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    Terrible Baby Names
    Terrible Baby Names
    Terrible Baby Names
    Ebook42 pages22 minutes

    Terrible Baby Names

    By Graham Barr

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    Let's face it, you'll have plenty of chances to humiliate your child as the years go by. Photos of them making stupid faces. Fuzzy animal outfits. Last year's mobile phone. They're all easy to hide, sell or return.

    Names stick. Some stink. Don't make the wrong choice!

    You might be inspired by an old relative's name, a special food, or maybe even your favourite celebrity. Not so fast, folks. Is your choice going to make your new arrival look like a fool?

    In this irreverent guide, Graham Barr helps you navigate the minefield of terrible titles, mockable monikers and naff names, to give your child the best chance in life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGraham Barr
    Release dateNov 17, 2013
    ISBN9781498966443
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      They don't have my name, Dahlia, which Americans cannot pronounce. "Daal-ya", "Duh-lila", "Delia", and so on. Otherwise, not bad.

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    Terrible Baby Names - Graham Barr

    Introduction

    I was one of the lucky ones, a boy whose parents went traditional when naming me. I'd like to think they did this to protect me in the playground. I needed as much help as I could get, seeing as I wore glasses from age 5 and never learned how to tie my own shoelaces (thanks, Velcro!).

    For a long time, the closest I ever came to name-based humiliation was people calling me Gray at school, their way of making fun of our grey old council house. Hardly traumatic.

    Then we come to the Summer of 2003. I was enjoying a cold glass of beer in a warm pub, with a few of my friends. A TV in the corner was tuned to a music channel, and we watched as a New Releases segment popped up. Comedy-rock troupe Electric Six blared through the tinny speakers, with their gaudy, Freudian video for Gay Bar.

    One of my friends looks at me and says Gray! Another says Bar!

    I think you can see where this is going. Even my seemingly safe name wasn't immune to mockery. My face went red, but as an adult, I could weather the storm. Twenty years earlier, I'd have been a gibbering mess.

    As I became a parent, I realised that giving your child an eternally laugh-proof name is a serious task. My wife and I had many drawn-out conversations/arguments on the topic, even before we knew what gender our little wonder would be. And out of those conversations, this book was born.

    Now, I can't stop you using whatever name you like. Just remember that you'll have plenty of chances to humiliate your child throughout their life.

    Choose your moments. And have a camera ready.

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    - Graham Gay Bar Barr

    Using This Book

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    Step 1: Read through the following names.

    Step 2: DO NOT USE ANY OF THE NAMES.

    Step 2a: If you have used a name, don't panic! Your country should have ways in which you can change your child's name, either before they can say it themselves, or once they have been ostracised by their peers, live in a cave and never call you, not even on holidays.

    Step 2b: Make their name change a birthday present. Have a renaming ceremony where you all dress nice and eat

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