[blparent] Baby names

Fri Apr 27 21:05:15 UTC 2012

the names orangejello and lemonjello are pronounced differently, It is
a more comen name then you think My step dad was a baseball coach and
had a couple of boys on his team names those names.

On 4/27/12, Erin Rumer <erinrumer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I know what you're saying!  Even though I have a pretty mellow name as
> far as taunts go I still got my name constantly spelled wrong like the male
> version as Aaron instead of the Irish version Erin.  The only one kids
> would
> use regularly when I was little is, "Erin's scarin everyone in town".  My
> last name was Elliott which I really liked and the only mean thing kids
> would say with that is "smelliott Elliott" but that was only mainly by one
> boy in particular and he stopped bugging me when I gave him a bit of a beat
> down on the playground with my cane. LOL  It is amazing how bullying really
> affects us all though because even though I didn't have a problem with
> hygiene, I still became a little self-conscious about it and kept checking
> my arm pits in the bathroom for a short period of time after that.  I know
> bullying is another topic but it just goes to show how powerful words are
> and names are something we live with forever.  I just feel terrible for
> those kids whose parents were obviously smoking something when they decided
> to name them!  My aunt is a maternity nurse  in a hospital and I kid you
> not
> when I tell you that a woman came in and had twin boys that she named
> Orangejello and Lemonjello.  I just hope for those boys sakes, they grow up
> to be really large so they can defend themselves on the playground. Grin
>
> Erin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 12:21 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Baby names
>
> Kids can come up with taunts you wouldn't believe.  Here are just a few I
> got with Jo as my name!
>
> "Whoa, Jo, you're too slow."
> "Jo-Jo was a man who thought he was a woman ..."
> "Jo, Jo, you stepped on my toe."
> "Yo, Jo, whadda ya know?"
> "Hey Jo, you're a pro.  I'm a poet and didn't know it."
>
> And so on, and so forth.  My brother got teased mercilessly for having the
> name Peter, which he didn't shorten to Pete.  I knew a kid in school who
> got
> called Fartin' Martin so much that he started going by his middle name.
>
> Actually, I think Daphy is a cute nickname.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of
> the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of
> these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Bridgit Pollpeter" <bpollpeter at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 1:12 PM
> To: <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [blparent] Baby names
>
>> I really like Dawson and Preston. For the girls, I like Daphne,
>> although a potential nicname, or taunt, could be Daffy. I may
>> over-analyze things, but I have considered possible nicnames and mean
>> names other kids could give, along with what the initials may spell.
>> When my cousin was naming his first daughter, they wanted Alexis Susan
>> Stoakes, which I had to point out would spell A S S, and they promptly
>> changed the middle name, smile.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
>> Read my blog at:
>> http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
>>
>> "History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
>> The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan
>>
>> Message: 15
>> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:34:01 -0700
>> From: "Erin Rumer" <erinrumer at gmail.com>
>> To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Baby names
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>>
>> Some of the names I love include:
>>
>> Boys names
>> Dawson, meaning "son of David"
>> Gideon
>> Preston
>> Levi
>> Grant
>> Avery
>> Denning
>>
>> Girls
>> Valerie
>> Laura
>> Theresa
>> Emerald
>> Daphne
>> Sierra
>> Vienna
>>
>> I love reading the names you all have been sharing.
>>
>> Erin
>>
>>
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