Thursday, July 25, 2013

Too cool names

Found in a HarperCollins paperback Cool Names for Babies (2007 reprinted from Mother & Baby magazine) a list of names that are 'too cool' - in fact it's the last chapter. Have added a few..

What makes a name too cool? Trying so hard that coolness is its main, and maybe its only, merit. Being so aggressively hip that poor little Kool willl bend under the expectations of grooviness created by his name… the line of what constitutes too cool a name seems to get redrawn every day [but] these choices will probably be on the wrong side of it for a long time to come.. 

                         ARMANI
                         BABE
                         BRANDY 
                         BREEZE
                         BUCK
                         CALIFORNIA
                         CHARDONNAY
                         CHEYENNE
Henri Cartier Bresson 1954
                         CONGO
                         CROCKETT 
                         DESIREE
                         DUKE
                         FREE
                         HARLEY
                         KEROUAC
                         KOOL
                         MAVERICK
                         MINGUS
                         PORSCHE 
                         PRINCE
                         RAMBO
                         RIBENA
                         RIDER
                         SCORPIO
                         SINBAD
                         SUGAR
                         TALON
                         THOR
                         TIGER
                         VICE
                         VULCAN
                         WILD
                         YOGI
                         ZAPPA

1 comment:

  1. I've got the book so I worked out that you added Kerouac, Mingus, Yogi, Zappa, Chardonnay and Ribena. Mingus would get confused with 'minger' and as for Ribena!!! Great blog, keep it going please.

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