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The alcohol he had consumed after my birth had worn off.

A JOKE:

A woman is rushed to the hospital before her due date. Complications require that she give birth under general anesthesia. When she comes to, she is presented with two healthy and hungry newborns - a boy and a girl.

Still woozy from surgury, she asks how she got there.

"Your uncle Walter brought you," said the doctor.

"Uncle Wally?! ! That joker! I'll bet he pulled something on me ... are you sure those kids are mine?"

"Certainly! I delivered them myself! Your uncle was even gracious enough to sign for everything, even the birth certifications."

"Uh-oh," said the mother. "What did he name them?"

"Well, the girl's name is 'Denise' ..."

"A perfectly reasonable name ... it was my grandmother's ... and the boy?"

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"De Nephew."

LAST NAME: Mutant

FIRST NAME: Boy*

* - Or "Girl" as the case may be. In the event of multiple births, successive numbers or letters are assigned as middle names.

I think that if you name to name your child after someone they should at least know them personally. I was named after a character in a book that neither one of my parents read.

I was named after a saint.

I disagree, we'd have our five year olds naming themselves after super heros or other things they see as fun as a child. And really it's not practical for a child to be nameless before they start school, unless you decide to just call them by their last names but then they'll learn that as their name. As far as I see it, most parents don't give their children outrageous names and if they do give you one, you'll most likely realize it and subscribe to a nickname of some sort.


Me too!

Saint Zorp?

Never heard of that one.

Yeah I've never heard of Saint Slowmutant either. I meant my actual name.

There is no Saint Slowmutant. There is a Saint Peter, however.

Giving children a number for a name would be quite ridiculous...almost as ridiculous as some of the names that are popular of late.

e.g. "River"....should be reserved for hippie parents whose desire for their children to become hippies never comes to fruition as a result.

Contemporary names that bother me: Aiden, Chase, Tucker, etc.

My name is extremely uncommon in the US, and less so in Ireland. I was named after my grandfather and his father before, but they both had the middle name "Peter" and went by "Pete". Although, my grandfather eventually used a shorten version later in life. My middle name is Joseph, but I never felt that it, or any of its relate nick-names fit.

It is also a Catholic saint:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloysius_Gonzaga

My parents picked my name out way before I was born (long before scans that let you know the sex of your unborn), so my parents always said it was a good job I was born a girl. They didn't know what to call my sister but saw her name in a newspaper article and really liked it.

I kind of like the Roman usage of numbers as names (the favourite chapter of Ecce Romani was the one where Sextus fell in the piscina), but it would get confusing as there would be loads of kids called One and Two.

In Neil Gaiman's Stardust (the book), the brothers competing for the throne were named "Primus" through "Septimus."

I am so with you on this...

If I were female, my name would be Leah.

Although my first name is common throughout Europe it is uncommon for a male in the USA. It gave me a sense of individuality as I grew up and I appreciated that. Today, as an adult, it is of no consequence. I have other very personal characteristics to sustain my sense of being an individual.

Leah_Tex?