So bad I couldn't believe it...

[myiris.livejournal.com]

My wife has an intern right now at her office who is 5 months pregnant with her first child, a son. When asked what name she has chosen she tells my wife - Kegel [though, it may not be spelled like that, she was very clear on how it's pronounced apparently: KAY-gul]. That's right - like the vaginal exercises....

OMFG, right!?

Comments

[honeyhearts.livejournal.com]

Wow, thats pretty bad :(

[myiris.livejournal.com]

Yea, I can think of few worse. When wifey told me, I immediately made the joke "What's his middle name? Queef?" LOL

Yuck =/

[sweetest-asylum.livejournal.com]

how about the Amish woman who was rumored to have named her daughter Vagina...because it was pretty.

[honeyhearts.livejournal.com]

It's truly amazing what people consider naming their kids.. names like that have to make you wonder if they love their kids..

[myiris.livejournal.com]

Agreed. My wife says that the girl didn't even show the slightest hint of making the connection. The sad thing is she's interning in a medical profession. ::facepalm::

[honeyhearts.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, that makes it so much worse. :( Poor kid!

[solitudete.livejournal.com]

LMFAO... I am overly blunt so I would have blurted out "like the vaginal exercises??"

[myiris.livejournal.com]

Same here! I told me wife SOMEONE has to tell her before that kid is born. Every person that feigns an oblivious reaction is doing a serious disservice to this poor boy's future. They may think it's the polite thing to do to say "aw, cute" like my wife apparently did but I'm sure she'd wanna know. At least, I would.

[solitudete.livejournal.com]

Exactly.. and I'm sure if someone mentions it she'll be like "Oh really? Well no one else thought that." Everyone else was just too polite to point it out perhaps..

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

OMG!

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

I'd say something. I wouldn't be able to help it.

I would try to be tactful. I would say, "I can see why you might like the sound of that name, but did you know that Kegel is the last name of a well known doctor who developed some exercise for the pelvic area? The exercises are named for him. They're called "Kegels."

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! My last name is polish, and even though it isn't spelled or pronounced anything close to kegel, everyone seems to say it that way! It drives me up the wall to be in a waiting room full of people and hear "Mrs....um....um...Kegel?"
Everyone starts tittering. ;)

[vanish.livejournal.com]

Someone print out an article about kegels and leave it in her mailbox!

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

[sayfray.livejournal.com]

One of my husband's navy shipmates his first name is also Kegel. Except he prouncounces it Kee-gull.

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

Oh wow!

In Dutch a "kegel" is a bowling pin. Also pretty ridiculous, though not as bad as the English meaning! ;)

[duck-deluxe.livejournal.com]

I laughed for like 20 minutes when I read this. Then, I got really sad for that little boy.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Well it's a good thing I always though that was pronounced kee-gull. I knew a girl in high school who's last name was Kagel, prn. kay-gul. I wonder if she knew about kegels...