Births and names 11-NOV-06

LG, and THAT’S the point . . .

But Connery isn’t “Seen”. It’s pronounced all normal and lovely and in a very sexy scottish accent……

I’ve got one!! (just first names, don’t want to get beaten up by his mother!) How about Nishant? Its like ‘nah…shant’, sounds as if someone is trying to figure something out and then decides not to…

I recall my sister telling me (she’s a teacher)that it was “OK Mum, you can go home, little Sean will be fine”, only to be told that his name was “Seen”, like in Connery.

1 kid called benson – the other – hedges – the ultimate in refined boganinity.

“And these are my 2 boys – benson and hedges”

Zaiya is a gorgeous name – reminds me of a nubian princess name.

Hey! I smoke Winfields and drive a VN (and yes, it is a V8…), but I’m pretty sure I don’t fit the ‘bogan’ category. I’d be closer to your ‘artsy wanker’ type, if anything.

Anyway Vic, congrats on the new arrival…Cheers!

My daughter’s name is the name of my great great aunt from my dad’s side. My dad has traced our family tree back quite a few generations, give or take a few untraceables 🙂 We just loved the name, and in agreement with kerces, we had never heard it either.

Good to see there were bogans in the 1800’s! I wonder if they had winnie blues and VN Commodores back then??!!!! 🙂

Like I’ve said before, parents should have to submit a list of three or four names from which a panel of responsible people from Birth, Deaths and Marriages can veto any that sound too horrible.

Works in the Horse Racing industry, why can’t it work for humans?

Hiter had the right idea – give them numbers, not names. Makes IDing people a hell of a lot easier too!

“Okay 87-85226492, go and stand in the corner for five minutes.”

Its like thinking a VN-VS Commodore is cool (or a Lexcen if you’ve been completely boganised).

I believe, in a lot of cases, the parents are just too plain stupid to know how its spelt correctly. That and the fact that their lack of intelligence causes their lives to revolve around pop culture and the names on Jerry Springer/Ricki Lake/Maury Povich (the Foxtel one with the paternity cases).

I would love to work in Births, Deaths and Marriages and be able to say to these people ‘sorry, that’s not a proper name and can’t be used. Come back when you’ve slected something a bit less ridiculous’.

And congrats Vic, I’m sure you know none of that is directed at you