"Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLWPD/RZO/BOZO" wrote:
>
> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > Van: Adam C. Lipscomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Verzonden: dinsdag 24 september 2002 03:06
> > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Onderwerp: Re: Baby names
>
> > Both times my wife was pregnant, I dealt with the unending series of
> > questions regarding potential baby names by informing everyone I met
> > that our children would get names reflective of their ethnic heritage -
> > Aethelred or Cuthbert if a boy, Hroswitha if a girl.
>
> How cruel... :-)
>
> Both times that Sonja was pregnant, we had to deal with that same question.
> We must have annoyed quite a lot of people, since we consistently refused to
> give any potential names but told people they would find out once the child
> was born.
That's what we did, too. It seemed that it drove some people up the
wall. :) I think my mother-in-law only asked about twice before she
saw it was futile. (She's learned by now that if we say we're not going
to say something, we're not going to say it.) Most folks respected our
position, or didn't even ask.
It's not really anyone else's business until the baby is born, IMO,
unless the couple is frantically searching for a name, in which case the
best thing to do is make constructive suggestions. ("Ignatius" is not a
*constructive* suggestion, but it's a pretty funny one. BTW, one fun
baby shower game is to get people to write down *ridiculous* suggestions
for baby names and give a prize for the one the mother-to-be thinks is
the best. We did that, and not one, but two guys came up with names
that included "Ignatius".)
Julia
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