Names. What is in a name? Quite a lot actually. Here goes: three days ago my sister had a little baby, *aah*, and she's decided to call her "Isabella Catrin Augusta Lynn". Now, Catrin is a really pretty name (it's Welsh), and I don't have too much against Isabella (I might even call her Belle) but Augusta just reminds me of golf. I do, however, have to be a little grateful when I think that the other names being considered were Saschia and Taloola. Now these were just little gripes that I was going to keep to myself, but I read an article in The Times section 3 (the English Times) entitled "Fettucine, please don't fidget" addressing the issue that "wacky names are all the rage for posh parents", and it's true, where are people going to get off? It's not that I have a problem with odd or different names (just look at mine for Christ's sake), but I do have a thing against names like "Fifi Trixibelle" (-Paula Yates and Bob Geldof), "Elijah Bob Particus Guggi Q Hewson (-Bono and his wife), "Missy" (-Damon Albarn, I mean come on... Miss Missy Albarn!) or "2la" (-a real middle name), because I hate it when people try to be different or cool just for the sake of it. You just have to look at Zowie Bowie... he's changed his name to Joe. Good on him. Well I'm sorry if I've offended anyone who's called Wisteria (a flower) or Cumulus (a cloud), and for my over use of quote marks, and I'll be even more sorry if my sister reads this! Sooo, Lots of love and hugs, Ttfn, Llywelyn xxx "If there was only one truth you could still make a hundred paintings of it" - Pablo Picasso +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+