names

[Happy Gram]

When you hear someone say a name you don't care for..... how do you react? How about Ed... being Edgar instead of Edward?? If it were your husband's name would you care what people thought? He goes by Ed but on legal docs it appears.. you won't believe how rude people can be......

[spot]

Edgar's a perfectly respectable name, lots of Anglo-Saxon kings were called Edgar. The winner in the King Lear Final is usually an Edgar too.

There may be names I'd not give a dog but to put any into this thread is risky, there's bound to be one among the membership.

[Happy Gram]

Sometimes one's kind words can heal in ways one does not know... thank you... and God bless you for your kind words.... :0)

[Santanico]

Edgar is also the name of the talking computer in the 1984 movie "Electric Dreams" one of my favourite movies when I was a kid

I don't really have a problem with any names, a rose by any other name etc.....

[Happy Gram]

ah, you're sweet.... but what if someoneheard the name and laughed or snickered?? How would you reply?

[Santanico]

I have a fairly unusual name (or it was when I was growing up) so I got hassled a lot for it. As an adult, if someone laughed at my name, I guess it would depend on the situation, but I'd probably just ask them outright if they have a problem. At the end of the day though, you have to chose your battles, and I've got more important things to worry about than whether someone like my name or not.

[Happy Gram]

The funny thing is.... I don't give a rat's whatever... WHAT anyone's name is... I like THEM PERIOD or not....... but I tend to get 'stuck' and obsess... again, back to my lovely critical and judgemental mother... remarks she made early on when I married Ed.... and he couldn't be a better guy.........

[spot]

Originally Posted by Happy Gram

ah, you're sweet.... but what if someoneheard the name and laughed or snickered?? How would you reply?

I will preserve myself: and am bethought to take the basest and most poorest shape that ever penury, in contempt of man, brought near to beast. My face I'll grime with filth; blanket my loins: elf all my hair in knots and with presented nakedness out-face the winds and persecutions of the sky.

[fuzzy butt]

Originally Posted by spot

I will preserve myself: and am bethought to take the basest and most poorest shape that ever penury, in contempt of man, brought near to beast. My face I'll grime with filth; blanket my loins: elf all my hair in knots and with presented nakedness out-face the winds and persecutions of the sky.

Oh stop it ..........you know you turn me on when you talk like that!!!

I'll be back in a minute ................I need to go do .........stuff.

[jennyswan]

I would think it rather childish to laugh at someones name especially if you're grown up enough to know that it's hurtful and rude. A good answer would be, "my mother gave me this name because she knew I was born to stand out"