What not to name your baby

[Brian]

As much as you would honor me by doing so, I wouldn't suggest naming him "Gurn". You can't imagine how many times I've had to say "no, I'm not Swedish, nor Norwegian either..."    



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Listening to:
Vieuxtemps VCs - Slovak RSO / Mogrelia   Misha Keylin - Vieuxtemps Concerto #6 in G for Violin Op 47 2nd mvmt

Great CD you're playing there sir!

[Gurn Blanston]

Great CD you're playing there sir!

Indeed it is. I never heard of this cycle making much of a stir, but it really should have, the music is the finest, and the playing is A1. I have the whole cycle and play it frequently.




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Listening to:
Vieuxtemps VCs - Slovak RSO / Mogrelia   Misha Keylin - Vieuxtemps Concerto #7 in a for Violin Op 49 1st mvmt

[Brian]

Indeed it is. I never heard of this cycle making much of a stir, but it really should have, the music is the finest, and the playing is A1. I have the whole cycle and play it frequently.

I've only got 5-6-7. Keylin is something else, don't know what Naxos have done with him lately - the cadenza in 5 brought me to tears once, at the end of a devastating day.

[Symphonien]

Dick Assman

Dick Trickle

Seymour Cocks

Ima Hogg

Adolf Lu Hitler Marak

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John Portsmouth Football Club Westwood

Depressed Cupboard Cheesecake

Yorkshire Bank PLC Are Fascist Bastards

Savior God Scientist Allah

Screaming Lord Sutch

Nicholas Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barbon

James Dr No From Russia with Love Goldfinger Thunderball You Only Live Twice On Her Majesty's Secret Service Diamonds Are Forever Live and Let Die The Man with the Golden Gun The Spy Who Loved Me Moonraker For Your Eyes Only Octopussy A View to a Kill The Living Daylights Licence to Kill Golden Eye Tomorrow Never Dies The World Is Not Enough Die Another Day Casino Royale Bond

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(These are all real names except for the last two which were proposed for a Swedish boy, whose parents planned to never legally name him at all as a protest against the naming laws of Sweden, but were fined when they had failed to register a name by the boy's fifth birthday. However, the court rejected both names and upheld the fine. He now goes by the name Albin, which was how these two names were to be pronounced, although his passport gives his name as "Icke namngivet gossebarn", meaning "unnamed little boy".)

[Brian]

John Portsmouth Football Club Westwood

That's actually pretty funny.

You don't know how much I laughed at that really, really long name. And I laughed for a long time after seeing this:

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Yeah, good stuff.

How about:

Mr. Ken VeryBigLiar
E. Henry Thripshaw
Cardinal Ximeniz of Spain

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

When I was in grad school in Davis, they'd always have "Cheerleader Camp" and "Girls Volleyball Camp" during the summer. Wave after wave of rented vans hauling these girls, driven by yuppie moms, would descend on the town for weeks on end. Nearly all of them had the girls' names painted on the windows. Just about all of them had the same assortment of names:

Ashley
Amber
Tiffany
Ashlee
Michele

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

An exuberant 'guru' of positive thinking in the Netherlands, Emile Ratelband, named his son 'Rolls' (as in Royce). So - Rolls Ratelband.

Poor boy.

[Hector]

Pelham Grenville

They are my true names!

How about Sir Cloudsley Shovell?

Admiral Shovell was shipwrecked off the Scilly Isles (I'm not making this up) when his ship 'Association' floundered in a storm.

He was washed up, still alive, on the beach but killed by a woman who robbed him of his possessions. She confessed on her death - bed.

He had won a great sea battle against the French and was about to sail for home at a time when the calculation of longtitude was rudimentary. A sailor stepped forward and said that if Sir Cloudsley took that route he would be shipwrecked. Sir Cloudsley had the sailor hanged for insolence.

[karlhenning]

How about Sir Cloudsley Shovell?

Admiral Shovell was shipwrecked off the Scilly Isles (I'm not making this up) when his ship 'Association' floundered in a storm.

He was washed up, still alive, on the beach but killed by a woman who robbed him of his possessions. She confessed on her death - bed.

He had won a great sea battle against the French and was about to sail for home at a time when the calculation of longtitude was rudimentary. A sailor stepped forward and said that if Sir Cloudsley took that route he would be shipwrecked. Sir Cloudsley had the sailor hanged for insolence.

That all sounds like a deleted subplot from Yellowbeard . . . .

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Plum!

Good to see another P.G. Wodehouse fan...

[RebLem]

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber.

Then, of course, there was the Filipino cleric, Jaime Cardinal Sin, who died in 2005.

Also, names, usually for girls, that set really high standards of behavior that can make a girl the object of jokes if she doesn't measure up--like Sunshine, Chastity, and Immaculata.

One should avoid feeling too much better than someone because of his name, though.  I have on occasion, felt chastened when I found out about the productive lives of people I have met in the past whom I thought had funny names.  One was a fellow I met sometime in the mid-1960's for just a day or two at the Missouri Intercollegiate Mock Legislature in Jefferson City, MO.  He came from a college in Missouri other than my own, and I never saw him after that.  A couple of months ago, I Googled his name.  He had seemed impossibly naive and white-bready to me in the 60's.  Turned out, though, he had led a modest life, but considerably more productive than my own. 
He had gone on to graduate school and earned a doctorate in sociology, and spent his career teaching that subject at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, becoming the department head in the early 90's, I recall.  His name?  Kirby Throckmorton.

[springrite]

Taiwanese women's tennis star: Shiting Wang

[MN Dave]

Taiwanese women's tennis star: Shiting Wang

[karlhenning]

Good to see another P.G. Wodehouse fan...

He saved my life in Oklahoma one year . . . .

[Florestan]

Also, names, usually for girls, that set really high standards of behavior that can make a girl the object of jokes if she doesn't measure up--like Sunshine, Chastity, and Immaculata.

Right. Cher's lesbian daughter's name is Chastity.  

[greg]

Duke Nukem

Binky Forever

Exploding Diaper Sandwich

[Anne]

I'd like you to meet Miss Shanda Lear.

[greg]

Sloppy Joe

[MN Dave]

Rugrat
Carpetmonkey