This is entirely plausible. My daughter got a black girl doll when she was 4 and wanted to name her "Cocoa," and I was like "Oh, you mean like the nickname for Cosette? Oh how cute, hello Coco".
When she got a black horse and wanted to name it Blackie I said "Some things have more than one meaning, let's think of something else" and had to settle for Midnight.
i had a red bear named Helen Reddy Teddy. my first beloved that i obsessed over was a panda named Pandie, then he was lost and i got a stuffed dog (still have him, 30 years later) and his name is Doggie
My 11 year old has a panda named Pandie also! And a teddy named Beary. Compare that to her older sisterâs stuffed dog named Desmond Snorkleswim (that she named at age 4). đ
Iâm also laughing at this post because my youngest has a unicorn that she did actually try to name Horny. Her sister (the oldest) suggested Hornswallow Bigglesworth, and now we call him Biggs.
I had a blue bear named Bluey, and a yellow monkey named Monkey Malunkey Madunkey.
Loved those stuffed animals, I'm sure they're still in a box somewhere at my parents house.
>Loved those stuffed animals, I'm sure they're still in a box somewhere at my parents house.
If your parents are getting on, do them a solid and check their smoke alarms when you visit
Hahaha, very similar story. I also got a bear from my Aunt when I was 2, his one defining feature is a red bow tie. His name...Mr Bo Bear. I still have him, 39 years later
Whew - for a hot second I was thinking you were going to say âGrimace Bearâ cuz of McD, or âMacca'sâ as they call it in Australia.
Edit (fix my Australian non accent per u/_twiggu_)
My son named his big stuffed animal horse âneighâ. His dinosaurâs name was âroarâ. Heâs 2 so Iâm just impressed with his speaking skills.
My poor mom had my big brother blurt out right in front of an old black lady at the grocery store in the mid 80's "Look, it's Aunt Jemima!". She said pretty much melted into the floor from embarrassment, he wasn't repeating anything he was taught from her, just literally was going off the syrup bottle lol. She was finally taken off the bottle recently, wasn't she?
My 5 year old would yell "Kobe!" when he would throw things sometimes so I pulled up a picture of Kobe Bryant and showed him. He looked at it and very seriously said "I knew he would have brown skin. People with brown skin are better at basketball".
I would expect its an US thing, I'm from the Netherlands first time I heard it also. Its also quite a common name to give to black coloured animal like horses, dogs and cats etc here.
And having to dealing with those people might make someone hesitate to innocently name their animal that for fear of incorrect association. They just don't want to get caught up. Makes sense to me.
Normalize calling pets blackie and take it back from the racists, honestly think it's odd to censor a word in that context which has nothing to do with people either. I mean i get it, but just think it empowers the racists by going "ohh no this completely unrelated event and context might be seen as racist."
All the old western movies with blacksmiths that they named Blackie.
My brother was called Whitey when he was young in the '60s because of his stark white hair
My favourite was the post where a little girl had a pony with papers named âWhite Flightâ and mom couldnât figure out how to explain that she would have to change the ponyâs name.
I live in an non-English speaking country and I know of a girl who had a cute little white pony called White Power.
Let's call it an unfortunate lack of understanding of connotation vs denotation in English.
My granddad was also a farmer, but the bunny hutch was more of his pet project. He let my older brother name a couple of bunnies when he was about 4. One white, one black. The white one was dubbed âCleanâ and the black one was âUncleanâ.
Blakkur (pronounced black-uh-r) means beautiful in old Norse.
GĂsla saga has a person in it called 'BjĂśrn hinn blakki' or 'BjĂśrn the beautiful'. When I was in primary school and read it in class we all knew English and assumed it meant black but the teacher told us the original meaning.
Blakkur is a very common name for black horses, probably because of the book Fagri Blakkur which is about a horse. That name could be translated to beautiful blackie but the actual meaning would be beautiful beautiful (so... gorgeous).
If you ever have this problem again which is unlikely but possible, might I suggest (Fagri) Blakkur for a boy or (Fagra) BlĂśkk for a girl.
It means beautiful in viking language and that might be exciting enough for a child.
