and just for a giggle...

By Anonymous -


Mac in the Daily Mail.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2013717/Mac--The-unusual-David-Beckhams-newborn-daughter.html

Comments

  1. Anonymous3:03 am, July 12, 2011

    Have you ever heard anything like it? lol

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  2. Anonymous3:04 am, July 12, 2011

    Is it a saints name??!!!***))(£"

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  3. Fr Seán Coyle4:46 am, July 12, 2011

    Jackie, aren't all saints 'harpers'?! I hope to string along with them some day.

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  4. Terry4:51 am, July 12, 2011

    The first person to be named Florence was Florence Nightingale and she was named after the city. Bit like Brooklyn or Chelsea perhaps in its day and probably raised a few eyebrows. Now we accept it as a lovely name.
    How about Wigan 11 for the next baby born to an ACWB reader!
    (Sorry to any Wigan readers) It is actually a nice place with a great orthopaedic hospital (artificial hip pioneered there by Sir John Charnley)
    I feel sorry for children given strange names. It must be tough in the playground.

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  5. Anonymous8:05 am, July 12, 2011

    Me too Fr Sean!

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  6. Anonymous8:31 am, July 12, 2011

    Pamela was invented by the author for the book of the same name. In 1740.

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  7. Autumn6:04 pm, July 12, 2011

    ...and Wendy was supposedly invented by J.M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan! :)







    I still think Harper Seven is a very silly name!

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