$475 for a stupid name??? What's wrong with people???

[firefox_fan]

<...> Denise McCombie, 37, a California mother of two who's expecting a daughter this fall, spent $475 to have a numerologist test her favorite name, Leah Marie, to see if it had positive associations. (It did.) This March, one nervous mom-to-be from Illinois listed her 16 favorite names on a tournament bracket and asked friends, family and people she met at baby showers to fill it out. The winner: Anna Irene. <...>

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118247444843644288.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

[Mythsaje]

1. There's probably a hundred thousand numerology engines on-line...

What an idiot.

[LiberalFighter]

2. If she truely believes in numerology

What happens when her daughter marries and takes her husband's name?

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

5. Maybe by then we'll be beyond the almost automatic

assumption that a woman takes her husband's name. Maybe he'll take hers. Or maybe they'll both keep their own. Or adopt a third one.

[Jonathan50]

8. I was married thirty years ago,

My wife kept her last name..

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

11. I've been married about the same length of time.

If it wasn't the fact that no one could read my maiden name & know how to pronounce it & if I didn't seem to spend an inordinate amount of time spelling & saying it, I would have kept it.

[Jonathan50]

13. Mine is five letters..

And almost no one can spell it correctly even when I spell it out for them. I have to go very slowly, one letter at a time..

And to anyone who reads phonetically the pronunciation is absolutely clear.

Go figure..

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

14. DH has a last name that even a first grader can read.

Funny thing; all three of my names are spelled in a 'slightly' unusual way-old fashioned. Mostly I give up & tell 'em to spell it however they want: I know who I am. :rofl:

[karlrschneider]

18. Is it Ghoti?

gh as in tough
o as in women
ti as in action

prounounced 'fish'

:rofl:

[Paulie]

17. I took my wife's surname

Went from an 11 letter Italian name to a 6 letter Polish one, with one letter that isn't in the english alphabet. But at least no one says "hey, your Italian" to which a long story unfolds that the person really didn't care to know on why I'm not Italian.... No one asks now. :D

[Paulie]

16. Self delete

wrong place for post...

[Double T]

3. sucker born every minute.............

:banghead:

[Catherine Vincent]

4. Some people have money to burn. n/t

[wtmusic]

6. I'll give her a great name for only $200.

Asshat's Daughter. :shrug:

[Fleshdancer]

7. Why not just name the baby Seven?

That's a lucky number, right? :shrug:

BTW, I'll gladly charge $475 for any additional advice on stupid shit. ;)

[firefox_fan]

10. $500 to name my doggie!

LOL

[izzie]

9. Guess she did not have enough to do.

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[mondo joe]

12. She could do worse things with her money. Like give it to the RNC, or a Televangelist.

:shrug:

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Ever get married?

Man, talk about a racket. There's your incentive to keep the ol' nuclear family together. Who wants to get ripped off like that twice?