From: 01calvin@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: misc.kids,rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Names
Date: 11 Sep 92 14:52:22 -0300
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <1992Sep8.230251.14756@newstand.syr.edu>, kgatling@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Keith E Gatling) writes:
> Yes, I really am posting this to two different lists, but it really does
> have to do with both of them.
> 
> My wife and I are expecting our first child in February.  If it's a girl,
> we've decided to name her Devra Marie.  We haven't had many problems with
> that one aside from the occasional "What an unusual name," or "But she won't
> be able to get license plates off the rack in the store like other kids," or
> "She'll spend her whole life correcting people when they call her
> 'Debbie'."  None of these bother me, since my sister's name is Jael, and
> she's dealt with having to correct people for the past 34 years just fine.
> 
> It's the boy's name that a few, and I'll admit it really is only a few,
> people have given us some grief over.  As a result, Cheryl wanted me to poll
> you people...on BOTH newsgroups...to see what you think.
> 
> The name we've been considering is Geordie LeVar.
> 
> Now frankly, those who object don't even realize that it's a Star Trek name
> and their main objection comes from the fact that they're "proper name"
> types...you know, the ones who say that you have to give the kid a proper
> name and not one that sounds like a nickname, otherwise he'll be ruined for
> life.  Sure, you can call your daughter Peggy, but her real name has to be
> Margaret (I don't subscribe to this line of thought.  I say if you want to
> name your daughter Peggy, name her Peggy...or Beth...or Toni...or
> whatever...they've long since become "real" names.).  These people think
> that Geordie sounds too much like a nickname, and if the kid ever grows up
> to be an investment banker, all the potential clients will want to deal with
> Irving, who has the real grown up name, rather than Geordie.
>
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> 
> And we checked in the names books...Geordie is a "real" name, it wasn't made
> up for Star Trek...it's a variation on George.  But (and apologies to any
> Georges out there) George just doesn't make it for us.  Geordie does.
> 
> Okay...opinions?


	IMHO, name your child whatever you like...

	I was named after my great-uncle, but only by coincidence...
	My parents asked my grandmother for a list of names before I
	was born and she put her brother's name on it.

	Teachers are always pronouncing it wrong all of my 21 years...
	I am, infact, rather proud of my name...

	But that's not the good part...

	There is a physics professor at M.U.N (Newfoundland) that named
	his three sons...   


	Are you ready?


	Proton...   Neutron...    And Electron.

	Bwahhhaaahhaaahhaaa!


	AND...

	Two twins...  This is in Newfoundland too, (go figure)

	Enis (Sp?) and Elvis...

	I bet you can see this one coming a million miles away....

	There nick names were...  I shit you not...  

	Penis and Pelvis!

	Bwahahaha!!!  Snicker!! HaHAHAH!

	YHAHAHAHA!

	Ahem...

	Anyway...   It's true.  I swear!

Spiff
AKA   Majeed Goldrick
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