Happiness Is a Warm Post: The Happy Thread

[jebreject]

but i mean, how do you feel about the fact that a lot of hispanic people name their sons "jesus"? that's probably worse, right?

No, that's actually pretty awesome.

Agreed.

[jebreject]

oh damn new page

i do not want discussion of names to end

[jebreject]

On-topic, though, I am super-duper excited because we were asked to play a show at this place.

[RoyBiggins]

One of you trashed Milly's Kid's name, and you're going to get you asses beat.

My soon-to-be-born niece's middle name is going to be Addison, but it's 'cause her dad is an insane Cubs fan.

[RoyBiggins]

Neveah makes me want to vomit with rage.  This whole generation is going to be ripe for the stripping when they turn 18. They won't even have to get stripper names.

[Greg Nog]

Gauge????

This one seems to be the strongest evidence yet for "We named our daughter after our favorite porn star."

[kadiekatRN]

I see all sorts of names at the hospital.

My favorite was a 4 year old named Anakin.

There was one NICU baby whose whole family of many siblings had names derived from dad's.  Unfortunately, I can't remember what they were exactly.  It was something along the line of: Jacob (dad), Jacobean, Jacoby, Jacobina, etc.  The real names were better, so I'm really mad I can't remember.

[Greg Nog]

My favorite was a 4 year old named Anakin.

My friend's son is named Anakin.  We were all like, "You did what?"

[jebreject]

My son Palpatine is very interested in talking to Anakin. Maybe they can be friends.

[andronicus]

My son Palpatine is very interested in talking to Anakin. Maybe they can be friends.

Hey, that's great!  We could set up some play dates with my adopted Malian boy Jar-Jar!

[alexandra]

Like GCR, my name was 220th the year i was born, but got into the top 30 in the early nineties, and just barely broke the top 50 this year.

yay my name.

[jebreject]

my name is always and forever -10000000000000000000000000000000 on these lists

[andronicus]

When my grandfather (the first person in my family to bear my name) was born, our name sat proudly at number 5, its popularity peak, where it would stay for another decade before beginning a creeping decline.  By the time my father was born, 25 years later, it had inched down a mere 3 spots to number 8.  The end of the 1960s saw the beginning of a rather precipitous decline, and by the time of my birth it had fallen to number 27.  This year it stands on the very cusp of falling out of the top 100. 

[Andrew_TSKS]

My favorite was a 4 year old named Anakin.

My friend's son is named Anakin.  We were all like, "You did what?"

you too, huh? my friend kevin named his son anakin too.

[Andrew_TSKS]

Gauge????

This one seems to be the strongest evidence yet for "We named our daughter after our favorite porn star."

i'm going to assume that this one is a major misunderstanding derived by mass viewing of the movie "pet sematary".

[santaclaustral]

The year of my birth my name was 240th on the list, now its dropped to twenty after a high in 2003/2004 at number 13... weird. When I was born it was sorta considered pretty old fashioned.

Dude, it was number 1 in the UK for 2007. I have no idea what to do with that. When I was a kid, you could never find it on those mugs with your name on that they sell in museum gift shops and stuff. I know because I still have the mug with my name on that said 'Gary' instead.

[Good Intentions]

My favorite was a 4 year old named Anakin.

My friend's son is named Anakin.  We were all like, "You did what?"

you too, huh? my friend kevin named his son anakin too.

I know an Anakin as well. The son of two re-enactors.

I had a class with a very nice girl named Saffron, who grew up on a hippie commune (there was a few of them over NZ a few years ago, and the children from them are college-going age, more or less). She got off lightly, a freind of hers from the same commune was a boy called Rainbow, who, when he went out into the big wide world, just went by the name Joe. When she ran into him outside of the common she was surprised and overjoyed to meet someone back from the commune, and had endless delight talking to her friend Rainbow whenever she ran into him. It took her a while to realise that none of his new friends knew about his given name.

[Nick Ink]

The year of my birth my name was 240th on the list, now its dropped to twenty after a high in 2003/2004 at number 13... weird. When I was born it was sorta considered pretty old fashioned.

Dude, it was number 1 in the UK for 2007. I have no idea what to do with that. When I was a kid, you could never find it on those mugs with your name on that they sell in museum gift shops and stuff. I know because I still have the mug with my name on that said 'Gary' instead.

I was in korea when we named both our daughters (the youngest is another Grace), and was really surprised to find out later that they were so popular in the homeland.

I also remember working in a hospital maybe 15 years ago. My girlfriend was a nurse on the m,aternity ward and the most popular name in that ward that year was Kylie. I suppose all those Kylie's are hitting adolescence/early adulthood now.

I think it's such a personal thing that you shouldn't really disparage someone's choice of name for their children. There's also, in this country at least, a lot of class issues swirling around people's attitudes to names. Middle class people looking down their noses at the Brittneys and Tylers (who were Sharons and Tracys when I was younger), and also middle class people sneering at other middle class people for giving their children scampish working class names like Archie, Stan and Frank. There's a lot of that about.

So, yes, it's just a name. Nice people make me like their names. It took, for example, just one good bloke to make me forgive a generation of rugger-bugger lager-louts and embrace the name, 'Gareth'. Come on everyone, live and let live!

[Wally]

Nick FTW.

[jebreject]

Eff that! I've never met a Madison that I've liked! And that includes the city!

There's a dude I met at work named Weston and he's super cool though

[Ignatius]

I was in korea when we named both our daughters (the youngest is another Grace), and was really surprised to find out later that they were so popular in the homeland.

I also remember working in a hospital maybe 15 years ago. My girlfriend was a nurse on the m,aternity ward and the most popular name in that ward that year was Kylie. I suppose all those Kylie's are hitting adolescence/early adulthood now.

I think it's such a personal thing that you shouldn't really disparage someone's choice of name for their children. There's also, in this country at least, a lot of class issues swirling around people's attitudes to names. Middle class people looking down their noses at the Brittneys and Tylers (who were Sharons and Tracys when I was younger), and also middle class people sneering at other middle class people for giving their children scampish working class names like Archie, Stan and Frank. There's a lot of that about.

So, yes, it's just a name. Nice people make me like their names. It took, for example, just one good bloke to make me forgive a generation of rugger-bugger lager-louts and embrace the name, 'Gareth'. Come on everyone, live and let live!

That's all very true.  I guess for me, I'm troubled by an assumption that parents are naming their children because those names are trendy, where the name of your child acts as a sort of fashion accessory.  But this is just an assumption, and a pretty mean-spirited one at that.  Sometimes popular is just popular.  At least nobody's rushing to name their daughters Paris and Lindsay, right?

[Nick Ink]

But Lindsay is a nice name!

Of course, I only think that because I had a crush on Lindsay Lewis at school. Then again, that was 1982 and I was 13.

[Ignatius]

Immediately after saying that, I felt like I'd willfully ignored that whole "naming is a personal thing" part...  And yeah, that was dumb.  Anyhow, a Lindsay is one of the sweetest girls I know.

[jebreject]

Lindsay is a fine name. I don't know what you're on about with that one.

EDIT: Oh, as in Lohan.

[elpollodiablo]

You all have some weird-ass prejudices when it comes to names