About 5 years ago
My cousin was quite heavily pregnant (and was due to drop in a couple of months) when she came to visit the my family. Tea was drunk, social etiquette and polite chat about health was observed and the conversation turned naturally to the potential name for said festering embryo. My cousin, being an arty sort, proudly exclaimed;

'If it's a boy, we are going for Blaise (patron saint of travellers apparently). For a girl, we've decided on Indigo'.

My comment of 'That's a type of fire and a colour. It's going to get the shit bullied out of it at school!' drew thunderous stares from the proud parents to be, until my brother topped it with

'If it's a girl, you should just name it Chlamydia. That's a much nicer name'.

We don't see much of my cousin these days.
(Mr Fudge It shouldn't be illegal to have sex with an eagle, Mon 7 Nov 2011, 13:27, 6 replies)

You're not wrong.
I went to a posh school and even there, someone called Blaise would have been beaten up on a daily basis. If not beaten up, he would certainly have had his belongings ironically set fire to with depressing regularity.

Indigo is cute, though.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Mon 7 Nov 2011, 13:56, closed)

I thought
St.Christopher was the patron saint of travellers?
(Raol Duke, Mon 7 Nov 2011, 14:23, closed)

I may be wrong about the patron saint bit
but that's what I was told by her. In my mind, St. Blaise immediately became the patron saint of pikeys.
(Mr Fudge It shouldn't be illegal to have sex with an eagle, Mon 7 Nov 2011, 14:30, closed)

The patron saint of wool combers and the wool industry apparently. Although what the hell a wool comber is I have no idea, as it sounds I guess....
(MrBiscuits, Mon 7 Nov 2011, 22:59, closed)

I think you and your brother acted very reasonably. I don't know where parents get some names from; giving your sprog a name that is guaranteed to get them bullied for the entirety of their school years really should not be allowed.
(anvil, Mon 7 Nov 2011, 14:36, closed)

But I was going to do this on purpose?
Will you take my children away from me when I have them?

(Please, I'll pay you)
(Nightviolet, Mon 7 Nov 2011, 21:55, closed)