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I'd rather be stuck with Sunshine than any of those.

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Euphemia's a good name, too. Very classy, if somewhat less lyrical than Eulalia.

But I'm still a fan of Theodosia. She'd also have an historic thousand year old church named for her in Constantinople. That's gotta be cool.

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I have known two women called Frideswide. They both go by "Friday". It's not that unusual in the UK, I think. Also Euphemia is fairly common - they just go by "Mia". My family tends to give unusual names as middle names - although my first name and middle name are very common and boring.

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Prior to the birth, we objected strongly to a family member selecting a popular boy name a few years ago -- (it's not a real name and we have a history of picking names unique to our family's cultures). The baby's father hated the name but this was the 4th kid, so his wife named him over her husband's objections.

I was relaying this story to some coworkers over lunch a few weeks later, and discovered two of them had named their children the same name.

D'oh.

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Ummmm......Interesting.

I like this one: Zestpoole


I won't even begin to venture into a conversation of the fundamentals of the LDS.

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http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/grosw...f/pages/name01

Most popular names in Scotland, 2001. Shockingly, they are really similar to the American ones. Also shockingly, Niamh and Eilidh are in the top 25 for girls. (And Freya has a bullet?)

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OH, my.

"Anfernee" says "I'm a Utah Mormon"??? I thought it said "I'm a character in High School High".

And how does one pronounce "Abcde"? Do you sing it?

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But Freya's a Norse goddess I thought (and a damn cool name actually)--how'd the Scots take her over?

This whole discussion reminds me of the old SNL sketch "Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber" with Steve Martin--and his assistant, "Brunngilda" (Radner, of course.) :)

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Y'know, in a broader American culture where thinness rules, it is perhaps not the kindest nor most complimentary thing to name your daughter "Beefea."

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That site is hilarious.

Actually, I understand the mormons having really wacky names. It's not just that everyone in the friggin' state is names Smith, Young or Brown. It's the geneology thing. Have you ever tried to do geneological research on someone named "John Smith"? Truly, bizzare names are a kindness to their descendants.

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I've been reading the SNL book (it is a compilation of quotes of all of the SNL writers, alums and NBC execs). I'm up to the Dana Carvey/Jon Lovitz years. It is pretty good and it gives some dirt on who was boinking whom, who hated whom, etc. I give it a thumbs up.

n(Nora Dunn hated Victoria Jackson)cs

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What porn star is named Madison?

Penske(my daughters are named Seka and Vanessa-uh uh not Vanessa with the singing career)Account

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George Foreman, although I don't think he thinks we even need 20.

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I've thought about dropping both of my names and going by my nickname. Of course I am cool enough to pull it off, it just seems like changing all the credit cards etc. would be a major hassle.

We'll see.

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Yes, you are tres cool, but no one, repeat, no one, has successfully been able to pull off Dick since Nixon.

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