Need some opinions up in here

[COMIC GEEK]

In a few months we'll be having a new addition to the family and this time around its gonna be a BOY... :)

We're kinda stuck on the boy's first name.

So any suggestions of course would be appreciated. and yes you can suggest your first name as well. ;)

thanks people.

[Spike-X]

Clark
Bruce
Hal
Barry
Oliver
Reed
Peter
Ben
Johnny
Scott
Logan
Kurt

[Valmore]

It would help to know your last name - that way we could find something pleasing that goes with it. And if you've already planned out his middle name.

[Spike-X]

Joe
Jerry
Stan
Jack
Mort
Julius
Elliot
Walt
Alan
Grant
Warren
Garth

[COMIC GEEK]

middle name would most likely be David

[Valmore]

Well, you could always go for Peter David <Your Last Name>.

[MWGallaher]

Rule Number One:
Check the local hospital web sites for recent births. Look at the names. Lots of parents come up with "unique" names that they've spotted somewhere recently, not realizing that everyone else has spotted that name and is using it. So they think that, say, "Jayden" is "fresh", because nobody had that name when they were kids, and jump on the bandwagon without realizing it. Their kid will end up as Jayden #14 when he gets to first grade.
Rule Number Two:
Don't be tempted to use a "creative" spelling (or use random mid-name capitalizations or apostrophes or accents, unless ethnically justified). Mothers seem to be especially susceptible to this lately. And they get very defensive about it. But you really don't want your kid to have to spell out his name for the rest of his life, or explain how his name is pronounced (especially if it's a fairly familiar name with a weird spelling; explaining the correct pronunciation of "Alaric" is one thing, but explaining that "M'yaChell" is the same as "Michael" is quite another).
Now for suggestions:
In the US, Russian names are an untapped source if you want something exotic. It's a better source for girls' names, in my opinion, but there are some pretty cool boys names to consider: Ivan, Genady, Evgeni, Vladimir, etc. A web search on "Russian baby names" will provide some ideas.
I also like literary and historical names. Comsider names like Galileo, Pelleas, Achilles, Orion.
If you want a comics-inspired name, consider some of your favorite creators, rather than characters. In my case, I'd consider Kirby, Everett, Fletcher, off the top of my head. Your list would likely vary, assuming any creators you liked happened to have names that would work, that is.

[StoneGold]

Sue.
.

[COMIC GEEK]

Sue.
.

you can name your BOY sue...

I dont want him to get beat up.

[Super Samurai]

Warren David (Your Last Name)



Sounds good to me.

[Hellbaby]

Miles or Marcus Aurelius (first and middle names)

[StoneGold]

you can name your BOY sue...

I dont want him to get beat up.

You don't know the song?

And he said: "Son, this world is rough
And if a man's gonna make it, he's gotta be tough
And I knew I wouldn't be there to help ya along.
So I give ya that name and I said goodbye
I knew you'd have to get tough or die
And it's the name that helped to make you strong."

He said: "Now you just fought one hell of a fight
And I know you hate me, and you got the right
To kill me now, and I wouldn't blame you if you do.
But ya ought to thank me, before I die,
For the gravel in ya guts and the spit in ya eye
Cause I'm the son-of-a-bitch that named you "Sue.'"

[K'Nort]

But he became a good fighter because he got beat up all the time.

[StoneGold]

But he became a good fighter because he got beat up all the time.

Not according to the song. He just beat the shit out of people for laughing.
Well, he must o' thought that is quite a joke
And it got a lot of laughs from a' lots of folk,
It seems I had to fight my whole life through.
Some gal would giggle and I'd get red
And some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head,
I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named "Sue."

Really, Sue was a fucking jerk. Daddy should have also left him with the words "sticks and stones."

[Donald M.]

you can name your BOY sue...

I dont want him to get beat up.

No, the correct answer was: "I don't want him to grow up wanting to kill me."

In the end of course you'll make up because that name is what made him so tough, but still man, not cool.

[Donald M.]

Not according to the song. He just beat the shit out of people for laughing.


Really, Sue was a fucking jerk. Daddy should have also left him with the words "sticks and stones."

No kidding. Why didn't Sue go by his middle name, or change his name?

