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.
A Mogg by any other name.
A Mogg by any other name.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Re: A Mogg by any other name.
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.
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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.
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Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
Re: A Mogg by any other name.
I think North is a great name!
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Re: A Mogg by any other name.
As a given name.
Personally I think Noth should have been his Middle name. His first should have been "Northby"
Personally I think Noth should have been his Middle name. His first should have been "Northby"
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
Re: A Mogg by any other name.
Northby North? Doesn't make sense.
First name True, middle name North.
First name True, middle name North.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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~ Carl Sagan
Re: A Mogg by any other name.
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.
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.
Add the last nameBoSoxGal wrote:Northby North? Doesn't make sense.
First name True, middle name North.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
Re: A Mogg by any other name.
Doh! 
I blame my demyelination for that terrible error in cognition.
Very clever indeed!
I blame my demyelination for that terrible error in cognition. Very clever indeed!
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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~ Carl Sagan
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Re: A Mogg by any other name.
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"?
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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"?
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Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
Re: A Mogg by any other name.
I thought of this:
That's only me.
That's only me.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
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Re: A Mogg by any other name.
Not me...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"?
When I saw it, I thought of Worf's father...
Re: A Mogg by any other name.
Apparently on Twitter Jacob Rees-Mogg captioned this image
"We shall have to take our business elsewhere."
"We shall have to take our business elsewhere."
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
A Mogg By Any Other Name
I thought it was going to highlight the Moody Blues and their Mogg synthesizer.
Speaking of Hayward and Lodge:
Speaking of Hayward and Lodge:
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Re: A Mogg by any other name.
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.
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.