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Old 12-02-2014, 01:51 PM   #181
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So anything that ends in an 'a' for girls, and an 'n' for boys? Got it. If I have a girl and a boy one day, I'm going to respectively name them Pizza and Batman.
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Well that's it, don't want to live on this planet anymore.
I'm practicing saying it to myself to see if I can say it without snickering. I'm not entirely sure I can.
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We are bringing my girlfriend's daughter's friend on a ski trip this weekend. Her name is ABCD (pronounced Absidy).
Possibly the most ridiculous thing I've heard in my entire life.
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Old 12-02-2014, 01:58 PM   #184
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So anything that ends in an 'a' for girls, and an 'n' for boys? Got it. If I have a girl and a boy one day, I'm going to respectively name them Pizza and Batman.
And apparently guys names can only be 5 letters or less.
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Old 12-02-2014, 02:01 PM   #185
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We are bringing my girlfriend's daughter's friend on a ski trip this weekend. Her name is ABCD (pronounced Absidy).
Leave her on the mountain. Spare her a life of pain.
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Old 12-02-2014, 02:05 PM   #186
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What's worse, "Absidy" spelled as such wouldn't be horrendous. Still terrible, but not as disastrous as Abcd.
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Old 12-02-2014, 02:06 PM   #187
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And apparently guys names can only be 5 letters or less.
Alright, I'll just take the vowels out of Batman.

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I see the Jackson epidemic continues. I know 4 Jacksons of various spellings under the age of 3. We need containment before it takes over completely.
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Old 12-02-2014, 02:24 PM   #189
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I see the Jackson epidemic continues. I know 4 Jacksons of various spellings under the age of 3. We need containment before it takes over completely.
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And apparently guys names can only be 5 letters or less.
Hence, the abomination that is Jaxon.
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We are bringing my girlfriend's daughter's friend on a ski trip this weekend. Her name is ABCD (pronounced Absidy).
I still don't know how to pronounce that.

Is it like "ab-city" or "abs-idee" or "ab-psi-dee"?
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Old 12-02-2014, 02:27 PM   #191
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Ab (as in abdominal muscle)
Sid (as in Sidney Crosby)
See (as in See Spot Run)
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I still don't know how to pronounce that.

Is it like "ab-city" or "abs-idee" or "ab-psi-dee"?
More like ab-si-dee, with the emphasis on the dee.
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Ab (as in abdominal muscle)
Sid (as in Sidney Crosby)
See (as in See Spot Run)
Close, but the last syllable is wrong. It's "Dee", like the first syllable of delicious or delight.
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Wow - that wasn't even one of my guesses. I see a lot of "actually its pronouced ab-sid-dee" in their future.
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Wow, Aiden is still going strong? And Jackson, too? I don't get it.

Heard some parents yelling at their kid at one of those play places last year. Kid's name was "Midnight Rain". I laughed out loud - it was so ridiculous.
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Ab (as in abdominal muscle)
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Wouldn't that be spelt ABCDC?
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Good God, of course. 24 hours of no sleep taking its toll.
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Regarding ABCD, that pronunciation is brutal. It's like they deliberately made it as difficult as possible. What's wrong with the pronunciation Aah - Bee - See - Dee? Well then girl can adopt the short name Abby, which would be letting her off easy. We must make the pronounciation far more complicated and impossible to shorten.
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Old 12-02-2014, 02:49 PM   #199
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The top ten names for boys were:

Jackson
Aiden
Liam
Lucas
Noah
Mason
Ethan
Caden
Jacob
Logan
All of those names sound like names given to weak kids that get beat up at school. Except for Noah, that guy built his own boat with his own two hands and defeated mother nature.
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Heard some parents yelling at their kid at one of those play places last year. Kid's name was "Midnight Rain". I laughed out loud - it was so ridiculous.
Ugh. The idea that parents think that their kid is this mystical, magical special snowflake by naming them a bizarre name is, frankly, creepy. 'Midnight Rain' is direct evidence of this phenomenon.

On a related note, what's a kid thread without a rant from good ol' George Carlin about kids:

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