I love your stories, Randi!
Names you could have got.
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I love your stories, Randi!
I think Lydia is a lovely name.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4zRe_wvJw8[/yt]
I was adopted, and on my original birth certificate, I was named Elizabeth Higgins.
no shit? are you a fair lady?
Well, that would imply that Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins hooked up in the end. Which I don't think is what George Bernard Shaw intended.
And sadly, I don't look anything like Andrey Hepburn either.
My Dad's name is James. He goes by Jim now, and when he was a boy he was called Jimmy. A couple of years ago, my dad told my brothers and me that the name on his birth certificate was Harley, but we didn't believe him. He is always making stuff up. He even showed us the birth certificate with Harley Floyd ( Floyd is his middle name) on it and I still didn't believe him. So it turns out to be true; he finally convinced us.
His parents had named him Harley, but they never called him Harley. They called him Jimmy, his whole childhood. Finally, before my Dad's 18th birthday, my grandmother went down to the courthouse and changed his name on the grounds that there had been a mistake made on the birth certificate. So my dad's name legally became James. Who names a child one thing and then immediately starts calling that child something completely unrelated to that first or middle name?!
Oh and Randi, Bailey was the name of the smart junior reporter on WKRP in Cincinnati, not the secretary
I love that show, my dad's actually from Cincinnati.
His parents had named him Harley, but they never called him Harley. They called him Jimmy, his whole childhood. Finally, before my Dad's 18th birthday, my grandmother went down to the courthouse and changed his name on the grounds that there had been a mistake made on the birth certificate. So my dad's name legally became James. Who names a child one thing and then immediately starts calling that child something completely unrelated to that first or middle name?!
Oh and Randi, Bailey was the name of the smart junior reporter on WKRP in Cincinnati, not the secretary
I love that show, my dad's actually from Cincinnati.
Well, that's a happy ending, because Bailey was my favorite character on that show.
^ Yeah, she was a cool character. And at the time NO ONE had the name. Now it's popping up everywhere.
Ps thanks for reading that ridiculously LONG post. LOL! After i posted it i thought, "Geez, no one's gonna read that!"
Ps thanks for reading that ridiculously LONG post. LOL! After i posted it i thought, "Geez, no one's gonna read that!"
Thanks! I swear, sometimes i think i post and no one reads them. I appreciate that so much! 
You three have just made my day. Thank you!
Love Bailey's story, Randi!
My parents hadn't chosen any names before I was born. I have 3 older brothers, and they were asked what they wanted to name their new baby sister. My oldest brother was an alter boy at the time and wanted to name me Mary, and my youngest brother wanted to name me after his favourite babysitter, Ann, while my middle brother wanted me to go back where I came from. My mother wanted my name hyphened, so that it was one name, but on my birth certificate my first name is Mary and my middle name is Ann, with no hyphen. Mom still spelled it with a hyphen for years, so I had fun telling everyone that my own mother spelled her own daughter's name wrong.
My parents didn't bother following the family tradition of naming children after grandparents, which is probably a good thing. Both my grandfathers were Joseph, but my mother's name was Josephine (which is also my teenage daughter's middle name, and she loves it), and she didn't want me to have the same name as her. She grew up in a huge extended family with oodles of Josephs and Josephines, so Mom's nickname was Zus, "Sis" in Dutch. My maternal grandmother was Catharina, which would have been a good name, but my paternal grandmother was Gertrude, and the thought of being stuck with that name doesn't bear thinking about! Funny thing is that two of my brothers and my mom always called me Sis, so though I didn't get her name I ended up with her nickname.
My parents hadn't chosen any names before I was born. I have 3 older brothers, and they were asked what they wanted to name their new baby sister. My oldest brother was an alter boy at the time and wanted to name me Mary, and my youngest brother wanted to name me after his favourite babysitter, Ann, while my middle brother wanted me to go back where I came from. My mother wanted my name hyphened, so that it was one name, but on my birth certificate my first name is Mary and my middle name is Ann, with no hyphen. Mom still spelled it with a hyphen for years, so I had fun telling everyone that my own mother spelled her own daughter's name wrong.
