What's In A Name:
I discovered yesterday evening that my name was the name originally chosen for me and now I am wondering would it have made a difference to who I am, if I was called something different. I know my "boy" name was going to be Luke, but I never knew about the other girl options - Edith, Deborah, Judith....hmm. I can see me as an Edith, or an Edie, but not a Debbie, or Deb, or D, or Judy, or anything else.
It's not like many of my friends even call me by my (ahem) real name even, they all have names for me, or use terms of endearment, or nothing, but trying to imagine them calling me "Debbie" or "Judy" is just too weird. Also Judy is a bit of an old lady name I think. Thank jebus for my Daddy who said he didn't like those names, and even though my name was the most "popular" (ie: common as muck) name for just about all of the 1980's and is top of the polls yet again, I like it, it is a good normal but not boring name, and it is me.
PS: My friend had a baby boy on Monday who as of yet has no name, hence the conversation with my Mammy, boy name ideas will be greatly appreciated, I like Conan, as in the Barbarian, not for my old child though, for someone elses.
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Comments
axel is a cool name for a lad.
Posted by: andy | November 6, 2008 7:07 PM
Only if you're a black cop from Detroit doing a "special assignment" in L.A. in the mid-1980s.
Posted by: Matt
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November 6, 2008 8:10 PM
I like Axel too, but then you have the whole "oh Axel Rose is it" assholes.
Like my poor friend Kurt, who had losers slagging him because of Kurt Cobain, damn the famous for ruining names on all of us!
Posted by: Babs | November 7, 2008 8:55 AM
Axel? Jaysus, next kids will be called Spanner, or Brake fluid.
Posted by: Rebecca | November 7, 2008 9:57 AM
That's axle you sap!
Posted by: Babs | November 7, 2008 10:45 AM