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peruban (888 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 10:10 PM Original message |
Is it egotistical to name your child after yourself? |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 10:12 PM Response to Original message |
1. It's weird when families keep passing down old fashioned names like 'Gaylord Marmaduke Smith VI" |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 10:14 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. How'd you know my dad? |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 10:16 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Misplaced post |
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peruban (888 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 10:41 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. LOL!!!! n/m |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 10:22 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. Yes... |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 10:26 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. All the guys I know with old fashioned names use nicknames. |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 10:12 PM Response to Original message |
2. I'm the third in my line with the same name. |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 10:13 PM Response to Original message |
3. My mother gave her name to my sister. |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 10:26 PM Response to Reply #3 |
11. Friend of mine was a female "jr". Her deadbeat mom used it to perpetrate fraud on the daughter |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 11:18 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Yeah, no one expects female juniors. |
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Ptah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 10:13 PM Response to Original message |
4. My father gave my sister his name. |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
6. My daughter has the same first name as her grandmother but she wasn't named after her |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 10:17 PM Response to Original message |
8. I'm named after my two grandfathers, which also means I'm named after my father |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 10:17 PM Response to Original message |
9. Its kinda handy when they turn 16 - ins co has hard time figuring out |
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Ptah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 10:39 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Superb! |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 10:46 PM Response to Original message |
15. My son has a family name, the same first name as my father and grandfather. |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
17. YES YES YES YES YES |
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ElsewheresDaughter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 12:03 AM Response to Original message |
18. George Foreman doesn't think so......5 sons all named George..... |
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peruban (888 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 12:07 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. That's not egotistical |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 12:15 AM Response to Original message |
20. peruban: I don't think it's ego, it's family. |
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peruban (888 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 12:17 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Yeah, that's how I feel about it. |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 01:12 AM Response to Original message |
22. the whole concept of having children is egotistical. So, why not |
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peruban (888 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 01:15 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. good point |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 01:29 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. I'm guessing you don't have any? |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 01:50 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. the very idea of producing progeny (making something in your |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 02:22 AM Response to Reply #26 |
29. That assumes most pregnancies are fully intentional. |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 02:27 AM Response to Reply #29 |
31. I think the age old Philosophers were men |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 02:30 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Well, half of them came from societies that weren't real clear on the process anyhow. |
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peruban (888 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 01:56 AM Response to Reply #24 |
27. That's one of the funniest descriptions I've ever heard. |
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Svengali (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 01:42 AM Response to Original message |
25. Not at all. |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 02:00 AM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Welcome to DU! |
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peruban (888 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 02:31 AM Response to Reply #25 |
33. Yes, welcome. |
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ChoralScholar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 02:26 AM Response to Original message |
30. I don't think so.... |
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Beer Snob-50 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 09:19 AM Response to Original message |
34. my son is a junior |
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