Births and names 4-NOV-06

A mate of mine has a son called Braydon.

Seems that after he was born, whilst his wife was in hospital, he filled in the birth registration papers, and plain old spelt the name wrong.

He was in the doghouse for some time, although it’s a funny story that his missus tells at any opportunity to make him never, ever forget this 🙂

I dunno if these kids are going to get picked on. On current trends, by the time they get to school the playground will be filled with other kids named Jayden, Raelene and Kyleera. Maybe a more likely scenario is

“hey what’s your name?”
“James”
“James?!? that’s a stupid name! C’mon Talon, Brayden and Shai, get him!”

Hey, My little girl has the letter Y in her name. BabY G

Actually her real name has the letter Y as well.

A few months ago I was talking to a woman who’d named her child waterfall or somesuch.

her reasoning was that kids who get picked on will get picked on regardless (i.e. the confident muscular types could be called Queenie and no-one would say a word).

So by giving them the name to blame, which is their parent’s fault, she was giving her child the ability to externalise feelings of inadequacy.

I found the reasoning quite solid but still no excuse to use the letter Y in a name.

Love those Brayden Cayden Jayden Hayden names!

Ant, my theory is that these people that give such odd ( and oddly spelled) names were born mainly the 1970’s and early 80’s. Their own names (bequeathed by their staid war/post-war parents) are probably themselves named John, Susan, Gary, Karen, Peter, Sharon etc which are kind of ‘ordinary’ names (mine is too, so I am not trying to offend here). So it’s a kind of rebellion.

Might also have something to do with the fact that English in schools lost the plot a bit around that time (no nouns, verbs etc) and spelling was all ‘have a go’ instead of ‘correct or incorrect’.

No proof of this theory at all, of course . . .

I think the kids are being booked in to be bullied and beatn in their younger years, and constantly having the piss paken out of them when they are older.

Or they’ll get the smarts and change their name by deed poll as soon as they are able

Buttocks?

dickus?

You can just see these people, living in their 3 bedroom brick box with the loo in always the exact same place (half way up the hallway) and their arid backyards, giving their kids names from Mills and Boon books. Do they think they are setting them Freeeee by giving them idiotically spelled names?

I’d like to have twins, a boy and a girl, so I could name them Biggus and Incontinentia.

I’m still working on their second names.

I think Kasey Chambers’ child is called Talon. Nothing like perpetuating boganity. Brayden had an entire family of bogans behind him according to the listing, and there was a Kai as well.

Well spotted

No, it’s Talon like the rat poison.