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firefox_fan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 09:13 PM
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$475 for a stupid name??? What's wrong with people???
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<...> Denise McCombie, 37, a California mother of two who's expecting a daughter this fall, spent $475 to have a numerologist test her favorite name, Leah Marie, to see if it had positive associations. (It did.) This March, one nervous mom-to-be from Illinois listed her 16 favorite names on a tournament bracket and asked friends, family and people she met at baby showers to fill it out. The winner: Anna Irene. <...>

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  -$475 for a stupid name??? What's wrong with people??? firefox_fan  Jun-24-07 09:13 PM   #0 
  - There's probably a hundred thousand numerology engines on-line...  Mythsaje   Jun-24-07 09:15 PM   #1 
  - If she truely believes in numerology  LiberalFighter   Jun-24-07 09:20 PM   #2 
  - Maybe by then we'll be beyond the almost automatic  wakemeupwhenitsover   Jun-24-07 09:45 PM   #5 
  - I was married thirty years ago,  Jonathan50   Jun-24-07 10:08 PM   #8 
  - I've been married about the same length of time.  wakemeupwhenitsover   Jun-24-07 10:19 PM   #11 
     - Mine is five letters..  Jonathan50   Jun-24-07 10:27 PM   #13 
        - DH has a last name that even a first grader can read.  wakemeupwhenitsover   Jun-24-07 10:30 PM   #14 
        - Is it Ghoti?  karlrschneider   Jun-24-07 10:36 PM   #18 
  - I took my wife's surname  Paulie   Jun-24-07 10:33 PM   #17 
  - Self delete  Paulie   Jun-24-07 10:31 PM   #16 
  - sucker born every minute.............  Double T   Jun-24-07 09:23 PM   #3 
  - Some people have money to burn. n/t  cat_girl25   Jun-24-07 09:41 PM   #4 
  - I'll give her a great name for only $200.  wtmusic   Jun-24-07 10:04 PM   #6 
  - Why not just name the baby Seven?  GloriaSmith   Jun-24-07 10:06 PM   #7 
  - $500 to name my doggie!  firefox_fan   Jun-24-07 10:15 PM   #10 
  - Guess she did not have enough to do.  izzie   Jun-24-07 10:09 PM   #9 
  - She could do worse things with her money. Like give it to the RNC, or a Televangelist.  mondo joe   Jun-24-07 10:23 PM   #12 
  - Ever get married?  impeachdubya   Jun-24-07 10:30 PM   #15 
 

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