Rare opportunity

[stray]

I don't think I've ever heard of someone named Ruby outside of a Cake song.

Cake? C'mon, dude.. The Stones have the only memorable Ruby song.

[Lantyssa]

I know a caucasian Ruby.

Lidia and Ursula are both great names.  I'm partial to all the Lily varients, too.

[Signe]

I knew a musician named Dishwater.  He was cool but his name?  Not so much.  I went to school with a Napoleon Rodriguez.  I really liked his name.

[schild]

I don't think I've ever heard of someone named Ruby outside of a Cake song.

Do you mean the Kenny Rogers song, "Ruby, Don't Take your Love to town." ?

Which has been covered by The Killers, Wolfsheim, and I GUESS Cake.

Or is it some other Ruby song.

Also, Ruby is a pretty great name that's coming back, though normally is saved for grandmas of another era.

[Samwise]

I don't think I've ever heard of someone named Ruby outside of a Cake song.

Do you mean the Kenny Rogers song, "Ruby, Don't Take your Love to town." ?

I was thinking more of "Ruby Sees All".  They probably got the name from the Kenny Rogers song, though.

[Righ]

Last name Thompson. Baby boy coming in May.

Thomas. Admittedly there's a Tommy Thompson in the GOP at the moment, but its still a great name.
Eric/Ernie/Evan. Gets to be ET for all those important remix projects.
Kenneth. Ken Thompson is one of the fathers of the Unix operating system. Eternal geek cred.

[voodoolily]

Kenneth. Ken Thompson is one of the fathers of the Unix operating system. Eternal geek cred.

 

[stray]

Yeah, I'm gonna change my name.

[Hindenburg]

Argo. Guess it'd be Argus in english.

[Strazos]

Gage? Or did you mean Gauge? lol

I don't even want to think about naming kids, though I would be kinda partial to Vincent or Jason or ...something, I dunno.

Achilles?

[Phildo]

Thom.

[Lantyssa]

My kids are lucky I'll never have any.  They'd hate the names I would give them.

[Merusk]

Gage? Or did you mean Gauge? lol

I don't even want to think about naming kids, though I would be kinda partial to Vincent or Jason or ...something, I dunno.

Achilles?

Jason wouldn't be a bad choice.  It was so popular in the 70's the only people naming their kids Jason these days are the ones naming the kid after it's father.

My wife nixed Lucretia when it came to naming our daughter.

[Signe]

Thom.

That's what Scandies do.  Magnus Magnussun, Sigurd Sigurdsen, Ollie Olsen.  Well, Ollie is Australian but you get the idea.  It takes a lot of the stress out of naming children, I guess.  A lot of my family are Sigurds but not Sigurdsens.  Yay.  Thank God I'm not a Signe Signessen.  That would so suck.

I would name my kid Lister, after the cat.

[Yegolev]

I would name my kid Lister, after the cat.

I thought Lister was a surname?  Ah, who cares these days?  Go down a NFL roster and note that you cannot do worse if you avoid naming your child after cling wrap or a pharmaceutical company.

Why are you awake this early?

[Signe]

Actually, Lister wakes me up around 6 AM every morning.  He likes to eat early.  He sits on top of the dresser and meows until I get up.  I can't last five minutes but Righ sleeps right through it most times.  I'd shut the door, but he can open them.    

[Yegolev]

Yeah that's right.  I thought you had been watching Red Dwarf.  I totally forgot about your pussies.

[IainC]

Thank God I'm not a Signe Signessen.  That would so suck.

it would. Especially as it would mean you'd be a boy. Signe Signesdottir isn't really an improvement though.

[Signe]

That's true.  And my middle name would have to be Lars because every man's middle name in Norway is Lars.  EVERY ONE OF THEM!

[Sky]

I went with a girl named Anita Little. She needed a lot.

[Hawkbit]

Back when I worked in tech, I had a customer named Richard Head.  Poor bastard was a Jr High teacher, too. 

