The other day my girlfriend asked me if I ever thought about baby names. Did I have any preferences? I paused for a minute and said, "Well, there's sort of a tradition in my family that the oldest son has a name starting with the letter T, going back to my great grandfather, Thor, who came to America from Norway (no relation to that comic book character with the hammer). I guess if it's a boy, I think I'd want his name to start with T." So we started thinking about boys' names starting with T. Read more twisted fallopian details under the sexy orange uterus...
We came up with several ideas for a boys' names starting with T...
We immediately eliminated Timothy, Thomas, and Tony, which we agreed are perfectly good ordinary names for ordinary people, and I certainly wouldn't want to insult any ordinary person who has one of those ordinary names. But I know my son would be extraordinary.
My son would deserve a special name.
Perhaps Thaddeus, Theodore, Theophile, Tanstaafl (google it), Timon (ooooh, Shakespeare!), Tibault, Tab, Tad, Tiberius (Captain Kirk's middle name), Terry, Thorstein (from Thorstein Veblen -- the nineteenth century Norwegian-American economist about whom I wrote a DKos diary -- Thorstein Veblen’s Radical Ideas), and so on.
Then we started getting silly. Perhaps a boy named Thermostat or Tonsillitis? Tabletop. Tachyon. Trigonometry. Tummyache. Toledo. Toddler-who-poops-a-lot. Teabag. Tinnitus. Thornbird. Tommyknocker. Terrible Boy the Terribly Terrible Two-Year-Old. T-Dog. T-Ice. Tastebud. Thalidomide. Toenailfungus. Toffifay. Tarheel. Tictac. Thirstylittlefucker. Tallulus (the masculine Latin version of Tallulah). Titicaca (Bonus: we could call him either "titty" or "cock" as a nickname; Drawback: he'd probably get teased for his name when he grew up and went to school).
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We narrowed it down to two possible names:
1) Tatertot. Because then we could be shopping at Walmart and I could say "You mind yer mama, Tatertot, or I'll slap the stupid outta you faster than a NASCAR driver at Talladega."
2) Thuglife. Because I could say, "This is our beautiful little baby boy. His name is Thuglife. By the way, don't diss him or he'll pop a cap in your ass, yo."
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In case you're concerned, my girlfriend is not pregnant. She had a hysterectomy several years ago, so we'll never have a baby. I'm thinking maybe that's a good thing. But if you have a child in the future, and you want a name starting with T, feel free to use any of our ideas.
Also, there's a poll below. Do you prefer Tatertot or Thuglife? If my girlfriend gets a new uterus, we might name the kid based on the poll. Or not.