I just spoke with a man named Delabar. Dan and I are both overly-alert to different male names, or words that would make funny names, lately...I think Delabar is worth a mention.
On a cooler topic - Dan got to feel the baby move last night for the first time. His eyes jumped a little, and he asked "Was that it?" I said yes. He then asked "How do you know?"
"Because it's like nothing else I've ever felt before, that's how."
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Hey, I've got another name.
Pardner.
Like, Howdy Pardner.
Pardner Walsh.
See? It's good. In fact, almost anything from Western movies is good.
How about Coyote Walsh.
Ah, the belly flutter. Yes, I remember it well. It comes right before the belly punching and the somersaulting-heels-in-your-ribcage.
I'm living vicariously through you now. That explains the McDonald's breakfast with coke that I had this morning.
Very cool.
I, too, keep noticing male names that seem interesting or appealing or funny. I haven't saved up a list, though. Yesterday (or was it earlier today?) I was driving around thinking about the name Augustus, which I kind of like--perhaps due to its association with the Augustan Age, i.e. the early to mid 18th century, i.e. "my" time period. Unfortunately, it also associates with "Augustus Gloop," one of the brats from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Sigh.
Have I already shared with you my Hidden Name theory? It goes something like this: wouldn't it be fun (OK, maybe it would get tiresome, I don't know) to have a cool, recognizable name "hidden" in your first and middle names? For example, your friends might know you as Rob Walsh, your teachers might know you as Robinson C. Walsh, but at cocktail parties when you grow up you could wow people by revealing that you're actually Robinson Crusoe Walsh.
OK, maybe that wouldn't really "wow" most people.
I'd be impressed, though.
Yeah, Augustus is a cool name. I love the nickname Gus, too. My step-grandfather is a Gus. Augustus reminds me of St. Augustine, and I don't want no ho of a son. :-)
Robinson Crusoe Walsh is good! Huckelberry Finn Walsh, too. I do like the idea of a hidden name, since I have always liked knowing the origin of people's middle names. We finally found out that Dan's middle "Crosby" isn't a musically-influenced name, rather a family name from his mother's mother's mother.
I think we're still liking Leo. Trevor and Oliver have been names on my mind lately, too.
As for the belly flutter...and the forthcoming belly punching ....you should all know that Lindsay earned the reputation of being the most aggressive in womb of my mother's babies. Frequently getting her foot stuck in mom's ribs and delivering bruise-worthy kicks!!! Is this a karma-rang? Or a karma-kick?
KOh yeah, Huckleberry Finn Walsh! I would enjoy having a little sprog in my life called Huck.
I really like the name Leo.
Here is another name-generator for you: did you ever notice that Critter's parents have names that are near-anagrams of each other? At least, they have a lot of letters in common (L, I, N, D, A) (whoa--I hadn't even realized until now that the common letters are also an anagram of Critter's grandmother's name). I thought you could have some fun mixing around the common letters or the combined letters of both names. For example: common letters: Aldin. Subsets of combined letters: Aden, Alden, Dean, Dylan, Leland, Lyle, Lynn (yes I have seen this as a guy's name), Neal, Neil, Nils, Sidney, Slinn, and I'm sure many many more. Break out the Scrabble tiles and mix them around!
That was supposed to be "Oh yeah," not "KOh yeah," by the way.
p.s. (Can't shut me up on the topic of names. It is just so much fun to think about.) A little while ago I met a guy whose first name was Wells. I couldn't help automatically thinking "Ogunquit" immediately after saying his name. I wanted it to be his middle name. It wasn't, though.
The KOh Yeah was a bit Homer Simpson-ish. Like your own version of "Doh!"
"Wells" is very cool... We were thinking "Winslow" for a while. Also a town in Maine...but nothing like Wells or Ogunquit. Ogunquit Walsh. THAT sounds pretty cool. Not many nicknames to be had, though.
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