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Starbaby News: Welcome Spike!

September 29, 2011 By appellationmountain 26 Comments

Spike Lee at the Vanity Fair kickoff party for...

Spike Lee; Image via Wikipedia

For one fleeting second, I thought this was a wild rumor when Photoquilty posted it to the AppMtn Facebook group earlier today.

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Comments

  1. E says

    October 1, 2011 at 7:23 AM

    Honestly, I work with children and nothing surprises me any more. I think there are worse named kids than Spike in the world; one lovely little girl I know is named Kitty-Belle. Don’t get me wrong, I like the name Kitty and I love the name Belle but together they belong on a cat collar, not a child.

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    • E says

      October 1, 2011 at 7:24 AM

      Eek, I feel mean now. Disclaimer; this is just my opinion, and I admit myself I am often wrong!

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  2. Jenn says

    September 30, 2011 at 7:11 AM

    The first thing I thought of was Spike the dinosaur from the Land Before Time series. haha! oh my..

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  3. Charlotte Vera says

    September 29, 2011 at 10:43 PM

    I have to admit that the first thing that came into my head upon reading this announcement was that Mike Myers never fails to unimpress me.

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    • Charlotte Vera says

      September 29, 2011 at 10:45 PM

      I should perhaps add that I am somewhat influenced by the first Spike I ever met: a friend’s poorly behaved and rather ugly dog.

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  4. Julie says

    September 29, 2011 at 10:38 PM

    I haven’t watched soap operas since college and yet I remember that there was a baby named Spike on “All My Children.” (it’s also Snoopy’s brother’s name.)

    Spike seems like an in utero nickname, not a name that parents would actually put on a birth certificate.

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  5. Sarah A says

    September 29, 2011 at 10:31 PM

    Hmm, I actually kind of like it, and I’ve never seen Buffy. I think I would prefer a less aggressive first name with Spike as a nn (a la Shooter Jennings’ Waylon nn Blackjack). But I do like that it rhymes with Mike, though maybe I like that cuz DH is a MIke 🙂 But i think Spike might be a tad difficult to wear if he’s the bookish sort. Though I guess the same could be said for Slade and Cannon…

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  6. Bree says

    September 29, 2011 at 9:28 PM

    My first thought was of Spike from Buffy as well. You know Spike’s real name was William, he was often called William the Bloody because his poetry was bloody horrible. And then he started killing people with railroad spikes and the name…just stuck.

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  7. waltzingmorethanmatilda says

    September 29, 2011 at 7:42 PM

    I sort of like it … probably because I used it as a hypothetical baby name on my blog, needing an example of something or other, and whenever a celebrity uses a baby name from my blog, I always think they got it from me. Even when they have some other story to explain it … 😉

    I do know a lot of dogs called Spike, but it seems like whenever says what their baby is called, someone goes, “Oh I have a dog with that name”.

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    • namemuststay says

      September 30, 2011 at 12:33 PM

      It’s so true – human names are all over the dog world!

      Unfortunately, the number of dogs I’ve met with my name hasn’t been major, but 2 of 3 have been chihuahuas. :-/

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      • waltzingmorethanmatilda says

        October 1, 2011 at 3:39 AM

        Cute! 🙂 I haven’t met a dog with my name yet … I think my name might go better on a cat actually.

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  8. namemuststay says

    September 29, 2011 at 10:01 PM

    I’m not sold. I really don’t like violent names or weapon names, especially. This is one of my few naming pet peeves!

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  9. photoquilty says

    September 29, 2011 at 4:42 PM

    Um…have we confirmed that Meyers didn’t have his rep tell everyone the name is Spike as a joke? Because it seems that ridiculous.

    Also, My first thought was that his next babies would be Buffy and Angel. Because I am a nerd.

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    • photoquilty says

      September 29, 2011 at 4:43 PM

      And am I missing something? I don’t get the Elvis Costello reference.

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      • appellationmountain says

        September 29, 2011 at 6:53 PM

        Elvis Costello recorded an album called Spike in … 1989, maybe? It has a big blue spike with his head on the top of it … not one of his most iconic recordings. I think the big single was “Veronica.” For the record, this knowledge is somehow, mysteriously, top of mind, and I still have to look up who our representative is in Congress.

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        • appellationmountain says

          September 29, 2011 at 7:24 PM

          Okay, just Googled the album cover and my memory is flawed. His head is coming out of a big ol’ crest with the “i” in Spike spelled with a spike, which is driving into his head … Y’know, I have vivid recall of album covers up through high school – the lips on “Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me,” that greenish tint and pinkish lettering on “The Queen is Dead,” Billy Idol’s electric shock hair, the Go Gos on water skis, the dirty hidden pictures you needed to get a magnifying glass to see in that Iron Maiden album … but now that they just show up on my iPod, they barely register …

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  10. SkyeRhyly says

    September 29, 2011 at 4:23 PM

    Not a fan of the uber macho names like Spike, Colton, Gunnar, Shooter, etc… I once knew a mom who named her kid Cutter, I mean seriously?

    But Spike to me will always remind me of Spike from Buffy.

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  11. dreadedjaws says

    September 29, 2011 at 3:48 PM

    I’m thinking the mohawk-sporting leader of the Gremlins when I see Spike… ahhh, the 80s… but I don’t think it’s all that ‘out there’ really when all things are considered. I even kinda like in on a nn level.

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    • photoquilty says

      September 29, 2011 at 4:43 PM

      Wow, that’s a dated reference! 🙂

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      • dreadedjaws says

        September 29, 2011 at 6:44 PM

        Yep. I’m a dated kinda person. 🙂

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  12. Names4Real says

    September 29, 2011 at 3:41 PM

    Here’s hoping he’s actually Michael John II nn Spike.

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    • SkyeRhyly says

      September 29, 2011 at 4:24 PM

      Nah. Although I’m not a fan of the name, Spike is a lot more interesting. Plus I like all the wacky celebrity name choices haha, they’re fun to read about.

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  13. C in DC says

    September 29, 2011 at 2:33 PM

    I can hear in my head Mike Myers in his fake Scottish accent saying “Spike”. I can also hear Jimmy Fallon saying it. I associate it with the director first, spiking the football second, and tent spikes third, so … It could be worse.

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