Duophonic wrote:I've mentioned this before but locally a few years ago a family were involved in a car accident.
The local paper reported their names and ages and the parents had called their children after themselves. Can you imagine shouting on someone in that house?
It was reported as:
David 42
Anne 41
David 11
Anne 8
It reeks of either a high level of narcissism or a complete lack of imagination. I'm going with the lack of imagination angle.
This just reminded me of a rather weird contractor we have in our office at the moment - his name is Rich.ard Andre.w
His son has the same name. And his daughter is called Rich.arda Andre.a!!!
I worked with a woman who was called Liz, and her husband was called Phil. Their kids were Liz and Phil, and she talked about Wee Liz, Wee Phil and Big Phil
Christ on a bendy bus son, don't be such a fucking faff arse
emma_p wrote:I've never seen Jennifer shortened to Jenn with 2 ns before.
They both used to use one n, now one uses two and one uses the full name.
(ETA: also they are in the USA where unusual spellings are more common in general. Their son is called J.a.xon :woteva: ).
Another J? As if the postal system in their house isn't confusing enough.
Bryson is terrible.
All those Js, shades of the repulsive "19 kids and counting" Duggar family!
Lily my love, you are free to tell me to piss off but I can't help feeling you are self-sabotaging by coming up with reasons not to date someone that you like. It's OK to be scared of stepping outside your comfort zone. It's OK to decide that you aren't ready to be with someone. If you were really ready for a relationship, it wouldn't matter if his name was 'Will' or Ninian or Mervyn or Cthulhu - it would be the person, not the name, to whom you'd be attracted.
It’s like a normal midlife crisis only with more chandeliers and foreign languages.
These are spectacular! I'd like all of them together. Ninian Mervyn Cthulhu Boggins III.
I do agree about looking for excuses though. An awful name may make you wince at first but if the person is a good'un, it truly doesn't matter if they have the name name as your ex, or dad, or ex's dad. I had a boyfriend with a girl's name. I didn't care about that either. It was mildly irritating having to spell/explain it but moreso for him I would imagine!
My grandfather was Leonard Ninian And two of my friends have dads called Mervyn. One is known by all as "Merv 2000" for some reason I have forgotten, but relates to Outkast in some way
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These are spectacular! I'd like all of them together. Ninian Mervyn Cthulhu Boggins III.
