Once Again Canadian Problems

[commodorified]

benet: today I received an email blast from Nature Ganganbaigal, lead singer of Tengger Cavalry.
It's a stage-name.
benet: the #2 hypothesis was that Mr. and Mrs. Ganganbaigal, late of Beijing, were big hippies.
commodorified: "my parents named me Serenity MoonChild but I go by BloodEagle McCoy".
commodorified: I mean, bear in mind, I have a weird name and was born in 1969.
benet: right.
commodorified: I meet women my age called, like, Pippin and there's this LOOK we all have.
benet: In twenty-odd years there are going to be some very testy Khaleesis and Tyrions.
benet: I mean, sometimes these make some kind of phase transition and just become unexceptionable names, like Amber after _Forever Amber_.
commodorified: yeah.
benet: Madison post-_Splash_ is most of the way along the same trajectory.
commodorified: Madison is cute and all but I can't see "Wisconsin" as a middle name so.
benet: yeah, or "Avenue".
commodorified: that would be right out.
commodorified: If I'm naming a kid after a city it'll be, IDK, Toronto.
commodorified: Saskatoon.
commodorified: Medicine Ha - no.
benet: Flin Flon.
commodorified: Kapuskasing.
benet: I think Kapuskasing has a vaguely patrician New England feel to it.
benet: "Pleased to meet you, I'm Kapuskasing Routledge Lowell."
commodorified: True, true.
commodorified: And, of course, St John has a history.
benet: yeah.
commodorified: St John's less so.
benet: indeed.
commodorified: Halifax.
commodorified: Halifax Nightingale.
benet: it just sounds like a code-name for an invasion of something.
commodorified: Well, IT WOULD BE.
benet: "Vat can you tell me ... about _Halifax Nightingale_, Englischer Schweinhund?"
commodorified: ...
commodorified: Timmins
benet: Timmins Margaux

brownbetty: Winnipeg. White Horse. Gimli
commodorified: NOT GIMLI. Yellowknife?

fairestcat:we are not naming our child ¹ Halifax
commodorified: Okay
fairestcat: or Kapuskasing
commodorified: But

ETA1:
staranise: ... if I get another tortoiseshell or calico cat I'm naming it Nanaimo Bar.

ETA2: (Yelled across the hallway)
commodorified
Kelowna?
fairestcat: no.
commodorified: Kamloops?
fairestcat: NO.
commodorified: Penticton!
fairestcat: Penticton Meier?
commodorified Kelowna Nightingale?
fairestcat: That's not bad ...

ETA3:

staranise: Castlegar would make a very impressive WASPy middle name
Benjamin Castlegar Nightingale III

ETA4:

dira:*giggles*
Penticton could go by Pen.
Pen Meier
fairestcat: Pen Meier has some potential
Castlegar could be fit into the traditional CMM pattern
Castlegar M Meier

ETA5:

staranise: Camrose?
commodorified: hmmm
staranise: I know, right?

1) Nobody is pregnant, there is no cause for alarm at this time. Remain calm.

Comments

[ell]

Here in Europe, especially on the border between France and Germany, nobody understands my actual name. For people from the area it is exactly the same as if my parents had called me New Jersey.

[clanwilliam]

Nancy or Lorraine? Or did they go for Luxembourg? :-)

[ell]

Luckily they did not go for Luxembourg, but legend has it that they were considering Kunigunde, so getting away with just Lorraine is actually lucky. I wonder if there are any French kids named Weehawken running around.