I think daddy not being there had more to do with Sue being an asswipe than any stupid name, but that's probably giving the whole thing more serious consideration than it deserves.

[StoneGold]

No kidding. Why didn't Sue go by his middle name, or change his name?

I think daddy not being there had more to do with Sue being an asswipe than any stupid name, but that's probably giving the whole thing more serious consideration than it deserves.

Apparently Silverstein wrote a sequel from the father's point of view. Now I want to read it.

[StoneGold]

Intro by Shel Silverstein
OK, now, years ago, I wrote a song called "A Boy Named Sue", And,
that was OK and everything except, then I started to think about it,
and I thought, It is unfair. I am, I am looking at the whole thing
from the poor kid's point of view. And as I get more older and more
fatherly, I begin to look at things from old men's point of view.
So, I decided to give the old man equal time. OK, here we go...

Yeah, I left home when the kid was three
And it sure felt good to be fancy free
Though I knew it wasn't quite the the fatherly thing to do
But that kid kept screaming and throwing up
And pissing in his pants till I had enough
So just for revenge I went and named him Sue
Yeah!

It was Gatlinburg in mid July
I was gettin drunk but gettin by
Gettin old and going from bad to worse

When through the door with an awful scream
Comes the ugliest queen I've ever seen
He says, "My name is Sue, how do you do?"
Then he hits me with his purse

Now this ain't the way he tells the tell
But he scratched my face with his fingernails
And Then he bit my thumb
And kicked me with his high heel shoe

So I hit him in the nose and he started to cry
And he threw some perfume in my eye
And it sure ain't easy fightin an old boy named Sue

So I hit him in the head with a cane back chair
And he screamed, "Hey dad, you mussed my hair!"
And he hit me in the navel and knocked out a piece of my lint

He was spittin blood, I was spittin teeth
And we crashed through the wall and out into the street
Kickin and gouging in the mud and the blood and the creme de menthe

Then out of his garter he pulls a gun
I'm about to get shot by my very own son
He's screaming about Sigmund Freud and looking grim - woo
So I though fast and I told him some stuff
How I named him Sue just to make him tough
And I guess he bought it cause now I'm living with him

Yea he cooks and sews and cleans up the place
He cuts my hair and shaves my face
And irons my shirts better than a daughter could do
And on the nights that I can't score
Well, I can't tell you any more
But it sure is a joy to have a boy named Sue
Yeah a son is fun but it's a joy to have a boy named Sue!

[Donald M.]

Apparently Silverstein wrote a sequel from the father's point of view. Now I want to read it.

Yeah, I left home when the kid was three
And it sure felt good to be fancy free
Though I knew it wasn't quite the the fatherly thing to do
But that kid kept screaming and throwing up
And pissing in his pants till I had enough
So just for revenge I went and named him Sue
Yeah!

It was Gatlinburg in mid July
I was gettin drunk but gettin by
Gettin old and going from bad to worse

When through the door with an awful scream
Comes the ugliest queen I've ever seen
He says, "My name is Sue, how do you do?"
Then he hits me with his purse

Now this ain't the way he tells the tell
But he scratched my face with his fingernails
And Then he bit my thumb
And kicked me with his high heel shoe

So I hit him in the nose and he started to cry
And he threw some perfume in my eye
And it sure ain't easy fightin an old boy named Sue

So I hit him in the head with a cane back chair
And he screamed, "Hey dad, you mussed my hair!"
And he hit me in the navel and knocked out a piece of my lint

He was spittin blood, I was spittin teeth
And we crashed through the wall and out into the street
Kickin and gouging in the mud and the blood and the creme de menthe

Then out of his garter he pulls a gun
I'm about to get shot by my very own son
He's screaming about Sigmund Freud and looking grim - woo
So I though fast and I told him some stuff
How I named him Sue just to make him tough
And I guess he bought it cause now I'm living with him

Yea he cooks and sews and cleans up the place
He cuts my hair and shaves my face
And irons my shirts better than a daughter could do
And on the nights that I can't score
Well, I can't tell you any more
But it sure is a joy to have a boy named Sue
Yeah a son is fun but it's a joy to have a boy named Sue!

[StoneGold]

Hah! Beat ya!

[Donald M.]

Hah! Beat ya!

