What do you think of the name Optimus for a baby boy?

It beats Urethra & Ureter for twins...

My sister-in-law taught in a school in which Urethra and Catheter were both enrolled in kindergarten, though sadly not in the same class.

I personally think it's cruel, though there are worse names.

elderolddog Wrote:
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> It beats Urethra & Ureter for twins...

I like Pork and Beans...

Hill-billy cop show!!

Sounds optimal to me!

As long as his middle name is Prime : D

As long as the family gets this car to drive around in...

https://www.peakkia.com/cc-2018-kia-optima-for-sale-in-littleton-co/

I think you'll get optimal value from the name, if you make it a family theme. If a little sister comes along, she should be named "Maxima".

Unfortunately, some teasing and ribbing at school will be inevitable and that's a sub-optimal situation. But if you teach Optimus to always be optimistic, then you can keep the trauma and soul scarring to a minimum.

We worried when we named our first-born son "Gluteus Maximus". Our intention was to inspire him to be like a famous Rear Admiral of the Roman Imperial Fleet of whom we had heard many good things. Some busybodies scolded us and told it was assinine to give such a name to a child. We couldn't understand. Maybe they had something against Rome or rear admirals in general. Maybe they were gluten-intolerant and were triggered by the name "Gluteus". Who knows? All we know is that young Glute (his nickname) grew up and was admitted to the U.S. Naval Academy and...here's the kicker...he was promoted to Rear Admiral just last month. People thought he would be the butt of many jokes, but look at him now, Rear Admiral Gluteus Maximus. We're so proud!

How long did it take you to compose that gem?

Do you work for the government?

Lot's Wife Wrote:
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> Do you work for the government?

No. But my son "Glute" does. He's in the Navy. Hard worker. Always working his butt off to serve the nation. He was assigned to a temporary post in Montana when he was an Ensign and met an Assiniboine woman, who became his wife. They have raised a lovely assortment of children, assiduously attending to their education and assuring them that they can grow up to be whatever they want to be if they realize that it requires hard work and not sitting around on one's butt all the time.

Few would aspire to such amazing alimentary alliteration.

I stand in awe!

Wally works with words which would worry wobbly workers washing windows when winds whoosh westerly.

With you, Wally, EOD, and others, I find myself surrounded by wordsmiths, alliterators, punsters, and other unapologetic literary low lifes.

In the words of David Byrne, "My God, What have I done?!"

We have the best words!
Don't exclude yourself from your list.

> We have the best words!


Oh no! Could it be that your genius is, after all, unstable?

Perish the thought!

Invariably insightful idea involving individual intellectual instability.

Semantically sound. Syntactically strong. Senior Secretary Samantha Snozzlesnoos of Cincinnati says such seemingly soporific signifiers of systematically sifted and sorted subjects and circumstances should certainly solicit substantial support and steadfastly studious scrutiny.

I hope and pray that the Administrators of this site require NSFK, (Not Safe For Keyboards) on posts that create unexpected bursts of milk, sprayed across keyboards.

If my keys stick after I clean them all off, I will demand the above from my Congressman.

The name Glute was the funniest thing I've read in the past three weeks.

Cleaning my laptop keyboard halted the joy, instantly.

Didn't Glute Rockne coach Notre Dame long ago?

His cousin, Glute Rockne, was a tight end at Notre Dame, but didn't go into coaching. In his senior year, he was involved in a rear-end collision and sustained injuries that ended his football career. After graduating from Notre Dame, Glute got an office job as an assessor in the Foggy Bottom district in Washinton, D.C.

He works in the State Department? Wow, he must be feeling constipated now!

Yes, he is an assessor and analyst for foreign aid requests from the Republic of Buttswana, which is already in arrears on several foreign aid loans. The work is apparently complex and headache-inducing, causing Glute to rely heavily on analgesics for relief.

Someone might want to let poor Glute know that, in the event that his headaches are accompanied by severe nausea, some highly effective analgesics are available in rectal suppository form.

Also, if the Buttswana job becomes too much of a figurative pain in the kiester, the U.S.'s most recent analyst/assessor serving the nation of Djibouti has recently abandoned his post, and Trump's people are looking for someone (if this position is typical of other partisan government posts, Trump's headhunters are probably seeking a total @$$hole) to fill the seat.

A better name would be Octopus.

...esp if they live on the Pacific or Eastern Seaboard.

Octopu$$y if its a girl.......nothing sexist here folks, it's a James Bond Movie title, go about your business...move along.

Now you've put yourself in a real covfefe!

Oppie for short? Sounds okay. Congratulations.

that is probably better than Nixon for first name.

Anononex Wrote:
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> What do you think of the name Optimus for a baby
> boy?

I think that it is none of my business what identification label is placed on a human being.

Optimus (or any name) is fine as long as your kid is smart, handsome, popular and good at sports. This is the vision that most parents have for their child when they name them. But I think it's safer and wiser to name a child with the thought that although you'll love him any way he is, he might be a little awkward around his peers, he might be a little slow at learning to read, he might always be chosen last when teams are formed at recess, or he might not quit picking his nose in public till he's 15.

In other words, growing up is hard enough. Why potentially make it more difficult with a name that can be used as a weapon against him by a bully?

If he happens to be overweight, you know very well it will be Optimus the Hippopotimus among the mean kids.

What did that child baby do to you that you would stick them with a name like that?

Optimus and his sister, Optimia, and the family dog, Optimutt.

It might give the kid an ego boost. I wanted to name my baby boy "President", but our Mormon family didn't like that idea.

I’d genuinely like to know who is naming their baby Optimus?

I mean, this is hilarious. It’s great.

But also wrong.

I'm trying to think how you would turn that into a nickname. "Op"? "Mussy"? Maybe "Timmy" -- that would work.

In the original storyline of the transformers, Optimus prime is a badass and a moral, fair, powerful leader. Pretty cool. Kinda like a machine superman robot

Life is hard enough. Give the kid a real name.

Have your name legally changed to Optimus, if you must name someone that.

Anononex Wrote:
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> What do you think of the name Optimus for a baby boy?

I'm not very OPTIMIStic it will stick.

Opie Taylor: "Optimus is a great name...if your dad is the Sheriff and your Aunt is the most popular lady in town."

Just name the boy "Sue."

Just watch that he doesn't come up with a knife and cut off a piece of your ear. That's what happened to Johnny.

Comes from the same mindset as naming a baby boy Zealand.

Optimus Zealand? I'm going to use that for my next one!

LOL....there was a city cop here named Zealand. He was from a prominent Mormon family.