Sunday, 13 January 2013

Naming Your Child

I was talking to someone about poetry (because I'm a classy stud) and the topic of Lord Byron came up. The person I was talking to said to me, "it baffles me why anyone would name their child Lord. How pretentious do you have to be?"
Me: "...that's not his actual name, is it? Lord Byron seems to be more of a title..."
Them: "aw, that's a shame. It sounds cool."
Me: "you just said it was pretentious."
Them: "yeah but that's cool. I wish my surname was Grey."
Me: "why? Because all the girls are into Fifty Shades of Grey?"
Them: "no, because then I can name my child Earl."

...I get it. Earl Grey. English tea... Classy stuff, I guess.

Basically that discussion prompted me to write this post. I read somewhere that the more... distinct your name is, the less likely you're going to fit in, because your name is different. Also, people don't like names they can't pronounce. Which makes sense, I suppose.

Sometimes I think about what I'd name my child, if I had a child. Then I look at my Heracross (a Pokemon), which I nicknamed "Horny". I figure I'd better leave the business alone.


"HORNY USED MEGAHORN!"...*snrk*

Have you ever met someone with hooker names as actual names? Not that I'm trying to offend anyone with these names (though I'll probably offend anyway), but there are names you hear which you just immediately recognize as hooker names. Okay, not that I meet a lot of hookers or anything... argh, whatever.

...I'd give examples of what I mean, but then it'll sound kind of rude. What if I meet someone really nice in the future, with what I recognize as a hooker name? Yeah...

I'll just stop here. This is such a random post.

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