6/4/10: What's In a Name?

Well if we adopted a child into our family it would be a group decision I guess, I don't know what factors everyone else would go by to think up names but if I was the one in charge of naming, if the child was old enough to talk then I would ask the child what he or she would like to be called cause it would be nice for kids to get a say in what their name is, (though of course there is the possibility they'd just say: "Oh I wanna be called Mr Muscles or Boogerbrain or something like that and not take it seriously, haha). If they are unable to talk then I would probably go by the whole 'you look like a...' thing where you look at someone and say, "You look like a..." and then pick a name based on their features and actions etc like sometimes people post on forums a photo of themselves and ask the public what name they look like. I've done that on the bus going home to keep amused, I look at people and think what their name could be. I would try to steer away from generic names that billions upon billions are called if possible but not choose a name that is too strange or alien or just plain silly like some guardians call their kids after an object or a superhero character and then the kid's gotta grow up with all the teasing and hating their name, I wouldn't do that to them.