Jesus, my life is ruined, they’ve just announced
it, the name of that bloody royal baby that everyone’s been blabbiting on about
for weeks. The official announcement read that they wanted something that
reflected the royal couple’s association with Wales. So they could have chosen
Ieuen, Carwyn, Rhys, but no no no, they had to choose Gareth.
Having a name like Gareth is interesting, in Wales
it’s common as muck, everyone knows it but thanks to a certain Mr Edwards
everyone is predisposed to like it, which means they are predisposed to like
you for a while too. In the rest of the UK it is a bit quirky, different, you
don’t meet many Gareths, so it’s nice to have the opposite of the Welsh
experience. Outside of the UK it is really different. In the same way as we
have stereotypical French or Spanish names, Jean-Pierre, Jaun etc they are
expecting Andrews Edwards or Davids from the UK so Gareth really stands out.
Recently I have noticed that some people have been saying ‘like Gareth Bale’
but that’s okay cos he’s Welsh and he’s cool.
But now, now whenever I say ‘My name’s Gareth’ the
reply is going to be, ‘Oh like the prince.’ How I'm going to love that. ‘I HAD
IT FIRST.’ I’ll shout, 'the little bastard is like me, not me like him.'
Gareth - very positive connotations for me with this name:) As for the prince, I read somewhere today:):
ReplyDelete"It's a boy!" Great thing to yell outside St Mary's hospital. Horrible thing to yell in a Thai brothel.
.. but both gossip press and yellow press could hurt somebody.. so if the yell is great or horrible depends on the columnist and the audience.
ReplyDeleteSomebody seems upset even when the name is so cool!
Ok. The script has been written. We'll see if the director accepts it :-))
ReplyDeleteGrumpy sweet gareth.. Sounds good. Accept it!
ReplyDeletebrothel's madame