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[rm]

Weird names may encourage better self-control:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/science/11tier.html

And seriously? That article makes my name look normal.

Comments

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

Wrath Gordon!!

[asa-dachi.livejournal.com]

I agree. That name kicks ass.

[phaenix-ash.livejournal.com]

i now have more ammunition against all the people who think i've cursed my child for life. thank you! :D

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

http://popfiend.livejournal.com/58044.html

So yeah.

[tlatzomia.livejournal.com]

That is so awesome. Thanks for sharing!

[marcmagus]

“Researchers have studied men with cross-gender names like Leslie,”

WTF?

[rm.livejournal.com]

yeah, I had that reaction too.

Also, I owe you email.

[weirdquark]

Yeah, my first reaction was, "but Leslie is a man's name..."

Admittedly it isn't commonly used as a man's name anymore, but still. Hillary. Joyce. Men were named these things. This is much less weird then say, Lemon Jello.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Evelyn Waugh (granted that "Evelyn" is pronounced differently.)

I personally have always

[newwaytowrite.livejournal.com]

been drawn to guys who had a different first name. I never realized it until a friend said to me, "Can't you date a guy with a normal name?"

I found the part about dads no longer having much input into naming their children. Which I just find so odd since more and more men are supposedly in the delivery room, being the stay at home parent and all that jazz.


I know that my Dad told the public health nurse my middle name was MARINE. lol So all my public health records have that on them. It just makes me laugh and reflects his absolute crappy spelling skills.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of all the Diamonds and Phantasias and Espns at CPS. Hah.

[splix.livejournal.com]

Goddammit, I wish my middle name were Danger.

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

I have a Difficult Last Name (that can sound like an insult) and I sort of enjoy withholding it (I have a compound first name and it can sound like I'm saying the second part is my last name) until it's useful to say it in someone's face and then look all faux-innocent when they are a little taken aback. Or, alternately, I can just spell it, though that has issues too.

I always wondered if my sister would ditch it the minute she got married but she didn't; I think it's harder to give up names you've defended your whole life.

[rufus.livejournal.com]

Matthew McConahey (I know I spelled that wrong) apparently wants to name his child after his favorite beer. Like his brother, who named his child Miller Lyte. Miller Lyte.

Also, I am familiar with being the disapproving woman -- V. and I had an ongoing argument about naming our (future) daughters Ace and Scout. (Ace, as it turns out, would have been for a Dr. Who Companion, which, I might have softened a little, only he was morally opposed to Rose, which is a name I actually like.)

In related news, I think one of Paula Yates' daughters (Fifi Trixibelle?) has spoken publicly on the subject of "please don't name your children stupid things."

In conclusion, I'd be interested in a study that tracked what people with common names do re: their kids. I share a first name with probably every fourth girl born between 1965 and 1985, and I'm not passing it on to my kids (if I ever have any).