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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, November 29, 2004 - 7:33 pm
What? Well I'll have to check that out and fix it! Thanks for the heads up! ETA It's fixed. I just sent you a message, OG, but I forgot to write that I was julieboo, but I bet you can figure it out!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, November 29, 2004 - 7:35 pm
HazPat..could be her nickname
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Monday, November 29, 2004 - 8:21 pm
It can't be worse than Mike Hunt.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, November 29, 2004 - 8:54 pm
Mike Hunt is beautiful
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Monday, November 29, 2004 - 9:20 pm
I never liked being named "india" - as if kids didnt have enough to tease me about - but i dont see why we have to attribute strange names to hollywood - it has nothing to do with being famous - everyone does things like that, - i also still have no idea how i got a chinese middle name either, but that's life and luckily we have the option of changing our names in court if it gets too bad but back on topic - agree that apple and prince michael are just ridiculous - and really - what about "elvis" as a name - or "river phoneix" ...but something like "Atlanta Noo De Cadenet Taylor", child of duran duran's john taylor makes most names look sensible
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Melfie1222
Member
07-29-2002
| Monday, November 29, 2004 - 10:14 pm
Don't celebrities sort of have to give their kids unusual names? In a classroom full of Apples, Cocos, and Peaches, it is the kids with the "regular" names that are going to be made fun of.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - 6:39 am
Don't all of the Phoenix kids have "nature" names? Joachin used to be "Leaf" and the other siblings are Liberty, Summer and Rain. Actually the parents even legally changed their last name from Bottom to Phoenix in the 70s.
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Puppylov3
Member
01-26-2004
| Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - 9:30 am
I have a normally pronounced name but the spelling is garbled (dear ole dad can't spell). I like having a unique name. When I was in the 5th/6th/7th grade there were four Melissa's in my grade. Having a unique spelling made me stand out. I've had people remember who I was because my name is different. My parents are two for two by the way. My sister's name is Marcia - when they see it people try to say it as 'marsha' but it actually rhymes with Garcia. It is a family name - she was named after my father's sister who died when he was a kid. I rather enjoy the unique name trend. I'm tired of seeing a sea of Madisons, or Jennifers or Heathers, or Lisa's or.....
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - 10:07 am
Legalboxer says that you don't have to be famous to give your children strange names... When my mother was working as a teacher a few years back, she had a set of twins in her class, two boys. One was named Beau, and the other... wait for it... Arrow. Beau and Arrow.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Wednesday, December 01, 2004 - 1:46 pm
It's a pattern that repeats itself with Celebs. Often celeb's with normalish names will name their children very outlandish names, and then those children will name their children normalish names. And so on and so forth.
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Deesandy
Member
08-12-2003
| Saturday, January 01, 2005 - 7:38 pm
I named my daughter Cassiopeia and we call her Cassie. Living in Florida where names like Rain, Storm, Forest and Stone are common, hers is pretty accepted. Her middle name is Kae so if we really want to fall into the Southern theme, we call her Cassie Kae.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Saturday, January 01, 2005 - 8:29 pm
I kind of like unusual names and even the most ordinary names can be teased.. My brother's name is Richard but my parents called him Dick from day one and he got his share of harrassment. River Phoenix's family was also part of a very dangerous and abusive cult.. called The Family in South America (here it was called Children of God or some such) that involved putting kids to work to make money for the cult, including a practice called "flirty fishing" or basically selling sex with kids for the group.. Moon Unit Zappa changed her name to just Moon, I think. And it definitely isn't just this generation. My great grandther, whose kids with his first wife were born starting in the 1880's named them Fuchsia May, Blanche Violet and Selye degraff.. I don't know how my grandmother, Fuchsia, coped but as an adult she went by the nickname for her married last name, Mac for McPherson. The other two went by Polly and Sal As for Julia, certainly she could have used the middle names to honor the dead? Coco is the name of the black cat next door. He even spells it that way (well his collar does).
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Deesandy
Member
08-12-2003
| Saturday, January 01, 2005 - 8:42 pm
My husband went to college with Rain Phoenix and he said she was very down to earth.
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Lyn
Member
08-07-2002
| Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 1:24 pm
Granddaddy Brown named all six of his daughters Mary after his mother. (Mary Pauline, Mary Kathleen, Mary Agnes) They all go by their middle names. My grandmother got the worst one - Mary Osemma Alice - she went by Alice lol (For some reason the boys had regular names)
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