Your First Names:

[Leader Bee]

I'm Sven

 

Wooo for stupid names, I think i'll call my children something equally stupid so that I feel I have a connection to them.

[insane_alien]

whats wrong with Sven?

 

i'm Stephen although if a coin had come up the other way i'd be Michael

[Phi for All]

  Leader Bee said:

I'm Sven

 

Wooo for stupid names, I think i'll call my children something equally stupid so that I feel I have a connection to them.

Ah, young warrior, many people don't like their first names, or rather they envy someone else's first name. Have you registered over at Sven.com?

[Leader Bee]

  insane_alien said:

whats wrong with Sven?

 

 

Because according to everyone else i'm anything but...

 

I get Stephen, Spen, Ben, Spence, Spencer "Suh-ven" and even Seven.

On occassion I do get "Oh as in Goran Erricson?!" which at least means they know how to pronounce it.

 

I don't even bother correcting anyone on the phone at work anymore as I usually have to repeat my name 3 or 4 times and the whole office turns to watch me.

 

On the bright side it means I don't have people calling the office for me and I can quietly get on with my work without those interuptions.

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  Phi for All said:

Ah, young warrior, many people don't like their first names, or rather they envy someone else's first name. Have you registered over at Sven.com?

 

 

I have not registered, no. As much as i'm not keen on my first name I don't think I would change it or go by a psudonym, it would feel weird and unnatural after going by Sven for so long.

 

I've always been partial to Greek mythological names so maybe my offspring can bear a name like Achilles or Heaphestus. I 'unno ?

[Severian]

My first name is Ozymandias.

 

(That was a lie... it is actually David. But Ozymandias would be much cooler.)

[Phi for All]

  Leader Bee said:

I've always been partial to Greek mythological names so maybe my offspring can bear a name like Achilles or Heaphestus. I 'unno ?

I always thought Paris would be a cool name. He got to see Aphrodite naked and won the love of the most beautiful mortal woman, and it's the name of a major cool city as well.

 

Then Paris Hilton messed it all up for me.

[D H]

  Severian said:

My first name is Ozymandias.

 

(That was a lie... it is actually David. But Ozymandias would be much cooler.)

Almost anything is cooler than Dave. For example, Bodkin Van Horn, Hoos-Foos, Snimm, Hot-Shot. And Sunny Jim. Even Putt-Putt and Moon-Face. Or something real cool, like Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face, or Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate...

 

But nooooo, what did our parents do back in the 50s through the 70s? They named us all Dave.

 

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David.

[John Cuthber]

Richard (and I have heard the jokes already).

Could be worse, my surname could be Head.

 

Just in case you wondered, my name on this forum isn't real. Cuthbert is a character from a comic and John is just about the commonest male name for men about my age.

John Cuthbert wouldn't fit in the box when I signed up so it lost a letter.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bash_Street_Kids

[Rickdog]

I`m Ricardo, and I love dogs. So my nick is a mixture of both.

[insane_alien]

hah, i loved the bash street kids when i was a kid. go beano!

[Greippi]

I'm Katie Grape. Awesome.

[kelly7898]

Hi , I am a new member of forum. Would a newcomer be warmly welcome here? Good day you guys!!!