Would you name your Kids after a Monkey Island Character?

Well looking on facebook and you see these groups saying if they have so many member then they will name their kid homer simpson or something like that.

so seeing who would name there Kid, Guybrush, lechuck,Elaine etc (naming them Voodoo Lady would be even weirder lol)
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  • edited March 2010
    guybrush is a nice name, as is elaine. Definite no on the others though.
  • edited March 2010
    I might consider it, but my wife would not.

    So, no. Sorry.
  • edited March 2010
    The trick is to not let your wife know it's for Monkey Island reasons.
  • edited March 2010
    I really don't think I'd name a kid Guybrush or LeChuck. Or Voodoo Lady!

    But some of the characters have more normal names. Names like Elaine, Stan, Murray, Morgan, etc. are perfectly normal, so you could name a kid one of those if you really think they should be named after a MI character. If the name suits the kid, that is.

    Even names similar to fictional MI names could be fine. Like Guy instead of Guybrush, or Chuck instead of LeChuck.

    But no, I wouldn't purposely name a kid after a MI character for the sake of it.

    That said, I would LOVE to meet someone who has the same name as a MI character. :D
  • edited March 2010
    I leave weird names to characters I create. They don't have to deal with it (or if they do, it's fully intended, and whatever, they don't actually exist anyways).

    This being said, as was previously pointed, some Monkey Island names are just normal names.

    Now, If you were asking about pets, then I guess it's a possibility. At least, just like fictional characters, they don't have to deal with it. It's not like they know what their names mean or care about people teasing them about it.
  • edited March 2010
    I'm gonna call my kid Griswold. Definitely. Or perhaps Meathook.

    Yep, Meathook.

    "Meathook, eat your dinner!"
  • edited March 2010
    Yeah, if I were to have a son, I'd name him Ignatius.
  • edited March 2010
    Mancomb. Definitely Mancomb.
  • edited March 2010
    hell yh Id name my son winslow and my daughter Nice cans...I think social serves will kill me
  • edited March 2010
    Been there, done that.

    Well not yet, but I've got cats named Guybrush and LeChuck.
  • edited March 2010
    I'm gonna call my kid Griswold. Definitely. Or perhaps Meathook.

    Yep, Meathook.

    "Meathook, eat your dinner!"

    "But I hate meat! It's cruel to the animals! I'm gonna be a vegetarian!"
  • edited March 2010
    StarEye wrote: »
    "But I hate meat! It's cruel to the animals! I'm gonna be a vegetarian!"

    Well, in that case you could rename him Lemonhead?
  • edited March 2010
    Maybe Nor Treblig.
    Hmm...
    I'll have to get back on this one.
  • edited March 2010
    Nope, and trying to get cute, creative or edgy with something your offspring will carry the rest of his/her life (or until a legal change) is something I don't really care for.
  • edited March 2010
    Legally change your name to Griswold Goodsoup, name your kids after soup, and tell them about the family history of the Goodsoups. See how far you can go.
  • edited March 2010
    Eduardo wrote: »
    Nope, and trying to get cute, creative or edgy with something your offspring will carry the rest of his/her life (or until a legal change) is something I don't really care for.

    not even in the contex of an obvious joke
  • edited March 2010
    Wapcaplet wrote: »
    Mancomb. Definitely Mancomb.

    Mancomb is the best baby name....
  • edited March 2010
    I never got the idea that names thought up without any purpose are somehow more sensible or better for the child. I met a Zeb a while back. I'd never met a Zeb before... now I have, and it didn't really change anything about how anyone treated him. Unless the name is very blatently mockworthy, like Arsehead or whatever, then a name changes little for the persons chances in life. There is a Barack running the US at the moment.
  • edited March 2010
    Before we continue, let's learn a lesson from Johnny Cash.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIMgEEASoWQ
  • edited March 2010
    well for sure i aint gunna name my boy sue :P lol
  • edited March 2010
    I never got the idea that names thought up without any purpose are somehow more sensible or better for the child. I met a Zeb a while back. I'd never met a Zeb before... now I have, and it didn't really change anything about how anyone treated him. Unless the name is very blatently mockworthy, like Arsehead or whatever, then a name changes little for the persons chances in life. There is a Barack running the US at the moment.

    Well, Zeb and Barack are both actual first names... Granted, that only means more than a few people have that name, but just because you never happened to mean someone named that before doesn't mean it's not a name. My husband was the first ever person I met called Ian. I didn't know it was a name before but it has nothing "weird" about it.
    I think it really depends on the name though. I can't see a problem with Elaine for instance, but Meathook or Mancomb as some others have stated for fun, would be pretty harsh to grow up with I can imagine.

    Then of course you can get used to things that were weird to begin with. I can never get over girls named Madison. They're named "Matthew's son". And they're female! It's just weird. But obviously it's a normal name for a girl now so people won't go around calling her a transvestite if you call a girl that.

