Enos Slaughter. Nickname "Country." And quite the bigot.
That's it. Enos - definitely off the name list.
Take jobs as they come -- and we'll never be under the heel of nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance might get, we'll just get ourselves a little further.
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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.
DavidS - Sep 09, 2005 12:59:17 pm PDT #2085 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
erikaj - Sep 09, 2005 1:00:32 pm PDT #2086 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Wow...his name matches my thoughts on it.
Emily - Sep 09, 2005 1:01:50 pm PDT #2087 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
There are names I've ended up loving, because I know people by that name, and there are names that have been ruined for me, in just the same way.
I dated a guy for several months to whom I only referred by his SCA name, because I had too many associations with his real name. Although actually the associations weren't all that bad. Looking back on it, maybe some sensible part of my subconscious was actually trying to spare me even worse associations with that name, and only let him ruin a perfectly good medieval Scandinavian name.
Steph L. - Sep 09, 2005 1:05:46 pm PDT #2088 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Nick's the kinda guy you can trust. Nick's your buddy. Nick's the kinda guy you drink beers with. The kinda guy that doesn't care if you puke in his car.
"Excuse me; vomit."
Van Lingle Mungo. You could write a song about a name like that...
You think?
DavidS - Sep 09, 2005 1:07:02 pm PDT #2089 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You think?
Yeah, but according to Cindy it'd need a PMRC sticker.
erikaj - Sep 09, 2005 1:08:19 pm PDT #2090 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
The only reason I will care when the Brians get old is because I went to school with a lot and I will be old too, then.
erikaj - Sep 09, 2005 1:09:13 pm PDT #2091 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Hec, our tags look funny together.
Susan W. - Sep 09, 2005 1:12:12 pm PDT #2092 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
There are names I've ended up loving, because I know people by that name, and there are names that have been ruined for me, in just the same way.
I could never name a child Sebastian because of the misogynistic asshole Sebastian who features in both of my books. Though I still think the couple in my church who named their son Sebastian Horatio showed excellent taste.
What about Say Hey Willie Mays?
OK, when you stick Willie on a specific person, it can be cool. But when it's just out there as a hypothetical name for a hypothetical child, all I can think is Wee Willie Winkle. Uh-uh. No way, no how.
Besides, if we name our son for baseball players, I thought we'd already settled on Edgar Ichiro. Just to make my mom kill us.
Miriam WAS a frumpy old librarian in my elementary school.
Silly husband. Miriam is that gorgeous Pierce Pettis song.
And I think the problem is Dylan wants to name a baseball player, while I'm trying to name a hero for one of my books, or maybe that dashing RAF pilot. I know our son has slightly higher odds of making it to the Show than of getting pulled through a time warp and fighting under Wellington or flying in the Battle of Britain, but still. I like my favorite names.
Steph L. - Sep 09, 2005 1:12:26 pm PDT #2093 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
You think?
Yeah, but according to Cindy it'd need a PMRC sticker.
Poor Dave Frishberg.
dw - Sep 09, 2005 1:14:21 pm PDT #2094 of 10001
Silence means security silence means approval
Wow...his name matches my thoughts on it.
Just for the record:
In 1947, the Cardinals gained notoriety by attempting to boycott games against the Brooklyn Dodgers to protest the Dodgers' signing of a black player, Jackie Robinson. Slaughter was the alleged ringleader of this boycott. National League president Ford Frick threatened to ban any players who boycotted any games, and the boycott never happened. The Cardinals did not sign a black regular until Curt Flood in 1958.
Not having any black players really hurt the Cards for years, although they had more black players than the Yankees by the time the two teams met in the 1964 World Series.
Stan Musial wanted no part of the strike. One of the many reasons Stan "The Man" is my starting RF in my all-time team. (I'm DHing The Babe.)