Does anybody mind if I pass out?
Willow ,'Beneath You'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 27, 2005 6:24:12 am PDT #9243 of 10001
What is even happening?
Nutty - Apr 27, 2005 6:27:29 am PDT #9244 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Kjeld, which is -- Swedish, I think? It was death to substitutes.
There used to be a hockey player named Kjall Samuelson. I think he was a Swede. The French commentators pronounced it "Shell," which I thought was pretty cute.
Kate P. - Apr 27, 2005 6:31:36 am PDT #9245 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
LEE-roy. Which I can't hear now without singing to myself, "Leroy says send a postcard, Leroy says hello, Leroy says keep on rockin', girl..."
-t - Apr 27, 2005 6:31:41 am PDT #9246 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
As in "the King"?
Exactly.
flea - Apr 27, 2005 6:34:00 am PDT #9247 of 10001
information libertarian
My college roommate had a friend named Sun King CommonLastname. I just googled him, and he's a working actor. Still named Sun King. Hee.
Hayden - Apr 27, 2005 6:45:12 am PDT #9248 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Sarameg: that I heard this am that Texas has the highest number of employed people without health insurance
I can confirm this. It's a big deal, not that the Lege is doing anything about it.
Gud: I discovered that when you go by your middle name, that it's very anticlimatic when people discover your middle name.
As a fellow goes-by-middle-namer, I can also confirm this.
OT: HUGE congratulations to Little Man Isaac, Burrell, and the Burrell-family folks! Isaac was on our short list, too, 'cause it's a freakin' awesome name.
Rick - Apr 27, 2005 6:47:58 am PDT #9249 of 10001
Kjeld, which is -- Swedish, I think?
Almost always Danish or Norwegian.
§ ita § - Apr 27, 2005 6:54:21 am PDT #9250 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The world generalizes to MY experience
Ooh. Look. New tagline.
My family's very big on family names. Annoyingly, the name my dad adopted at 18 sounds a lot like my mother's family nick, so it can get confusing on the phone. My mother has her given first name, used by many friends and all colleagues. Colleagues also hyphenate her maiden and married names. Old friends and family call her by the nick. Perfectly clear.
My dad's nickname is Brother Moore. Simply because his older brother Leston goes by Brother Les.
I used to be unsure of how to spell my mother's (very unsecret) maiden name, so half the time I used my maternal grandmother's maiden name instead.
Not efficient.
beth b - Apr 27, 2005 6:55:07 am PDT #9251 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
should there be name talk in a thread with no name? Won't it grow up all twisted?
Daisy Jane - Apr 27, 2005 6:56:06 am PDT #9252 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
One thing I loved about being in TX was mothers' ability to say their childrens' names as multiple syllables no matter what. A friend had children Zach, Will, and Matt all of which were 2-3 syllables.
A friend of mine down here (actually she's in DC now) was telling me that when she was in elementary school and learning about syllables, the teacher had them clap the syllable in their names. The teacher had her in tears telling her that Kim was only one syllable KIM and not the two syllable KEE-Yum that she though it was