[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Popular and Unpopular Names

[Kathryn Cawte]

David said -
 
Um... I see the value of a partner here: to put a spoke in your plans 
to blight your children's lives with the freight of your personal 
unfulfilled dreams. You can get your revenge by doing the same to 
your partner, thus giving your offspring a chance to grow up.
 
David, thinking there might be a *reason* evolution ended up with a 
system where children play their parents off against one another
 

Me -

Oh I agree absolutely - and without such a system of parents frustrating one
another I might have been named Amanda Belinda  - both wonderful names in
their own right I'm sure, but hideous in combination. (my father wanted me
to have the initials abc). Actually my father's story was that it was my
mother's idea and he was stopping her.

Of course for the nine months my mother was carrying me they referred to me
as Manfred so I have to doubt the sanity of both of them.

Kathryn
*thinking at least people can spell Amanda*