I'm never talking about names again.

Don't worry about it--did you see my edit? I got picked on for it as a child (over the Carol Burnett character), so it's not like it surprises me that it's a tease-target name.

Someday, when I'm published, I'll get to be a Susannah. So much less frumpy than Susan.

I don't think Susan sounds frumpy at all. I always think of pretty women when I hear of a Susan.

And Emmett is a great name.

My hypothetical daughters will be named Abigail, Lydia, and Genevieve. My hypothetical sons will be named William, William, and William. I'll call them Will, and Liam, and Jack.

I don't think Susan sounds frumpy at all. I always think of pretty women when I hear of a Susan.

I was just going to say the same thing. In fact, I've never known a Susan who wasn't pretty, now that I think of it. I don't think it sounds 20 years older than you, either. I'm probably a half dozen years older than you though, and it was pretty popular when I was a kid. I know a lot of Susans.

The only Susan I know other than our Susan here is my mother's exceedingly glam friend Susan.

I'm never talking about names again.

Wait ... what's in a muffaletta again?

Olivia Olives.

I was just going to say the same thing. In fact, I've never known a Susan who wasn't pretty, now that I think of it. I don't think it sounds 20 years older than you, either. I'm probably a half dozen years older than you though, and it was pretty popular when I was a kid. I know a lot of Susans.

Well, there were four in my class at school, so it's not like I'm the only Susan born in the 70's. But it did reach its peak of popularity in the 50's, and is now extremely rare. I've heard it referred to in naming board discussions as an "old lady name."

Well, someone told me Julia was an old lady name. I just said, "You say 'old lady' like that's a bad thing.

Juliana, insent with a question about Halloween.

Wheee.

Mom was going to be Susan, except the woman across the street had a baby just a few months before Mom was born and named the girl Susan. My grandmother didn't want to have two Susans so close together. Then Susan and her family moved.

Several people tried to talk Mom out of my brother's first name. One uncle was dating a girl with the same name and Mom's sister had a dog with the same name. Mom told them the relationship might not last and the dog would die and when my brother was an adult no one would care about the dog or the girlfriend.

She's right.

I came close to being Michelle Leanne. I don't feel like a Michelle.

For a long time I resisted being called Ali, it rihymes with my last name and god I had enoug problems in school. However, I'm moving more toward Ali , especially with my invisible internet friends. I would do it more in my meatspace life, but then I forget.