Baby Name

**Susan Otcenas** · 03-02-2009, 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by Biciclista

(Hey Susan, since you're reading this, how come we can't use D i c k, it's a perfectly normal name!!!)

Regrettably, the pornographers and spammers have forced us to simply disallow certain words, that being one of them. You'd be amazed at how much spam DOESN'T hit this forum due to the protocals we have in place.

Susan

**OakLeaf** · 03-02-2009, 05:29 PM

I'm still laughing about whoever tried to refer to the D I C K van D Y K E show last week!

**channlluv** · 03-02-2009, 05:46 PM

I like the name Bear. It makes me want to hug him right off the bat, and I don't even know him. <g>

There are some really creative names for kids at the school where I work, including D'Artagnan, after the Three Musketeers hero. We had a Dakota, too, last year. We have a handful of Mikaylas with various spellings, a couple of Edens, a couple of Noahs, lots of sky/weather names (Esther, Stella, Summer, Soleil, Sunshine), one Czarina - what a name to live up to, huh? - and so on. DH and I gave our DD a simple, old-fashioned first name, Danielle, because her last name is five syllables and Hawaiian. Most people trip over it the first time or two, and I've got a fellow mom-friend who has known us since Kindergarten and she still refers to me as "Mrs. Ohum-o-whatsits."

Let's just hope little Bear grows up and into his name, happy, healthy, and with great self-esteem because he's got such wonderful, active, healthy, loving parents. Congratulations!

Roxy

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 03-02-2009, 06:46 PM

Originally Posted by OakLeaf

I'm still laughing about whoever tried to refer to the D I C K van D Y K E show last week!

That was me....the poor **** Van **** show!

See?- it did it again!!!!

**Aggie_Ama** · 03-02-2009, 08:31 PM

I was made fun of to no end for my last name (a fun German name that could be made fun of in many ways). My mom named me Amanda and my brother a normal name because she was teased for being named Pansy. You know what, didn't help one dang bit to have a "normal" name. I also got called Amanda Panda, which I hated. Manders, hated. Mandy, hated. And when they figured it out that it annoyed me, they did it more.

So you know he might get made fun of or everyone might think he is cool for having such a neat name. I am sure all the Tom/John/James/Jason/Roberts of the world get made fun of. Kids just are mean, isn't that part of growing up or something? If it isn't a name it is buck teeth, pale skin, freckles, etc.... Can't change those anymore than a name (well, I guess there are braces at some point).

I like the name. It is fun, of course it does sound like a jock but maybe he is the next rockstar pro-mountain biker like Tinker or Jeff Kabush. Of course he might be the president in 36 years, all the politicians will have names we might not have thought were normal today.

**Selkie** · 03-03-2009, 01:53 AM

Lime

Congrats on your little Bear.

Name him whatever you please!

**xeney** · 03-03-2009, 05:32 AM

I'm pretty sure that if you posted a photo of your new bike on a parenting forum, nobody would say, "Why'd you get THAT one? What were you thinking? That color, man. Hideous!" Manners of this sort are generally fairly universal. And the fact that people will share negative opinions does not mean that it is polite or kind to do so.

TE is not, as has been noted elsewhere, the board that it used to be.

**Tuckervill** · 03-03-2009, 06:49 AM

No, but I might say I really don't like PINK!

Same thing. Just giving my opinion. No one's bound by it. And a baby name is WAY more important than a bike.

Karen

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