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    Amazing Member Lammasu's Avatar
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    Default So my friends named their kid Obi-Wan.

    His full name is Obi-Wan Tibberius Magic Smith. I don't feel I'm doxxing anyone by revealing their last name is Smith. I'm like the only person that dosn't think it's a big deal. My sis was all like, "Your imposing your media on the kid". I mean the very act of naming your child imposes your culture on them. That is inherit in the naming processes. My moms friend named her kid Reno, after a character from the T.V. show Renegade and the only way ANYONE remembers that show is from a bit they did on MST3K.

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    That poor kid is so changing his name to Tim Jones when he turn 18.

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    If we rolled the world backwards 15-20 years, life now is super weird.

    Roll it forward 15-20 years? Who knows?

    Maybe it's no big deal.

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    I'm sure he'll be fine. It's unusual in the States but people in other parts of the world are named "Obi" it's not that weird.

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    Well. I'm not one to judge.

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    You can't pull off a name like that with a last name like Smith.

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    Maybe he'll just go by "Ben Smith" when he's older . . . or maybe play off that middle name and go with something like "Ti".
    (I wouldn't recommend using the spelling "Tighe". I knew a guy named that in high school, but teachers kept thinking his name was "Tish".)

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    It's not unusual for "William" to become "Bill" or for that matter "Benjamin" to just shorten to "Ben", and it's not like we regularly use our middle names most of the time, so ... "Obi Smith"? Not a bad name, and not so super unusual, really.

    Even money this kid grows up kind of hating Star Wars, tho.
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    At least he'll always have the high ground...
    "Let me guess. My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie!"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt View Post
    At least he'll always have the high ground...
    That made me chuckle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lammasu View Post
    His full name is Obi-Wan Tibberius Magic Smith
    If his middle name is for the emperor, then it's only one "B".

    But little detail aside, that's a ridiculous name.

    You don't name your kid like you would name your character on World or Warcraft. (ob1the1ringdeathkiller)

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    They should name children like they named 90s anti-heroes.

    Bloodmurder Deathrage Smith

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    Be a good friend to that twerp. He'll need one.
    "A happy ending? So unlikely. We're not having a moment here.

    Wrong city, wrong people, all huddling in fear.

    No one escapes the slaughterhouse, and that's just where you're at.

    (You could've asked Rebecca but then Adam stomped her flat.)

    You think you're special cuz you're scrappy? You're deluded, time to go.

    Lucy's living on the moon but you're another dead psycho."

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    I suspect he is going to learn to fight from a young age. To paraphrase Shel Silverstein and Johnny Cash:

    Well, he must o' thought that is quite a joke
    And it got a lot of laughs from a' lots of folk
    It seems I had to fight my whole life through
    Some gal would giggle and I'd get red
    And some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head
    I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named
    "Obi-Wan Tibberius Magic Smith".

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    Quote Originally Posted by JCAll View Post
    They should name children like they named 90s anti-heroes.

    Bloodmurder Deathrage Smith
    They are saving that one for Obi Wan's future little brother. (or sister really, Bloodmurder Deathrage works for both)

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