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

[raincitygirl]

I laughed so hard I scared the cat!

[graydon]

Drumheller?

Calabogie?

Rimouski? Shediac?

I mean the potential of Canadian place names, especially Eastern Canadian place names, to produce character building names is very large.

[boxofdelights]

Ishpeming! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishpeming,_Michigan

Remain calm

[thnidu]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllandysiliogogogoch

[redbird]

Kapuskasing sounds enough like a verb that such a child would keep being asked "how do you kapuska?" by people who thought they were being clever.

[nenya_kanadka]

My cousins and I used to have a favourite pretend character when we were kids, called Kakabeka Basalyga, after the surname of a family friend and the falls we frequently visited.

Which Wikipedia tells me is one of those The The Falls Falls names.

Kelowna has already been spoken for as an alien planet in Stargate, right?

[violsva]

...It would almost be worth having a kid if I could name it Toronto.

(I have strong feelings about this city, okay? :D)

[tam_nonlinear]

There was a brief* fad a few years back for not only town names for ones children, but town names based on place of conception. One would hope that it was a very small blip in naming trends, or else there would be even more reason for consternation in kindergarten classes where several children had the same name.

*if it was not brief, I prefer denial

[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.

[linaelyn]

We cannot (VERY SAD ABOUT THIS) get a pair of cats, because Estel's allergies might kill him (or kill me with worry)

BUT

Our hypothetical future pair of cats are absolutely going to be named: Burkina Faso and Ouagadougu (Kina & Doug for short)

[azurelunatic]

Deadhorse.
Chicken.
Tok. (Pronounced like "toke".)

[aella_irene]

It worked for Florence Nightingale (though less well for her sister Parthenope).

[beable]

St. Louis de Ha!Ha! Nightingale.

[lenora_rose]

And of course my brain leapt immediately to Newfoundland... although I suspect naming your child Dildo would be considered abuse by almost anyone, even if their middle name was "The TOWN!"

Flin Flon would be a bit recursive, as it's a town named for a character.

[dejla]

Tiramisu.

Or my favorite Vulcan name: (which I created) T'ohtalitunkaldfor. She's Captain D'esprit Mezurs' First Officer.