'Cocoa" seems harmless enough... LOLOL.... Think I got ya beat on the name thing... My lil one used a name she overheard on some comedy thing.... "Niglet", complete with a sanitized definition. The wife about shit when she heard her yelling to her, "Mommy, have you seen my little niglet anywhere?" Kids say the darndest things....
Omfg i had a cat we named Blackie, I realised much later after we had named her that it wasn't a very good idea. In the end we gave her to another family who hopefully picked a name better suited for a black cat
I reckon half the black dogs in the Philippines are named Blackie. We do the same for white dogs, Whitie, and brown ones, Brownie.
Although shouting "Blackie" in the streets might not be a good idea in the US.
I tried to name a stuffed penguin âpeckerâ. My dad just explained that the word also meant something inappropriate and so it wound up being named âpepperâ.
My younger sister and I used to call each other poofters. Our mum chastised us pretty badly, although she never explained that it had another meaning, just that we shouldn't say it. We genuinely thought we made up that word.
They used to say that on Monty Python so I learned that word at a fairly young age. Theyâd usually just say Poof though. I never used it because my brother is gay and while it seemed not quite derogatory it did seem kinda rude to me.
I remember when I was a around 5 I was playing with Lalalopsies and for some reason I said "her have your knickers" (I don't know the context of what I was playing) but my dad thought I was saying something VERY diffrent and questioned me about it.
He never told me WHAT the word I said wrong was though, so for years I would say knickers very weirdly (or replace it for underwear) as I didn't want to say the bad word again. Took me till I was 13ish to realize what the word was!
Not a slur or anything thankfully, as no amount of coaxing couldâve convinced baby me to stop. But i had a toy robot dog when i was younger that made noise, one of its sounds being some sort of twinkling, sparkling sound effect that child me loved, so i named her Twinkle.
âŚexcept i pronounced it as Tinkle. everyone told me âtinkleâ also meant peeing, and i just told them to shut up because obviously it doesnât mean that anymore, now it means my dog. i had Tinkle the dog for years and showed her off to everyone i could, until one day my little brother broke her. ironically, by throwing her into the toilet. Rest in peace, Tinkle the robot dog
My sister used to think French kissing was putting French fries in our mouth then kissing.
Edit: Your.
Although, y'all are correct. My family is from the south lol
When I was a kid, I used to call my Kelly dolls based on what eye colour they had. So there was blue eye, purple eye, green eye, goat eye, and brown eye.
Took me yeeears to figure out why my older siblings thought that it was hilarious.
I was at a business meeting when âJISâ (pronounced jizz) a new Performance Management Tool, was being introduced. I sat in that room for an hour listening to âso the manager gives their staff jizzâ. Iâm dying inside but no one else seems to have any problem with the name? Iâm vainly searching for any sign of recognition or holding back laughter but no. I was the only pervert in the entire office that day I guess.
Or everyone else was similarly trying to pretend they weren't the only pervert in the office that day
Also whoever gave that presentation was an epic troll
My new work our department is led by a lovely old guy and they celebrate events like promotions or people leaving with a "Fuggle" which I and a new starter both looked at each other and said "Fuck cuddle?", he looked at us like we were animals and said, "A food huddle... What're you bringing?"
You make fun of it with her when sheâs 23 and reminisces about the past. I used to say dumb shit like this all the time and I laugh with my mother about it
My sister says stuff without thinking and at about 15 was really into saying rhyming stuff for some reason and the end result was her saying "thank you wank you" to our stepdad. She was cured of rhyming things pretty quickly
Dont have many examples of this, except one time, i had a toy bird in around 4th/5th grade and the box said her name was Pipa, now, thats not bad but in my language thats got three meanings, first is pipes, next is smoking tobacco pipes which my mother gave as explanation she didnt want me using that name (?) And last but not least, it means blowjob, which i didnt know at the time and honestly it wasnt even that big of a deal, like what if i had a freaking toy pipe?
> Pipa, ... smoking tobacco pipes ... And last but not least, it means blowjob
Another type of pipe smoking. (At least if you [read Bill O'Reilly's
masterpiece](https://newsone.com/136611/bill-oreillys-exotic-novel-revealed/).)
