h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Your name isn't too bad saturnine, the three sylables changes the emphasis (puts it on the first not the eeeeeeee sound at the end<shudder&gt.

I came across a Miss Loving who called her daughter Summa -
And a Miss Hendricks who called her son Dylan...

I think Frank Zappa had the right idea.

Yeah, name your children after your partners toes.

My name is excellent. Not only is it ironic - meaning *God's Gift* (woahaha) but I'm named after a drowned movie star!

However, I've spent my whole life going..."It's NaTali; there is a f**king *T* in the middle" and telling people that I really don't like being called *Nat*...

Bah. Double edged coin.

My name *almost* means Love Stallion...

muy name literally, of course, means pisseed b*****d

Even if 'God's gift' was *theologically* ironic, it still seems there may be a deal of accuracy in there.

Oh please...



My name is very hippy indeed "Lanna Renee" means light reborn because my parents insisted that the sun came out from behind the clouds when i was born. Sweet, but after having given birth myself, I have to call bullsh*t on the claim that their attention was anywhere near the window

Oh, and the reason I went to post - I was reminded of a doctor telling me how p*ssed off he was at a mother. She named her daughter Sh*thead. Stupid woman claimed "it's pronounced 'sh*t-aide'"

Oh...and I also feel the need to brag at how lovely *my* little girl's name is - Olivia Rosaline (though she goes be neither ). H*ll, anything is better than the stupid american place names trend, i.e. Dakota, Madison...Asia was a cool idea for a name until it bacme popular

T'is a nice name! Very round and flowery. Lovely!!

I don't think there is anything specifically wrong with naming a kid after a place. After all, place/country names originate from people or descriptions...it's only when people overdo it and there are 5 billion kids in the same class with the same name.

At the plce where I last worked, there was a kid called Maxim, one called Helena, and another called India. At least naming your kids like that assures they are individual. There were 3 Emily's in the 4-5 year old group...

Potholer - What are you after?

Naming after places?

Well in that case there's a fair few kids should have been called Falmouth.

Me? Just placing cerdit where it's due.

Or even credit...

yeah know wot you mean..

wazzow/tom bombadil on a mesage for aragorn...

oops soryy taking the mick..

just waz

Hmm. You sure about that Potholer?

Well, I can only guess at your gloriousness (especially if you're not coming to the meet).

Or were you doubting my sincerity?

Then there are the twins called Benson and Hedges... A girl I heard of from a friend of mine who was a schoolteacher was called Albert, so Jan looked up her details and found out she was Mt Albert Bus Stop. Jan wondered if that's where the child was conceived, or where she was born!

My other sister called her children Michael and Rachel under the fond illusion that those were uncommon names. Not! I believe in giving kids choice. I gave Jimmy 5 Christian names so he could pick one, then had mixed feelings when he did (Jimmy!). I won't say what his original first name is, he'd hate me.

Emma, Rachel, Hannah, Grace and Cushla, the vogue names in the new entrants' class when Jimmy was 5 - with Sam, Tom, Callum, Fraser and George for boys. If I had another child, I'd avoid all those names like the plague! There's a class thing going here in NZ. All the lovely 'old lady' names are very vogue for the higher SES groups. (Rose, Charlotte, Hannah etc). For the lower orders, Craig and Shania, for the middle classes, Madison, Harrison, George and Renee (for Zellweger). I am reading about X:WP fandom right now, and favour Alti and Ephiny for my imaginary daughter - or B'elanna! Go Star Trek!
Dodo Chaplet

I have some cousin somethingemved who's surname is friend and as christiend 'bonny'. That really isn'tfair!