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Anonymous wrote:You aren't very bright.

Ok, I am new around here. Currently pregnant. I have not spent ANY of time with my friends discussing baby names now or in the past. I don't know what's trendy and really don't care about the top 100 names on the SS list or top 100 girl/boy of DC. So I am asking this question really because I don't understand why all folks talk so bad about folks who choose the trendy name. If someone likes the trendy name, why are they considered not "very bright"?

I am naming my son David after DH, who was named after his father. I don't think it is trendy, but because it is very traditional and I guess common. Are DC folks going to think I'm not very bright because of such a common name choice? Not that I care, I'm just wondering why people make such comments. Honest question.

What name choice signifies that you are very bright?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mary
Elizabeth

You definitely attend church

Anonymous wrote:Mary
Elizabeth

Anonymous wrote:Viggo
Juniper
Marigold
Dominic

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:George and Mary

You decided to name your daughter Mary in college after meeting your English Literature professor, who was named Mary and who loved Chaucer. You had never met such an elegant woman as Dr. X, and while nobody would ever have dared to address the professor as Mary, you started to build up quite the mythology around the professor in your mind, and since she was the only person you had ever met named Mary, you came to associate the name with the lovely, elegant, whip-smart professor with the perfect little heart face, red lipstick, and unruly lion's mane of hair. Mary. You would one day name your daughter Mary, you decided, and you did. Your own Mary, who is now 17, looks eerily like her professor namesake, except your Mary is something of a math prodigy. She's been accepted to MIT, and you are bursting with pride, but also with frustration. This weekend you had to take Mary's bedroom door off its hinges after catching her with her boyfriend, Paris, in her room once again. Paris is a nice boy, but he and Mary are far more serious and intense in their relationship than you think is healthy at this point. Also, he's going to a less prestigious state school and you are sure the relationship will fizzle out soon enough.

George is Mary's Irish twin, just 11 months younger than his sister, and everybody says he's the handsomest teen boy they've ever seen. He's tall and well-built and has improbably clear skin for his age, and his blue eyes are strikingly icy with thick dark lashes. George is a math prodigy like his sister, and you secretly die a little inside each time your husbands asserts that George is "just a little bit Asperger-y", though you know what he means. George has three good friends, though, and the boys have a 48 hour video game tournament at your house every weekend you allow it. So far he hasn't dated, but you know girls have crushes on him because Mary keeps you informed.

Your husband Luther is an electric engineer from Cleveland, and he did his doctorate at Case Western. He wants to move back to the midwest to be close to family, and so far you have resisted, but recently you have begun to wonder if maybe you should reconsider. Luther's 3 siblings and their spouses live in Shaker Heights, and you are particularly close to his sister, Susan. You sometimes fantasize about living near Susan, staying at home, and working on your tennis serve at the club. Big law has been quite the trip, but you are ready to focus a little more on you.

Please tell me you write books and where I can buy them.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Joseph
Sasha

In retrospect, you made a tactical error. You asked to name Joseph after your grandfather who had recently passed and DH agreed. Then when you were pregnant with your 2nd son, DH chose Alexander and insists that everyone call him Sasha (after his older brother who passed at an early age). Dh's family...they emigrated to the US in the early 90s, and are now hardcore libertarians and covid deniers, at least they hate Trump! Joseph is a great kid, smart, athletic, polite-just someone who everyone likes. Sasha is small for his age but makes up for it in toughness. He will fight anyone, anywhere. You make him meditate every day, even though DH laughs at you. Currently, you and Dh are arguing about whether Sasha should be allowed to study martial arts (DH says it will give him self-discipline, but you are worried he won't get out of middle school without breaking someone's jaw).

Oh how I love this!

But alas, Sasha is a girl.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Joseph
Sasha

In retrospect, you made a tactical error. You asked to name Joseph after your grandfather who had recently passed and DH agreed. Then when you were pregnant with your 2nd son, DH chose Alexander and insists that everyone call him Sasha (after his older brother who passed at an early age). Dh's family...they emigrated to the US in the early 90s, and are now hardcore libertarians and covid deniers, at least they hate Trump! Joseph is a great kid, smart, athletic, polite-just someone who everyone likes. Sasha is small for his age but makes up for it in toughness. He will fight anyone, anywhere. You make him meditate every day, even though DH laughs at you. Currently, you and Dh are arguing about whether Sasha should be allowed to study martial arts (DH says it will give him self-discipline, but you are worried he won't get out of middle school without breaking someone's jaw).