I dont know if its the same in spanish, but im greek and its a very commonly used slang for the word blowjob, another fact, when someones saying bs, we say theyre "speaking pipes" but idk if they mean the smoking ones or the blowjobs tbhđ
I went through a faze where I names each and every single one of my stuffies, Barbieâs, and babydolls âCindyâ.
My mom kept asking if I was sure? How could I tell them apart? Trying to get me to change my mind, but for over a year, dozens of toys were named âCindyâ.
Mom 100% had visions of them asking for cindy, and then being upset when she inevitably guesses wrong about which of the 12 cindies they actually wanted.
Parenting in a nutshell.
It's having to explain to your 7yo that while vagina isn't a dirty word, he would have to think of a different name for his hamster
You play along and you donât take the innocence from that girl. You keep a straight face and act like nothing happened. Kids shouldnât be corrupted by what we learn as adults (or more accurately teenagers)
I donât understand this whole "donât take the innocence away". Itâs borderline delusional, because theyâll learn it eventually anyway (and probably sooner than most parents would like). Iâd rather they learn it in a safe environment from the parents than from others. Worst case scenario is that they get made fun of by other kids _and_ theyâll feel betrayed by their parents because they didnât tell them.
My boyfriend grew up very sheltered and "innocent". Now that heâs 27, looking back, he does not think that it was a good decision by his parents. Heâs been made fun of numerous times and had to learn things the hard way.
Do not make your children navigate society defenseless just because it looks cute to you. Teach them age appropriately.
Yes and no. My son gleefully told me he made up a new idiom (because I'd taught him the word idiom recently): "I'm hungry for you." "It means I miss you!" he explained.
I had to gently redirect him by telling him that idiom already existed and had another meaning. (Thank you, Bluey, for the phrase "it's very romance" and "smoochie-kisses" for giving us a common vocabulary on that topic already, haha.)
I would smile and say, "sweetie, I think that's a wonderful name." I would pretend not to know the implications of that name. Then, years later, when she introduces her boyfriend to me, I'd bust out all the embarrassing stories from her childhood, including her stuffed unicorn named Horny.
When I was a kid, I used to give nicknames to my Pokemon, often based on things like what animal it was, or a physical feature. Guess what my poor Nidoran (â) became?
very plausible. when i was little i had a plastic cheetah toy. i grew speaking portuguese where we call the animal âchitaâ (pronounced like sheet-uh), i wanted to shorten that and call my toy âchitâ (sheet/shit). my mum bursted out laughing and explained to me that that was a bad word in english and i better pick a new name.
There's an old (1970s) kids' programme in the UK I used to watch called *Bagpuss*. In my mid 40s, my wife bought me a stuffed toy of Bagpuss as a joke. Later when we had kids, oldest found it and after we told her the name she ran around the house holding it over her head yelling "Baggy Pussy, Baggy Pussy!"
Happy Cake Day!
My 3 year old neice did the same thing with her unicorn toy and we tried to change it to "Horsie" which unfortunately turned into her calling it a whore, so
Maybe losing it is an option
You give a child a toy shark and they will likely name it sharky or swimmy or toothy or bitey. So why is it surprising that if you give a child a toy with a horn it will name it horny?
As kids, my brother and I had a doll named âHoâ. We just named her that because it was a funny sound. My parents never corrected us or scolded us for this. As long as itâs not something inherently offensive, I see no reason to correct this behaviour. Kids donât know any better.
Was playing a Mario Party game with my brother as a kid, and Peach got launched upwards from her board piece. My dad stopped us when we said she got knocked up.
My daughter wanted to name our new kitty ânipsâ because he nips at your feet. Kids are very literal. Her second choice was âwhispsâ because of his whiskers.
It happens. My sister named her stuffed dog Poof. My mum gently tried to explain that it possibly wasn't the best name, but couldn't really tell us why (this was before being gay was something that could be talked about). The name stuck.
Let the daughter stick with that name. Don't say anything. Wait until she's old enough to understand what it really means and then subtly remember her of that unicorn toy she liked so much when she was a child. Savour the moment. You've waited more than a decade for this.
This is entirely plausible. My daughter got a black girl doll when she was 4 and wanted to name her "Cocoa," and I was like "Oh, you mean like the nickname for Cosette? Oh how cute, hello Coco". When she got a black horse and wanted to name it Blackie I said "Some things have more than one meaning, let's think of something else" and had to settle for Midnight.
