I know a girl named Fanny. She's English. She has absolutely no idea what possesed her parents to choose that name.
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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
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.
DXMachina - Dec 15, 2002 7:16:37 pm PST #898 of 9843
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
We've had business dealings with a man named Dick Small.
Susan W. - Dec 15, 2002 7:32:07 pm PST #899 of 9843
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I went to school with a Mike Hunt. Marching band rookie initiation prank for girls was to make them stand on the 50 yard line and yell "Has anybody seen Mike Hunt?" I was one of the few who was smart enough to put a really long pause between the names, a rarity for me, as I usually don't catch onto such things until it's way too late.
Re pizza: Do Aussies put whole-kernel sweetcorn on pizza, or is that strictly a UK thing? I'm normally very adventurous as to what I'll eat on a pizza--bring on your white pizza with goat cheese, spinach, and roasted garlic, for example--but corn/maize just tastes weird.
brenda m - Dec 15, 2002 7:33:02 pm PST #900 of 9843
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
but corn/maize just tastes weird.
Ooh, I had that in Mexico and it was good.
Sue - Dec 15, 2002 7:34:24 pm PST #901 of 9843
hip deep in pie
whole-kernel sweetcorn on pizza
There was a gourmet pizza place in Vancouver who had a pizza with sweet corn on it. It was called "Cornan the Barbarian".
Hil R. - Dec 15, 2002 8:04:00 pm PST #902 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Re pizza: Do Aussies put whole-kernel sweetcorn on pizza, or is that strictly a UK thing?
In Academic Decathlon my senior year (I think), the theme was the global economy, and in a section on how international companies had to adapt to different tastes, they gave corn on pizza as an example of Japanese tastes.
Madrigal Costello - Dec 15, 2002 10:14:07 pm PST #903 of 9843
It's a remora, dimwit.
The last doctor I saw was named H. Richard Wiener. Whatever H. stood for must have been pretty terrible to risk being called Dick.