This is my son
Ludwig.
S:
Ludwig? Really? You have the coolest name ever! We're best friends now.
T: We'll have to see if
Ludwig is cool enough to have that name. It'd be unfortunate if he was not.
This is my son, Claud-Carl.
S: Hi Claude-Carl! That's adorable. Should I call him by his full name?
T: Cool. Crossing my fingers he isn't teased in junior high school. That'd be so unfortunate.
This is my daughter,
Fancy. I see by the look on your face that you are disconcerted; fear not, her actual name is
Frances. I wanted to call her
Fanny but I think
Fancy's a little more workable, don't you?
S: I'm so happy to meet a little
Frances!
T: Francy would have been a quad-droople-plex times better.
This is my son,
Franz Felix.
S: Hey Franzy! Your name rocks!
T: 'Tis true. It kicks ass.
This is my daughter,
Delight.
S: How sweet!
T: Well, since it's on a real person, I'll force myself to only see the upsides, though I really hope her sister isn't named something like
Precious...
This is my daughter
Wilma.
S:
Wilma, that's such an endearing name for a little girl...She just made my day!
T: She really did. I just hope to God that other people can appreciate it.
This is my daughter
Nella.
S:
Nella? That's cool! Is it short for anything?
T: Vanilla perhaps? It's pretty cool though. That association just keeps bothering me.
These are my sons,
Fingal and
Finbar.
S: Cooool! Those are new ones. What nationality do the names belong to?
T: Kind of awesome, but kind of odd. So odd that I as a name-nerd needed to look them up. I do like the names though.
These are my children,
Phineas and
Nigella.
S: I love it! You're a
Harry Potter fan I take it?
T: I am a dork. Majorly...Nigella rocks, and is great with
Phineas.
This is my daughter Birdie. Why, yes, since you ask, it's short for
Bernadette.
S: That's so sweet. I love it!
T: I'm so relieved that it's short for
Bernadette!
This is my son
Sylvester.
S: Hi
Sylvester! What a handsome name you have!
T: I see a new yuppie name emerging. It's pretty cool though.
This is my pot-bellied pig:
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Belinda: great name for a pot BELlied pig
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Pamela: my goodness you're as fat as
Pam's chest!
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Carmen: I guess this means no baby
Carmen? That's a shame. But it's great on a pig too!
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Henning: cool name, be better for a rooster though...
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Chris: a pig named Chris?...you must have known a very unfortunate
Chris. If not, I hate mundane names on animals. I'm not sure why.
-Piggus: I'm game
-Fluffy: the irony is delicious
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Johann Georg: sweeeet