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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
It has been suggested elsewhere, after I whinged about a young friend of mine who has called her son something like Toronto Vladivostok* that there is in some circles a penchant for naming kids after their place of conception. Actually this may reveal the paucity of the parents' sex life, but that's another matter (that was probably the case in Tristram Shandy's case, of which I happen to be reading at present, but I digress still further).

It was suggested that a whole generation could have been named "Ford Escort" (I was more likely to have been "Morris Oxford" or Vanguard, though too older siblings meant it was more likely to have been Nairobi Bedroom).

So, in honour of young Toronto Vladivostok*, share your potential name. Chevy Impala? Bathroom Floor? Marrakesh? (I wonder why Toronto Vladivostok* had two locations ... )

*name altered to protect identities from Googling

[ 18. February 2010, 14:30: Message edited by: jedijudy ]
 

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Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
I'd be "Fulham" then.

Well, if Bill Clinton can call his daughter "Chelsea2, why not?
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
Yikes! I think I'd be either "Clacton" or "Margate", I was told which place they went for holiday in 19mumble-mumble but I can't remember - terrifying thoughts both of them!
 

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Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
Thank God my parents liked a comfortable bed and also didn't like commemorative names of any kind. Imagine being a girl named Studebaker. It wasn't even a sexy Studebaker like the Avanti. Just a big, ol' clunky Studebaker four-door sedan.
 

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Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :
 
I'm glad I wasn't named Simca Sportscar! My parents did have Studebakers, but they were the swoopy '53 coupe and the flashy '56 Hawk two-door hardtop.
 

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Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
I believe a well-known celebrity couple named their sprog 'Brooklyn' on the basis given above. Whereupon everybody hoped they'd get connubial in south London, and give rise to Peckham Beckham.
 

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Posted by Snags (# 15351) on :
 
By location, I suspect I'd be the rather bland "Hertford", or possibly even "Bedroom".

OTOH, by reputed causative agents I could have found myself stuck with Pickled Egg Gin ...
 

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Posted by Gay Organ Grinder (# 11833) on :
 
I'm not that fussed about being named after both grandfathers but would have been even less fussed at being called 'Dodge Tourer no2' or 'Pelican Flat' where my parents were living at the time. My sister would have been called 'Hamilton' or Dodge Tourer no1.
 

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Posted by Presbyopic (# 10596) on :
 
At least one of 3 of my brothers should probably have been named Rhyl which is actually a pretty good name. Named for the town in North Wales.

I'd just be plain old Sydney. Although I'm seeing a lot of little female Sydneys around these days. It's becoming a very popular girl's name in the States.
 

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Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
I know a girl named Devon, which gave them 2700 square miles (approx.) to play with.

And I used to teach a girl named Mercedes. A classy lass, obviously.

[ 20. December 2009, 12:55: Message edited by: Chorister ]
 

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Posted by cattyish (# 7829) on :
 
I could have been called Christmas, Wester Hailes or Imp. ( Hillman imp , a car not generally well known amoung the younger generations). How about Christmas Wester Hailes Imp MacKenzie on a birth certificate? Better than Chardonnay I think.
Cat

[ 20. December 2009, 13:02: Message edited by: cattyish ]
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
(not a helluva lot of room in the back seat of a Hillman Imp! We had a Hillman Husky, but I was around by then).

It occurs to me, too, amongst my many children there's one who could be called on this basis, according to her mother's view on the matter "Ascot Vale Christmas Tree" - though there is some disagreement with her on that one, and I think she should be "Gundagai Motel". The two kuruzapplets would need to fight over the name "Casino". At the time they turned up kuru and I had twins from my first marriage living with us (they could fight over "Ringwood" and "Bathroom", perhaps, but this is getting seriously TMI!) so there was little room for exotic chandelier-swinging behaviour. The daughter who turned 16 yesterday could be called "Orange".

No ... this is getting ridiculous!
 

