Today, my boyfriend has had name ideas for his future son and daughter even before I met him, but so have I. He disregards my ideas and suggestions, and is hell bent on giving our kids names because he likes "the way they sound." 'Hippopotamus' sounds good, but who’d name their kids that? FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my husband and I agreed that he would name our first born and I would name our second. He's dead-set on naming our child "Raindropp" no matter whether it's a boy or girl. FML
Today, my husband and I were talking about names for our expectant child. I told him since I named our daughter he could name our son. He's decided on a name from 'God of War'. My son is going to be named after a make-believe cartoon character - Kratos. FML
Today, me and my husband are having our first big marital argument. Our baby still doesn’t have a name, all because I want to call her a normal name and he wants to call her some obscure name from an anime he really likes. I’ve never seen him this stubborn about anything this stupid. FML
Today, my girlfriend of three days asked if we could start naming our future children. FML
Today, we got our daughter's birth certificate. Turns out my husband thought it would be funny to give her a middle name, which we never discussed, and he picked one to sound funny. Not actually going to tell the internet her name, but it’s as bad as calling a boy Ben Dover. I’m furious. FML
Today, my French wife chose the name of our unborn baby girl. She wants to call her Fanny and won't change her mind. FML
Today, I learned that the hardest part of marrying a historian is choosing baby names. His top choices derive from two Roman magistrates, two abbesses, a tenth-century author, and an obscure Greek official. I already let him name our pug, for whom he chose the name "Tertullianus." FML
Today, while picking names for our unborn daughter, my mom decided to help by providing a list of names she absolutely won’t accept because they’re all women she hates for insane reasons. It has over 300 common names on it. Every time we pick another name, boom, there it is on her damn list. FML
Today, my mother-in-law insisted my wife and I name our unborn son “Aladdin” She thinks the name is perfect and will “match well because it’s an Arabian name” and “Aren’t you Arabian?” I’m Egyptian. FML
Today, I discovered that my wife named our kids after her former lovers. We have two sons and a daughter. FML
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BurnInDemonFire 39
Your boyfriend needs to take your kid's future into account. Not only will they be constantly teased at school for being called Hippopotamus, or Hippo for short, but what employer is going to take a resumé from "Hippopotamus Jones" seriously? They'd look at it, and either consider it some lame attempt at a prank, or a mistake your kid should have corrected, then it'd be thrown in the trash. Maybe meet halfway, and call the kid "Harpo". Everyone loves the Marx Brothers.
MidnaLink 35
I'm trying to be as nice as possible when I say this... nope can't do it! Is he ******* insane?
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BurnInDemonFire 39
Your boyfriend needs to take your kid's future into account. Not only will they be constantly teased at school for being called Hippopotamus, or Hippo for short, but what employer is going to take a resumé from "Hippopotamus Jones" seriously? They'd look at it, and either consider it some lame attempt at a prank, or a mistake your kid should have corrected, then it'd be thrown in the trash. Maybe meet halfway, and call the kid "Harpo". Everyone loves the Marx Brothers.
MidnaLink 35
I'm trying to be as nice as possible when I say this... nope can't do it! Is he ******* insane?
RichardPencil 32
Elon Musk? Frank Zappa? Hippopotamus will need to be as big and dangerous as a hippopotamus or he's going to get beaten up regularly. --Signed Richard Pencil
oneonta 8
hmmmm... maybe don't marry this one...
juggalo2 22
I have always wanted to name my daughter Allie. Middle name Gator.
spinspinsugar 12
he sounds dumb. for the rest of humanity's sake please do not procreate with him
Kristin Elizabeth Maine_165963054 4
YDI if you willingly choose to procreate with this dude. He gave you all the warning you need that he is, in fact, a whole dumbass. If you move forward with this, you are also, in fact, a whole dumbass.
SJKatt 15
Maybe you could call them Tamus (Thomas)? In all seriousness though, do not ever name a child Hippopotamus
Taurus_ChicKa 37
Is that really someone you want to have kids with at all?