Joyce: You don't think it's too obvious? I think I look like I have a cat on my head. Buffy: But a very well groomed cat. Joyce: Well that's a comfort.

'Bring On The Night'


Spike's Bitches 37: You take the killing for granted.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


d - Sep 07, 2007 9:16:55 am PDT #4602 of 10001
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.

Hey, Sox, are you or T interested in coming out to Boathouse Row for a wine/beer tasting tonight?

One of the chiros does the dragonboating and her club is having a fundraising event. She "gave" me 2 tickets (which is basically just saying her name at the door) but I only need one ticket. If you'd both like to come I'll just buy another ticket so we're all covered, but if only one of you wants to I have that availability. And if no one wants to well it's her money anyway.

It's from 6:30 - 8:30 tonight. phillydragonboat.com (I think she said it's the St Joe's Boathouse. First one on left you get to after you cross Strawberry Mansion bridge.) Call me if you want to go.

I'm off for a bike ride. Which is good, because I just ate too many brownies. Bad me. My username is my nic for my real name, but in the family I'm Nana and also Peanut. A friend of mine also refers to me as Banana; hilarity ensued when her 7 year old heard it.

Also, tomorrow night is Blind Date. He's given me the task of figuring out where, which does not thrill me. However, he's just had minor surgery, so I guess I'll forgive him at least until I meet him.


Vortex - Sep 07, 2007 9:20:21 am PDT #4603 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Heh. I really like my middle name, it's the maiden names of my grandmothers, and it's hyphenated. It will be quite the mouthful -- Vortex MiddleName-MiddleName MaidenName LastName.


lisah - Sep 07, 2007 9:22:01 am PDT #4604 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

My friends' boy twin is currently Peepy Jellyby (after a character in Bleak House, he is very Dickensian) and girl twin is Bladem (after a "word" she says a lot).

(I had a cousin who was called Baby Sister almost exclusively until she was about 8, and I'm fairly sure she thought it was her real name, and Marissa was the nick.)

My maternal grandfather's only sister (one girl & 4 boys) was called Sis her entire long life.

My paternal grandfather's sister was called Tia (as in, the Spanish word for aunt) by almost everybody except her brothers.


Atropa - Sep 07, 2007 9:23:38 am PDT #4605 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

My middle name (my actual, legal middle name, that is, instead of what my family tells everyone what my middle name is) is quite pretty. It's the combination of my paternal grandmother's first name, and her mother's first name. My only quibble with it is that one of my uncles used it to name his daughter, and I have never been overly fond of or impressed by her.

(What my family tells everyone my middle name is? Vegamatic. No, I'm not kidding.)


Jessica - Sep 07, 2007 9:24:24 am PDT #4606 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I had a cousin

I should clarify...I still have that cousin. She's just not called Baby Sister any more.


Trudy Booth - Sep 07, 2007 9:26:57 am PDT #4607 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I shall now call you "Sunny" or "Suns".

Don't you dare.

Kids just beggin for it, ain't he?


Atropa - Sep 07, 2007 9:28:37 am PDT #4608 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I seem give people completely random and nonsensical nicknames. Like the time I renamed our friend Todd to Bertram Woogums the III. Everyone calls him Woogums now, and he answers to it.


tommyrot - Sep 07, 2007 9:30:44 am PDT #4609 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Kids just beggin for it, ain't he?

I propose "Sunikins."


Daisy Jane - Sep 07, 2007 9:35:17 am PDT #4610 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

My dad went from Wilmer Leo to "Skipper." It had something do do with the dog.

When dad (as usual) failed to show up at some family thing, they took a picture of my uncles with the dog, Skipper. Like so [link] You can tell my uncle Johnny thinks this is the funniest thing ever.


Kathy A - Sep 07, 2007 9:40:54 am PDT #4611 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I've always been "Kathy," evcept for high school and college, when I changed it to "Kathie." I didn't voluntarily change it back, but my first job out of college, the HR people made me up a name plate that said "Kathy," and I didn't feel like arguing the point, so I went back to that spelling. My sister used to urge me to change my professional (i.e., grown-up) name to "Kathryn," just because it sounded more businesslike, but that's not me. She had to, because she's in a male-dominated field and the name "Kris" kept making people think she was a guy, but "Kristine" solves that problem. I still call her "Kris," though.

My mom's name progression is more interesting--she took her first husband's name upon marriage, and then when she married my dad a few years after the divorce from husband #1, he liked the fact that her middle name gave her the same initials as him, so she went with Firstname Middlename Dad'slastname, instead of Firstname Maidenname Dad'slastname, which she would have preferred (she hates her middle name, Agnes). After divorcing him 15 years later, she kept his name just because of us three kids--less confusing to have one name instead of two in the household. But, she did change her official name to Firstname Maidenname Dad'slastname. After marrying Wayne a few years ago, she's now Firstname Maidenname Wayne'slastname, which I'm still getting used to.