My name: The good and the bad
My name is Tom.
Good things about the name Tom:
- Short and sweet.
- Easy to pronounce, regardless of the speaker’s native tongue.
- Easy to spell, and even foreigners spell it right. (Thom Yorke, you’re wrong.)
- Even though people think it’s a common name and use it as a placeholder name for the typical guy (“Tom, Dick, and Harry”), it’s not actually that common.
- Three solid variants: Tom, Tommy, and Thomas. More than you can say for, well, Richard.
Bad things about the name Tom:
- Sounds a lot like “mom,” which is a tad bothersome in public places.
- I share a name with this dickface.
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December 6th, 2006 at 2:04 am
And Tom Anderson, who is both the webmaster of a crappy website and a computer hacker turned superhero machine killer.
December 6th, 2006 at 7:44 pm
Best thing about the name Tom–you were named for your grandfather.
December 6th, 2006 at 10:37 pm
Well, at least your name is not part of a very well known popular movie quote…
With a name like Luke, I found out that just about every every I meet will at some point in time inform me that he/she is my father…
December 6th, 2006 at 10:51 pm
My Name: The Good and the Bad…
Taking my cue from Tom…
My name is John. Good things about the name John include:
Very simple, tends to not get screwed up. Except by wisenheimers like this guy.
Stands the test of time. Popular, but not a fad name.
Easily written in cursive. …
December 7th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
Good things about “Evan.” (Maybe Evan of OrangeYeti can add to this.)
1. Short, simple.
2. Uncommon.
3. Sounds good spoken in any language.
Bad things:
1. Hard to spell for many people.
2. Hard to pronounce for many people during cold reads.
3. Can be made fun of easily.