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what are ‘weak stims’. sounds very worrying!

David T!!!

Weak stims are the sort of thing you might get from the Littlewoods catalogue, underwear section.

Chris Le Breton is describes himself as a “Leadership Coach & Change Agent, Environmental Trainer & Facilitator
Institutional Adviser and Strategic Thinker”. Including the fact that he is a LibDem, I make that seven reasons not to vote for him.

This “out of the ordinary middle-name” thing seems to be an American invention. The theory seems to be that you take an ordinary name and stick something esoteric in between forename and surname, so that “Mary Bloggs” becomes “Mary Forensic Bloggs” (that particular middle name is sported by a friend of a facebook friend.)

It is getting more common over here among parents who wish to give their precious new-born a name that reflects his/her uniqueness in the world while avoiding them getting beaten up at school, laughed at in the workplace and so on. Hence names like “Chloe Morninglight Smith”, “Jake Tiger Jones”.

I once worked with someone called Kim Moistner, and it was a bloke.

I know people called Twatt, and blokes called Clare.

Stim away David T http://www.littlewoods.com/rf/s.do/women/lingerie?N=151+4294484609&Np=1&Nu=this_product&seo=t

My favourite was Robert Scarborough Ferris, but then I had lived in the town, and this one shows my age.

We’ve a Helen Maria Foster-Grime on the north west lib dem’s list.

Not a middle name but Labour have a candidate in Yorkshire called David Bowe which made me do a double take.

Weak stims are the sort of thing you might get from the Littlewoods catalogue, underwear section.

Speak for yourself, David T!

David T

Why are you allowed to make fun of names but a blogger here (named after an eponymous hun) gets to accuse me of racism?

Thats got to be racist ( I don’t know why but it seems unfair so it must be).

Anyway I have a very weird first and middle name.

Graham

Not quite true, or at least its a bit naff to do that. What is really, really cool though is to use just the middle initial.

No writer or politician or generally famous dude would be seen without a tempting, begging, seducing, middle initial.

It is getting more common over here among parents who wish to give their precious new-born a name that reflects his/her uniqueness in the world while avoiding them getting beaten up at school, laughed at in the workplace and so on. Hence names like “Chloe Morninglight Smith”, “Jake Tiger Jones”.

You’re referred to Freakonomics for an analysis of all this sort of stuff. It’s certainly noticeable that a mural containing the names of all thirty children in a primary school class (a CofE church school) in a city centre carpark contains about twenty six given names that scream `poor ill-educated black’. What is it about the black community that forces made-up names on their children? Isn’t it just doing the racists work for them before interview?

[[ Yes, I know the argument that you shouldn't have to modify your behaviour to accommodate bigots. But people who say that should fight their own battles, not send their children called Gaylord and Lesbia out in hand-knitted tunics to fight them by proxy. ]]

No writer or politician or generally famous dude would be seen without a tempting, begging, seducing, middle initial.

I sported a middle initial for thirty years. I can’t remember why I started doing it, but I’ve only recently (in my mid forties) decided that it’s twat-ish.

Dinti Batstone is a charming name, worthy of PG Wodehouse or Agatha Christie and she’s also a talented polyglot by all accounts, which is a damn good thing in my estimation.

Denis Macshane, whilst still being an EUphile, improves with age and acquits himself well with a non-partisan article in the Indy today:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/denis-macshane-end-the-cant-and-save-bill-cash-for-the-nation-1693377.html

London offers us Warwick Lightfoot for the Tories, Gene Alcatara as an Independent and, best of all Janus Polenceus, for the English Democrats. In the East of England I notice a Jasmijn De Boo (Ind), an Earnshaw Palmer (LD) and a Carlo de Chair (Libertas). In the North West No2EU has Roger Bannister as its number one candidate. I assume it is not the former athlete.

Across the water, there are some splendid Irish names on the ballot papers: Proinsias De Rossa (Lab) in the Dublin region. In the North West Fianna Fail’s Paschal Mooney has a name with a lovely ring to it while his fellow Fianna Failer insists on being known as Pat “the Cope” Gallagher

bill @ 31 May 2009, 1:39 pm

“In the North West No2EU has Roger Bannister as its number one candidate. I assume it is not the former athlete.

Across the water, there are some splendid Irish names on the ballot papers: Proinsias De Rossa (Lab) in the Dublin region”

Roger Bannister is a notorious trotskyite of the “Socialist Party ” or Militant tendency. He was one of the first six expelled in the Liverpool purge. The athlete & Dr of the same name was a Conservative.

Proinsias de Rossa is one of those people who created his own name in his chosen language. He was previously known as Frank Ross.

Alan, as you say, de Rossa is using the Irish form of his name, possibly because it looks better on campaign literature. The Oireachtas website used to helpfully list the Irish forms of all ministers’ names regardless of their preferred form. Thus Bertie Ahern became Parthalán Ó hEachthairn, Willie O’Dea became Liam Ó Deaghaidh etc. Oilibhéar Cromail would not have stood for that sort of thing.

Wikipedia has a table listing all the UK euro election regions, with links to all the candidate lists for each region.

