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.)
We're deep in space, corner of No and Where.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
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.
Fred Pete - Sep 09, 2005 7:31:22 am PDT #1852 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
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
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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.
amych - Sep 09, 2005 7:39:52 am PDT #1859 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Which British book/movie was it where someone thought Clitoris sounded like a lovely girl's name?
Well, it does!
erikaj - Sep 09, 2005 7:41:53 am PDT #1860 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
"Shirley Valentine"
Topic!Cindy - Sep 09, 2005 7:43:03 am PDT #1861 of 10001
What is even happening?
Which British book/movie was it where someone thought Clitoris sounded like a lovely girl's name?
I think that was Shirley Valentine.
Seinfeld did a variation on that in one episode. He started dating a woman and blanked on her name. When he tried to start conversations that would cause her to mention her own name, the closest she came was mentioning that she was teased about it, by people rhyming it with the name of a female body part. He kept thinking "Mulva". At the end of the episode, she realizes he can't remember her name, and storms off in a huff, and then he realizes it is Delores.