17 September 2007

Monica a pretty normal moniker

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It’s been a while since I’ve seen reporting on RA of the inventive baby names reported in the Canberra Times’ births’n’deaths. Was the consensus that it was too mean-spirited to poke fun at the illiterati’s creative attempts at getting their kids bullied?

I was reminded of those posts by this article. There are some absolute beauties in there. Enjoy!

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in the blog below the article, was the following comment:

Without a word of a lie. I attended a christening last year in one of the Bogan capitals of WA (Rockingham) and these very young parents named their baby daughter “KheSahn”.

I am sure the dug the song and just as sure that they had absolutely no idea about the bloody battle that pre-empted the Cold Chisel ballad.

Now THAT is priceless!

Boganism at its best….

Well, I don’t think the ancient Scottish, English, Irish and French were bogans so my name is definitely not from the bogan category 🙂

Barbarians are to bogans as mammoths are to elephants.

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Snahons_scv6_berlina said :

an extended family member called their son skaifee. I’m so grateful that they’re on the ‘step’ side of the family.[/q not to sure if this person is talking about my son or not but i dont know of any other people named Skaifee so i gather its my son that they are talking about well my so called step relation or who ever you are it has nothing to do with you or any body eles what his name is so what gives you the right to comment on anything

Wasn’t there a guy on Big Brother named Bohdie?

Isn’t Dannielynn the name of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby?

I’m sure Ryder is the name of Reece Witherspoons kid.

Schapelle – drug smuggler chick.

Shakira is a singer (if you call her a “singer” I prefer to term “noise maker”)

Sienna… Sienna Miller.

Alot of the names in that article seem to relate to celebrities or people in the media. I know a few kids with “odd” names… India, Talulah, Blaze and I went to school with a kid named Leif… we didn’t give him as much grief as you’d think.

Gungahlin Al9:25 am 18 Sep 07

You can laugh at the bogans Thumper, but remember: they are breeding like rabbits to cash in on the baby bonus – they are (like it or not) taking over our country…

All names until recently actually mean something, that’s the charm of them — the link with Old English, Norse, Saxon and so on. The only made-up name I like that I can think of off the top of my head is Wendy, quite charming.

The rest are all bogans. I propose a cull, which will operate as follows: go to any food court with its multiplicity of choices, and shoot everyone queued up at KFC and Macas.

You know it’s right, you know you want to.

Rules to naming your child. To borrow from the SMH – do not under any circumstances name your child anything ending with Rae or Lee, after a US state, a colour, country, fruit or luxury car. I would add to that, do not name your child anything mis-spelt, phonetically spelt, hyphenated, apostrophied or rhyming with “ayden” eg. Hayden, Jayden etc.

OpenYourMind28:53 pm 17 Sep 07

While I can’t deny that I’ve had a snigger or two at some of the unusual names, the ‘holier-than-thou’ attitude of some on this discussion is amazing. All names are made up, some are simply more ‘acceptable’ to some people than others. I get the feeling that the same people that b1tch about ‘political correctness’ are the first to suggest laws should exist to prohibit unusual baby names.
Let’s think about things a little differently. Having a common name like ‘Peter Smith’ is going to never give you net-search individuality. A unique name is much easier to be found in a web search – which can be a good thing and sometimes a bad thing.

Nothing wrong with Skaifie! Go Skaifie!

LOL @ “Denim”. What next? Flanno?

Meet my son, his name is “Foam Stubbie Holder”

Gungahlin Al4:58 pm 17 Sep 07

“Skaifee”? Motor racing fan – I’m guessing not in the Ford camp…

Snahons_scv6_berlina4:45 pm 17 Sep 07

an extended family member called their son skaifee. I’m so grateful that they’re on the ‘step’ side of the family.

Maybe the whole teasing a child at school because of their name has shifted. It will now be the kids with the normal names who get the rough end of the stick.

“Unique” would ne a nice unique name. But you’d have to come up with a different spelling, maybe Yuneak, or Unyke, or You-nique.

a friend of mine who is a nice middle class girl lives with a bogan. she is now knocked up. this is when she discovered his ambition to have a ‘unique’ name. the battle will rage until birth i suspect.

he seems nice enough, for a bogan, but i fear cultural differences will eventually drive them apart.

I’ve always thought Pestilence would be a pretty name for a girl. Rolls off the tongue.

At work yesterday the customer’s son’s name was Linkin… not Lincoln, but Linkin, like Linkin Park. He was probably four or five years old, roughly how long that band has seen international success…

This may be apocryphal, but I have heard through some puvblic sector lawyer friends, of a child support case in Western Sydney involving two children. The first was named Benson, not an entirely terrible name I must say. but if you’ve followed where this is going, the second child’s name is a hoot: Hedges!

ps ‘Mean Spirted’ is super-fabulous, if slightly unintentional!

My favourite is Tay-lah. With the hyphen, of course.

A friend of mine knew a family of 3 kids called Ebony, Ivory and Denim. Possibly spelled Denham, but who cares!? Effect is the same!

la mente torbida2:01 pm 17 Sep 07

Statesman Deville & his sister Statesman Caprice

I meant to say “had” instead of “hate”. But then again, I could be a bogan speaking ghetto talk.

LOL! Statesman Deville. Thats good. I hate a mate who thought that “Stove” would be a cool name. WTF?

Mean Spirted – now there’s a nice name.

Although, is it’s more suitable for a male or female?

Gungahlin Al1:29 pm 17 Sep 07

To answer your original question AJ, it ws a pet project of JB’s lady Kerces. Kerces moved to the beach.
I’m not sure that too many RA regulars would give a rat’s bottom about being “too mean spirited”…!

Thumper, we both know that you will end up calling him Frodo Thumper-Pendragon from Charnwood Shire.

my first-born will happily have the moniker daMushroom-Lae, with a second getting Purgatorily Kryshnaa Dandee-Lyon, and the third i’ll call Craig.

I’ve always thought Toshiba, Nilfisk, Panasonic and Samsung were nice names for kids.

Woody Mann-Caruso11:48 am 17 Sep 07

Bogans steal baby names from rich families down the street, increasing the number of children with those names five-fold. They then misspell them to show they’re ‘keepin’ it real, moit’ and/or to make sure their Maddison / Tayluh is different from all the other Madisons and Taylors who are suddenly running around.

VYBerlinaV8 now_with_added grunt10:19 am 17 Sep 07

People (bogan idiots) do it because they think it’s sophisticated and cool. This is also the reason they put old couches on their front porch. I think inventing new spellings for normal names is one of the stupidest and saddest things one can do to a child.

I know someone who named their kid Akasha. I really hate these alternative spellings. When will people realise that nobody thinks you are clever or creative, they think you are an uneducated bogan idiot.

I miss those articles. Not enough to trawl through the CT on a Saturday and compile the article myself, of course, but enough to wish someone else would.

I don’t suppose the CT are kind enough to reproduce the B/D/M notices online?

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