I just realized that not only do I have a friend's daughter named Amelia Eowyn, I also have a (completely different) friend's son named Jacob Treebeard. I am a geek among geeks.
It's my estimation that... every man ever got a statue made of him, was one kind of sumbitch or another.
Mal ,'Jaynestown'
The Crying of Natter 49
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Liese S. - Jan 25, 2007 6:04:36 pm PST #5966 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
msbelle - Jan 25, 2007 6:08:13 pm PST #5967 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Rufus Zeke is a standard boy name my family suggests. it is what my dad told the hospital nurses that my brother was being named. mom, in labor was NOT amused.
Lurlene is a good girl one to start with. Then I can always go to my own family names and suggest Alta, Erma, Batty, Ludell, Alma.
Kat - Jan 25, 2007 6:09:19 pm PST #5968 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
random thought: Do you think most people are more glamorous by email? I ask because I exchanged email with someone who I met today. And while the email was all formal etc., she was NOT what I had envisioned in my head.
Has the internet + TV ruined my ability to maintain realism in the expectations I have for people's personal appearance?
Scrappy - Jan 25, 2007 6:09:23 pm PST #5969 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
The DH always suggests Eucalyptus as suitable for either gender.
Kat - Jan 25, 2007 6:10:18 pm PST #5970 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Alma means soul in Spanish. I have had two students, both named Alma who have been adorable godsend kids.
sarameg - Jan 25, 2007 6:11:54 pm PST #5971 of 10001
Do you think most people are more glamorous by email?
I'm only more enthusiastic, bubbly and INSANE in email, I think. Can't speak to other people. Normally, more refined. Mostly. Unless it involves caps and stupid text messaging speak.
Nilly - Jan 25, 2007 6:14:41 pm PST #5972 of 10001
Swouncing
Alma means soul in Spanish
Also the sort-of Hebrew equivalent to "miss" (as in msbelle, that is, not in lacking or longing). It's also a girl's name in Hebrew.
The bible is a wonderful source for horrible names. Looking for those names in it can be almost as much fun as looking for curse words in the dictionary when you're supposed to do your homework.
§ ita § - Jan 25, 2007 6:15:59 pm PST #5973 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Spirit and Opportunity, I'm telling you! So gender-neutral.
he says "MOM loves (real name) VERRRRRY MUCH" and then uncontrollable smiles.
Dammit! But he doesn't know I love him very much too! Adorable.
JZ, you've got to let Emmet walk right into it. It's even cuter that way (but it's all pretty cute so far).
You know, I didn't know why good cholesterol was good. I am educated.
Just woke up from migraine nap. I don't want to try moving around, but I'm hungry and the cellphone is making that low battery bleating. Oh, and I have to pee.
Welcome to my minutia.
sarameg - Jan 25, 2007 6:16:36 pm PST #5974 of 10001
OK, I go to bed now. BEFORE NILLY! Missy, to bed, now.
But before I do, I must share that I would have been Jonathan, had I been a boy. Which is SO WEIRD to me. Josh would have been Elizabeth. Also weird. I can't imagine my parents with kids with those names.
Kat - Jan 25, 2007 6:16:42 pm PST #5975 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
HA, Nilly. that's great. There are some names that I can't imagine ever giving to a child, but when I meet someone with that name, it just seems so perfect for them. For example, one of my yoga instructor is named Hagar. Not a common name in English, but so perfect for her.