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07/12/2004
How to get your husband to divorce you in one easy sentence
"I'm naming this baby Vercingetorix and there's nothing you can do to stop me."
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Good one. (Thank goodness for google). You can tell your hubby that at least you won't have to worry about having another kid in your child's kindergarten class with the same name.
Ha, wouldn't it be great if the kid had to be Vercingetorix R.?
Oh mannnnnn!...you stole my secret baby name!
Tori for short?
Isn't there a whole post somewhere dedicated to taking OTHER people's names??
You suck!
;)
So when I told Paul this, I, ah, wasn't wearing pants. I made my bold statement, then turned on my heel and prepared to stalk out of the room. His voice floated out behind me as I moseyed down the hall, "...But what about Callipygia?"
I spent the rest of the evening tormenting him by adopting a dramatic stance, making a flourishing gesture with my hands, and bellowing, "Ver-CIN-ge-torix!" in my most booming, James Earl Jonesian tones.
Our relationship is strong. It can survive even this.
I learn so much on your site! I just went to the link for callipygian...now I just have to find a way to work it into a conversation soon.
By the way, I think either would make a lovely name...although Callipygian could put unrealistic expectations on your child to use a stair climbing machine incessantly.
How about Labienus, that would be a good comprimise
Callipygia is a much better name for a girl.
That's even more lovely as the time my husband suggested "Bernadette" for a girl (in all seriousness).
After captured, he was "ritually strangled." Sweeet.
-AmyY
My husband's friends named their son Becuzaliz-
"Because all is" they thought it was the meaning of life. They called the Becu "be coo." When he was 16 he started going by Joe.
They gave birth to him at a rest stop in a van, with someone illuminating the whole thing with head lights. There were minute by minute polaroids to document the event.
Makes John or Jane sound pretty good huh?
Hey, other kids can't make fun of his name if they can't even say it! Good call!
PML..
I thought becuzaliz..
was cause Liz made them do it!
she wanted "ben" and "sam" for boys. i hate the name samuel. i refuse. we went around and around and around until the amnio results came back, when we settled on benjamin and samantha.
i've just started reading, and am impressed with your wit and warm writing. great blog.
How in the hell would one go about pronouncing that? LOL. Also, for some reason or another I have seemed to forgotten how far along you are. Would you mind clarifying?
Well, now that you clearly have both a boy's name and a girl's name you must let us know what you are going to use for middle names. Perhaps you could incorporate sesquipedalianism or one of its forms for the "boy" name? But it would be so wonderful to come up with something that had that onomatopoeia-type flair for the girl's name. This is a riddle that will trouble me for some time.....
:)
Since you probably won't find the perception of Vercingetorix in Beyond Jennifer and Jason, I thought I would helpfully mention that my husband, who is French, immediately thinks "loser" when he hears that name. (However, I should point out that most people immediately think "girl" when they hear his.)
Why not just name it Clitoris and be done with it?
Easy to pronounce and, if it's a boy, he'll get ALL the girls and if it's a girl, the boys will always know where to find her :)!!!
Imagine writing that name in Kindergarten!!
I always favored Cacofonix, myself. But, hey, party on.
My very serious suggestion to my husband was Seraphim. For a boy. Those hormones will fuck you up. Trust me. He still tries to make fun of me but he can't remember what the name was and I won't tell him.
I stumbled upon your site and I just wanted you to know how you feel. I went to 29weeks and he passed away shortly after birth. I've had 2 babies since and still am scared to death. I won't buy anything for the baby until I'm 30 weeks or higher. It's something that stays with you. Like a scar noone can see and you can't explain. I'll be rooting for you. I know the desperate feeling of wanting a baby to survive in utero and out. Good luck.
Honey?...........is it too late to change the birth certificate?
pentium would be a great girl's name.
people could call her "pen" for short.
haha. get it? pentium... short....
bah. humor escapes me at one thirty am.
Love it mucho lady.
Hi,
Lot's of laugh's from Beowulf's mommy. My husband is obsessed with his norwegian heritage. His older daughter is Freya Runghilde Vivian But I won't give away her two last names, LOL