old-fashioned names

April 1, 2007 6:46 PM

Can anyone help me find that great AskMe post from a while back that was about finding a nice, semi-unusual, old-fashioned boy's name for a baby?
posted by arcticwoman to MetaFilter-Related at 6:46 PM (17 comments total)

Is it this or this?
posted by cortex (staff) at 6:53 PM on April 1, 2007

It was the second one, cortex. Thanks a bunch.
posted by arcticwoman at 6:54 PM on April 1, 2007

I love that contessa suggests "Wilberforce" in both threads. Ha!!
posted by tristeza at 8:45 PM on April 1, 2007

The baseball-loving man of an expecting couple name Wagner wanted to name their son Honus. Distinctive? Yes. So much so that the wife and most women did not know why.
End of story: the baby is a girl.
posted by Cranberry at 9:14 PM on April 1, 2007

um, mathowie? cortex? Check your watches. We seem to have jumped into super daylight savings time. It is just after 8:00PM as I type.
posted by Cranberry at 9:16 PM on April 1, 2007

Yeah, there's something odd going on with the timing. My preference page disagrees with the reality of what I'm seeing, too.
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:24 PM on April 1, 2007

FWIW, I've created a flickr set of good old fashioned (and bizarre) names that I've found in cemeteries, specifically for threads like this.
posted by ColdChef at 9:40 PM on April 1, 2007 [5 favorites]

Who'd want some stupid name like Abiezer?
posted by Abiezer at 9:55 PM on April 1, 2007

Sounds like a name for a cop.
posted by Wolof at 11:13 PM on April 1, 2007

I was just thinking today (rarity) that if I had a son, he'd be Lucien Percival Leander Moonbird. I'm going to love this askme.
posted by moonbird at 11:47 PM on April 1, 2007 [1 favorite]

Urhines Kendall Icy Eight Special K
posted by GuyZero at 5:26 AM on April 2, 2007

The baseball-loving man of an expecting couple name Wagner wanted to name their son Honus.

You know, everybody pronounces this "HOE-nus," but since it represents the German Hans, surely it must have been intended to be said HAH-nus? Anybody got any century-old audio file of someone saying his name?
Totally off topic: The Mets won last night! Let's go Mets!
posted by languagehat at 5:32 AM on April 2, 2007

Meta V. Claunch for the win! (Great slideshow ColdChef)
posted by arcticwoman at 6:56 AM on April 2, 2007

We seem to have jumped into super daylight savings time.

My blackberry did the same thing yesterday... Definitely something weird going on, and not just on MeFi.
posted by psmealey at 9:35 AM on April 2, 2007

Matt tweaked the server last night. Seems to have worked.
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:55 AM on April 2, 2007

I was looking at this post, and the one immediately below it, and my confused, early-morning brain read "flameworthy, but old-fashioned boy's names". I thought, I don't know why anyone would want to do that, but okay: Adolf, Satan, Sue, Nancy, etc.
posted by psmealey at 4:34 AM on April 3, 2007

Adolf, Satan, Sue, Nancy

Now, that sounds like an interesting double date!
posted by languagehat at 6:15 AM on April 3, 2007