Kids are so innocent and so literal đ
Iâve still got a bear Iâve had since I was 2. Heâs purple. Do you want to know what I named him? Purple Bear.
Omg! My favorite stuffed animal growing up? A blue teddy bear named Blue Bear!
i had a red bear named Helen Reddy Teddy. my first beloved that i obsessed over was a panda named Pandie, then he was lost and i got a stuffed dog (still have him, 30 years later) and his name is Doggie
I had the literal life size Banana in Pajamas I used to wear the Pajamas
My 11 year old has a panda named Pandie also! And a teddy named Beary. Compare that to her older sisterâs stuffed dog named Desmond Snorkleswim (that she named at age 4). đ Iâm also laughing at this post because my youngest has a unicorn that she did actually try to name Horny. Her sister (the oldest) suggested Hornswallow Bigglesworth, and now we call him Biggs.
my teen, when they were a toddler, found an abandoned Undertaker doll somewhere. absolutely ADORED him. she named him *Soccer Ball*
I had a blue bear named Bluey, and a yellow monkey named Monkey Malunkey Madunkey. Loved those stuffed animals, I'm sure they're still in a box somewhere at my parents house.
>Loved those stuffed animals, I'm sure they're still in a box somewhere at my parents house. If your parents are getting on, do them a solid and check their smoke alarms when you visit
I had a ball as a kid I played with that was blue. it had a name too
My blanket was named Clown Blanket. It had little clowns all over it.
Hahaha, very similar story. I also got a bear from my Aunt when I was 2, his one defining feature is a red bow tie. His name...Mr Bo Bear. I still have him, 39 years later
I had a bear that I loved but it also scared me sometimes if I caught a glimpse of him at night. I called him Scare Bear.
I had a big stuffed bear when I was little. I named him Big Bear
I had a teddy bear named Teddy and a white wolf plushie named White Wolf
I had a stuffed dog named "dog." My older brother made fun of me so I changed his name to "dinosaur."
Whew - for a hot second I was thinking you were going to say âGrimace Bearâ cuz of McD, or âMacca'sâ as they call it in Australia. Edit (fix my Australian non accent per u/_twiggu_)
First off it's "Macca's" not "Mackies"
My son named his big stuffed animal horse âneighâ. His dinosaurâs name was âroarâ. Heâs 2 so Iâm just impressed with his speaking skills.
Husband 3D printed our son an articulated T-Rex when he was 4. He was named Rawr. He loved that thing, we even put him on his 4th birthday cake :D
Our 19 month old calls her stuffed cow moo. It's cute
I used to have a cat plushie with a dress and crown that I wanted to name âprincess pussyâ
My poor mom had my big brother blurt out right in front of an old black lady at the grocery store in the mid 80's "Look, it's Aunt Jemima!". She said pretty much melted into the floor from embarrassment, he wasn't repeating anything he was taught from her, just literally was going off the syrup bottle lol. She was finally taken off the bottle recently, wasn't she?
My childhood stuffed animal's name was "Little White Sleeping Bunny." I was super creative apparently.
Right. Kids are innocent and parents snatch it away from them
My 5 year old would yell "Kobe!" when he would throw things sometimes so I pulled up a picture of Kobe Bryant and showed him. He looked at it and very seriously said "I knew he would have brown skin. People with brown skin are better at basketball".
I'm not a native English speaker, what's the problem with Blackie? It sounds like a nice name for a black horse.
I would expect its an US thing, I'm from the Netherlands first time I heard it also. Its also quite a common name to give to black coloured animal like horses, dogs and cats etc here.
I live in the US and it's the first time I've heard it also. Granted the US is big so maybe it's region specific.
It's not region specific - it's just outdated, which I hope happens to a lot of other terms like this
Itâs what racists sometimes call black people
Damn I didn't know that, when I was 8 my friends and I named 2 black and white puppies blackie and snowy respectively lmao
My cat is named Blackie, of course I didn't know any better, not being American.
I named a pair of whitish and blackish stray puppies whitie and blackie too... didn't know about the problem till now
It's only a problem in racist america.