I only checked a couple of them, but a few gems immediately caught the eye:

Benjamin Caraduc Tallis, Libertas NW

Silke Thompson-Potterbohm, Labour SE

Jason Kitcat (I kid you not!) Greens SE

I also know that the deeply irritating TV chef Rustie Lee is on the UKIP list for one of the regions. When asked what she knew about Brussels, she told a reporter “they are looovly fried with a bit of garlic“.

I thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank you.

Two Warwicks; Lightfoot for the Tories, and Hunt for the BNP (probably).

Ms Muffley Prins can’t be any relation to the US President Merkin Muffley ['Gentlemen, you can't fight in here...this is the War Room!'] can she? If so she can have as military advisers General Jack D Ripper and Colonel Bat Guano. Nice to see life outdoing art.

tonyS, surely Berkeley Hunt for the BNP?

Given what I have heard about the BNP’s stance towards the Irish I was surprised to see Seamus Padraic Dunne standing for them in the East.

Also “Proclaiming Christ’s Lordship” as a party name made me chuckle. Though they have Hans-Christian Raabe standing in my region, Who sounds cool. Though with Christabel McLean Bacchus standing in the South East, they are hopefully great partyers ;-)

There is also a Leslie John West in the East, and a Adam John Lewis Buick in London, presumably he is well connected

But perhaps the most interesting (imo) is Jean-Louis Pascual standing for, and sole member of, the Roman Party, Avel. Certainly the most elusive party. A quick google search reveals little other then he was born in France (with a name like that! I know, the mind boggles) and is a bus driver. Apparently the party platform is “When in Rome…” presumably telling us what he would do with an MEP expense account if he goes to the parliament :-p

There were a few “[/groan]’s” in my post lampshading my admittedly weak jokes, though apparently they get deleted when put in

It’s the “Roman Party, Ave!” to be exact; I previously came across a reference to them earlier (links removed to get past the filter)
which led to this

The “Roman Party” is listed in the [Reading] Evening Post as:

‘Jean-Louis Pascual, a bus driver who was born in France but has lived in this counrty for 11 years, explained the Roman Party referred to the phrase “When in Rome do as the Romans do”.

He said: “This is all about people coming to this country and becoming part of the community.

“There are some people who come here and stay separate, living in groups and keeping to their own culture.

“It is fine to keep in your own culture in your home, but outside it you should not be separate.”

Mr Pascual, 36, of Watlington Street, is standing for Reading Borough Council because he wants to be a “minister or president” in his own country.

He told the Evening Post: “I believe that if I get recognition in this country then I will be recognised in my own country. It is difficult to come to power in France if you are not wealthy.”

He said because he was single and without children and family here, he could not be corrupted.

He also suggests British jails should be moved abroad to Russia and the money saved should be spent on the NHS.

Here in Eastern England, Jasmijn De Boo is the leader of an “animal rights” (groan) party called “Animals Count”; I believe for once the Glenda Slagg line about “crazy name, crazy person” might have a ring of truth about it.

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‘Why are you allowed to make fun of names but a blogger here (named after an eponymous hun) gets to accuse me of racism?’

Now come on Mettaculture, you yourself say how much you appreciate the rich and valuable contribution made by racists as a group to our island’s heritage. And didn’t you say that it’s ok to be racist, because Winston Churchill was ?

So you should really take it as a compliment when someone calls you a racist.

What about Jamie Oliver’s latest child -Petal Blossom Rainbow Oliver.
I do sometimes wonder if parents take into account that one day that cute little baby is going to be an 80 year-old.
I know a Strawberry, a Magic, a River and an Imagination -all first names.

At least the English-speaking cultures don’t have patronymics to pass these bad decisions down to another generation.

I did muse in a (very) idle moment that little Petal may hold it against her parents for drifting into choosing for her a lazily generic name, Petal, after her more flower specific sisters, Poppy and Daisy.

Rules is rules, darling!

I heard people in an Opera queue calling their children Tristan and Isolde.

Awkward names can metamorphosize into magic. The name of a German poet, Klopstock means knockstick, but when you say his name it evokes streams of pre-romantic storm and stress lyrical poetry.

I had a friend called Dorothea Umbrellamaker (Schirmmacher). When I first knew her I found it hard not to giggle, but now the name sounds perfectly normal.

Mozart’s full name was Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

My father was determined that his children would have only one normal sounding first name. I am responsible my self for adding an unwanted middle name. My name had sounded like a real hard brick of a Germanic name and I wanted to get rid of it. I felt like those people who say they are women trapped in a man’s body. I adopted a my mother’s name and Felix from the composer Mendelssohn, Greta Garbo’s lover in Grand Hotel, and Schumann’s youngest son. But I was advised to keep the unwanted German name as a middle name so that there would be some connection to the birth certificate.

I’m in favour of name-changing. Doris Day sounds better than Dorothy Kappelhofer,

In the early days of British ballet Russian names had to be adopted, so Alice Marks became Alicia Markova. Later new English names were adopted, so Margaret Eveylin Hookham became Margot Fonteyn, Lynn Springrett became Lynn Seymour. More recently British dancers no longer change their names so you can have Swan Lake danced by Betsy Plunkett.

There’s an English Democrat candidate called David Wildgoose

At least the English-speaking cultures don’t have patronymics to pass these bad decisions down to another generation.

There are still a few “Marksena’s” running around in the countries which do!

I work with a girl called FRIDAY FEBRUARY ELEVEN BIDDLE.

Guess what her birthday is