Proof that getting pregnant is the equivilant of smoking crack for some women...
I'd always heard horror stories about people naming their children idiotic things, and I'd just recently reread Baby's Named a Bad Bad Thing thanks to Midnight_Hawk but I'd never quite witnessed this idiocy myself. However today I was tooling around over on a local mom message board when I ran across this post. I swear, I didn't make this shit up. I suspect you all will find this as sadly hilarious as I did.
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Uh..Hem... My Turn! BABY NAME Ideas & Thoughts!
Ok, we are coming down to the wire!
Since we do not know what we are having, it is taking us *quite* a while to come up with names.
PLUS, it doesn't help that we have already used our favorite boys names.
As corny as it sounds, we would like to keep the "Disney Princess" names going if it is a girl. Fortunately, we LOVE the princess names anyways, even if they weren't princess names.
Here are out favorite girls (FIRST) names:
Pocohontas
Ariel
Favorite MIDDLE names:
Molly
Annie
Summer
Autumn
Tatiana
Daffodil
Faith/Joy/Hope
Priscilla
Boys FIRST & MIDDLE names:
Basil
Leif (don't worry, no "Basil Leif"!)
Finn
Psalm
Debussy
Delune
We could use some more suggestions for boys names. We like "different" names (duh Laughing )
What do you guys like?
BTW, every time I mention "Pocohontas" to ANYONE (except DH), I always get a chuckle! ..."But Claire! She is going to have to live with that name for the rest of her life!...." Don't do that to her! She doesn't deserve it!".... "Think about HER!"
Argh! We really like it and it IS unique. Plus, I am native american and my dad insisted on me having a native american name (my middle name is Cheyenne), so it would also be like passing down our heritage in the form of a name, you know?
What do you guys think?
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I am so tempted to register on that board and let her know exactly what I think. Or maybe encourage her to name her kid this idiot name. I can't decide.
That poor kid. Pocohontas? WTF?
First of all, she doesn't even freaking spell it right. It's Pocahontas. If she can't spell it right, imagine a six year old trying to spell her own damn name.
Second, why, why, why would you do that to a child? I mean, I get wanting to name your kid in honor of your cultural heritage, but let's face it, her desire for a Disney princess name outweighs any kind of desire for a Native American name. After ten seconds of looking in the Native American section of our baby naming book, I found at least twenty far cooler, interesting and less prone to ridicule names than freaking Pocahontas. Plus if you are truly of Native American descent, wouldn't you want a name that reflects your actual particular tribal history than something that's been co-opted, bastardized and mangled by the Disney Corporation?
Further proof that it being a Disney princess is the most important thing for this woman. When someone suggests princess names (like Anastasia) that aren't used in Disney Movies this is the response:
My mom was trying to convince me to go with Anastasia yesterday. Not only did she want to name my sister that, but it IS a Russian princess.
However, it isn't a *Disney* princess. I think Warner Brothers or something did that movie. (Wouldn't dare go with an "off brand" princess name Shocked Laughing )
Pocohontas Priscilla? Pocohontas Daffodil? Psalm Debussy? (I wonder if anyone has told her that Ariel is from the Tempest and was written as a male... probably not.)
Sadly, all this woman has gotten so far is polite encouragement or people being far too nice and sidestepping the issue and trying to present less idiotic options.
*facepalm*
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Uh..Hem... My Turn! BABY NAME Ideas & Thoughts!
Ok, we are coming down to the wire!
Since we do not know what we are having, it is taking us *quite* a while to come up with names.
PLUS, it doesn't help that we have already used our favorite boys names.
As corny as it sounds, we would like to keep the "Disney Princess" names going if it is a girl. Fortunately, we LOVE the princess names anyways, even if they weren't princess names.
Here are out favorite girls (FIRST) names:
Pocohontas
Ariel
Favorite MIDDLE names:
Molly
Annie
Summer
Autumn
Tatiana
Daffodil
Faith/Joy/Hope
Priscilla
Boys FIRST & MIDDLE names:
Basil
Leif (don't worry, no "Basil Leif"!)
Finn
Psalm
Debussy
Delune
We could use some more suggestions for boys names. We like "different" names (duh Laughing )
What do you guys like?
BTW, every time I mention "Pocohontas" to ANYONE (except DH), I always get a chuckle! ..."But Claire! She is going to have to live with that name for the rest of her life!...." Don't do that to her! She doesn't deserve it!".... "Think about HER!"
Argh! We really like it and it IS unique. Plus, I am native american and my dad insisted on me having a native american name (my middle name is Cheyenne), so it would also be like passing down our heritage in the form of a name, you know?
What do you guys think?
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I am so tempted to register on that board and let her know exactly what I think. Or maybe encourage her to name her kid this idiot name. I can't decide.
That poor kid. Pocohontas? WTF?
First of all, she doesn't even freaking spell it right. It's Pocahontas. If she can't spell it right, imagine a six year old trying to spell her own damn name.
Second, why, why, why would you do that to a child? I mean, I get wanting to name your kid in honor of your cultural heritage, but let's face it, her desire for a Disney princess name outweighs any kind of desire for a Native American name. After ten seconds of looking in the Native American section of our baby naming book, I found at least twenty far cooler, interesting and less prone to ridicule names than freaking Pocahontas. Plus if you are truly of Native American descent, wouldn't you want a name that reflects your actual particular tribal history than something that's been co-opted, bastardized and mangled by the Disney Corporation?
Further proof that it being a Disney princess is the most important thing for this woman. When someone suggests princess names (like Anastasia) that aren't used in Disney Movies this is the response:
My mom was trying to convince me to go with Anastasia yesterday. Not only did she want to name my sister that, but it IS a Russian princess.
However, it isn't a *Disney* princess. I think Warner Brothers or something did that movie. (Wouldn't dare go with an "off brand" princess name Shocked Laughing )
Pocohontas Priscilla? Pocohontas Daffodil? Psalm Debussy? (I wonder if anyone has told her that Ariel is from the Tempest and was written as a male... probably not.)
Sadly, all this woman has gotten so far is polite encouragement or people being far too nice and sidestepping the issue and trying to present less idiotic options.
*facepalm*