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Posted by Hare today (# 12974) on :
 

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Originally posted by Chorister:
And I used to teach a girl named Mercedes. A classy lass, obviously.

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I believe that that is a reversion anyway. The car was named after Mercedes Jellinek who was the daughter of the agent for Daimler in Austria around 1900.

[ 20. December 2009, 13:50: Message edited by: Hare today ]
 

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Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
I remember two children in my village who were named after places in Cornwall. This fascinated me and I got out a map to see what other Cornish place names could be used as children's names. Turns out there weren't many. Perhaps that's why they stopped at two!
 

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Posted by Jengie Jon (# 273) on :
 
I'd have been Alice, Beetle (after Volkswagen Beetle) or Hogsback. The first was vaguely in contention, it was also my father's mother's first name. However she NEVER used it. It was the name of her fathers first wife, and she was first daughter of the second wife. That would have been interesting, having the unused first names of both my Grandmothers. Actually three out of my four grandparents were all known by their second name.

Jengie
 

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Posted by Sparrow (# 2458) on :
 
"Kensal Rise"


 

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Posted by Balaam (# 4543) on :
 

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Originally posted by Firenze:
I believe a well-known celebrity couple named their sprog 'Brooklyn' on the basis given above. Whereupon everybody hoped they'd get connubial in south London, and give rise to Peckham Beckham.

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So their second son was conceived in the back of the Alfa?
 

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Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :
 
I've a horrible feeling this system could have landed me with the name Rover...
 

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Posted by Leaf (# 14169) on :
 
... and me with the first name of "Brokenhead". Not all First Nations names are lovely; seems like that would have been a bit of a curse, or invitation to disaster.
 

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Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :
 
Nobody would mess with Rover Brokenhead, would they!
 

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Posted by Gee D (# 13815) on :
 
Zappa ,

I remember one of the very early OZ's - perhaps even the one with The word flashed around the Arms - which had the following lines:

Some cans of beer, a Chiko Roll and you
And a Mini is paradise enough.

Fr Weber :

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I believe that that is a reversion anyway. The car was named after Mercedes Jellinek who was the daughter of the agent for Daimler in Austria around 1900.

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M Jellinek was the Daimler agent on the Riviera; he put in an order for a half dozen or so cars (an enormous order in those days) on condition that the cars were called after his daughter. Daimler could not refuse. This was some 20 years before the merger of Daimler and Benz.

As to names, why Paris Hilton? Was she conceived there, or is there another reason.....
 

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Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Well I, for one, know that MY parents never ever did "that." No kids' parents have ever done "that."

So they certainly never gave a hint of where I was conceived.

(I've always assumed an Archangel must have had something to do with my mother's pregnancy -- at least announcing it -- an appropriate discussion for Advent IV.)
 

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Posted by Balaam (# 4543) on :
 
According to this, my son should have been called Douglas, and no one would have been any wiser.
 

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Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
I wonder if they have Ford Prefects on Betelgeuse? (I know, I know, Ford rather hurriedly chose his alias when he arrived on Earth.)
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
For location, I'd have probably been Helmsdale; if the car my parents had at the time was a factor, I'd be Singer Gazelle (in two-tone green with a bench-seat in the front).

ETA: have you any idea how long it took me to Google a picture of a Singer Gazelle estate???

[ 21. December 2009, 01:41: Message edited by: piglet ]
 

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Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
I know a lad named Dakota, and his parents made no bones about naming him for the place he was conceived. And all the details of that particular event.
 

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Posted by Timothy the Obscure (# 292) on :
 
I believe Margaux Hemingway's parents named her for the wine they drank on the occasion (which presumably inspired the conception).

My parents, at the time, had a 1948 Plymouth Coupe. But they also had a (very tiny) house, so I might have been named "Friendly" after the road in Greensboro, NC where the act presumably occurred.
 

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Posted by PD (# 12436) on :
 
Eeek! Barton (or Bedroom) Guinness in my case if we are going to go with location and causitive agent.

