Oh I like this!

My real name peaked at number 19 in the 1950s and dropped sharply from there - it wasn't even in the top 1000 by 2004.

My name was most popular when I was a teenager. Coincidence? I think not! :lol: (actually it wasn't popular at all in the UK -quite miffed -I was- to move to the US and find out I'd become common :cool: )

Hebe is a girl, btw, and yes, we call her Hebe Jeebie. If we'd've thought about it and known what we know now, you can bet your bottom dollar we'd have made her initials Hebe G. B. :lol: But we didn't. She was our first born and we really thought we'd never take the mickey out of her. How wrong can you be? Hector became Hex and we came soooo close to really giving Thor "Trouble" as a middle name (and boy do I wish we hadn't chickened out at the last minute, now, it would have suited him perfectly)

My glucose (looking for gestational diabetes) and iron (looking for anemia) blood tests both came back negative last week. Hooray! No restrictive diets for me! I'm officially in the third trimester now, and so far I think I'm doing pretty damn well in the "not being one of those psycho pregnant ladies" department. :)

My stepson's new favorite game is to run up to me, say something in the general direction of my stomach, and then cackle madly and shriek, "He doesn't understand what I'm saying!!"

I just discovered this thread. Congratulations, Clod! Sounds like things are going well with the pregnancy. I am happy to hear that!

On the subject of weird names....My husband is Dakota who has 2 brothers, Darqel (notice the lack of a "U"), and Quinton and a sister Wesinda. Yes, when we were dating, I told a few of my friends about him, forgetting to mention he was a "he" and then a lot of shock when they realized Dakota was not how they had pictured "her". Somehow he makes a much more handsome male than he would a female. I have also heard people tell me about a million times that they had a friend/relative with a dog named Dakota. He has heard the old question too many times to count: "North or South?" Just like the jokes about "Justin Case" make me want to barf. (Yes, I do have a brother named Justin. No, I don't think my parents have a great sense of humor, nor did they ever. It was purely coincidental and was a result of lack of forethought on their part. Dammit.)

:lol: How old is he?

Very happy to hear that there haven't been any major issues with your pregnancy. It can be scary enough seeing what a normal body does during the whole process, without having to worry about additional health concerns. I suspect you are feeling the little parasite move quite frequently. For me that was by far the best part, especially late when she was moving all the time, not just when I was lying down. She had the most powerful hiccoughs, it was crazy. I actually felt pretty lonely once she was here, sort of like losing a friend or something. I missed having that constant companion. And no more excuse of "just talking to the baby" when I was really just talking to myself :)

Is your husband (and/or his siblings) black or multi-racial, or are naming trends just really different in the Western United States?

He's four, and he's definitely a strange one... as an example, the kid can read, but he's not even close to being potty-trained yet.

Case, my husband's three aunts are Thirza Lou, Lorna Rae, and Lura (rhymes with "stir-uh") Jean.

I too just discovered this thread

Congrats to the Codfobbles

We gave my son an Unusual name, that everyone seems to like

Hugh

Not that many Hughs out there

The only problem was stopping people with "Baby Huey", but most did not try. As my son is a MAJOR character - He often is called by his FULL Name "Hugh Armand G....." - EVERYONE in school and after school knows he is HUGH ARMAND

Thanks case, Charlie, and marichiko in the H5N1 thread... speaking of "Pebblefobble," how sad is this: it has genuinely occurred to me more than once that I have to figure out how to refer to him on the Cellar once he's born. I mean, how can I compete with such cool names as "smoothmonikette" and "inchinchinch"? "Clodfobble" just doesn't lend itself to miniaturizing.

Anna (Child #1) was for a LONG time "Peanut" as that is what she looked like in her first sonogram (Wife hemmoraged, we though we lost her- she's 9 now)

Hugh is "Hugh"

Together they are "The Piglettes"

I work with a guy named Hugh. There are also two relatively famous actors, Hugh Grant and Hugh Jackman. Hugh is a great name for a kid, unless his last name is Jass.:rolleyes:

Well, you have the best minds available and ready to put to work. While we're waiting for them to weigh in, I'll toss out the following.

You have a multiplicity of choices, when he tells a lie, it could be "clodfibble" or if he displays minor character flaws it could be "clodfoible" if he turns out to de a daydreamer it could be "cloudfobble".

So you see, you have a lot of choices. As for miniaturization of "clod" We could look at the progressively smaller fobbles right on down to "femtofobble"

As for particle sizes we have this from pocket ref:
boulder >256mm
cobble 64–256mm
pebble 4–64mm
granule 2–4mm
very coarse sand 1–2mm
coarse sand .5–1mm
medium sand.25–.5mm
fine sand .125–.25mm
very fine sand .0625– .125mm
silt .0039–.0625mm
clay <.0039mm

Sorry to go off on a tangent here, but does this mean that a boulder is anything >.256 meters (0.256 meter = 10.078 inch)? I just call that a 'rock'.

Clod's-able. ;)

May I humbly suggest "CFMinor"? That way, it encompasses ClodFobble, as well as having a certain suggestion of musicality, which not only elevates the cool factor to almost that of Smoothmoniker, but reflects your career path in audio.