degradation -- I'm no GOPer
 

Republican? Damn, G3, I've never degraded you. Why the escalation?

For what it is worth
 

degradation -- I'm no GOPer
 

I never thought you were the batshit crazy stranger. The talking to kids think just didn't sound like you.

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Getting desperate to come up with a girl name before baby is born sometime this month. Anyone willing to post some of their favorites? Our two boys have relatively eclectic names - enough so that posting them could "out" me, but I bring it up to let you know that we're not looking for Emily, Hannah, Madison or Kaitlin (NTTAWThoseNames). At the same time, we're also probably not going to go with "Apple" or any other fruit or vegetable for that matter.

So, off the beaten path names that aren't totally loony?

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Isabella, Esme, Hildegard, Demetra, Eloise, Marina, Elena.

Electra, Gaia, Clementine, Adelphia, Anatolia, Cherisa, Hermione.

Alessandra, Livia, and, my favorite, Boudicca.

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I always liked "Maureen" and I think it's been out of fashion long enough to be off the beaten path, but it may be too ethnicity-specific.

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I won't give you names we've actually used/are considering, as that would be outable, but I personally hold deep love for:

Esmé (French for "esteemed" or "loved")
Niamh (pronounced "Neeve"; one syllable) (Irish for "light")
Nora (prob. from Latin for "honor" or "light")
Moira/Maura (Irish for "the great")

I recommend against "Semaj" for the reasons stated on the FB.

ETA: Apparently I should marry G3.

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Hoa- Vietnamese for peaceful flower pronounced hu-ah
Hana - Japanese pronounced Ha-na almost Hannah

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if Gilligan has only gone another season I'm sure there'd be a great response to this......

Spraypaint
 

Heh. "Trying out situations"? Usually we're just fixin to buy shit or feed ourselves, not experiment with the tolerance levels of 2 year olds (NTTAWWT). It's tempting to explain an annoying disturbance by blaming someone for it (i.e., the parent knew, or should have reasonably known, the child would freak, like the old intentional or wilful misconduct thing.) Usually, it has just happened through no fault of anyone. Anyhow, my kid is just exercising her freedom of speech. As they say, the remedy aint to shut her up, but rather "more speech" so I guess that means you can throw a yelling screaming hissy as well. Hijinks ensue!!!

Unless my child's crying is causing someone's hair (i.e., mine), or the actual building, to catch fire, I'm going to go ahead and pay for the two cartloads of groceries it's taken me 2 1/2 hours to gather thank you. Exit stragegy? That's gonna be your exit and your strategy, chicky. I'm staying put with my busload of groceries and apopletic kid. Anyhow, it's more practical for you to leave since you're only buying a pack of cigs, a coupla low carb items, condoms (NTTAWWT), overpriced anti-humectant hair lotion, and flavored coffee.

Actually, you HAVE, by frequenting a place where children are not banned.

Sounds fair to me. But that would also mean I can call you fat and that it bothers me and I wish you'd keep your largesse at home.

Now.....the bitter reality is you're going to have to just deal with my large horde of screaming, foreign born kids, and you and the rest of this great country's childless, nonhomeowners should just go ahead and keep chocking up that 25% of your paycheck to fund my brood's public schooling and other assorted public assistances.

Oh Beautiful For Gracious Skies!!!!

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I love this name, but it is at least as common lately as all those other names put together.

Spraypaint
 

oh, sweetie, why did you not scroll then post? "Given that it was Ty and bnb, and perhaps Atticus, with whom I was screwing around, I didn't think one of them would be that silly. I would not have responded in that way to, say, vietmom or even SAM."

I have deleted my bitchy mean fuck-with-your-kid response.

I will note that I have absolutely no problem with paying taxes, particularly to make education, child care (day care, sick kid day care, etc), health care better, and, jesus fucking christ, what is the relevance of where the damn kid was born? I have not noticed that foreign-born, american-raised children are brattier or anything. Nice of you to import all of those things into my relatively simple "I hate bratty kids" argument. If there were more and better child care options, fewer parents would be forced to bring their kids to, e.g., the DMV with them, a situation which is pretty much always going to result in a total meltdown.

Spraypaint
 

I would advocate for more and better DMV options first. I'm a giver.

Spraypaint
 

I am jealous that Atticus is posting from the future. Where I am, it won't be 5:06 PDT for another 40 minutes or so. If the markets weren't closed, we could get rich off of this.

eta: Gadzooks! I'm in the future, too. Now I'm going to have to hurry to get home to see my kids before bedtime!

Spraypaint
 

Funny thing is, I'd bet 10 dinners seated next to me and my kids at 3 there'd be fewer incidents than 10 dinners seated next to Fringe's table. don't you have that feeling?