Oh, and I totally knew you lurked here.
I'm the mad lurker what lurks at midday. (When I should be doing other things.)
...because God knows you need some satisfaction in life besides shagging Captain Cardboard! And I never really liked you anyway. And you have stupid hair!
Spike ,'Selfless'
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.
Jesse - Sep 09, 2005 9:11:02 am PDT #1913 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
DavidS - Sep 09, 2005 9:15:27 am PDT #1914 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Gabriel sounds nice, and I do like Gabriel Byrne.
However, during Emmett's tenure at the JCC there were roughly 93 Hundred Gabes, which I am not so fond of.
And you're also seeing other traditional E-names without the Em sound, like Eleanor
JZ has been pimping for Eleanor pretty hard. I checked the name thingie and it's not been popular for 60 years.
Oh, I love Alistair. I doubt I could ever talk Dylan into it
No, duh! This is the kind of name JZ is always trying to saddle our potential sprog with. I had to point out to her that she needs to let go of her tweedy Brit-boy love because a child named Alistair is going to get his ass kicked on the playground on a regular basis. It is an Invitation To Abuse name.
Nora Deirdre - Sep 09, 2005 9:17:42 am PDT #1915 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I had to point out to her that she needs to let go of her tweedy Brit-boy love because a child named Alistair is going to get his ass kicked on the playground on a regular basis. It is an Invitation To Abuse name.
call him Al. (as Paul Simon would say)
Betsy HP - Sep 09, 2005 9:20:11 am PDT #1916 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
because a child named Alistair is going to get his ass kicked on the playground on a regular basis.
This is why our son wasn't named Simon. Sigh.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 09, 2005 9:20:49 am PDT #1917 of 10001
What is even happening?
I had to point out to her that she needs to let go of her tweedy Brit-boy love because a child named Alistair is going to get his ass kicked on the playground on a regular basis. It is an Invitation To Abuse name.Please know that I really like the name Emmett, and as your Emmett is the first modern Emmett I "know" I like it even more. But, I would think it has as much kick-me quality to it, as does Alistair.
P.M. Marc - Sep 09, 2005 9:21:16 am PDT #1918 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
It is an Invitation To Abuse name.
Please.
In the Bay Area? In this day and age? I think you are dating yourself, Hec.
If an Emmett or a Paris can survive in the wild with little to no actual problem, I think an Alistair would be JUST FINE.
§ ita § - Sep 09, 2005 9:24:07 am PDT #1919 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And, really, if the kid is sending off "beat me" vibes, he'll get beaten up for the slimmest of excuses. Doesn't have to be his name.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 09, 2005 9:25:29 am PDT #1920 of 10001
What is even happening?
True. The most picked on kids in my elementary school were Brian and Ken. In High School, it was probably Craig, JJ, and Paul.
Calli - Sep 09, 2005 9:25:41 am PDT #1921 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
JZ has been pimping for Eleanor pretty hard.
It's one of my favorite girl names, too. I had the biggest historical girl crush on Eleanor d'Aquitane.
JZ - Sep 09, 2005 9:25:49 am PDT #1922 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
call him Al. (as Paul Simon would say)
And again with the tasty earworms!
Alistair doesn't really rock my boat. A name I'm kind of liking lately is Conrad, mostly because there's a doctor here named Conrad who is just an absurdly stellar human being in almost every way. I have no idea whatever, though, of what the general world-out-there's opinion of the name Conrad is, whether it's dorky or tweedy or ossified or completely nondescript or what.
There is vast disagreement chez Zmayhem about acceptable names (we've given up completely on a list of Names We Both Like and shifted to a list of Names One Of Us Likes That Don't Make The Other Want To Barf), hence all the discussion far in advance of any actual sproggage. If we wait until one actually appears on the horizon to begin narrowing it down, the poor kid'll be in third grade before anyone can properly call it "You. You. Not Emmett. The other one."