Random Thoughts

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Just watched some morning show where Jessica SImpson named her DAUGHTER Maxwell Drew Simpson. You see a lot of people naming their little girls either androdgenous sounding or male names but you never see them naming the boys Elizabeth, or Hope....... or whatever. I have my thoughts on this, but I'll save them for later

 

[mc5aw]

Jessica Simpson has never impressed me as the pinnacle of intellectual development. Perhaps she went with Maxwell Drew because Orenthal James and Homer were already taken.

 

[tops]

I have never understood giving a kid a name that could be a boy or girl. It seems to me that would be just another annoyance in life. I have also never understood someone getting upset when a someone writing to them spells their name wrong and there are 40 ways to spell it. Larry

 

[jaykellogg]

That poor child! She has a name like that and Jessica Simpson for a mother.

 

[mg357]

Its bad enough she gave her daughter that awful name but what's worse she had the child out of wedlock thats the other thing that really bothers me.

 

[Alpo]

"you never see them naming the boys Elizabeth, or Hope."

Never heard of Leslie Nielsen, I take it?

 

[jaykellogg]

I heard a very popular boy's name in Charleston, SC is Ashley.

When I named my children I tried to think of names that conjured pleasant images to the mind, were easy to spell, and weren't the latest fad. Things can come out of left field though, I named my daughter Monica.

 

[brucev]

Just watched some morning show where Jessica SImpson named her DAUGHTER Maxwell Drew Simpson. You see a lot of people naming their little girls either androdgenous sounding or male names but you never see them naming the boys Elizabeth, or Hope....... or whatever. I have my thoughts on this, but I'll save them for later

Throughout the years parents have named their children in ways others have found curious even remarkable. Frances/Francis, Lynn, Ali, Hunter, Logan, Reagan, Ryan also come to mind. There are times when the name selected reflects a desire to honor or remember a family member.

 

[keith44spl]

Wells,

Down heres we give our youngins two first names...They's can pick the one they'd like the best or jest use both....

Like, Ben Roy or Jim Ray er Thomas Edward (Tom Ed)

Sally Jean or Tammy Faye, mabee Carol May

Now that I think about it....All those poor, pitiful children.


Su Amigo,
Dave

 

[Mr Pokeyman]

When she has a son she can name him Folger.

 

[Rangerpat]

"A Boy Named Sue"
Johnny Cash sang a song years ago (in prison, no less) that explains it.
Maybe Jessica wants her daughter to grow up tough!

 

[Dennis The B]

I grew up in Kentucky, and knew two men who were named Shirley. They were both of about the same age as my mother (born in 1926).

 

[Rule3]

I grew up in Kentucky, and knew two men who were named Shirley. They were both of about the same age as my mother (born in 1926).

Were they brothers or cousins?

 

[Rule3]

How about the poor kids of the 60's

1. America
2. Blossom
3. Blu
4. Breeze
5. Cassidy
6. Cat
7. Cayenne
8. China
9. Cloud
10. Clover
11. Daisy
12. Dharma
13. Earth
14. Echo
15. Feather
16. Flower
17. Free
18. Gypsy
19. Harmony
20. Heart
21. Heather
22. Juniper
23. Karma
24. Leaf
25. Liberty
26. Light
27. Love
28. Magnolia
29. Meadow
30. Moon
31. Mystic
32. Ocean
33. Paisley
34. Peace
35. Phoenix
36. Promise
37. Rain
38. Rainbow
39. River
40. Saffron
41. Season
42. Sierra
43. Sky
44. Spring
45. Star
46. Storm
47. Summer
48. Sunshine
49. True
50. Willow

 

[NFrameFred]

Heliotrope and Absorbine, Jr.

 

[long colt frazier]

My buds name is Tracy, he gets calls all the time from folks expecting a chick to answer. He always tells them she isn't in at the moment.

 

[johngalt]

I've read that 'Adolf' is not a popular name.

