaw ... I may be thick, but I don't get 'Sharon Peters' at all. ???

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: What were the Parents Thinking
From: Becca72
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 02:53 PM

I like adressing envelopes on my correspondenc with my first and middle initials and last name.... R.E. Morse

Subject: RE: BS: What were the Parents Thinking
From: folk1e
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 03:00 PM

My mate Tony always insisted his first girl would be Tanya
pity his surname is Hyde!

He didn't go through with it though.

Subject: RE: BS: What were the Parents Thinking
From: Bagpuss
Date: 11 Oct 08 - 05:20 AM

My husband used to teach a pupil called Misty Blue Hymen.

Subject: RE: BS: What were the Parents Thinking
From: Irene M
Date: 11 Oct 08 - 02:02 PM

I work for a government department which shall remain nameless. We regularly see kids given strange names by semi-literate parents. It makes us want to smack the parents for what they are doing to their kids.
Having said that, my cousin's latest grand-sprog has been given the name Sadhbh. (Pronounced Sive, to rhyme with jive). I know they live in Co Dublin, but I suggested that to avoid matricide in 15 years time they give her a "common" middle name. I suggested Ethel. At that point, the e mail conversation went quiet!