Names that make you weep

Saturday I'll be at the Provo Children's Book Festival...I guess. I must have signed up for this before realizing I was pregnant, and they mercifully cut out an hour of signing and any presentation, so I'll just be there with Dean and Nate signing for one hour. First 30 people in line. So don't come for my sake, but there will be lots of other Utah authors as well as Jenni and Matthew Holm (Babymouse) in town for the event. Every child who attends gets a free book! Bonus!

Okay, maybe I'm insane, but I'm going to broach yet another sticky topic, this one perhaps even more heated than book banning. What are you up to next, squeetus? Sex ed? Religion? Politics? No, no, this time we delve into the miasma of baby names. I know, I'm risking reputation and angry emails, but I have opinions on the topic. Let me side-step them a tad and list for you some of the worst twin names we could think of:

Caesar and Kaiser
Scylla and Charybdis (our twins' in utero names)
That and Thet (I love this one, actually. It's my six-year-old's suggestion, and I think it's his equivalent of This and That)
Barry and Larry or Harry and Terry or Gary and Perry or Sherry and Mary 
In and Ex (with the last name Hale)
Yin and Yang
Dexter and Sinister

For boy and girl:

Erin and Aaron (via my sister)
Romeo and Juliet (creepy)
Zac and Zo (short for Prozac and Zoloft, via my mother-in-law)

I told the other authors of the Exquisite Corpse Adventure that I'll be naming them Joe and Nancy, after our twin heroes. (In celebration, Jon Scieszka said he will be naming his kidneys Joe and Nancy.)

And the grand list from Dean (of course):

Mary-Kate and Ashley
David and Mecha-David (works with any name!)
Shean and Dannon
Zan and Jayna
Apollo and Artemis (ooh, i almost like that one)
Jekyll and Hyde
Robert and Ernest (Bert and Ernie)
Michael and Michaela
(anything)-aydon and (anything)-aydyn
Madisyn and Radisyn
Devon and Cambria
Jeffrey and NAMBLA

Alright, bring it on. What are the worst twin names ever? And my apologies to any of you whose own precious names are on the list.

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