What Is In A Name - Does It Matter?

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  1. Hedi Mitchell

    Hedi Mitchell Supreme Member
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    I was just reading about Nick Cannon and his 12 children by 6 wives https://www.today.com/parents/dads/nick-cannon-whos-having-my-baby-rcna73785
    The show if I read it correctly is ridiculous by itself. But the names of those poor children are even worse.
    My brother and I were both named after actors,but at least the names are normal ones. Elon Musk has even dumb names for his kids.
    X AE A-XII Musk is not a name, it is science experiment at best. :rolleyes: I knew two beautiful girls with red hair and green eyes,name Summer and Autumn. That fit them both,but even way back when a bit odd.
    I named one daughter after a girl I went to school with. The other I named after a actress in a soap opera nd my grandmother. But they are normal names. Names do affect us all through our lives and do not understand why parents - specifically rich ones ,would use more normal names. Rise Messiah - Sorry that is too rich. :eek:
     
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    6 wives??? He must be nuts. :)
     
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    I'm named after an old woman in an obituary. My mom liked the names and there I was.....

    I named my daughter after the title of a book I was reading and the feminine form of my late husband's favorite saint. She decided to go by her middle name in high school but went back to her first name afterward.
     
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    My womanizing GF named my mother after one of his girlfriends ..he was seeing while married to my GM. That would have never happened with me !
     
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    Nick Cannon isn't the same Nick Cannon that hosted America's Got Talent years ago! His looks has changed and he loves to flaunt those looks. Wish there was a different host for The Masked Singer, but...........
     
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    I’d like to say that I was named after some famous Robert in the history books or annals of sports or even a movie figure but nope, I’m just named after my dad.
    Robert, Bob, Bobby. Funny how they are considered to be all the same.
     
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    If he wasn't nuts before those marriages...
     
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    Didn't Michael Jackson name one of his kids "Blanket"? My mother went back & forth between telling me I was named after one of her brothers and I was named after Prince Charles (she was British.) I think George Foreman (married 5 times) had the right idea: his 5 sons are all named George Edward Foreman. Of course, they each have nicknames.

    I watch legacy 50s and 60s tv shows, and there are often names you no longer hear of, like Iona. Men sometimes had names that are generally reserved for women, like Connie or Marion. And Flavia was a girl's name long before single-cup coffee stations came into being.

    I like it when people are given legacy family surnames as their middle name. I don't know if that's fallen out of style, or if it's equally prevalent (or uncommon) as it's always been.
     
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    I don't care for weird-sounding names, but it doesn't matter to me if someone else does. I'm named after my mother, so I have gone by my middle name for most of my life. When I go anywhere and present my driver's license, I get called by my first name. I get a lot of "names don't match" crap on occasion when I sign a document.

    I named my sons Brian and Kevin, and I still like their names. My ex-husband's first name is his mother's maiden name, which I always liked.
     
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    yes Blanket is his name
     
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    *sigh*

    What are you gonna say? Frank Zappa was ahead of that curve. "This is your birth certificate on drugs."
     
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    people with way too much money and things,are often the most weird ones:rolleyes:
     
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    It's a curse.
    -You can do what you want.
    -Anyone you have around you is gonna say "Great idea!" to any stupid thing you do.
    -If you don't have anyone around you because you gotta protect what you got, there's no one to tell you to think again before doing something that stupid (like getting a chimpanzee as a pet.)

    Once again, I must give pause and thank God for my low-key, comfortable middle class life.
     
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    I might remind you that your predecessor in name was not only an actress but a very brilliant physicist who was instrumental in the creation of Radio Detection and Ranging or rather…Radar.
     
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