I also like Fiona, but our neighbors have one (which wouldn't necessarily rule it out, of course), and I love Maria and Miriam, but I don't think Dylan does.
Hermanos! The devil has built a robot!
Numero Cinco ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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.
Susan W. - Sep 09, 2005 8:23:09 am PDT #1891 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
ChiKat - Sep 09, 2005 8:24:36 am PDT #1892 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I've always liked Chloe. If I had a baby girl (yeah, right) I'd name her Chloe.
Susan W. - Sep 09, 2005 8:24:37 am PDT #1893 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
While I think ita wins, I think I can get honorable mention for my great-great-grandfather, Colonel Maneus Lemley F. (Colonel was a name, not a rank), and my great-grandmother, Ann Hazeltine C.
P.M. Marc - Sep 09, 2005 8:25:15 am PDT #1894 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
t checks family tree...
Hmm... Thomas, Thomas, Thomas... Thomas.
Thomas.
Thomas.
t stops counting Thomases
Jabez and Theophile...
Damn. Just a pair. I'm out.
Susan W. - Sep 09, 2005 8:28:18 am PDT #1895 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Ooh--I forgot about my great-grandfather, who was Thomas Junior S., as opposed to Thomas S. Jr.
Amy - Sep 09, 2005 8:28:29 am PDT #1896 of 10001
Because books.
My Mildred grandmother is "Mildred Alphonse" and we have Crowther as a male middle name on my dad's side, but I think that's as exotic as we get.
My mom, though, was reading a lot of Victoria Holt (I think) when she was pregnant with me, and was seriously considering naming me Laura Mai-Lon. (We're of completely Irish, British, and Scottish descent.)
brenda m - Sep 09, 2005 8:30:08 am PDT #1897 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
My great-grandfather was Jesse James Lastname, because he was born in house the James was killed in, apparently. That's about as out there as it gets in my family.
P.M. Marc - Sep 09, 2005 8:30:41 am PDT #1898 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Wait! I forgot Blomfield!
That's still only three, all from the 19th century, and only mildly odd.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 09, 2005 8:32:29 am PDT #1899 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Probably an insult, if you consider intent, because she kind of freaks me out! Though her food does look good.
It's her clenched, toothy grin that gets to me. I keep expecting her face to go like the girl's the first was posing as in "Conversations with Dead People".
Damn, looks like I missed the Food Channel chat. LOVE Alton. Have great fondness for Mario on Iron Chef, but he gets on my nerves on his own shows, especially the one in Italy with his pathetic side kick, but his food looks undeniably good. Marimoto I've always liked since his original Iron Chef days.
Bobby Flay and Emeril are capital-J jackasses, but what they cook looks good, and the food I had at one of Emeril's when I was in ( sigh ) NO (it was NOLA, his French Quarter place, so it may be back) was really good. I haven't been able to get much of a handle on the new Iron Chef America.
Rachel Ray is a case where someone put Meg Ryan's (or possibly Mr. B. Natural's) soul into Charisma Carpenter and gave her a cooking show. She's got spunk. I HATE spunk!
The hosts on the food channel I really loathe, though, is that pair of indistinguishable apmhetamined mannequins who do UNWRAPPED and SECRET LIFE OF...
Zenkitty - Sep 09, 2005 8:33:16 am PDT #1900 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Shanga is the only one that sounds odd to me, but still. Whoa. Your list is impressive, ita. Let's see... That I recall without dragging out the family tree, there's also Mourning Dove, Kezizah, Philida, and Vashti, and Clyde who was a girl - the only odd male name was Epaphroditas. Most of my odd ones are Biblical. The overwhelming number of Marys and Williams may cancel out the weird, though. Is "Zephie" short for Zephyr? I've heard that used as a first name.
edited to add, a man named Junior.