Choosing your children's names is not a simple task

re: Choosing your children's names is not a simple task

Charlie on the PA Turnpike — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 11:39:00 GMT

Adding to the list

#1: Would this get my kid beat up on the playground?
#2: Would these initials spell a word that he or she would be taunted by for years to come?
#3: Does the first name rhyme with a part of the body that kids find fascinating and gross?

I used a simple sentence when naming my two boys:

HEY! Give me your lunch money, _blank_

While this is quite similar to #1, it does present its own flavor.

re: Choosing your children's names is not a simple task

Adam — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 11:45:00 GMT

I picked the names of our first two children so my wife is insistent that she picks the new one.

Unfortunately, with a surname like Field, I won't be calling any of my children anything like poppy, daisy etc...

re: Choosing your children's names is not a simple task

IM — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:42:00 GMT

"[1] For some reason, the scene with the space ship/rocket at the end of Akira always sticks in my mind because the letters on the ship were “SOL”. Was that an Engrish accident?"

What are you on about?

re: Choosing your children's names is not a simple task

laurence timms — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:46:00 GMT

Hey, I like the name Jared. It's my nephew's name, and he's no black porn star. At least he wasn't last time I looked.

Our little girl is called Phoebe Rose. I admit I hadn't considered any acronym implications - PRT doesn't ring any bells. Apart from Personal Rapid Transport, maybe?

re: Choosing your children's names is not a simple task

HTMC — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:18:00 GMT

Your method of using footnotes is intriguing.

re: Choosing your children's names is not a simple task

Todd Booher — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:36:00 GMT

We had fun naming our three as well, somehow we ended up with three "M" names. Hopefully that won't traumatize them too much. By the way, nice new pic, very cute.

re: Choosing your children's names is not a simple task

Philip Rieck — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:50:00 GMT

For the love of <%# user.DeityName %>, please make sure to consider the username. My parents didn't. So I have a last name (Rieck) that's a homonym for "pervaded with an unpleasant aroma" and a user name (prieck) that people inevitably start shortening to "prick".

So also consider (in this day and age) 1) first initial last name. 2) same as one, but shortened to six or eight characters 3) first name, last initial 4) same as 3 but shortened to six or eight characters. [As a consultant, I've been assigned lots of different schemes of username]

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