I still have to deal with it, being an Amy.
This is one of the major reasons I didn't change my name.
Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Spike's Bitches 26: Damn right I'm impure!
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
amych - Sep 09, 2005 7:25:21 am PDT #1849 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Scrappy - Sep 09, 2005 7:28:12 am PDT #1850 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Nora--hee. BF's chosen kids' names are Eucalyptus and Ocarina. Our children-never-to-be could be great friends and social outcasts together!
Sparky1 - Sep 09, 2005 7:28:57 am PDT #1851 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
We couldn't do any names ending in an "ee" sound
Well, both of our last names are vowel-heavy, so there is a lot of opportunity for illiteration. My initials are EAE and I have another girl name in mind for our fantasy child that would make her AEA -- I like the idea of how it balances out.
Fred Pete - Sep 09, 2005 7:31:22 am PDT #1852 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Tom would like to name our never-to-born children Influenza and Plague.
Mark Russell once did a comedy riff on what "genitalia" really sounds like. One of the options was, a woman's name. (Another was, IIRC, a type of pasta.)
Jessica - Sep 09, 2005 7:33:17 am PDT #1853 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Our restricted zone is limited to names ending in "a," because they don't flow well with our last name. (I've been grandfathered in.)
Right now, our favored names all end in 'n'. Evelyn, Dylan, Simon. (Informal polls suggest that having 2 kids named Dylan and Simon would not cause them to hate us forever, though Evelyn might wonder why she's the only one without a classic rock name.)
Susan W. - Sep 09, 2005 7:37:26 am PDT #1854 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Our restricted zone was any name belonging to an aunt, uncle, or first cousin of the child (I think Dylan includes his first cousins as well, but I have too many), anything in the current top ten (I wanted to make an exception for Elizabeth, but Dylan wouldn't bite), any girl's name that was traditionally a boy's name or any boy's name showing signs of drifting that way (as the daughter of a Kelly and wife of a Dylan, I'm sensitive to that issue), and anything staring with Wil because IMO it sounds too stupid with our last name.
Connie Neil - Sep 09, 2005 7:38:09 am PDT #1855 of 10001
brillig
Which British book/movie was it where someone thought Clitoris sounded like a lovely girl's name?
Katerina Bee - Sep 09, 2005 7:38:29 am PDT #1856 of 10001
Herding cats for fun
{{{{{{-t}}}}}} Be well, dear.
Do ya' think the name 'Katrina' will decline in popularity?
I'm thinking me nom de net is a bit unsettling at the moment. Y'all should twemble.
brenda m - Sep 09, 2005 7:39:01 am PDT #1857 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Ooh, I really like Evelyn Lastname. It has a very nice flow.
Calli - Sep 09, 2005 7:39:42 am PDT #1858 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
When my niece was born, the restricted zone was her grandmothers' names. Both grew up hating their first names and basically said, we love ya hon, but if you name her after us we're gonna haunt you till you die.