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Help[Opinions] Re: Poppy
in reply to a message by vigdis
I think it sounds like a joke. Please, don't be one of those people who calls the future child something as a joke and then uses it as their name because they got used to it, and they were exhausted or maybe slightly drugged at the time the baby came.
I don't like Poppy. It seems blowsy and frowzy and silly to me. Goes with Mamie, Lula, Sadie, and Pippa. Poppy is what people call their grandfather. Poppy is the source of opium, and it's symbolically and associatively linked with drugged sleep, death, and bloodshed in war. Poppy how my eyes get when I think that a person I think has nice taste would consider naming her daughter "Poppy."
I don't like Poppy. It seems blowsy and frowzy and silly to me. Goes with Mamie, Lula, Sadie, and Pippa. Poppy is what people call their grandfather. Poppy is the source of opium, and it's symbolically and associatively linked with drugged sleep, death, and bloodshed in war. Poppy how my eyes get when I think that a person I think has nice taste would consider naming her daughter "Poppy."
This message was edited 6/21/2013, 10:40 AM
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Pippa has a dirty meaning in Sweden... which makes it even worse.
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not happening
We have a name set in stone, plus I grew up with an odd name. Not doing that to our kid, although I have should myself referring to baby as Merry Mae. I have to stop doing that NOW.
We have a name set in stone, plus I grew up with an odd name. Not doing that to our kid, although I have should myself referring to baby as Merry Mae. I have to stop doing that NOW.
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When I was pregnant with my first baby, we called him "The Fish." This went on for several months, right up until the day he was born. It started after I first felt the baby move. I told my husband it felt like a little fish was flipping around inside me.
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My parents still call me their fetus nickname and I'm 20.
I've been Sneed, after a one-liner in a W.C. Fields movie, for my entire life. Only a family nickname, though, thankfully.
I've been Sneed, after a one-liner in a W.C. Fields movie, for my entire life. Only a family nickname, though, thankfully.
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My husbands side has a tradition of giving silly names to the fetus. We went with Poppy because that was the size of the fetus with we had our first ultrasound.
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We called our son "Turnip" while I was pregnant with him, and continued to call him that on occasion until he was over a year old. :) It sort of faded out though, haven't really called him that since.
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We just called Valerie She, but Phillip often referred to us collectively as You Ladies or You Girls.
That's when I was farther along. Before that we just said "it."
That's when I was farther along. Before that we just said "it."
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Let me guess: he was a pisces
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