Meh.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
Told you that shit is contagious...

You're pregnant too?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I see triplets:

[IMG]http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=baby+beer/v=2/SID=e/l=IVS/SIG=12ed0m269/EXP=1131665690/*-http%3A//users.bestweb.net/~wes/forwards/images/babybeer.jpg[/IMG]

No. For that to happen, the world would have to be just. And we all know that ain't the case.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by dc_chef
Couldn't have said it better myself. But then be prepared for the inquirers to be insulted that you won't tell them, especially if it's close family.

Has anyone ever benefitted from telling people the name before birth? The only way I can imagine it working is if you tell your dying grandparent you're naming the child after them. And even then they may get pissed and say you're doing it only because they're dying.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Does rabid hate attract newbers? Have the mods decided our ideal newber has a masochistic streak?

Although I understand that Hank is being intentionally dim with this post, I will respond for the sake of the long-time-lurker-potential-newbers out there. First, let me start by welcoming all the potential newbers and expressing my sincerest hope that you will very soon become active participants in what a former poster derisively labeled the knitting circle. Second, as you may have figured out, and as Hank certainly knows, it is not the joy of reading the tough love I must sometimes administer to other posters that we hope will lure you out of your long-time-lurker status. Instead, it is the resulting mental discipline on the board, consequent streamlined posting style, and the inveitable incidence of more enjoyable post substance that we believe will attract you. I do not relish my role as school marm to the mis-guided, the delusional, the pathetic. But I know that a board free of cliches and banalities is all the more newber-friendly. Please bear with the tough love posts. You will thank me soon enough for my efforts.

Always remember that each of my posts is an expression of my love for every single one of you.

Working for a more newber-friendly environment,

I am,

The Flower

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I'm still pissed off that my favorite girl name was appropriated by an allergy medicine a few years ago. How can I name my firstborn girl Claritin now?

Think outside the box. You can name her that and get $10,000 to do so.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
For her sake and the sake of the remaining posters, we'll just assume such a post was made and that the accompanying melodrama has already occurred. I look forward to the return of the new, less pathetic ABBA this afternoon. Until then, let us not speak of this again.

There is no sense of finality or closure this way. I think she should request to be deleted until this afternoon when she is less pathetic, and then ask to be restored.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Has anyone ever benefitted from telling people the name before birth? The only way I can imagine it working is if you tell your dying grandparent you're naming the child after them. And even then they may get pissed and say you're doing it only because they're dying.

Because I named the Brazenette after a friend who had recently died, I asked the friend's parents and husband if they had any objections to my using her name. I am not sure what I would have done if any of them had told me they objected.

[BetterThanYou]

Work on your material.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
[Babies] heads are softer than adults'.

Of course they are. That's so the folks at day care can carry them four at a time.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by BetterThanYou
Work on your material.

Newber. Woo hoo!

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by taxwonk
You're pregnant too?

She's due in 2-06.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Since I will never have children I can tell you that I have picked out the following names:

Boy: Dante Seven Kiss
Girl: Ariella Jade Kiss or Arabella Jade Kiss

I name most things I own though, for example a piano named Jezebelle, plants named Tyler Durden, Lolita, Lazarus, and Pearl, a ring named Barcelona, etc. Next on my list of purchases is a "statue" of a black panther that I will name Bathsheba.

Freaky. I thought I was the only one who named the plants. I have a Rod a Tommy and a Yuka. In an unfortunate overwatering binge, Spider died.

And the woman down the hall's kid just had a kid 2 days ago. Wants to name the kid Arabella. Family is trying to talk her out of it.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Has anyone ever benefitted from telling people the name before birth? The only way I can imagine it working is if you tell your dying grandparent you're naming the child after them. And even then they may get pissed and say you're doing it only because they're dying.

My experience has been that just about everyone whom we have told our proposed names has either loved them or really hated them. No middle ground here.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Freaky. I thought I was the only one who named the plants. I have a Rod a Tommy and a Yuka. In an unfortunate overwatering binge, Spider died.

And the woman down the hall's kid just had a kid 2 days ago. Wants to name the kid Arabella. Family is trying to talk her out of it.

I have a plant named Cleo. I have had Cleo for almost 15 years. I have almost killed Cleo on several ocassions but the bitch refuses to die.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Freaky. I thought I was the only one who named the plants. I have a Rod a Tommy and a Yuka. In an unfortunate overwatering binge, Spider died.

And the woman down the hall's kid just had a kid 2 days ago. Wants to name the kid Arabella. Family is trying to talk her out of it.

What's wrong with Arabella? I think it's pretty.