 

[P&R Fan]

My Mother-in-law had a good rule for picking a kid's name. Open the back door and holler it three times as loud as you can. If you don't feel stupid, it'll work.
Lisa, Dan and Katie worked for us.
If Lisa had been a boy, I was gonna name her Elvis Rush, but that's another story.
Jim

 

[LouisianaJoe]

I grew up in Kentucky, and knew two men who were named Shirley. They were both of about the same age as my mother (born in 1926).

When I was a kid in the 50's, we had a neighbor named Shirley.

I had an uncle named Craven which means cowardly. He went by his initials, C.E.

I have always believed in common names. My children are Christopher(Chris) and Rebecca(Becky).

 

[4330Inroute]

My Dad had a good friend that he always called Mr. T===== who has been deceased a long time now (in case he still has living relatives). He wasn't a big guy very polite and well mannered but could become meaner than an angry rattlesnake. When I asked my Dad why he was so mean at times my Dad said that Mr. T====='s first name was Beatrice and that his brothers were Doris and Beulah. His parents wanted girls and not boys. This was before Johnny Cash's Boy named Sue came out. What was the line from the song 'get tough or die.'

 

[jaykellogg]

You might live in Colorado if your wife calls you at work and tells you to pick up Granola on the way home from work and you stop at the day care center.

 

[REM 3200]

I've read that 'Adolf' is not a popular name.

"Ve haf fays of making you like it. You haf family in the fadderland, Ja"

 

[blujax01]

Heliotrope and Absorbine, Jr.

Bad enough that you're stuck with "Absorbine" but to pass it down is just cruel!

 

[M29since14]

Giving kids silly names is all the rage - at almost any given time. Like the old saw about music with dinner doing justice to neither chef nor musician, it does nothing good for either name bearer or name giver, IMHO.

If that list of Rule3's is really how it went in the sixties, it didn't seem to do so around here, although I do know a couple questionable characters from that era with "somewhat colorful" names, like Dirk, and Roland...

Giving a boy a girl's name is just beyond the pale, and probably so the other way around.

 

[Pete99004]

I've read that 'Adolf' is not a popular name.

No it's a meat tenderizer.

Pete

 

[A10]

I grew up in Kentucky, and knew two men who were named Shirley.QUOTE]

"You can't be serious"
"I am serious. And don't call me Shirley."

 

[BaldEagle1313]

I was probably twelve before I found out that my Great-Uncle Pete's real first name was Lorraine. Never did find out why; his mom passed before I was born and Dad's version of it was, well, Dad was a story-teller who never let the actual facts get in the way of telling a good story.

As the name of Ashley being popular for a boy in S.C., maybe someone's watched "Gone With the Wind" a few too many times.

Knew a man many, many years ago named Adolph. He was born the twenties, before Herr Hitler ruined that name for all time. His last name was Andersen, and he always said "call me Andy".

When you give a kid a "weird" name, you just make trouble for them later in life.

 

[wbraswell]

I had a female 2nd cousin who's name was Billie Bob. No, it wasn't short for William Robert.

 

[Arik]

"somewhat colorful" names, like Dirk, and Roland...

Hey now! Dont be making fun of the name Roland...the headless Thompson gunner!!

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[Straightshooter2]

I've read that 'Adolf' is not a popular name.

Had a guy try to use that as a defense in a murder trial in Jacksonville several years ago. Defense attorney said with a name like Adolph Hitler Jones (or whatever his last name was) what chance did he have growing up. Didn't work with the jury. IIRC he got life.

One of my uncle's had the middle name of Beverly which was my grandmother's maiden name and the youngest daughter got named Euline after my grandfather whose middle name was Eulie.

My son's name is Geoffrey Alan. He was named after my brother whose middle name is Jeffrey and my wife's oldest brother. but we used the English spelling with the G so that his initials would be the same as my FIL and BIL. G.A.B One of my grandsons now has the initials G.A.B. so it's carried to a fourth generation.

CW