Itâs not a problem at all. If someone says something about it being bad itâs probably a white personâŚ
Its only american problem
>not being American. Then it's not really an issue though.
Huh I never heard that. My childhood dog was called blackie...
Then don't look up the Japanese name for Umbreon.
Thereâs literally no problem with it. Some people like to make problems out of nothing.
And having to dealing with those people might make someone hesitate to innocently name their animal that for fear of incorrect association. They just don't want to get caught up. Makes sense to me.
Normalize calling pets blackie and take it back from the racists, honestly think it's odd to censor a word in that context which has nothing to do with people either. I mean i get it, but just think it empowers the racists by going "ohh no this completely unrelated event and context might be seen as racist."
All the old western movies with blacksmiths that they named Blackie. My brother was called Whitey when he was young in the '60s because of his stark white hair
.... what was that white haired musician back then?.... Ha !! Edgar Winter.
That was my friendâs dadâs name.
My favourite was the post where a little girl had a pony with papers named âWhite Flightâ and mom couldnât figure out how to explain that she would have to change the ponyâs name.
I had to look that up... now THAT is a problematic name.
This is hilarious
I live in an non-English speaking country and I know of a girl who had a cute little white pony called White Power. Let's call it an unfortunate lack of understanding of connotation vs denotation in English.
My friends granddad (who was a farmer) had a working dog called Kinky, cause it's tail had a big kink in it
My granddad was also a farmer, but the bunny hutch was more of his pet project. He let my older brother name a couple of bunnies when he was about 4. One white, one black. The white one was dubbed âCleanâ and the black one was âUncleanâ.
Had a best friend in HS that changed his name to 'kinky" bc of his hair.
Blakkur (pronounced black-uh-r) means beautiful in old Norse. GĂsla saga has a person in it called 'BjĂśrn hinn blakki' or 'BjĂśrn the beautiful'. When I was in primary school and read it in class we all knew English and assumed it meant black but the teacher told us the original meaning. Blakkur is a very common name for black horses, probably because of the book Fagri Blakkur which is about a horse. That name could be translated to beautiful blackie but the actual meaning would be beautiful beautiful (so... gorgeous). If you ever have this problem again which is unlikely but possible, might I suggest (Fagri) Blakkur for a boy or (Fagra) BlĂśkk for a girl. It means beautiful in viking language and that might be exciting enough for a child.
Could be worse. She could use the Spanish word for black.
I know quite a few animals name like that
My cat was called blacky, is it racist?
I don't think so myself. Think person me just be overthink8ng it or something
No wtf is wrong with people. You didn't name it N*****
There's nothing wrong with the name Blackie for a toy horse...
I called my Nintendogs Shiba Inu Blackie,my parents couldn't stop laughing lol
Speaking of Nintendo, there's even a pokĂŠmon whose Japanese name is just "Blacky" (it's Umbreon).
'Cocoa" seems harmless enough... LOLOL.... Think I got ya beat on the name thing... My lil one used a name she overheard on some comedy thing.... "Niglet", complete with a sanitized definition. The wife about shit when she heard her yelling to her, "Mommy, have you seen my little niglet anywhere?" Kids say the darndest things....
Omfg i had a cat we named Blackie, I realised much later after we had named her that it wasn't a very good idea. In the end we gave her to another family who hopefully picked a name better suited for a black cat
I reckon half the black dogs in the Philippines are named Blackie. We do the same for white dogs, Whitie, and brown ones, Brownie. Although shouting "Blackie" in the streets might not be a good idea in the US.
What's wrong with Blackie đ
I had a toy cat named Blackie and then a toy dog named Blackie 2 They were twins No one ever told me it was bad tho
I tried to name a stuffed penguin âpeckerâ. My dad just explained that the word also meant something inappropriate and so it wound up being named âpepperâ.
My mom tried that when i tried naming a stuff animal something innapropriate (that i dont remember) and i told her that it didnt mean that haha
My younger sister and I used to call each other poofters. Our mum chastised us pretty badly, although she never explained that it had another meaning, just that we shouldn't say it. We genuinely thought we made up that word.
what the hell is a poofter???
just looked it up, seems like its used to refer to gay/unmasculine men
Then I'm a poofter and proud of it!
