BS: It's my turn for the brain cell

Subject: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 12:36 PM

The Beckhams, have named their new baby girl Harper Seven?

Why not, the Birmingham Five

The Austin Seven or

The Jackson Five.?

So much choice, so little brain.

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: David C. Carter
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 12:48 PM

Highway Sixty One

Route Sixty Six

The Temperance Seven

The Fab Four



David

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: Michael
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 01:04 PM

Harper? Bizzare.

Seven was apparently his number in a team he once played football in.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 01:19 PM

There has been speculation that the other children's names have some connection to the circumstances of the conception. Still mystifying though.

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 01:25 PM

Poor little kid.

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: gnu
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 01:40 PM

Since they named her Harper perhaps the meant "Severn" but coulnn't spell it?

And, will "Harpie" be a suitable nickname?

Good LORD! The thread title is bang on.

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: gnu
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 01:42 PM

or "Harp"... even just Harper is gonna get a go especially after she... nevermind.

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: David C. Carter
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 01:45 PM

"Poor little kid" right leeneia.

Just wait till it finds out who its parents are!




David

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: gnu
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 02:22 PM

David... hahahahaa!

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: gnu
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 02:46 PM

Nobody? Okay then... how POSH!

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 03:24 PM

If she's Harper Seven, it stands to reason that there would have been other Harpers, numbered One through Six. What happened to them? Should there be an investigation?

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 05:34 PM

I knew a guy in college whose nickname was Tertius. His real name was something like Richard Hagworth III. I believe Tertius is Latin for "third."

I suspect the first and the second were quite well off.

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 06:14 PM

Yes, Jim. I once read a book by a man who named his cats that way. Tertius, an orange male that he was especially fond of, was his third cat.

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: Wesley S
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 06:18 PM

Harper - Bizarre....

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 06:41 PM

Har Purr would be a good name for a cat.

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: gnu
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 07:56 PM

Herr Purr fer a German cat... Her Purr for an ex girlfriend of mine... Hair Purr for... nevermind.

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 09:56 PM

I think, apart from the nicknaming possibilities, that "Harper" is quite a nice name, redolent of Anne McCaffrey heroines.

Seven, on the other hand...!

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 10:42 PM

Harper - Bizarre.... ? I protest. Weakly.

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: gnomad
Date: 12 Jul 11 - 12:16 AM

I'm with Richard Bridge on this one (got to say that, it doesn't happen all that often) Harper sounds OK, though it does offer some unkind possibilities in the nickname line. They might even have chosen it after Harper Lee, though somehow one would doubt it.

Mind you, Seven is beyond me, but when I think of some of the abominations that other "celebs" have perpetrated it seems pretty innocuous. It has no obvious drawbacks of mispronunciation or association, and should be easy enough to spell.

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: Gurney
Date: 12 Jul 11 - 03:04 AM

Could be worse. Some idiot named his child after the entire England team in 1966.

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 12 Jul 11 - 03:41 AM

Harper Lee wrote 'To Kill A Mocking Bird'. Perhaps the Beckams are an unexpectedly literary couple! My husband thought I'd said "They've called their little girl 'Half past seven'. He thought 'Twenty-to-ten' might have done just as well!

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 12 Jul 11 - 03:45 AM

But Harper Lee's full name was, Nell Harper Lee.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: GUEST,livelylass
Date: 12 Jul 11 - 05:38 AM

Harper Seven makes me think of a "divorced workaholic tough female boss" character from some US series about surgeons or lawyers or... She drinks too much to help her deal with the stress that such a high powered career causes, and of course she has a problematic relationship with her Mother who whines that she never gets in touch. There's an attractive (in a roguish way) male colleague in the picture who wants to get closer to her, but she's all wounded and defensive plus she's married to her job, so the foreplay can continue for three series.. I expect there's an ugly freckly little kid she spawned with the ex (a modern superdad in cords) and she never gets to his birthday party, bla bla..

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: autolycus
Date: 12 Jul 11 - 06:01 AM

I suspect the nicknames Harper will acquire will be '7-Up' or 'Secret', the latter being quite appropriate, for a Cancerian.

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: Michael
Date: 12 Jul 11 - 06:06 AM

Thanks Wesley for reposting my comment of 01;04 but I didn't really think it was that good!

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 12 Jul 11 - 09:44 AM

I know Dave, and 'Nell' is infinitely better than 'Harper'. She'll get called 'Harpic' I expect. And hundreds of pea-brains will follow suit. There'll be hordes of poor little tots called Harper enrolling at nursery school!

Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 07:52 AM

Someone has suggested, that's the time she was conceived.
I wonder if it was AM or PM

Anybody want to join Club 19-30?