Well shit, if that doesn't deserve to be posted twice, nothing does!

[Paradox]

You say you have a problem "up in here" and then show a little girl on the toilet.

**backs away slowly, making no sudden moves**

[StoneGold]

You say you have a problem "up in here" and then show a little girl on the toilet.

**backs away slowly, making no sudden moves**

Yeah, I was originally going to say something about how if I had to take my computer into the Geek Squad, I was going to get arrested now, but didn't. Probably because I hadn't figured out how to coach it in those kinds of words at that point. And didn't feel like going "Thanks pal for the kiddy porn."

[BoosterBronze]

Let me reccomend "BoosterBronze" as a boys name. It's just oozing nobility, and already has a proud legacy of over 4000+ posts that have brought joy to the masses.

[Sir Tim Drake]

Let me suggest the following:

Groo
Arcadio
Taranto
Pal
Drumm
Minstrel
Sage
Grativo
Ahax
Mulch
Egassemneddih

[Spike-X]

Asterix
Tintin
Kaneda
Tetsuo
Ogami
Daigoro

[Ben Morgan]

Seven.


.

[COMIC GEEK]

Let me suggest the following:

Groo
Arcadio
Taranto
Pal
Drumm
Minstrel
Sage
Grativo
Ahax
Mulch
Egassemneddih

um yeah, I dont see us naming our kid after yard material

[Typo Lad]

Name him after a beloved dead relative.

If all your beloved relatives are still alive, there are ways around it.

[Ronald Bryan]

How about:

Makoto
Shingo
Katsumi
Bunpei
Toshirio
Shinsuke
Naoki
Daisuke

[Hellbaby]

Mud.

As in the Primus song "My name is Mud".

[Ronald Bryan]

Jonas

As in the Weezer song "My Name is Jonas"

[Hellbaby]

Earl.

As in My Name is Earl

[Spike-X]

Slim Shady?

[Ronald Bryan]

Bruce

As in My Name is Bruce (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489235/)

[Gingold]

Depending on what floor you live on, Luka might be a good choice.

[Spike-X]

Virgil Caine?

[morna]

Actually I think Kirby is an awesome name. It has character, it's not too common yet kinda familiar. It has a kind of friendly sound to it too. I have a friend who's into comics and he named his cat Kirby (he says Kirby's named after a childhood friend though). I just really liked it as a name.

[Ronald Bryan]

How about Ronald Ellis Bryan IV, so I don't have to.

[StoneGold]

Live in the moment: Mephisto.

[Spike-X]

Actually I think Kirby is an awesome name. It has character, it's not too common yet kinda familiar. It has a kind of friendly sound to it too. I have a friend who's into comics and he named his cat Kirby (he says Kirby's named after a childhood friend though). I just really liked it as a name.

Hasn't somebody here already named their kid Kirby?

[Ben Morgan]

How about Cedric?

[StoneGold]

Hasn't somebody here already named their kid Kirby?

Scott Shaw!?

[Spike-X]

Yeah, he! could be who I'm thinking of.

[COMIC GEEK]

my wife liked TROY... but I dunno

[Matt Algren]

Depending on what floor you live on, Luka might be a good choice.
Wow, you're old.

Me too, but still. That is one ancient song.

[K'Nort]

Wow, you're old.

Me too, but still. That is one ancient song.

If it's after my parents' time, it's not ancient.

[morna]

Yeah, he! could be who I'm thinking of.
even if so, just 'cause he! did doesn't mean you can't.
Wow, you're old.

Me too, but still. That is one ancient song.

It is?

[Spike-X]

even if so, just 'cause he! did doesn't mean you can't.

Oh, of course. That's not what I was getting at at all.

It is?

No it isn't, dammit!!

[Dr. Hfuhruhurr]

We named our son "Riley." We also considered a bunch of other names, most of which escape me now, but one of them was "Connor."

We nixed that one in particular because, when my wife was 4 months pregnant, Lacy Peterson went missing and later turned up dead, along with her unborn baby boy, Connor.

To most people, that wouldn't be a big deal, but since my name is Scott Petersen (note the spelling difference), it hit a little too close to home.

The number of fishing jokes I had to deal with while that case was big in the media would curl your hair.