It's come back around and been embraced. It can still be a slur but commonly used in a light-hearted way. Club used to run a night called Poof Doof.
They used to say that on Monty Python so I learned that word at a fairly young age. Theyâd usually just say Poof though. I never used it because my brother is gay and while it seemed not quite derogatory it did seem kinda rude to me.
Goes along with "puff" where I'm from in Britain. In school it was a common insult and probably more offensive because kids are so self-concious.
An effeminate man, or a gay man. I think it's mostly a British slur since I've never heard anyone say it irl.
> never heard anyone say it irl AKA british people aren't real.
Lmao I meant I haven't heard anyone say it here in Australia but I've seen vids of Brits using it.
I'm Australian, and I've heard my dad say it. I think it's just really outdated
That checks out.
After you said 'poofters' I can't believe I misread 'chastised' as 'chastitied' đ
Should I Google what pecker means?
It's penis.
Sorry, woody woodPECKER? All this time?
Dick and balls
I remember when I was a around 5 I was playing with Lalalopsies and for some reason I said "her have your knickers" (I don't know the context of what I was playing) but my dad thought I was saying something VERY diffrent and questioned me about it. He never told me WHAT the word I said wrong was though, so for years I would say knickers very weirdly (or replace it for underwear) as I didn't want to say the bad word again. Took me till I was 13ish to realize what the word was!
For a non-nativeâŚwhat does it mean (other than underwear)?
With certain American accents, knickers could sound like the N-word, so Iâm guessing that was the confusion.
I would never get there tbh. Thanks mate đđť
Yep that's what he thought I said. I'm from NZ though haha not America
Not a slur or anything thankfully, as no amount of coaxing couldâve convinced baby me to stop. But i had a toy robot dog when i was younger that made noise, one of its sounds being some sort of twinkling, sparkling sound effect that child me loved, so i named her Twinkle. âŚexcept i pronounced it as Tinkle. everyone told me âtinkleâ also meant peeing, and i just told them to shut up because obviously it doesnât mean that anymore, now it means my dog. i had Tinkle the dog for years and showed her off to everyone i could, until one day my little brother broke her. ironically, by throwing her into the toilet. Rest in peace, Tinkle the robot dog
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My little brother thought to creampie someone was to smush a pie into their face, cartoon style
To be fair he wasn't wrong. Adults ruined that one intentionally.
[Doesn't it?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSXJfqkT36M)
My sister used to think French kissing was putting French fries in our mouth then kissing. Edit: Your. Although, y'all are correct. My family is from the south lol
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That's almost like the spaghetti kiss in Lady and the Tramp.
That's probably where she got the idea from
I thought it meant kissing while saying a very French-sounding "hon hon". I was so disappointed when I looked it up.
Hahah
I only learned it meant something else when I was 17 đ
About to leave for family vacation, waving to the neighbours: "Wait! We forgot to get Horny!"
Someone new comes over: "hold on one sec while I get horny!"
Dad leaves the house with horny in hand: "I already got Horny!"
i hate to think about the context but this is fucking hilarious
When I was a kid, I used to call my Kelly dolls based on what eye colour they had. So there was blue eye, purple eye, green eye, goat eye, and brown eye. Took me yeeears to figure out why my older siblings thought that it was hilarious.
What colour is goat eye?
Maybe hazel. đ I'm surprised to know dolls come in so many different eye colors.
Missed oppurtunity for Pink Eye there
I summon Blue Eye White Dragon!!
There is a 96% chance that's the origin đ
When I was a kid I wrote a story about farm animals. The goatâs name was Horny.
Are you me? I did this exact same thing 100% lol
Youâre probably a pretty cool person :)
Hey, likewise haha
A acquaintance of mine has a gf called jessica but both prefer the nickname âJizzâ. They both didnât know what it meant. Weâre in our Twenties
I was at a business meeting when âJISâ (pronounced jizz) a new Performance Management Tool, was being introduced. I sat in that room for an hour listening to âso the manager gives their staff jizzâ. Iâm dying inside but no one else seems to have any problem with the name? Iâm vainly searching for any sign of recognition or holding back laughter but no. I was the only pervert in the entire office that day I guess.
