Baby name test

[Rincewind]

This is an excerpt from the humorous list of worst baby names. I thought it was a pretty good test.

I got an e-mail a while back from a lady who said she gave her potential baby names a test: did they fit better in the sentence, "Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States [blank] [blank]" or "And now, on the main stage, the Lusty Beaver Adult Club presents the hot action of [blank] [blank]." I think hospital forms should be reformatted to force parents to do just that.

notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/bestof.html

Also, you can read through the complete list of bad baby names here, keep clicking on the link at the bottom right to advance. High-larious!
notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/1.html

[Dmitri]

I thought this was funny, especially given the LGG5 setting... I do plan to use every Welsh and Gaelic name from that list at some point in the game now... This quote is from the above site...

"An open letter to the people of Wales, Ireland and Scotland on behalf of the U.S. and big chunks of Canada:

I'm sorry. I'm very, very sorry. But here in North America, we seem to be harboring a class of people with an overzealous affinity for your nations and their history. A breed of people who think Ireland and Wales, and to some extent Scotland, is some sort of mystical Avalon full of dainty faerie folk and think it's somehow cultured to give their kids un-Anglicized Gaelic and Celtic names.

I know Welsh and Gaelic pronunciations are very different from English, but they're not well-known here at all, so these parents are being three levels of mean: a) giving a kid a difficult-to-say name, b) spelled entirely different from how it's said in English and c) way, way pretentious because it's a lot of effort for a name that Mom found in a Dungeons & Dragons guide and has no real connection to.

I'm very sorry your history, language and culture are being appropriated by geeks. What can I say, we're really dumb sometimes. Sorry, sorry, sorry."