mindmyp's_n_q's said:Names are great.
They never move up the social classes only ever down.
A study has proved that your name has no real bearing on how you will perform in life. Parents tend to name their children on how they think the name will make other parents and friends think of them (not how it will effect the child). eg poor people tend to go for very expensive or exotic names.
A great story about a dad who decided to use very unusual names for two of his kids
In 1958, a New York man named Robert Lane decided to call his baby son Winner. The Lanes, who lived in a housing project in Harlem, already had several children, each with a fairly typical name. But this boy – well, Robert Lane apparently had a special feeling about this one. Winner Lane: how could he fail with a name like that?
Three years later, the Lanes had another baby boy, their seventh and last child. For reasons that no one can quite pin today, Robert decided to name this boy Loser. It doesn’t appear that Robert was unhappy about the new baby; he just seemed to get a kick out of the name’s bookend effect. First a Winner, now a Loser. But if Winner Lane could hardly be expected to fail, how could Looser Lane possibly succeed?
Loser Lane did in fact succeed. He went to prep school on a scholarship, graduated from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, and joined NYPD (it was his mother’s longtime wish). Although he never hid his name, people were uncomfortable using it. “So I have a bunch of names,” he says today, “from Jimmy to James to whatever they want to call you. But they rarely call you Loser.” Once in a while, he said, “they throw a French twist on it: ‘Losier.’” To his cop friends he is known as Lou.
And what of his brother with the can’t-miss name? The most noteworthy achievement of Winner Lane, now in his mid forties, is the length of his criminal record: almost three dozen arrests for burglary, domestic violence, trespassing, resisting arrest, and other mayhem.
These days Loser and Winner barely speak. The father who named them is no longer alive. Clearly, he had the right idea – that naming is destiny – but he must have gotten the boys mixed up.
If you want to learn more about names and their impact then I would suggest listening to the podcast about half way down this page
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peoffrey said:On a tangent, we had an OAP next door called Mr Young. My Mum used to call him Old Mr Young.
Lavinda Past said:peoffrey said:On a tangent, we had an OAP next door called Mr Young. My Mum used to call him Old Mr Young.
Good tangent Peoff... We used to live next door to an old couple called Bond. He was called Jimmy - My mam and dad always called him Ernie.
It took me ages to work it out.
Chris in London said:True story.
A mate of a mate of a mate is a registrar, as in ‘of births, marriages and deaths’.
One day Wayne and Waynetta come into announce the birth of their daughter. Registrar congratulates them, takes their background details and asks for their daughter’s name.
‘Wivonny’ is the answer.
‘I’m sorry?’ Wayne and Waynetta look pleased at this.
‘Wivonny.’
‘Wivonny?’
‘Yeah. Have you not heard that one before?’
‘No, I never have.’ Wayne and Waynetta look even more pleased.
‘To be honest, we hadn’t either, but we were looking through this book of names and we found that one. We liked it because we’d never heard it before and we wanted a name that wasn’t very common.’
‘Well you’ve certainly found one. How are you spelling that please?’
‘Y… V… O… N… N… E…’
Or could it have been for sexy alma off corrie? That Baldwin bloke used to know herblue underpants said:Used to work with a woman called Alma, bit weird to name your daughter after a Crimean war battle, if my Dad who was WW2 Royal Navy had used that thought i could have been ''Narvik'' or ''River Plate''
Dont think so mate, she was about 60 then and it was 20 odd years ago i worked with her.Crouchinho said:Or could it have been for sexy alma off corrie? That Baldwin bloke used to know herblue underpants said:Used to work with a woman called Alma, bit weird to name your daughter after a Crimean war battle, if my Dad who was WW2 Royal Navy had used that thought i could have been ''Narvik'' or ''River Plate''
blue underpants said:Used to work with a woman called Alma, bit weird to name your daughter after a Crimean war battle, if my Dad who was WW2 Royal Navy had used that thought i could have been ''Narvik'' or ''River Plate''
Crouchinho said:Fanny, Elsie, molly. Old names are making a comeback though it seems but who has the bottle to name their kid fanny
No Droylsden, dead now i heard about 3 years ago, lovely woman big Blue and brought her kids up Blues as wellChallenger1978 said:blue underpants said:Used to work with a woman called Alma, bit weird to name your daughter after a Crimean war battle, if my Dad who was WW2 Royal Navy had used that thought i could have been ''Narvik'' or ''River Plate''
Is she from Newton heath ?
You do know Frederick is German dont you, i like it but years ago it was frowned uponLuke_mcfc said:My mrs is pregnant at the min and if its a boy he's gonna be called Frederick. I already have a little girl called Ivy. Nice names I think. Not heard of a lot but also not too rogue.