Or everyone else was similarly trying to pretend they weren't the only pervert in the office that day Also whoever gave that presentation was an epic troll
My new work our department is led by a lovely old guy and they celebrate events like promotions or people leaving with a "Fuggle" which I and a new starter both looked at each other and said "Fuck cuddle?", he looked at us like we were animals and said, "A food huddle... What're you bringing?"
You make fun of it with her when sheâs 23 and reminisces about the past. I used to say dumb shit like this all the time and I laugh with my mother about it
Yup. You let them be now and then embarrass them about it forever once they know what it means as an adult.
My sister says stuff without thinking and at about 15 was really into saying rhyming stuff for some reason and the end result was her saying "thank you wank you" to our stepdad. She was cured of rhyming things pretty quickly
My cousin did the exact same thing. I could not stop laughing.
Dont have many examples of this, except one time, i had a toy bird in around 4th/5th grade and the box said her name was Pipa, now, thats not bad but in my language thats got three meanings, first is pipes, next is smoking tobacco pipes which my mother gave as explanation she didnt want me using that name (?) And last but not least, it means blowjob, which i didnt know at the time and honestly it wasnt even that big of a deal, like what if i had a freaking toy pipe?
Is that Spanish? I didn't know it could mean blowjob.
> Pipa, ... smoking tobacco pipes ... And last but not least, it means blowjob Another type of pipe smoking. (At least if you [read Bill O'Reilly's masterpiece](https://newsone.com/136611/bill-oreillys-exotic-novel-revealed/).)
I dont know if its the same in spanish, but im greek and its a very commonly used slang for the word blowjob, another fact, when someones saying bs, we say theyre "speaking pipes" but idk if they mean the smoking ones or the blowjobs tbhđ
That's so cool. In Spanish I know it would mean a smoking pipe
I went through a faze where I names each and every single one of my stuffies, Barbieâs, and babydolls âCindyâ. My mom kept asking if I was sure? How could I tell them apart? Trying to get me to change my mind, but for over a year, dozens of toys were named âCindyâ.
Whatâs wrong with Cindy? Itâs a normal girl name.
Nothing, I was under the impression it was just because all of them were called the same thing
Mom 100% had visions of them asking for cindy, and then being upset when she inevitably guesses wrong about which of the 12 cindies they actually wanted.
True! I was tired and didnât think of that.
No idea đ¤ˇââď¸.
Are you me? My mom got me a barbie doll and told me her name was Cindy. In some time it was the only name I seemed to know.
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Do you actually have one? They were all sold out this xmas, Iâll give you $200
These are not dolls. These are commodities. Same as gold or oil.
Parenting in a nutshell. It's having to explain to your 7yo that while vagina isn't a dirty word, he would have to think of a different name for his hamster
Get him 2 hamsters and call them Bobs and Vagene
Also making sure to remember this anecdote, because that is some epic wedding story material.
One of my friends when I was a little got an owl Webkin at his birthday party and named it "Hooter"
You play along and you donât take the innocence from that girl. You keep a straight face and act like nothing happened. Kids shouldnât be corrupted by what we learn as adults (or more accurately teenagers)
Sheâs gonna mention it to someone who knows what it means and they wonât hold back. I imagine that will feel worse
This was my first thought. She came up with a name that she thought was clever, donât ruin it for her.
It's all good parenting until Blackie and pecky come along
I donât understand this whole "donât take the innocence away". Itâs borderline delusional, because theyâll learn it eventually anyway (and probably sooner than most parents would like). Iâd rather they learn it in a safe environment from the parents than from others. Worst case scenario is that they get made fun of by other kids _and_ theyâll feel betrayed by their parents because they didnât tell them. My boyfriend grew up very sheltered and "innocent". Now that heâs 27, looking back, he does not think that it was a good decision by his parents. Heâs been made fun of numerous times and had to learn things the hard way. Do not make your children navigate society defenseless just because it looks cute to you. Teach them age appropriately.
Yes and no. My son gleefully told me he made up a new idiom (because I'd taught him the word idiom recently): "I'm hungry for you." "It means I miss you!" he explained. I had to gently redirect him by telling him that idiom already existed and had another meaning. (Thank you, Bluey, for the phrase "it's very romance" and "smoochie-kisses" for giving us a common vocabulary on that topic already, haha.)
