That's not a real name!

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Ella77
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Eww.
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Beatrix wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 9:31 am I hate that so much. Do they have Daniel’s surname too? Why not just physically brand the child?
Of course they do!
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There was a thread on r.eddit about children's names. My favourite comment was about a child who's middle name was Danger :lol:
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The grandson of a former colleague is called Surname-Father's name-Surname. Their family name is more along the lines of Higgins than anything that lends itself to traditional use as a first name.

She didn't take too kindly to the 'Bond, James Bond' impressions. Or anything that suggested her darling son is a narcissist, who needed telling.
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That’s just weird.

There was a woman on Only Connect who was so desperate to take her husband’s name but his surname was too long so she took his first name as her surname.
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She sounds like an idiot.
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I think she was being a bit racist too as she took his British first name :uhh:
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Ah!
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Lola wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 5:41 pm
There was a woman on Only Connect who was so desperate to take her husband’s name but his surname was too long so she took his first name as her surname.
I don’t understand why anyone would do that.
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They seemed like a sweet couple.
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Well she should be doing that in solidarity with her husband if she wants his name ;)

I suppose it’s quite a nice idea really but now she’s got to explain to people why she took her husband’s first name, for the rest of her life :mrgreen:
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I had this customer today.
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:))
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That’s brilliant!
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I was reading an article about a Dutch coffee company and the owner was called Dick de Kock. They were hoping to branch out into other countries and now I'm just hoping they don't mean English-speaking ones...
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Saturday morning and all the Facebook notifications that kids aren’t going to athletics are pouring in.

S.tor mie Sher. lock can’t make it today.
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No shit!
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Tiga-Lily

I’m assuming they want you to pronounce it Tiger so why couldn’t they spell it like that?
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To be different :woteva:
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I just upgraded my phone and was helped by a lovely lovely man called Mcc.labia.

He was from Tennessee.
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