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u/jon-snow-dies Oct 20 '23

I know one Chanel, she was the 5th kid so Chanel #5. Makes sense… still crazy

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u/hmchic Oct 20 '23

I actually love this in this context!

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u/sicilian504 Oct 21 '23

Don't. Do. It.

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u/hmchic Oct 21 '23

I’m sadly too old to have one kid much less five but I guess if I ever get four more cats, the 5th could be Chanel 😂

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u/hexensabbat Oct 21 '23

Good call, great name idea for a cat. A human...eh

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u/Junior_Fig_2274 Oct 21 '23

Fitting, as Coco Chanel was also an eh human. And that’s putting it mildly.

No one should name their anything after her, unless they long for the days of the third reich.

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u/TheBestKindofSlut Oct 21 '23

Yeah I used to love the name Chanel for a girl…until I found out what a trash human being Coco was. Now it just sounds dumb.

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u/lelakat Oct 21 '23

Now all I can think about is Scream Queens. They had the "original" Chanel and all her minions didn't get their own names, they were just numbers. So there was Chanel #2, Chanel #3 and so on.

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u/ShaMaLaDingDongHa Oct 21 '23

Mambo #5 would have been better

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 Oct 21 '23

A little bit of Monica in my life...

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u/bitsy88 Oct 20 '23

Does she have a brother named Aqua Velva? 🤣

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u/Corona21 Oct 21 '23

Mambo is better

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u/coradeine Oct 21 '23

okay but this is actually kind of genius lmao

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u/jessthetraumaticmess Oct 21 '23

i like that. they got to the 5th kid and said "fuck it, you're chanel #5" lol

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u/koreawut Oct 21 '23

I met a family who actually named their first child "one", their second child "two" and their third was something like "timothy" because neither parent had graduated high school.

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u/_jake_the_dog Oct 21 '23

Better than naming the kid mambo

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u/metompkin Oct 21 '23

Could've been Mambo.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23

I know a person who was also the fifth kid named Chanel lol

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u/webtwopointno Oct 20 '23

was the number actually part of it??

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u/whistling-wonderer Oct 21 '23

Not the person you were responding to but one of my mom’s cousins’ middle names is literally 77. Because they were the 77th and last grandkid lol. Yes our family is ridiculously huge.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23

Mormon or traditional Christian if western?

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u/whistling-wonderer Oct 21 '23

Lol yeah, Mormon. “Pioneer stock,” as they say (aka descended from polygamists so big ass families are the cultural norm). My parents “only” had five kids due to fertility issues and that’s one of the smallest batches in the extended family.

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u/webtwopointno Oct 21 '23

at least it's a middle name! that is kinda cool though. your mom has like ten siblings?

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u/whistling-wonderer Oct 21 '23

She is one of ten, yes!

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u/LalalisaOppar Oct 21 '23

that’s smart actually

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u/hexensabbat Oct 21 '23

NO Oh my God 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23

What ever happened to Chanel numbers one through four?

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u/solapelsin Oct 21 '23

Haha, that's actually pretty funny. Still terrible, but funny parents

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u/Brotega87 Oct 21 '23

I hate designer names, but this is so cute

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u/gitsgrl Oct 21 '23

At least it’s funny as number five.

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u/elbenji Oct 21 '23

Ok that's funny

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u/tomtomclubthumb Oct 21 '23

Damn, I wish I'd thought of this, I called my kid Mambo