Children's Names - Missed a trick

Fardap · June 21, 2021, 11:05:32 AM

Usain Bolt has announced the names of his new babies... Saint Leo Bolt and Thunder Bolt.

Why, oh why would he not have named the first one Lightning Bolt?

OH! on further reading he already has a daughter Olympia Lightning Bolt.

chrism · June 21, 2021, 11:38:47 AM

Quote from: Fardap on June 21, 2021, 11:05:32 AM
Usain Bolt has announced the names of his new babies... Saint Leo Bolt and Thunder Bolt.

Why, oh why would he not have named the first one Lightning Bolt?

OH! on further reading he already has a daughter Olympia Lightning Bolt.

He could have used "Inch and a Half Whitworth"

RailGooner · June 21, 2021, 12:03:29 PM

I'm not a fan of burdening children with comical names, but I can't even see what the joke is with "Saint Leo Bolt".

emjaybee · June 21, 2021, 12:22:32 PM

I don't understand why he didn't give them all the same names...

...much easier....

...then they'd all be...

...co-bolt.

[Was it worth the wait?]

chrism · June 21, 2021, 12:30:06 PM

Quote from: emjaybee on June 21, 2021, 12:22:32 PM
I don't understand why he didn't give them all the same names...

...much easier....

...then they'd all be...

...co-bolt.

All dressed in blue, perchance?

Newportnobby · June 21, 2021, 12:42:26 PM

Quote from: emjaybee on June 21, 2021, 12:22:32 PM
[Was it worth the wait?]

Hiawatha · June 21, 2021, 12:46:20 PM

Quote from: RailGooner on June 21, 2021, 12:03:29 PM
I can't even see what the joke is with "Saint Leo Bolt".

I read that as Saint Leopold who I know as the patron saint of Austria and my hometown Vienna. Didn't think that our Leopold was even known in Jamaica.

emjaybee · June 21, 2021, 01:01:19 PM

Quote from: Newportnobby on June 21, 2021, 12:42:26 PM
Quote from: emjaybee on June 21, 2021, 12:22:32 PM
[Was it worth the wait?]

Harsh.

joe cassidy · June 21, 2021, 01:19:44 PM

I went to school with Julian Cope, the singer of Teardrop Explodes.

He decided that he would give his kids Greek names.

Teles, Micros, etc. etc.

Newportnobby · June 21, 2021, 04:00:18 PM

Quote from: joe cassidy on June 21, 2021, 01:19:44 PM
I went to school with Julian Cope, the singer of Teardrop Explodes.

He decided that he would give his kids Greek names.

Teles, Micros, etc. etc.

And their sister - Tara Masalata

TrevL · June 21, 2021, 06:10:40 PM

That would be a bit fishy.

N_GaugeModeller · June 21, 2021, 07:32:32 PM

I know someone who named her two kids Encore and Finale, good job she stopped at two, pore old Prologue had a lucky escape.

NGM