text: aren't names funny things? i considered this first, a while ago.  it's cos i thought my name sounded funny.  richard.  nothing wrong with it really, but when a name is your own, it clearly has different connotations from the names of the other 6.4 billion.  and then you have the poor unfortunates whose parents must have eaten some blooming mouldy food from the fridge the night they decided what to call them.  you know the sort. or maybe your name means something rude in a foreign language...  for instance in spain, "conchita" is a nice girl's name.  in south america, it would be ****'d out by yahoo for being a slang term for the female parts.  what is the most unfortunate name you've ever come across.  maybe it's your own.  my confession:  my names are richard william.   thanks mum.  thanks a forking lot...  richard> dick , william> willie. two pseudonyms for the male member.  and she reckons she spent ages looking for names you couldn't use as a ppi55-take. for some reason i love my name it's plain and doesn't mean anything but there's not enough to make it common and not so weird to make it weird i'm just donna.  now gwyneth and chris martin just had their son and named it moses, so apple's little bro is moses.  so dick willie, i'd say your name problems are minor.  you could have a pseudo rockstar father and a vegan halfwit mother and as a boy you have to fight the playyard kids who are beating you up for being named moses and then beating you up for your sister apple!