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MollyBloom
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 Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 3:39 pm Post subject: I'm not pregnant, but... |
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| ...I sort of would love to name a boy, if I have one, Beowulf. |
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kabrams
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 3:44 pm Post subject: Re: I'm not pregnant, but... |
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| MollyBloom wrote: |
| ...I sort of would love to name a boy, if I have one, Beowulf. |
Ok. |
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Senior
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| Don't give your kid a stupid name! Silly names are a indicator in so many bad socio-economic measures. Even kids with weird spellings of normal names tend towards bad outcomes. There is a mountain of literature about this subject. |
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mj roach
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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| How about Leopold? |
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the_beaver
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 5:24 pm Post subject: Re: I'm not pregnant, but... |
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| MollyBloom wrote: |
| ...I sort of would love to name a boy, if I have one, Beowulf. |
I think there's more to having a gay kid than just giving him a name like that, but it's a good start. |
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.38 Special
Joined: 08 Jul 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Senior wrote: |
| Don't give your kid a stupid name! Silly names are a indicator in so many bad socio-economic measures. Even kids with weird spellings of normal names tend towards bad outcomes. There is a mountain of literature about this subject. |
One man's literature is another man's horse flop.
Molly Bloom,
Your baby's daddy better be huge. He'd better have been huge all his life.
A big tough kid named Beowulf would be badass. A scrawny little white nerd named Beowulf would get himself sent to prison just to get some modicum of respect.
The boy's gotta live up to his Viking heritage, after all  |
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detourne_me
Joined: 26 May 2006
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Senior wrote: |
| Don't give your kid a stupid name! Silly names are a indicator in so many bad socio-economic measures. Even kids with weird spellings of normal names tend towards bad outcomes. There is a mountain of literature about this subject. |
obviously you've never read Freakonomics.
There are chapters devoted to uncommon names and socio-economic status. In fact, as in fashion and music, lower-income urban families tend to be the avant garde for baby names which become the norm for higher income families.
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/do-uncommon-names-turn-kids-into-criminals/ |
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Senior
Joined: 31 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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| detourne_me wrote: |
| Senior wrote: |
| Don't give your kid a stupid name! Silly names are a indicator in so many bad socio-economic measures. Even kids with weird spellings of normal names tend towards bad outcomes. There is a mountain of literature about this subject. |
obviously you've never read Freakonomics.
There are chapters devoted to uncommon names and socio-economic status. In fact, as in fashion and music, lower-income urban families tend to be the avant garde for baby names which become the norm for higher income families.
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/do-uncommon-names-turn-kids-into-criminals/ |
That's exactly where I got my info (I mean the book, not the blog). I guess we had slightly different interpretations of the reading.
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Triban
Joined: 14 Jul 2009
Location: Suwon Station
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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My father wanted to name me Rocko...no joke.
My son shall be named Triban, or Adonis, or Narcissan. |
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oldfatfarang
Joined: 19 May 2005
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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| You guys too young to have heard the song: "A boy called Sue?" |
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Gibberish
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| Yeah we just don't like old boring Johnny Cash songs |
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oldfatfarang
Joined: 19 May 2005
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah we just don't like old boring Johnny Cash songs |
"Grasshopper, When we think we do not like a song - is it not better to put aside our emotions - and look within ourselves - to see if it is us who is the problem? For when we understand the deeper meaning of the song - then, and only then, Grasshopper, will we truely know."
PS: Don't call your kid a funny name. |
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CapnSamwise
Joined: 11 Jan 2010
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These are the only acceptable names for boys:
Slab Bulkhead
Fridge Largemeat
Punt Speedchunk
Butch Deadlift
Bold Bigflank
Splint Chesthair
Flint Ironstag
Bolt Vanderhuge
Thick McRunfast
Blast Hardcheese
Buff Drinklots
Trunk Slamchest
Fist Rockbone
Stump Beefgnaw
Smash Lampjaw
Punch Rockgroin
Buck Plankchest
Stump Chunkman
Dirk Hardpeck
Rip Steakface
Slate Slabrock
Crud Bonemeal
Brick Hardmeat
Rip Sidecheek
Punch Sideiron
Gristle McThornBody
Slake Fistcrunch
Buff Hardback
Bob Johnson
Blast Thickneck
Crunch Buttsteak
Slab Squatthrust
Lump Beefrock
Touch Rustrod
Reef Blastbody
Big McLargeHuge
Smoke Manmuscle
Beat Punchbeef
Pack Blowfist
Roll Fizzlebeef |
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Todd Swanson
Joined: 14 Mar 2010
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I strongly believe that the next time you eat dog, have the owner of the dive parade the dog in front of you so before he slaughters the dog, you could name him Beowulf.
Bong!!!  |
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detourne_me
Joined: 26 May 2006
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| Senior wrote: |
| detourne_me wrote: |
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| Don't give your kid a stupid name! Silly names are a indicator in so many bad socio-economic measures. Even kids with weird spellings of normal names tend towards bad outcomes. There is a mountain of literature about this subject. |
obviously you've never read Freakonomics.
There are chapters devoted to uncommon names and socio-economic status. In fact, as in fashion and music, lower-income urban families tend to be the avant garde for baby names which become the norm for higher income families.
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/do-uncommon-names-turn-kids-into-criminals/ |
That's exactly where I got my info (I mean the book, not the blog). I guess we had slightly different interpretations of the reading. |
No, I understand your point about it, and I believe the authors were trying to point out how cyclical it was, too.
"Higher Class" names like Madison or Adderly get 'co-opted' by the middle class, until those names have become oversaturated and then some other obscure sounding names start appearing.
Trends such as brand names or city names becoming given names were some of the 'class reversals' if i remember correctly.
regardless, back on topic, myself and all of my siblings have unique names, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Wolf may be an acceptable short form name for Beowulf, MollyBloom - especially if said kid becomes Tarzan on TV. |
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