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ORIGINAL: thompsonx

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Who would have thought that Fuckem,Cheatem and Screwem would all grow up to be lawyers.
thompson

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ORIGINAL: caitlyn

My best friend has an older brother with two kids:
 
Matt - short for Metallica
Tera - short for Pantera
 
LOL....I knew a couple once who named their little girl "Tesla," after the group of the same name....luci

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

Luci, you don't need a degree to be a NYC cop. Trust me on that!
Oh, I certainly do
My first name is "Thomas", in Greek it means; "Come and GET SOME, M.....r F.....r!"
Really, I looked it up!
I like some of the Irish names for girls; Dierdre, Aoife (pronounced "EE- Fah") Mairead, Shannon, Bridget etc.
Yeah, some of the Irish names are really quite beautiful.  I believe my real first name is of Portugeuse origin............luci

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ORIGINAL: NakedOnMyChain


I went easy on the poor boy, and named my offspring John Aiden.  He goes by Aiden, because the alternative was to be the twelfth John in my husband and I's combined families.  And I hate the name Brayden, by the way.  Aiden has a second cousin the same age with that name, but I can one up it.  They spelled it Breidyn.  *shudder*

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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster

Just take a look at this website:

http://www.keepsaketrends.com/designers/designers.htm

It's a mini biopage of designers for a crafts store in Arizona.  You know what struck me?  The names of these women's kids are out of control.

The first one has four kids, Zach, Justin, Tyler, and Emma.  Very popular names right now, and not my favorites, but at least they're normal.

The third one has two kids, Donovan and Morgan.  Puke.  Sounds like the starting backcourt for the St. John's University basketball team.

The seventh hs two kids, Easton and Paisley.  What the FUCK?  One is a town, the other a design for a necktie.

The eighth has two kids, Savanna and Autumn.  Oh, yay, a douche commercial.  (I'm old enough to remember douche commercials.)

The ninth has three kids, Makenzie, Carson, and Brayden.  Guess what, I don't like those either.  Sounds like a law firm.

The tenth has three kids, Eliza, Libby, and Ellie.  Hallelujah, some halfway normal-sounding names.

The twelfth has a daughter named Tayla.  Tayla, the fierce 22nd level Dungeons & Dragons ranger.

The sixteenth (and last one) has two kids, Kyler and Kendra.  Kyler???  KYLER?  "Pardon me, sir, could you spell that?"

I'm sure there's something significant to be said about the ongoing craze for asinine "individualistic" names, but I don't have anything significant to say other than that these kids are going to ask what the HELL their parents were thinking when they grow up.

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ORIGINAL: Viridana

There's a trend right now here in my country to give children cute cuddly names. Which is alright in some sense, but I get the feeling that the parents are forgetting that the kids wont be cute and cuddly forever and one day (hopefully) they'll  end up really old in a nursing home. As much as I can connect cuddly cute names to infants, I sooo can't connect them with old wrinkled senior citizens. I'm not saying everybody should name their kids John and Mary. But I really think people should think twice and find some middle way in name giving. 

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ORIGINAL: drawntothedark

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ORIGINAL: Aileen68

I was shopping in Peddlers Village and saw personalized mugs and such for kids.  So I go to buy one for each of my wee ones who have normal, older names.  They had Elizabeth, but didn't have Madeline.  They did have Morgan and Mackenzie though.  It pissed me off.   Those are last names, not first.  So, couldn't get any since any parent knows you can't buy for one and not the other.  Ugh.  I run into that all the time.  Some normal names are completely obsolete these days.

Morgan has been used as a first name in the past. "King Arther" Plus it's an old english/celtic name. Not that I personally like this name.