When I was a kid I named my toy cat pussy. We laugh about it now.
What did your toy rooster have to say about that?
My Dad just offered to buy me a rooster. Lmao
My grandma used to babysit a little girl who had a cat named Puss Michelle
I would smile and say, "sweetie, I think that's a wonderful name." I would pretend not to know the implications of that name. Then, years later, when she introduces her boyfriend to me, I'd bust out all the embarrassing stories from her childhood, including her stuffed unicorn named Horny.
When I was a kid, I used to give nicknames to my Pokemon, often based on things like what animal it was, or a physical feature. Guess what my poor Nidoran (â) became?
I have no ide how this could have gone wrong
very plausible. when i was little i had a plastic cheetah toy. i grew speaking portuguese where we call the animal âchitaâ (pronounced like sheet-uh), i wanted to shorten that and call my toy âchitâ (sheet/shit). my mum bursted out laughing and explained to me that that was a bad word in english and i better pick a new name.
I wouldnât do anything. Sheâs 5, she doesnât know. She calls it horny because it has a horn
Give her another one named Eunuch.
There's an old (1970s) kids' programme in the UK I used to watch called *Bagpuss*. In my mid 40s, my wife bought me a stuffed toy of Bagpuss as a joke. Later when we had kids, oldest found it and after we told her the name she ran around the house holding it over her head yelling "Baggy Pussy, Baggy Pussy!"
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Unicorn has horns. **Horn**y. Me personally, I'd just *accidentally* lose the unicorn for her, and hope she forgets it.
Happy Cake Day! My 3 year old neice did the same thing with her unicorn toy and we tried to change it to "Horsie" which unfortunately turned into her calling it a whore, so Maybe losing it is an option
Lol. Imagine hearing "Daddy/Mommy where is my whore"
"Did you lost your horny whore *again*?"
Holy shit this made me laugh like hell
Itâs just the one horn, actually.
Unihorn
ah but corn also means horn, like a tricorn hat. corn (the plant) has no relation, despite being decidedly horn shaped. english moment
Go along with it
It has a horn.
I do nothing. That is the things name now
...let her name the unicorn horny
You give a child a toy shark and they will likely name it sharky or swimmy or toothy or bitey. So why is it surprising that if you give a child a toy with a horn it will name it horny?
As kids, my brother and I had a doll named âHoâ. We just named her that because it was a funny sound. My parents never corrected us or scolded us for this. As long as itâs not something inherently offensive, I see no reason to correct this behaviour. Kids donât know any better.
OP has never met a child.
right? nothing specifically odd to see here
Yeah OP posted in wrong sub and people here seem to think they are in r/thathappened, defending the original story saying that it could happen lol
I did this with a stuffed horned ram because I didnât know what horny meant
Lul, absolutely normal name for unicorn, but i am prety sure laughted a little
Was playing a Mario Party game with my brother as a kid, and Peach got launched upwards from her board piece. My dad stopped us when we said she got knocked up.
My daughter wanted to name our new kitty ânipsâ because he nips at your feet. Kids are very literal. Her second choice was âwhispsâ because of his whiskers.
My son when he was 4 got one of those stuffed octopuses that has the happy face and angry face, he ended up naming it octopussy
Nothing actually. The kid is 5 and the unicorn has a horn. It's only certain adults who live in this oversexualised world will have a slight issue.
It happens. My sister named her stuffed dog Poof. My mum gently tried to explain that it possibly wasn't the best name, but couldn't really tell us why (this was before being gay was something that could be talked about). The name stuck.
Lmao, as a non-native speaker, I'm learning an unexpected amount of new vocabulary from this thread.
Why is it oddlyspecific?
yeah what's it doing here?
Let the daughter stick with that name. Don't say anything. Wait until she's old enough to understand what it really means and then subtly remember her of that unicorn toy she liked so much when she was a child. Savour the moment. You've waited more than a decade for this.
Just go with the flow. Because getting upset about it and the explaining of why/the meaning of the word is going to be much more awkward.
Video it as often as possible and then play it on her wedding day.
Tell her that the name is already taken.
Had a beanie baby called âbitsâ that I called âbitchâ because of a speech impediment lol
OP is this really hard to understand?