tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462787118668544142.post1689054198404818081..comments2023-10-07T16:35:50.848+01:00Comments on wakeupandsmellthecoffee: What's in a name?wakeupandsmellthecoffeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04602735058278146250noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462787118668544142.post-59196339954667152172007-09-02T18:13:00.000+01:002007-09-02T18:13:00.000+01:00Debio: I suppose it is self-indulgent to give your...Debio: I suppose it is self-indulgent to give your child a name unlike any other. On the other hand, is that not better than being one of 10 Samuels or 12 Hannahs?<BR/><BR/>QV: One name I recall for the girls is Ardis. I have never met an Ardis. I agree. Names are important.wakeupandsmellthecoffeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04602735058278146250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462787118668544142.post-61030691322957653282007-09-02T16:13:00.000+01:002007-09-02T16:13:00.000+01:00That was funny and really interesting. I need to ...That was funny and really interesting. I need to know what those higher income names that sucked were - curiosity got the better of me. I love my name, its rather regal although no queen to my knowledge was ever named thus - I am also aware that if you change the end letter of my name it is totally different and annoys the hell out of me when people get it wrong. Names are important!Queen Vixenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06362210631858652847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462787118668544142.post-3768316783568899722007-09-01T11:28:00.000+01:002007-09-01T11:28:00.000+01:00Great blog, wuastc.Is it not the height of self-in...Great blog, wuastc.<BR/><BR/>Is it not the height of self-indulgence to name a child so that they stand out from the crowd from day 1?<BR/><BR/>We are able to jettison many things as we grow up but, unless we take radical action, are saddled with a name forever.debiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14218049959165514277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462787118668544142.post-83158127017334479582007-08-31T20:26:00.000+01:002007-08-31T20:26:00.000+01:00God's children, us Capricorns!God's children, us Capricorns!Exmoorjanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09230395732150659356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462787118668544142.post-16736629816487821072007-08-31T19:48:00.000+01:002007-08-31T19:48:00.000+01:00Welcome, exmoorjane. I hope your son's name does h...Welcome, exmoorjane. I hope your son's name does him proud in the future. Hopefully it's not Samuel. There are 5 in my son's form next year.<BR/><BR/>RC: How would you spell Ann with 17 letters? AAAaaaNNNNNNNnnnn?<BR/><BR/>laurie: Didn't Elton John have song called Levon? The only Cyrus I can think of was Cyrus T. Vance, and I wouldn't name anybody after him.wakeupandsmellthecoffeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04602735058278146250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462787118668544142.post-54787363619649820432007-08-31T17:33:00.000+01:002007-08-31T17:33:00.000+01:00my friend named her son Cyrus Levon. the joke was ...my friend named her son Cyrus Levon. the joke was that he'd get a football scholarship based on his name alone. (he's white, and not a footballer.)<BR/><BR/>names don't determine your future. but sometimes they determine how people are going to view you, at least until they get to know you.<BR/><BR/>ps i'm with snuffly on Malcolm Gladwell. i heard him speak at harvard a few years ago and i would have listened as long as he wanted to talk.lauriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055442432266567561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462787118668544142.post-23003565698499284832007-08-31T16:59:00.000+01:002007-08-31T16:59:00.000+01:00It's so funny with names how much they give away. ...It's so funny with names how much they give away. A lot of times you can guess pretty well how old someone is just by their name. But this whole business of your name changing the entire course of your life? I don't buy it. <BR/><BR/>Although I do get a little impatient with some of the crazy names out there with the deliberately wild spellings. Really. Do you really need 17 letters to spell "Ann"?the rotten correspondenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02704525054720181936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462787118668544142.post-57356243689243809702007-08-31T16:26:00.000+01:002007-08-31T16:26:00.000+01:00Ha! This makes me laugh... We thought long and har...Ha! This makes me laugh... We thought long and hard about our son's name - given he had to grow up in a small rural community it seemed only fair to give him a deeply safe banal name. <BR/>but I confess (and how batty is this?) that I did check with a numerology/astrology/nameolody (OK, I made the last one up) bod about what would be a good name depending on when he was born. Trouble was, he was so overdue that the poor man got fed up giving me updates so in the end we just took a wild swing and hoped it would be OK. Time will tell but he hasn't been duffed up yet.<BR/>Oh, see you know @themill too- another lovely blogger I've met!Exmoorjanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09230395732150659356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462787118668544142.post-88223846350590091972007-08-31T15:25:00.000+01:002007-08-31T15:25:00.000+01:00CJ: The names may be boring, but I bet the people ...CJ: The names may be boring, but I bet the people are not.<BR/><BR/>laurie, I will email you. It was a long time ago, though.