Names you could have got.

[DeafPoet]

Both my grandfathers were named Don and my mother's father died when she was very young. And I was the first boy born on either side of the family in a long while so my name was pretty much a done deal. If there were any female alternatives kicking around I never heard about them.

 

[KJbushway]

Elvis Lee Bushway. No kid. I didn't have a name for 2 weeks.

 

[bluedana]

My name would have been the same had I been a boy, except with one less "e". I was named after a car -- and a street because, being in a cab in early labor, my mom saw a street name go by and settled on that for my middle name on the way to the hospital. I'm luck it was "Dana Street" and not, say, VFW Parkway.

My brother is six years older than me, and my mom had her heart set on naming him Stonewall. As in Stonewall Jackson. My parents are not American; they are British, so yeah, I dunno. Fortunately for him, this was back in the day when moms were knocked out immediately after giving birth, and the doctor reported back to the dad who was pacing in the waiting room ("Mr. X, it's a boy"). While my mom was sleeping, my dad filled out the paperwork for my brother's birth certificate. He's a Jr., not a Stonewall. (To make up for it, my mom got to name my sister whatever she wanted.)

 

[Niorah]

Oh, you guys crack me up!

I knew I would have spurred that kind of comment...

It's a no to trekkiemonster and SmoothieX. Of course.

It's also a no to captcalhoun and RJ, but I am definitely flattered.

Nothing so exotic I'm afraid, they're just run-of-the-mill Queens.

 

[TrekkieMonster]

My name would have been the same had I been a boy, except with one less "e". I was named after a car -- and a street because, being in a cab in early labor, my mom saw a street name go by and settled on that for my middle name on the way to the hospital. I'm luck it was "Dana Street" and not, say, VFW Parkway.

A little OT, but I actually know someone named Dana Street. True story.

Also, now I can't help wonder if you live near me, because there is a VFW Parkway that I travel on all the time.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

I think my parents probably had Randi picked out no matter what sex i was, although they would have spelled it "Randy" if i was a boy.

 

[SmoothieX]

My name would have been the same had I been a boy, except with one less "e". I was named after a car -- and a street because, being in a cab in early labor, my mom saw a street name go by and settled on that for my middle name on the way to the hospital. I'm luck it was "Dana Street" and not, say, VFW Parkway.

A little OT, but I actually know someone named Dana Street. True story.

Also, now I can't help wonder if you live near me, because there is a VFW Parkway that I travel on all the time.

Working on a project for the Feds right along the VFW Parkway. Turning the survey points into a topo plan right now actually.

 

[TrekkieMonster]

Working on a project for the Feds right along the VFW Parkway. Turning the survey points into a topo plan right now actually.

Our paths keep almost crossing. We've gotta work on that.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I was born 6 weeks early and my parents hadn't really discussed what to name me. My mother decided to name me after my father and he didn't care.

My kids' names were very deliberately chosen, by comparison.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Nothing so exotic I'm afraid, they're just run-of-the-mill Queens.

Isn't that an oxymoron?

 

[Scrambo]

I would have been called Jonathan if i was a boy.... good job i wasnt as i dont really like that name (no offense to anyone who is called that).

 

[Balrog]

Horatio.

No joke. It's a family name. And yes, it is the name of my great, great grandfather who was a sea captain.

 

[mari]

I think my parents probably had Randi picked out no matter what sex i was, although they would have spelled it "Randy" if i was a boy.

That's good! I know a man whose name is Randi. Not sure about his parents...

 

[Tiberius Jim]

As far as I know, my name was the first only only choice my parents had made assuming I'd be a boy. I love my name since it combines both of my grandfathers' - James Edward and Robert James, and so I became James Robert.

And no, I do not go by Jim Bob. Used to go by Jamie when I was a kid. Mom thought it was odd calling a baby James, and I guess I just didn't look like a Jimmy.

Had I been a girl, I'd have been Jennifer.

 

[scotpens]

Elvis Lee Bushway. No kid. I didn't have a name for 2 weeks.

That reminds me of a fellow I used to work for. His parents couldn’t agree on a name for him until a week after he was born. His birth certificate still reads “Baby Boy Jewett” — which sounds like a 1930s gangster.

I think my parents probably had Randi picked out no matter what sex i was, although they would have spelled it “Randy” if i was a boy.

That's good! I know a man whose name is Randi. Not sure about his parents...

I knew a woman named Randi once. Didn’t know her well enough to find out whether she lived up to her name, though.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Horatio.

No joke. It's a family name. And yes, it is the name of my great, great grandfather who was a sea captain.

That's awesome!

 

[SmoothieX]

Working on a project for the Feds right along the VFW Parkway. Turning the survey points into a topo plan right now actually.

Our paths keep almost crossing. We've gotta work on that.

If you see a dude in a hard hat and yellow vest while scratching his head trying to figure out where the poop is flowing while trying to manage a 30x42 plan in the field at a certain medical facility, it just might be me.

Generating a base plan is not the sexiest task in civil engineering. I've always been used to getting the plan already prepared, not turning raw survey info into something useful.

As for paths crossing, can it involve the doggies?

 

[kirsten187]

My dad wanted to call me Lydia but my mum didn't like it.

 

[TrekkieMonster]

Working on a project for the Feds right along the VFW Parkway. Turning the survey points into a topo plan right now actually.

Our paths keep almost crossing. We've gotta work on that.

If you see a dude in a hard hat and yellow vest while scratching his head trying to figure out where the poop is flowing while trying to manage a 30x42 plan in the field at a certain medical facility, it just might be me.

I will keep my eyes peeled.

As for paths crossing, can it involve the doggies?

I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

When i was pregnant with my first child, we discussed names. At the time we were watching the tv show, WKRP in Cinn. We loved the show. Anyway, there was a secretary on it and everyone called her Bailey. As i watched the show, i thought they were calling her by her last name. Then one day someone called her by her full name, "Bailey Quarters", and i realized Bailey was her first name. And i thought, that is the coolest name i've ever heard!

So, if the baby was going to be a girl, we were going to name her Bailey. If it was a boy, we were going to name him Andy (which happened to be another character on the show.)

Fast forward: i have a boy, we name him Andrew (we never called him Andy. Go figure.)

Fast forward again, almost 10 years later. In the past ten years since my son was born, we continued to say that if we ever had another child and it was a girl, her name would be Bailey.

I get pregnant, we have a girl, and i say, "We're naming her Bailey, right?" And he says (after saying Bailey for the last 10 years)......no, we cant name her Bailey, that's my bosses' dogs name.

I'm like......WTF? "So what do you want to name her?" I ask as the nurse is standing there at my bedside with the form to fill out for the birth certificate.

And he says, "What about Kelly?" Huh?

OK, so we name her Kelly. My mother tells all her friends her new granddaughter's name is Kelly. We get cards and gifts for Kelly.

We go home and i cry all night because for 10 years, that baby girl's name was Bailey. And now it's Kelly????

He says, "Ok, call the hospital and have them change it to Bailey". Luckily the paperwork hadn't been filed and we were able to change it.

However, we have a ton of cards made out to Baby Kelly.

The end.