My parents didn't bother following the family tradition of naming children after grandparents, which is probably a good thing. Both my grandfathers were Joseph, but my mother's name was Josephine (which is also my teenage daughter's middle name, and she loves it), and she didn't want me to have the same name as her. She grew up in a huge extended family with oodles of Josephs and Josephines, so Mom's nickname was Zus, "Sis" in Dutch. My maternal grandmother was Catharina, which would have been a good name, but my paternal grandmother was Gertrude, and the thought of being stuck with that name doesn't bear thinking about! Funny thing is that two of my brothers and my mom always called me Sis, so though I didn't get her name I ended up with her nickname.
Don't feel alone my friend. Nobody pays much attention to me either.
Oh, and I agree, I think Bailey's a great name. I had a SERIOUS crush on her when WKRP was on. Even now, when I watch my DVD's, I constantly re-watch the episodes that focus on her (few as they were). I was disappointed when the new show came and went and she wasn't even mentioned. The only character of the original cast who wasn't.
consultation of my dad reveals the only other name considered for me was Craig - which would've been Sister #2's name had she been a boy.
he also said names if i'd been a girl cosnidered were Doris Violet (puke), Muriel, Valerie and Florence. the first pair being first and middle names in honour of my grandmothers.
Valerie and Florence i could've lived with. at least then i could've been 'Val' or 'Flo'...
he also said names if i'd been a girl cosnidered were Doris Violet (puke), Muriel, Valerie and Florence. the first pair being first and middle names in honour of my grandmothers.
Valerie and Florence i could've lived with. at least then i could've been 'Val' or 'Flo'...
I always read your posts.
The writers of Three's Company stole your story.
I wanted to name my son Benjamin after my husband's grandfather, since his grandparents raised him and all. But he objected because he didn't think it was right for that pregnancy.
The next name was Lukas Micah-Davis and he didn't like that one either because the names didn't mesh well with his last name. And he insisted, the huge Star Wars fan he is, that if it were to be "Lukas" why not Luke Skywalker Weiss . . . that wasn't going to happen.
And then Robert was considered, Rory, Leland, Lloyd, Scott, Julian, and Spencer Jr.
And then when I finally was in labor at the hospital I decided William, you'll see where this is going, and he started to object until I said that we didn't have to call him Bill, Will, Billy, or Willy but Liam instead. And then he suggested using Robert for a middle name, I agreed and insisted that we use Patrick for his second middle name. He agreed.
It took him four months to realize that I had gotten him to name our son after two actors who were the main captain's in an ST series . . . And he hates Star Trek.
It was a little bit of revenge on my part.
The next name was Lukas Micah-Davis and he didn't like that one either because the names didn't mesh well with his last name. And he insisted, the huge Star Wars fan he is, that if it were to be "Lukas" why not Luke Skywalker Weiss . . . that wasn't going to happen.
And then Robert was considered, Rory, Leland, Lloyd, Scott, Julian, and Spencer Jr.
And then when I finally was in labor at the hospital I decided William, you'll see where this is going, and he started to object until I said that we didn't have to call him Bill, Will, Billy, or Willy but Liam instead. And then he suggested using Robert for a middle name, I agreed and insisted that we use Patrick for his second middle name. He agreed.
It took him four months to realize that I had gotten him to name our son after two actors who were the main captain's in an ST series . . . And he hates Star Trek.
It was a little bit of revenge on my part.
And then when I finally was in labor at the hospital I decided William, you'll see where this is going, and he started to object until I said that we didn't have to call him Bill, Will, Billy, or Willy but Liam instead. And then he suggested using Robert for a middle name, I agreed and insisted that we use Patrick for his second middle name. He agreed.
It took him four months to realize that I had gotten him to name our son after two actors who were the main captain's in an ST series . . . And he hates Star Trek.
It was a little bit of revenge on my part.
I swear, I was sitting here for ages thinking 'I don't remember an actor called Robert playing an ST captain'
My parents were actually told that I was a boy and they decided on the name David. My dad told me a few years ago that they weren't disappointed that I was a girl, but they did sort of mourn the loss of their son. My mum wanted to name me Catherine and my dad wanted Lucy. They named me Catherine and decided the next one would be Lucy, but after me there were no more girls. Just my annoying little brothers.
My dad also made the very very very silly mistake of telling his incredibly-childish-yet-technically-grown-up daughter that my grandparents were going to name him Geraldine Patricia if he was a girl. I have mocked him ever since.
