Give us this day our daily silliness, #1

[dianeduane]

Couple names baby "@"

(Someone's comment: "Poor kid's going to have a heck of a time getting a working email address.")

Comments

[fiveforsilver]

My favorite comments:

"@ could get hitched to 4real!!!"
"And then @ & 4real can name their children lol, r u and b4."

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, he'll have all the Star Wars jokes and figurines a kid could want.

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

That's just too much like The Demolished Man for my taste, in which, if I recall correctly, there are characters called S&erson and ¼maine.

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

I met a woman who named her child Ampersand.

She didn't know what it meant, just thought it was a pretty name. I wasn't going to enlighten her on what she had done to her daughter.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

When my mother was a child she thought Chlorine and Ammonia were pretty names to call a daughter. Fortunately by the time my sister was born she had learned what they meant...

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

And 'Chlamydia' sounds both classical and feminine, doesn't it? Well, it's certainly the latter ...

[ericcoleman]

Chlamydia and Gonorrhea, weren't those King Lear's daughters ???

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

The only one I ever remember is Ophidia.

[ericcoleman]

That was Hamlet's girlfriend

[madfilkentist]

"Alexia" is a rather popular name. I can imagine a remedial reading class in which the students are named Alexia, Dyslexia, and Aphasia.

[trialia]

Well, most people just assume Alexia's an adaptation from the name Alexandra (my own), as I did when I was much younger. It is quite pretty, despite its meaning as a word. But then again, so is Chlamydia! *g*

[dduane.livejournal.com]

OMG please! Chlamydia! The endless trouble we had stamping that out in the cats: they kept passing it back and forth and reinfecting each other. And regular antibiotics don't touch it.

Chlamydia! ARRRRGH!

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Cats can get chlamydia?

I'm so not going there. Please record that I'm not going there. I really want it in your auto-biographies that you noted that I didn't go there.

Right?

[trialia]

I have to go there, though.

How...in the hell...?

[dduane.livejournal.com]

It just gives them runny eyes. But seriously runny.

[readinggeek451]

Bet the kid goes by 'Sandy'. I would.

[corvidophile.livejournal.com]

i didn't think even a hard core geek would name their kid that!

[shima-sama.livejournal.com]

Well, he wouldn't have to learn many characters, now would he? As opposed to a child with a really long name....

...or Superman...

>,< Okay, that's just weird. Would you call him "at" or something? "At! Come downstairs right now!"

[dewline.livejournal.com]

*amused snerk*

[lunza.livejournal.com]

If it weren't a boy in China, with its one-child policy, he could have siblings named _ and ~.

[squirrelette.livejournal.com]

Could be a boon if they grow up to be an artist, singer, etc. No need to find an outstandingly different professional name.

No-one can beat the name 'Wellington Hung' in my estimation. Eminent and respected cardiologist and medical textbook author. Also tricky to abbreviate for a nickname.

[kengr]

Kids gonna go nuts every time he has to deal with any forms that get entered on a computer. Y'see, most input routines won't *accept* that character in a text field such as name.

A friend had quite a go-round with a local convention. They insist that you enter your legal name on the form (they have reason, as it's an "adult" event and they need to check ID).

But the online registration setup won't accept hypens. And since she has a hypenated last name...

She isn't the only one. And the folks running it don't consider it a problem. Arrgh.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine has that (although not with SF conventions, he's a well known fan), because he has no last name. And another has two non-hyphenated parts to his surname (form of Mr. Xxx Yyy) and few programs will allow spaces in that field...

[kengr]

Ah yes, like "von Richtohoffen".

And let's not get into the fun with databases being used to generate labels or badges when you've got someone from a culture where family name comes *first* (example: "Chin Li" is "Li of the family Chin")

[handworn.livejournal.com]

And a heck of a time getting a nickname.