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BS: It's my turn for the brain cell

11 Jul 11 - 12:36 PM (#3185506)
Subject: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: John MacKenzie

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.


11 Jul 11 - 12:48 PM (#3185514)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: David C. Carter

Highway Sixty One

Route Sixty Six

The Temperance Seven

The Fab Four



David


11 Jul 11 - 01:04 PM (#3185520)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: Michael

Harper? Bizzare.

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

Mike


11 Jul 11 - 01:19 PM (#3185531)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: GUEST, topsie

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


11 Jul 11 - 01:25 PM (#3185540)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: GUEST,leeneia

Poor little kid.


11 Jul 11 - 01:40 PM (#3185547)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: gnu

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.


11 Jul 11 - 01:42 PM (#3185549)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: gnu

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


11 Jul 11 - 01:45 PM (#3185551)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: David C. Carter

"Poor little kid" right leeneia.

Just wait till it finds out who its parents are!




David


11 Jul 11 - 02:22 PM (#3185568)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: gnu

David... hahahahaa!


11 Jul 11 - 02:46 PM (#3185584)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: gnu

Nobody? Okay then... how POSH!


11 Jul 11 - 03:24 PM (#3185612)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: Bee-dubya-ell

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?


11 Jul 11 - 05:34 PM (#3185686)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: Jim Dixon

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.


11 Jul 11 - 06:14 PM (#3185705)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: GUEST,leeneia

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.


11 Jul 11 - 06:18 PM (#3185708)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: Wesley S

Harper - Bizarre....


11 Jul 11 - 06:41 PM (#3185721)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: Jack the Sailor

Har Purr would be a good name for a cat.


11 Jul 11 - 07:56 PM (#3185753)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: gnu

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


11 Jul 11 - 09:56 PM (#3185791)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: Richard Bridge

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

Seven, on the other hand...!


11 Jul 11 - 10:42 PM (#3185804)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: Ebbie

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


12 Jul 11 - 12:16 AM (#3185835)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: gnomad

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.


12 Jul 11 - 03:04 AM (#3185864)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: Gurney

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


12 Jul 11 - 03:41 AM (#3185878)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: GUEST,Eliza

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!


12 Jul 11 - 03:45 AM (#3185880)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: Dave Hanson

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

Dave H


12 Jul 11 - 05:38 AM (#3185929)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: GUEST,livelylass

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..


12 Jul 11 - 06:01 AM (#3185935)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: autolycus

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


12 Jul 11 - 06:06 AM (#3185942)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: Michael

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

Mike


12 Jul 11 - 09:44 AM (#3186049)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: GUEST,Eliza

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!


16 Jul 11 - 07:52 AM (#3188712)
Subject: RE: BS: It's my turn for the brain cell
From: John MacKenzie

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?