And yes, in English English, 'fanny' = 'pussy', only not such a crass term.
Hee. I'm just thinking how much more fun Fanny Price could have been with a name like that.
And oooh! What a superb companion!
Zoe: First rule of battle, little one. Don't ever let 'em know where you are. Mal: Whoo-hoo! I'm right here! I'm right here! You want some of me? Yeah, you do! Come on! Come on! Aaah! Whoo-hoo! Zoe: Of course, there are other schools of thought...
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Burrell - Dec 15, 2002 6:45:38 pm PST #888 of 9843
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Fay - Dec 15, 2002 6:48:40 pm PST #889 of 9843
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Hey, you'd better believe I was gobsmacked watching Funny Girl when she has that whole sequence with the roller skates and the song mentions being left to fall on her fanny, or something. My ten-year-old eyes were coming out on stalks, I tell you.
But then, there are plenty of blokes out there called Dick. YSillyNameMV.
Burrell - Dec 15, 2002 6:52:44 pm PST #890 of 9843
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
But then, there are plenty of blokes out there called Dick. YSillyNameMV.
My friend used to work for a man named Dr. Dick Head. Hand to heart, I swear it's true. She said he was one, too.
bon bon - Dec 15, 2002 6:58:42 pm PST #891 of 9843
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
My father is a Richard; I was 14 or so before I connected him with possibly being called Dick (he prefers Ric). And I was 20 before I realized my last name is uncomfortably close to the word penis.
Daisy Jane - Dec 15, 2002 6:59:34 pm PST #892 of 9843
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I knew a few Moreheads in HS.
§ ita § - Dec 15, 2002 7:00:16 pm PST #893 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I should marry a man named Morehead. That would be so cool.
Holli - Dec 15, 2002 7:01:05 pm PST #894 of 9843
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
I know a girl named Fanny. She's English. She has absolutely no idea what possesed her parents to choose that name.
Fay - Dec 15, 2002 7:05:08 pm PST #895 of 9843
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
There's a girl in my town called Fanny Eyres. (This is more amusing when you realise that in Yorkshire dialects, people drop the 'H' most of the time.) Then there's Shona Dick and Donna Moonie, who were at school with my mate Euan, and Justin Tune who was at school with me. And someone on telly the other day called Tanya Dick. And the Choir master at my dad's church when he was a kid was called Willy Diddle. And my sister's music teacher was called Nicholas Knights. (it was an all girls school, to make matters worse)
askye - Dec 15, 2002 7:08:46 pm PST #896 of 9843
Thrive to spite them
One of my grandmother's was a school secretary and some poor boy had been named Peter Long. Evidentally Peter Long got in trouble quite often (and can you blame him with that name) so she was constantly having to type out "Long, Peter".
Note: My grandmother DID NOT tell me this story. She told my mother with much embarassment, who then told me.
Burrell - Dec 15, 2002 7:12:02 pm PST #897 of 9843
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
One of the big men in my Mom's hometown was named Harry Bahls, III.