[IainC]

I was at school with a girl called Theresa Green. At my first job (as a design apprentice) the chief engineer for the R&D department was called Clyde. Clyde Harbour. The mean bastard had perpetuated the evilness by naming his son Sidney and his daughter Pearl.

[Signe]

Giving your children silly names is probably one of the only ways you can get back at them for being born without going to prison.  All you have to do is come up with name - their school mates will take care of the rest.  I would approve if I hadn't been a victim of it.  And it's not just the Signe.  The rest of my names, except for my married name, are almost as bad.  Put together, they're even more unpronounceable. 

[voodoolily]

My mom had a teacher in school named Ima Mann. No joke. 

[Cyrrex]

Megatron.

 

That was fucking exactly what I thought of.  I'm a little creeped out by you, and not for the first time.

[K9]

Giving your children silly names is probably one of the only ways you can get back at them for being born without going to prison.  All you have to do is come up with name - their school mates will take care of the rest.  I would approve if I hadn't been a victim of it.  And it's not just the Signe.  The rest of my names, except for my married name, are almost as bad.  Put together, they're even more unpronounceable. 

Your real name is actually Signe? That's a new one to me.

How do you pronounce that.

[Cyrrex]

She's going to tell you that it is pronounced "Sig-knee" but that is only because she doesn't prefer the ridiculously more wonderful "Seena" pronunciation that she could easily adopt.  Something about crazy Norwegians and their desire to pronounce things precisely as they are spelled.

[Bungee]

I was at school with a girl called Theresa Green. At my first job (as a design apprentice) the chief engineer for the R&D department was called Clyde. Clyde Harbour. The mean bastard had perpetuated the evilness by naming his son Sidney and his daughter Pearl.

Shouldn't at least Pearl Harbour got prohibited in some sense by a judge? I'm pretty sure that in most European Countries the state will prohibit you from naming your children in a ridiculous/historcal important way to safe the child unnecessary abuse later on.

[Hindenburg]

Eh, most countries don't pass laws for that, they simply fix the problem when and if it is presented.
When I was working in a bank found  loads of Lenins, Stalins, some Goebbels, an absurd ammount of Fidels, and a lot of Che Guevara's.

Winner was a gent named Winchester Killer da Silva. 

[Sky]

She's going to tell you that it is pronounced "Sig-knee" but that is only because she doesn't prefer the ridiculously more wonderful "Seena" pronunciation that she could easily adopt.  Something about crazy Norwegians and their desire to pronounce things precisely as they are spelled.

I thought it went more like "Zom-bee".

Shouldn't at least Pearl Harbour got prohibited in some sense by a judge? I'm pretty sure that in most European Countries the state will prohibit you from naming your children in a ridiculous/historcal important way to safe the child unnecessary abuse later on.

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=15610.0

[Samwise]

She's going to tell you that it is pronounced "Sig-knee" but that is only because she doesn't prefer the ridiculously more wonderful "Seena" pronunciation that she could easily adopt.  Something about crazy Norwegians and their desire to pronounce things precisely as they are spelled.

I thought it went more like "Zom-bee".

I always pronounce it "Feet," myself.

[Yegolev]

Megatron.

 

That was fucking exactly what I thought of.  I'm a little creeped out by you, and not for the first time.

I proposed that name to my wife for our son.  She did not like it.  I decided to try Xander instead.  She almost went for it, but tricked me into thinking I could name the next one because she thinks you can't be president with a weird name.   I'd always say "Lyndon? Grover?"  "Those names were popular back then."

[Samwise]

You must be having the last laugh now, eh?

[stray]

Speaking of Thompsons, someone linked an article a long while back about some gangbanger named God Supreme Thompson.

[Paelos]

My list of suggestions based on famous folks:

Boxcar Bertha Thompson, American homeless campaigner
Daleyu Thompson, English athlete
D'Arcy Wenworth Thompson, Scottish zoologist
John Vaughn Thompson, English zoologist
Parke Thompson, World traveler
Randall Thompson, American composer
Silvanus Philips Thompson, English physicist

Personally naming your kid Boxcar Thompson sounds awesome.