Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has named his sixth child Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher.
The backbencher announced the new arrival on Instagram, where attention focused on the eye-catching name.
The name Sixtus is shared with five popes, most recently in 1590.
"Helena and I announce with great joy that we have a baby Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher, a brother for Peter, Mary, Thomas, Anselm and Alfred." Mr Rees-Mogg said.
The other children's full names are Alfred Wulfric Leyson Pius, Thomas Wentworth Somerset Dunstan, Peter Theodore Alphege, Anselm Charles Fitzwilliam and Mary Anne Charlotte Emma Rees-Mogg.
Re: A Mogg by any other name.
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2017 8:07 am
by Bicycle Bill
Personally, I have no problem with a name like that. It's no worse than names like North or Saint (Kanje West's children), Dweezil, Moon Unit, or Diva Thin Muffin (Frank Zappa's kids), Pilot Inspektor (Jason Lee's kid), Tu Morrow (son of Robb Morrow), or Jermajesty (Jermaine Jackson's child).
Not to mention some of the other 'made-up' names with the 'unique' spellings that looks more like someone drew a bunch of tiles out of a Scrabble game and tried to make something of it. -"BB"-
Re: A Mogg by any other name.
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2017 1:27 pm
by Guinevere
I think North is a great name!
Re: A Mogg by any other name.
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2017 2:09 pm
by Crackpot
As a given name.
Personally I think Noth should have been his Middle name. His first should have been "Northby"
Re: A Mogg by any other name.
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2017 3:19 pm
by BoSoxGal
Northby North? Doesn't make sense.
First name True, middle name North.
Re: A Mogg by any other name.
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2017 4:01 pm
by Big RR
I kind of like Magnetic as a first name.
So long as kids can change their names when they get old enough, most odd names don't bother me.
Re: A Mogg by any other name.
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2017 4:11 pm
by Crackpot
BoSoxGal wrote:Northby North? Doesn't make sense.
First name True, middle name North.
Add the last name
Re: A Mogg by any other name.
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2017 5:02 pm
by BoSoxGal
Doh! I blame my demyelination for that terrible error in cognition.
Very clever indeed!
Re: A Mogg by any other name.
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2017 7:09 pm
by Bicycle Bill
C'mon now, 'fess up.
How many of you read the word 'Mogg' and thought this thread was gonna have something to do with John Candy or the long-awaited sequel to "Spaceballs"?
-"BB"-
Re: A Mogg by any other name.
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2017 8:26 pm
by dales
I thought of this:
That's only me.
Re: A Mogg by any other name.
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2017 6:06 pm
by Lord Jim
How many of you read the word 'Mogg' and thought this thread was gonna have something to do with John Candy or the long-awaited sequel to "Spaceballs"?
Not me...
When I saw it, I thought of Worf's father...
Re: A Mogg by any other name.
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2017 11:30 pm
by Gob
Apparently on Twitter Jacob Rees-Mogg captioned this image
"We shall have to take our business elsewhere."
A Mogg By Any Other Name
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 3:18 am
by RayThom
I thought it was going to highlight the Moody Blues and their Mogg synthesizer.
Speaking of Hayward and Lodge:
Re: A Mogg by any other name.
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 4:25 pm
by ex-khobar Andy
For a Tory, Rees Mogg can be quite entertaining.
His father was editor of The Times in those far-off pre-Murdoch days, and wrote the famous 'Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?' editorial when Messrs. Jagger and Richards were jailed for drug offenses in 1967. The Times in those days could have been expected to write a 'Nail the long haired bastards to a tree' sort of piece.
I blame my demyelination for that terrible error in cognition. 