<BR/><BR/>Snuffy: I just knew you as a teacher would have some input. I bet all teachers have some names they dread.wakeupandsmellthecoffeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04602735058278146250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462787118668544142.post-20956150369319161602007-08-31T14:02:00.000+01:002007-08-31T14:02:00.000+01:00I LOVED that book. Great stuff. True about the rac...I LOVED that book. Great stuff. True about the race and name points too in England sometimes.'Leroy' - you don't just know he will be black, but at school, you also know he is going to be a nightmare kid. I have never known a good one. So when your daughter brings home a 'Leroy', beware! ha ha.<BR/><BR/>If you liked F, you will like Malcolm Gladwell - Tipping Point and Blink. He is fabuloso!Miss Snuffleupagushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13107304044851607450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462787118668544142.post-58375668285226174152007-08-31T12:23:00.000+01:002007-08-31T12:23:00.000+01:00ok we have a lot to talk about. you worked for kni...ok we have a lot to talk about. you worked for knightridder??? so did i. so did my husband.<BR/><BR/>email me! i need to know more!lauriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055442432266567561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462787118668544142.post-4732548819536524342007-08-31T11:39:00.000+01:002007-08-31T11:39:00.000+01:00I like reading those silly little tacky souvenirs ...I like reading those silly little tacky souvenirs that tell you what you're supposed to be like by the name you have been given. They're all different! My family have relatively ordinary names. How boring!<BR/><BR/>Crystal xxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462787118668544142.post-45046285842156407982007-08-31T09:30:00.000+01:002007-08-31T09:30:00.000+01:00Laurie: You've got a point about the onomics. Rage...Laurie: You've got a point about the onomics. Rage? Rand Miranda? One shows a bit of clairvoyance, the other a lack of imagination.<BR/><BR/>Kaycie: Ditto on the Philip Phillips. No imagination. I remember many years ago when I worked in the credit and collections department of a hospital seeing the name Frosty Burr. Now that's funny.<BR/><BR/>Pixie: Remember, you're as young as the man you feel.<BR/><BR/>DJ: None of the research in that book applies to the UK, I've concluded. Different cultures. So don't worry about the names and just enjoy your sons.wakeupandsmellthecoffeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04602735058278146250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462787118668544142.post-21461537487105030372007-08-31T09:26:00.000+01:002007-08-31T09:26:00.000+01:00Lizzie: Relax. I don't recall seeing those names. ...Lizzie: Relax. I don't recall seeing those names. Except Anastasia might have been on the white girl high income list (but it had names like Ardis). My kids' names weren't on it either.wakeupandsmellthecoffeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04602735058278146250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462787118668544142.post-46616709903187458582007-08-31T08:43:00.000+01:002007-08-31T08:43:00.000+01:00Erm, N3S is quite unusual but N1 and N2 are plain ...Erm, N3S is quite unusual but N1 and N2 are plain boring run of the mill names. I refuse to look any of them up in that book!DJ Kirkbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08481107164497582398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462787118668544142.post-35526963920176772122007-08-31T03:35:00.000+01:002007-08-31T03:35:00.000+01:00i worked with a guy named Rand Miranda.that always...i worked with a guy named Rand Miranda.<BR/>that always seemed redundant, too.lauriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055442432266567561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462787118668544142.post-16339571564426842202007-08-30T22:50:00.000+01:002007-08-30T22:50:00.000+01:00My name was given to me before it's time, so peopl...My name was given to me before it's time, so people think i'm younger than I am cause of it.<BR/>Oh and of course the copious amounts of face cream i slap on!<BR/>pxFire Byrdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05477692359400671374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462787118668544142.post-8887845744257760522007-08-30T19:49:00.000+01:002007-08-30T19:49:00.000+01:00I went to school with a boy whose last name was Ph...I went to school with a boy whose last name was Phillips. What do you think his parents named him? Philip. What in the world were they thinking? The poor man goes through life with the name Philip Phillips. Couldn't they have at least spelled them the same?!?Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05655321325607087357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462787118668544142.post-34123932076091185062007-08-30T17:54:00.000+01:002007-08-30T17:54:00.000+01:00the freakanomics book was a huge hit over here. (i...the freakanomics book was a huge hit over here. (i haven't read it.) and now the author writes a column in the new york times magazine (i don't read it. i don't read anything that was the suffix -onimics).<BR/><BR/>but sometimes you do wonder what people are doing, saddling their kids with names that are spelled totally wrong, or are clearly made up....<BR/><BR/>a guy was arrested here last week for murder. his first name? Rage. RAGE. <BR/><BR/><I>what did they expect???</I>lauriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055442432266567561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462787118668544142.post-58309176901550880062007-08-30T17:18:00.000+01:002007-08-30T17:18:00.000+01:00Oh crikey Wakeup! Don't know where the devil this ...Oh crikey Wakeup! Don't know where the devil this news may leave me. My own 3 daughters' names are, respectively from oldest to youngest, Vanessa, Penelope and Anastasia. Erm.. <BR/>(Mind you, the last 2 are known as Penny and Ana, if that helps.) Any comments??<BR/><BR/>Lizzie xChris at 'Chrissie's Kitchen'https://www.blogger.com/profile/00114973753249296715noreply@blogger.com