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Help[Opinions] Disturbing birth announcement name from paper
Ok, anyone reading this, please make sure you're sitting down! Are you sitting? Alright, I saw an announcement for a newborn little girl and her name shocked me. It's, Buffy Willow! Buffy fans unite anyone? Her parents are Andrew and Lisa-Maree and she has siblings Charlotte-Ruby and Zane. Doesn't really seem to fit does it? Well not imo anyway. Charlotte Ruby would have been nice, as a fn/mn combo, not a double fn. Although I'd prefer Ruby Charlotte even more. Anyway, opinions on Buffy Willow are most welcome. I can't wait to hear this!
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I don't find it disturbing [m]
In General:
I don't see any differene then using name(s) from anything else a person likes (movies, authors, music, et). I don't see why people need to use "dumb" or "stupid" to describe something someone really likes whatever it may be. I think you can say what you need to say about the subject even being blunt about it, but in a tactful way. You don't need to go out of your way to be harsh to someone's tastes just because one doesn't like it (IMO). This is a huge pet peeve of mine.
The person might like Buffy the Vampire Slayer what's so bad or wrong about that? The parents might be a Buffy fan then again thy might not be that's just my two cents on the overall subject.
About the Name:
I like the name Buffy I'd never use it in general, but as a NN it's cute. Willow makes a nice middle name but it's way overused.
In General:
I don't see any differene then using name(s) from anything else a person likes (movies, authors, music, et). I don't see why people need to use "dumb" or "stupid" to describe something someone really likes whatever it may be. I think you can say what you need to say about the subject even being blunt about it, but in a tactful way. You don't need to go out of your way to be harsh to someone's tastes just because one doesn't like it (IMO). This is a huge pet peeve of mine.
The person might like Buffy the Vampire Slayer what's so bad or wrong about that? The parents might be a Buffy fan then again thy might not be that's just my two cents on the overall subject.
About the Name:
I like the name Buffy I'd never use it in general, but as a NN it's cute. Willow makes a nice middle name but it's way overused.
This message was edited 4/13/2008, 10:25 AM
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I never called anyone dumb or stupid. I just find the name combo to not be to my taste and I find it tacky in all honesty. It's because of the Buffy association really, not that the show was bad, I just wouldn't name a child of mine after two characters from a tv show that was way before their time.
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no not you [m]
I mean other people were saying it was dumn and stupid :o).
I mean other people were saying it was dumn and stupid :o).
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Buffy Willow? Yuck. I don't like it. At all. It sounds like one of those names that sounds great and cute on a small baby but don't fit a grown up person. Besides, Buffy sounds like a cat's name. And Willow is plain right silly.
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I don't like the name Buffy at all. When watching the series, I always thought that Buffy is such a silly name for a person. It sounds like the name of a dog of Paris Hilton to me. Willow is nice, but with Buffy it's just way too 'vampire slayer'.
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Oh SOMEONES a Buffy fan!
Either that or they liked the two names together and didn't know about the show. In any case, it doesn't seem to fit.
:0)
Either that or they liked the two names together and didn't know about the show. In any case, it doesn't seem to fit.
:0)
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Ha ha ha.
I was always a great fan of "Buffy, The Vampire Slayer", and I always thought Buffy was a great role model (before season 6 came along, at least). She was my favourite female character on the show, but if I were to name my daughter after her, I would have used Summer (since Summers is Buffy's surname). But the name Buffy will simply invite teasing, à la "Buffy is in the buff!" That kind of thing. It works for a fictional heroine, but not in real life.
As for Willow: it is a perfectly normal name to me and it is the name of Will Smith's daughter. I don't like the character of Willow very much myself, so I definitely wouldn't ever have used that name.
The combination of the two names isn't so bad, but I think the child would have been better off if it had been Willow Buffy instead. But I think she will probably go by her middle name at some point in the future, anyway - after the teasing became too much for her.
All in all, it could have been much worse. Yes, the names simply scream "Buffy, The Vampire Slayer" - but at least she was not saddled up with one of those awfully kre8tiv names, like Mikhaylah Dysteney.
I was always a great fan of "Buffy, The Vampire Slayer", and I always thought Buffy was a great role model (before season 6 came along, at least). She was my favourite female character on the show, but if I were to name my daughter after her, I would have used Summer (since Summers is Buffy's surname). But the name Buffy will simply invite teasing, à la "Buffy is in the buff!" That kind of thing. It works for a fictional heroine, but not in real life.
As for Willow: it is a perfectly normal name to me and it is the name of Will Smith's daughter. I don't like the character of Willow very much myself, so I definitely wouldn't ever have used that name.
The combination of the two names isn't so bad, but I think the child would have been better off if it had been Willow Buffy instead. But I think she will probably go by her middle name at some point in the future, anyway - after the teasing became too much for her.
All in all, it could have been much worse. Yes, the names simply scream "Buffy, The Vampire Slayer" - but at least she was not saddled up with one of those awfully kre8tiv names, like Mikhaylah Dysteney.
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It's ridiculous to impose your taste in TV soaps, of all things, on your children and anyway Buffy is such a silly name independetly from the show (it says here it's a nn for Elizabeth, which I've always found odd). Willow is a bit of a GP and I certainly wouldn't match it with Buffy, of all names.
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I see nothing wrong with that all!
Sincerely,
Chandler Ross, Josephine Phoebe, and Rachel Monica
* LOL, definitely a tad much.
Sincerely,
Chandler Ross, Josephine Phoebe, and Rachel Monica
* LOL, definitely a tad much.
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Yikes.
That's uncool. Much as I loved the show for the first few seasons, I'd never name my daughter that.
I mean, what if I was a fan of Scientology? Would I name my daughter Elle Ron? No. Or worse, the Simpsons? Homer Bart/Bart Homer. Ughhh.
That's uncool. Much as I loved the show for the first few seasons, I'd never name my daughter that.
I mean, what if I was a fan of Scientology? Would I name my daughter Elle Ron? No. Or worse, the Simpsons? Homer Bart/Bart Homer. Ughhh.
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o_O
Dear parents of the world,
Your child is not you. Please refrain from projecting your daydreams onto your infant offspring.
Regards,
Chrisell.
PS: They will never be a superhero even if you name them after one. C.
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Buffy Willow is just . . . blech. I look back and cringe at having liked the combo Gabrielle Xena when I was a teenager - thankfully I grew out of that one years ago! How embarrassing for the poor child. Buffy itself is bad enough, but to make it so overtly BtVS related . . . :-(
Dear parents of the world,
Your child is not you. Please refrain from projecting your daydreams onto your infant offspring.
Regards,
Chrisell.
PS: They will never be a superhero even if you name them after one. C.
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Buffy Willow is just . . . blech. I look back and cringe at having liked the combo Gabrielle Xena when I was a teenager - thankfully I grew out of that one years ago! How embarrassing for the poor child. Buffy itself is bad enough, but to make it so overtly BtVS related . . . :-(
This message was edited 4/12/2008, 10:08 PM
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