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.
Cordelia: I get it now. You're all spies. Probably all Russian. And you've brainwashed me, and want me to believe we're friends so I'll spill the beans about some nano-technology thingy that you want. Gunn: So I look Russian to you? Cordelia: Black Russian. Angel: That's a drink.
'Hell Bound'
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.
Calli - Sep 09, 2005 7:39:42 am PDT #1858 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
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.
Steph L. - Sep 09, 2005 7:47:16 am PDT #1862 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 09, 2005 7:48:25 am PDT #1863 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I had the same exact problem, Steph. In fact, I think someone ended up telling me!
amych - Sep 09, 2005 7:48:58 am PDT #1864 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Delores
Now there's a name that's been badly mistreated by the English language. In Spanish, "Dolores" is lovely and meaningful, but "D'LORis" has no hope of ever sounding good. It's doomed to truckstop-waitressdom forever.
Steph L. - Sep 09, 2005 7:49:07 am PDT #1865 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I had the same exact problem, Steph. In fact, I think someone ended up telling me!
Yeah, I think that ultimately I had to ask someone (with great sheepishness).
erikaj - Sep 09, 2005 7:49:21 am PDT #1866 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Tep is me. Again. Poor Tep. But that must be it, for the woman's name thing. One last way that I'm still vanilla is I can't remember saying it ever.
Connie Neil - Sep 09, 2005 7:49:35 am PDT #1867 of 10001
brillig
because I pronounce "clitoris" as clit-er-is, with maybe a faint stress on the first syllable.
That's how I pronounce it, though I don't think I've ever used the word in a conversation. Plus the standard porn reference is to the clit.