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Good to know, Thanks.
my mother taught a little girl named Aquanetta Jones. no lie.
One tip, if you have two or more, don't give them names that rhyme. Once having the children has ruined your brain, when you get mad at them and call them by the wrong name, they will laugh at you and you will deserve it.
Can I make a plug to name your next daughter "Macle"? Soft "c" , long "a". May-sull, accent on the first syllable.
It is pretty, unusual (I have never met another Macle in my entire life), and actually means something -- she was from Arkansas, which has a lot of diamond mining. Googling her name years after she died turned up this factoid -- it means a twinned crystal.
Anybody want to name their kid Macle? You will be original!
Yea, but you are an idiot.
The world is worse off because you spawned.
My first child is of course going to be named "Motherfuckin'", "with an apostrophe". Middle name Steve like me (boy or girl, definitely NOT Stevie).
@27 - The irony.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xblh12XgQ…
and my debt to the slogger that pointed me to this series.
I guess if all you have to cry about are other people's baby names and Oxford commas you must have it pretty good. Congratulations.
Hey Neibs, just a friendly remember that no matter how many loads you take, you still have a physiological inability to get pregnant.
@33
Schooling, lol more like fooling.
Gonna be pretty rad when your girls start getting the big D from gun owning rednecks. Chicks love to rebel against daddy.
There is some merit behind giving your child a fairly common name. Mine was number 2 for the year I was born (way back during the Kennedy administration) and I've never had it mispronounced or misspelled. Remember that your son or daughter is the one who will have to live with the name you choose for their entire life. Give them something that won't make them hate you.
Sophias are popping up uniformly everywhere.
Flee?
Naw, I just got tired do dealing with a mental midget who is deluded enough to beleive that government grants us rights.
@39
I'm not anti-gay, consenting adults have the right to make their own lifestyle choices including but not limited to to who they have sex with. However biology does determine reproduction.
Now Matt from Denver thinks that only Governments have the ability to determine rights, maybe you should jump on him for being anti-gay.
My father, being Irish, wanted to name my brother Sean. He spent most of his childhood being called "Seen". When I was born, my father was studying the Oresteia, and I narrowly missed being named either Iphigenia or Clytemnestra. My mother, bless her, convinced him, that, although like my brother I would be doomed to a lifetime of having my name mispronounced, Lissa would be less psychologically damaging.
Do all girl's names have to end with "a" or "ie" though? I want to see some girls names ending in "o".
When the hell are people going to stop naming their boys after dudes in the Bible? Talk about unoriginal. If you are not religious, please don't do this.
Everyone I went to school with was a Ryan or Josh, Ashley or Jessica.
@11 Because unfortunately, germanic words are nowhere near as phonically pleasing as latin ones :)
@26 "May" is such a lovely opening syllable, I've taken a liking to "Mavis". But I think Macle does look like "Mackle". My nephew's name is Rhys (Reese), I have no doubt people will slaughter it!
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/201…
On the other hand, in a few decades the nursing homes will be filled with geriatric Heathers. So there's that to look forward to.
@48 "Old-lady name" is actually the entire appeal for me! But I see your point. Some oldtimey names can be scarring because other kids are so rude. Anyway, I think your name rocks. The rest of the world can suck it, as they name their kids with surnames, misspelled concepts, or common names with extra letters for a "unique" effect.
Sure, it was. Including at her funeral -- now there's a story.
And her last name was misspelled a lot. As is both my first and last names (not uncommon names just uncommon spellings.)
And? This is the age of unique names. I've been thinking about this post, and just found a website that shows the number of times the name Macle was used in the US. Four times around 1920. FOUR TIMES.
That, my friends, is the definition of unique. And it's pretty, once you correct everyone.
And they clearly left off my mom. So make that 17 times.