'Shells'
[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.
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.)
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.
Which British book/movie was it where someone thought Clitoris sounded like a lovely girl's name?
{{{{{{-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.
Ooh, I really like Evelyn Lastname. It has a very nice flow.
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.
Which British book/movie was it where someone thought Clitoris sounded like a lovely girl's name?
Well, it does!
"Shirley Valentine"
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.
then he realizes it is Delores.
It took me years to figure out what female body part would rhyme with "Dolores," because I pronounce "clitoris" as clit-er-is, with maybe a faint stress on the first syllable. I assume that other people pronounce it cli-TOR-isss? Because that's the only thing that makes sense.