It's a Biblical name, even.

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As I said at the time of the previous conversation, it's not "Simian," it's "Simeon." A subtle distinction, but an important one.

I'm perfectly okay with naming your child "Simeon," despite the likelihood of confusion. It's not the same as naming your child Unique (possibly spelled differently), as a girl I knew once was named. (Conformist creature that she was!) Or any other of a number of wretched names I've seen bestowed on perfectly innocent children.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

My wife has worked in a daycare, and one of her kids was named Darth.

I kid you not.

Fair's fair; as soon as they're old enough to talk, the kids should get to rename their parents.

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Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

i thought all kids called their parents ********...

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I think that's only in Australia.

P.S. You may have to block out the entire word. Apparently common Australian words of endearment aren't acceptable here, even in partial form.

While in a carpool back in the early 1990s, we had a "kill time while stuck in traffic" contest: what was the most unusual name you'd ever heard.

The part-time Baptist minister won. He related that a couple in his congregation had named their daughter "Steriliza".

Then there's the 2003 winner of The Masters, Michael Weir. Didn't his parents realize there are things called "nicknames"?

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A person's name, or a mark representing it, as signed personally or by deputy, as in subscribing a letter or other document.

No, and neither did the parents of Michael Hunt, someone an ex-boyfriend of mine went to school with.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Why is it that all our terms of endearment are swear words everywhere else?

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There is no dark side of the moon really, as a matter of fact it's all dark - Pink Floyd, The Dark Side Of The Moon

Does that say something about you or about the rest of the world, do you think?

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

us, clearly

actually... maybe both

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There is no dark side of the moon really, as a matter of fact it's all dark - Pink Floyd, The Dark Side Of The Moon

Perhaps we're just more honest here.

Maybe there's just more ********'s there, and the kids are right.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Preaching to choir here, I get many versions of the same name where I work.
There is a british actor who played gay germen officer in "Allo 'Allo
and the actors name was Guy Siner.

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If it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space.
Contact Carl Sagan

Well we do have kids here named Colt.

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I'll mention that most English first names used to actually mean something, even though the meaning may have been lost long before English actually existed.

Having names that mean something is quite common. If you go to Japan and start translating names into English you soon realize that there are an awful lot of hippies in Japan.

Like what Val Kilmer said about his name "Nick" in the 1984 movie Top Secret! "My Dad thought of it while he was shaving."

That was Val Kilmer? Wow, my respect for him just went up a notch. (Nipples on the Batsuit indeed.)

Well, that was back in the day, before he started believing his own press.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

I think it was his first movie.