http://babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/amusing+yourself/default.aspxTags: amusing yourselfenCommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20910.1126)http://babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/09/25/what-was-your-fake-baby-name.aspxThu, 25 Sep 2008 15:00:00 GMT42a08a39-daf3-4129-8a63-8a27b879cc03:130120Brett Singer22http://babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=130120http://babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/09/25/what-was-your-fake-baby-name.aspx#comments<p><a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2008/09/23-End/we-almost-named-our-child-butch-huskey-no-we-didnt.jpg"><img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2008/09/23-End/we-almost-named-our-child-butch-huskey-no-we-didnt.jpg" alt="Butch Huskey, who we never really considered named our kids after, but it was fun to tell people that we were." align="right" border="0" height="198" hspace="4" width="142" /></a>The most recent <a href="http://www.babble.com/33-Worst-Celebrity-Baby-Names-Cautionary-tales-from-Audio-Science-to-Zuma-Nesta-Rock/">Babble List</a> features 33 of the dumbest celebrity baby names.<br /><br />This reminded me of something my wife and I had some fun with before our kids were born: fake baby names to torture the grandparents.</p><p>While she was pregnant, the wife and I came up with ridiculous choices for names and tried to convince our parents that said names were under consideration for our offspring. Some examples are Butch Huskey Singer, Wade Boggs Singer, and Pincus Tyrone Singer (the latter only if we had a girl, of course).&nbsp; Other not serious choices were Roc Singer or Oprah Singer. (Rock? Opera? Get it? Anyway…)<br /><br />I&#39;m curious – does anyone else do this? Or are we alone in our attempt to amuse ourselves?<br /></p><p><i>image: <a href="http://www.checkoutmycards.com/Players/Baseball/Butch_Huskey/403290%20">checkoutmycards.com</a></i></p><p>Read more:</p><h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"><a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/09/22/enormous-baby-sculpture.aspx">Enormous baby sculpture</a></h4><h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"><a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/08/28/lego-metallica.aspx">Lego Metallica</a></h4><h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"><a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/09/18/stuff-my-3-year-old-broke.aspx">Stuff my 3 year old broke</a></h4><h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"><a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/09/21/more-stuff-my-3-year-old-broke.aspx">More stuff my 3 year old broke</a></h4><h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"><a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/09/20/mom-finds-hairy-goldilocks-in-2-year-old-s-bed.aspx">Mom finds hairy Goldilocks in 2 year old&#39;s bed</a></h4><h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"><a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/09/20/they-used-to-say-give-babies-cola.aspx">YOU say: I got fooled (update to &quot;They USED to say: give babies cola&quot;)</a></h4><h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"><a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/09/19/iphone-app-for-nursing-diapers-wedding-day.aspx">iPhone app for nursing, diapers, wedding day</a></h4><img src="http://babble.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=130120" width="1" height="1">pregnancypregnantbaby namesBaseballhumornamescelebrity baby namessillinessBrett Singerfake baby namesamusing ourselvesamusing yourself