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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."
Posted by Julie at 07:16 PM in I am full of good ideas | Permalink
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Comments (28)
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.
Posted by: Amanda at Jul 12, 2004 9:11:15 PM
Ha, wouldn't it be great if the kid had to be Vercingetorix R.?
Posted by: Julie at Jul 12, 2004 9:13:06 PM
Oh mannnnnn!...you stole my secret baby name!
Posted by: Jodi at Jul 12, 2004 9:19:35 PM
Tori for short?
Posted by: Hannah at Jul 12, 2004 10:36:17 PM
Isn't there a whole post somewhere dedicated to taking OTHER people's names??
You suck!
;)
Posted by: Liz at Jul 12, 2004 11:18:55 PM
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.
Posted by: Julie at Jul 13, 2004 8:05:01 AM
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.
Posted by: Kristine at Jul 13, 2004 9:43:50 AM
How about Labienus, that would be a good comprimise
Posted by: Debe at Jul 13, 2004 10:10:43 AM
Callipygia is a much better name for a girl.
Posted by: Tracy at Jul 13, 2004 10:38:22 AM
That's even more lovely as the time my husband suggested "Bernadette" for a girl (in all seriousness).
Posted by: Lindsey at Jul 13, 2004 11:23:20 AM
After captured, he was "ritually strangled." Sweeet.
-AmyY
Posted by: AmyY at Jul 13, 2004 12:14:32 PM
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?
Posted by: Lisa at Jul 13, 2004 12:36:16 PM
Hey, other kids can't make fun of his name if they can't even say it! Good call!
Posted by: dish at Jul 13, 2004 12:44:35 PM
PML..
I thought becuzaliz..
was cause Liz made them do it!
Posted by: merc at Jul 13, 2004 1:29:55 PM
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.
Posted by: RainbowW at Jul 13, 2004 3:16:13 PM
i've just started reading, and am impressed with your wit and warm writing. great blog.
Posted by: alyssa ettinger at Jul 13, 2004 11:43:54 PM
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?
Posted by: ashley at Jul 14, 2004 12:42:40 AM
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.....
:)
Posted by: Boulder at Jul 14, 2004 3:49:37 AM
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.)
Posted by: Shamhat at Jul 14, 2004 9:43:46 AM
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 :)!!!
Posted by: Liz at Jul 14, 2004 10:10:50 AM
Imagine writing that name in Kindergarten!!
Posted by: Hula Doula at Jul 14, 2004 12:04:37 PM
I always favored Cacofonix, myself. But, hey, party on.
Posted by: squid at Jul 14, 2004 1:39:06 PM
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.
Posted by: Em at Jul 14, 2004 6:23:45 PM
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.
Posted by: jenni at Jul 14, 2004 6:30:51 PM
Honey?...........is it too late to change the birth certificate?
Posted by: Genuine at Jul 14, 2004 10:52:47 PM
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.
Posted by: dante at Jul 18, 2004 4:28:09 AM
Love it mucho lady.
Posted by: Benna at Oct 18, 2004 3:24:51 AM
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
Posted by: Abi at Sep 17, 2007 12:38:30 AM