    Anyway, I don't think unique names are inherently wrong by any means, but sometimes you just have to wonder. Like, I could see naming a kid Anakin. Sure, people would probably tease him about it but it still sounds like an actual name. And heck, I was teased all my childhood because of Alice in Wonderland, and Alice is a perfectly banal name.
    If you call him Darth Vader, however, not so much.

    I think we're used to hearing "Guybrush" as a name, so we consider it a name. But honestly, can you imagine someone called that? It's not any different from "Mancomb". We don't hear it as "Guy Brush" anymore, but people who aren't familiar to the series would.

    Anyways, I think it's also worth noting that not everyone can change their names. I know it's easy in the US, but in France for instance you can for only a few reasons that are very restricted (your name is an insult, your name is Hitler, your name is impossible to pronounce), the name change is also restricted (only allowed a change a few letters in the last name, or to take another name from your family, i.e maiden's name of your mom). You also have the special case of getting married, when you're allowed to take your spouse's name or add it to yours. But that's quite a different kind of situation.
    And as far as I know, none of these apply to first names (sex change is I think the only reason you're allowed to change your first name).
    However you're allowed to use any of your given names as your first name. And your parents can give you as many as they want (there are people who have like 10. Then you're allowed to use your favourite one).

    You have the option to use a "nom d'usage", that is if everybody has been calling you something for years, be it a pen name, an artist name or a nickname, it can be added to your ID as an a.k.a. That would allow you to "change" your first name but still the real one would be on your ID as such.

    Seriously, name change isn't always as straightforward as it is in the US. Even being married, the last name that appears first on your ID card is your maiden name, your married name only appears as an "a.k.a".
  • edited March 2010
    I don't plan on having any kids... but if my wife insists, then I will trick her into signing a release form which grants me the exclusive right to name my daughter... LeChuck!

    ...I need therapy, don't I?
  • edited March 2010
    wow looks like the polls neck and neck......and Silver that would be kind of interesting to see a girl being called Lechuck...hmm....imagine if the next chapter of tales...lechucks comes back as a female Lechuck and tries to sedeuce Guybrush lol
  • edited March 2010
    I don't plan on having any kids... but if my wife insists, then I will trick her into signing a release form which grants me the exclusive right to name my daughter... LeChuck!

    ...I need therapy, don't I?

    My husband had a joke about calling his newborn Chewbacca (regardless of gender). I suspect this is a ploy so his parents accept it better that we don't have kids :p
  • edited March 2010
    ...I need therapy, don't I?

    Probably, but that was apparent long before now.
  • edited March 2010
    I would name pets after them..
  • edited March 2010
    My kid will be called Kenny. Kenny Falmouth. Hee hee hee.
  • edited March 2010
    ...I need therapy, don't I?

    No, use insanity to your advantage.
  • edited March 2010
    My kid will be called Kenny. Kenny Falmouth. Hee hee hee.

    Better than 'Rottingham'.
  • edited March 2010
    One of my older cousins is called Elaine, she always thought it was great that Elaine Marley had the same name as her.
  • edited March 2010
    I already have plans to name my first born Guybrush Ullyses Butler or Elaine Marley Butler. Heheh...
  • edited March 2010
    Wolfstar27 wrote: »
    wow looks like the polls neck and neck......and Silver that would be kind of interesting to see a girl being called Lechuck...hmm....imagine if the next chapter of tales...lechucks comes back as a female Lechuck and tries to sedeuce Guybrush lol

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  • edited March 2010
    I would name somebody else's kids after a Monkey Island character.
  • edited March 2010
    Why "Butler"? Who's called that?

    ...Oh, is that your last name?
  • edited March 2010
    PariahKing wrote: »
    I would name somebody else's kids after a Monkey Island character.
    Sounds like a plan.

    I didn't mention it in my previous post, but I could quite happily name a pet after a Monkey Island character. I mean, why not? I've owned a guinea-pig named "Snoopy" before... the vet laughed at me. :rolleyes:
  • edited March 2010
    You can go wild with pets. My Maine Coon is called Lumpy. I'd never get away with naming a kid that.
  • edited March 2010
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    nooo please dont im fragile :P
  • edited March 2010
    Avistew wrote: »
    Why "Butler"? Who's called that?

    ...Oh, is that your last name?

    Great discovery, Sherlock! But I would TOTALLY change my last name to Threepwood if my family wouldn't disown me if I did...!
  • edited March 2010
    And I wish I could change my name to Vistew, but France doesn't allow things like that and Canada considers it your "real name" or something and changes up to the birth certificate.
    That's not what I want. I want it to be my new name, and be it recorded what my name was before, so that it can be an important time in my life. When I got married my birth certificate didn't change to retroactively say I was born married, well I want the same thing!
  • edited March 2010
    Is your last name Avistew? or do you just like the sound of "Vistew"?
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