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Try reading this out at a graduation ceremony

Jun 25, 2007 14:23

The other day Hannah (my new fun colleague) and I were getting thoroughly brassed off at the stupid things people call their children. After a day of plowing through proofs filled with Barnabys, Texases and Cocos, and energised further by a newspaper article about someone calling their child 4Real (with 4Eva and 4Sure to follow) we started to think ( Read more... )

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page_one June 25 2007, 20:31:08 UTC

Actually, the weirdest one I've heard is Dominion Road Extension. That's his first name. At least you could shorten it to "Dom". A couple of years ago I had dinner with four paediatric doctors and we compiled a list of the worst names they've heard. I've always wanted to type it up and start it as an email forward, but Steve says I can't because of privacy. But... Alpha and Omega, Hemiquaver, Demiquaver, Semiquaver, Ugly, Leatherette, V8 Kahlua (I could go on)... and then there's the 15 year-old that wanted to call her son Lucifer, "because it's so pretty". The nurse told her she actually wasn't allowed to - apparently there's a list of things you can't name a child, and thankfully that's on it. I bet you could come up with some awesome chemistry-based names!

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page_one June 25 2007, 22:49:55 UTC

Always liked the sound of Beryllium (for a boy, naturally) and Chlorine for a girl. Pretty.

Shay - ne - yey - ne - yey EEEEEEEEEE anonymous June 28 2007, 05:47:12 UTC

Oh my goodness I just about wet my pants! I want to meet and adore your collegue! I take it that this all took place in thick K&K accents? Did anyone mention wanting to be effluent? Like, REALLY effluent?

Re: Shay - ne - yey - ne - yey EEEEEEEEEE page_one June 28 2007, 07:05:40 UTC

No effluent yet, but you just wait till she gets in tomorrow. I'd forgotten that one. Yes, all in K&K accents. It's infecting the office to such an extent that my boss came over the other day and said (while I was eating caramel slice) "Gosh, you've absoLUTEly ballooowined of late," to which Hannah replied "She's absolutely gropable." Her new thing, though, is from that episode where Kim's in a flashback, wondering how she could have had an Indian baby, and remembering staggering through a restaurant on New Year's calling "Imraaaan," to the waiter. We went to karaoke the other night and whenever Hannah didn't know the lyrics she'd shriek "Imraaan," and by the end of the night most of my colleagues were drunkenly embracing on Queen St yelling "Imraaan..." Occasionally the office will be quiet and I'll hear a little "Imraaan," float from her corner. The correct response is, of course, "Happy New Yeeeear,". Everyone's real good at it now. My boss has started to forget himself and do K&K accents to his boss. I'm cracking myself up just ( ... )