Suggest a Name for DVP Baby
Update: Apparently, they've gone with Shane. The thing I find hard to believe is that this is their fifth boy with an "Sh" name and they're only just now using Shane.
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This morning, the population of Toronto grew by one as a baby decided to be born on the side of the Don Valley Parkway.
The baby's parents were southbound heading to Toronto East General Hospital at around 8 AM when mom just couldn't hold him in anymore, so dad pulled over near Wynford Drive and delivered the baby happy and healthy with the assistance of an EMS dispatcher over the phone.
Since the family has four other kids already, all with names beginning with "Sh," Paramedic Marty Bulay (first on scene) suggested the parents call their new son Shawn (because it rhymes with Don).
I just wanted to take this opportunity to welcome the little one into our world, and also to see if our readers might be able to come up with any other suggestions for a name. Add a comment if you have any ideas.
I suggest Showoff. How about you?
Photo "Little feet, big hands" by BlogTO Flickr pooler VicPhotos
Comments (21)
Gridlock (Would make a better name for a Transformer)
Oh, and hey, kudos to dad for delivering the baby by phone! "Ok, now what?"
While coming up with cute rules for naming your children may seem innocent enough, won't anybody think of the children?
I don't know what the kids names are, and while the sh rule sounds cute, I'm sure the kids don't appreciate it nearly as much. I'm sure they've been, or likely to be called a shithead the first time a schoolyard bully discovers the kids siblings names.
Back in elementary school, I knew a girl whose parents thought it was a good idea to create an alliteration with her first and last name. If that wasn't bad enough, the parents found out they were having twins. They gave the second child a name that rhymed with the other, which was in turn an alliteration of the last name. To make things worse, in order to rhyme properly, they invented the second name.
I don't want to use their real names, so I'll just give an example giving the same idea:
Shandy and Mandy Manners.
That was the most horrible combination I could come up with...and it's still not as bad as the original.
Dooming your child to a life of ridicule should be a form of child abuse.
Oh, I discovered one just as bad as the original after reading a citynews article on the dvp baby (whose last name is McDonald).
Shickey and Mickey McDonald.
@ Ben: children will get made fun of no matter what. Give them a perfectly good name and they'll just be too tall, too short, too good at math...
How about:
Speedy
Johny Five
Fifth Wheel
The Spare in the Trunk
Don, obviously
DVP (no acronym, just DVP)
Pullover
Wynford Southbound
or Steve (it's just a nice name)
or any of these anagrams of Don Valley Parkway:
http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=Don+Valley+Parkway&t=1000
including
Workaday Navel Ply
Larva Played Wonky
Waylay Prank Loved
Vandal Lay Perky Ow
Ooh my little pretty one, pretty one.
When you gonna give me some time, Sharona?
Ooh you make my motor run, my motor run.
Gun it comin' off the line Sharona
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind. Always get it up for the touch
of the younger kind. My my my i yi woo. M M M My Sharona...
I think Sherwin is a nice name but they already named him Shane. Well they are the parents. =)
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