PD
 

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Posted by daviddrinkell (# 8854) on :
 

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Originally posted by PD:
Eeek! Barton (or Bedroom) Guinness in my case if we are going to go with location and causitive agent.

PD

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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
Well I, for one, know that MY parents never ever did "that." No kids' parents have ever done "that."

So they certainly never gave a hint of where I was conceived.

(I've always assumed an Archangel must have had something to do with my mother's pregnancy -- at least announcing it -- an appropriate discussion for Advent IV.)

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Originally posted by Lord Jestocost:
Mahabaleshwar.

I owe this information to my grandmother, who was actually passing it on to an Indian waiter, and indirectly to the rest of the restaurant via her rather piercing voice. "You're from Mahabaleshwar? What a coincidence ..."

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Originally posted by Gee D:


As to names, why Paris Hilton? Was she conceived there, or is there another reason.....

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Originally posted by Trudy Scrumptious:
I'm so glad they didn't name me Old Green Couch That The Dog Pissed On.

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Perhaps in the next name change amnesty, you can name yourself that.
Or stop at Old Green Couch.
In your case, Old Mean Grouch would not work, on all three counts.
It might work for me, though!

Anyhow, maybe the Admins will read this thread, keep track of the labels each of you who posted have suggested, and stick them on each of you during the next "Host and Admins Day."
I doubt it, though; they usually show quite a bit more imagination than that.
 

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Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
'Old Green Couch that the dog pissed on' sounds very much in the style of Old Testament names, which had direct relevance to the situation in which the parents found themselves at the time. It's always interesting to read the explanations given, and I feel sorry for those lumbered with such a name as Abaddon, Jabez or Abishag during an unfortunate time of sadness and suffering.
 

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Posted by Gee D (# 13815) on :
 
You are a good and generous man, Albertus . If works counted, you would receive great reward.
 

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Posted by Graven Image (# 8755) on :
 
My fathers middle name was Ford. It always seemed strange as no one else in the family is named Ford. Perhaps
 

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Posted by Mamacita (# 3659) on :
 

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Originally posted by cattyish:
How about Christmas Wester Hailes Imp MacKenzie on a birth certificate? Better than Chardonnay I think.

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I had a colleague who became pregnant on a September trip to California's Napa Valley, and named her daughter Autumn Chardonnay.

I could have been named "Dakota," which is trendy now, but technically it would be "South Dakota," and that sounds completely tacky.
 

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Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
Someone at my Mother and Toddlers group was threatening to call her second son "Richard" as she held Richard Branson responsible for the conception, on account of how his company had produced the "Mates" condom which had burst...
 

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Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
Better, I suppose, than calling him 'Accident' or 'Unwanted'.
 

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Posted by Thurible (# 3206) on :
 
'Berwin' might be a possibility for such children.

Thurible
 

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Posted by chiltern_hundred (# 13659) on :
 
Dartmouth?

(Can't imagine who the striker/manager might have been...)

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Originally posted by basso:
I knew a girl who was named after a Devon resort town. (No, I never asked.)

Her brother was named after an England striker, and later manager.

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Originally posted by North East Quine:
Someone at my Mother and Toddlers group was threatening to call her second son "Richard" as she held Richard Branson responsible for the conception, on account of how his company had produced the "Mates" condom which had burst...

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She was obviously not a Virgin then!!

 

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Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :
 
Surprised no-one has mentioned Austin Healey yet.......
 

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Posted by Traveller (# 1943) on :
 
As my birthday is in March, I would have had to ask my parents where they went on holiday the previous summer. They're not around to ask any more and I'm certain I don't want to know anyway.
 

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Posted by Zacchaeus (# 14454) on :
 
I worked with someone who said she should have been called, grandma's parlour carpet

I would have to be, motorbike and sidecar.
 

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Posted by Mr Curly (# 5518) on :
 
Oldest son would be Dubbo or Scone (as a result of a holiday in NSW).

I always thought Surge (as against Serge) would be a strong name for a boy, but in this context . . .

Mr Curly
 

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