Calling ND...
Are you home? Are you coming home tonight? I've lost all track of your madcap schedule.
Where'd they get CAT scan from?... I mean, did they test it on cats? Or does the machine sort of look like a cat?
Dawn ,'Sleeper'
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.
Pix - Sep 07, 2007 12:36:38 pm PDT #4658 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
beekaytee - Sep 07, 2007 12:36:58 pm PDT #4659 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
My stepmother had a gran named Mehtapanee. So pretty to say, but never adequately explained.
Kathy A - Sep 07, 2007 12:42:46 pm PDT #4660 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
That's a pretty name, Beej. It sounds like it might be Native American.
My paternal great-grandmother's name was Alida, which I love.
Toddson - Sep 07, 2007 12:43:36 pm PDT #4661 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
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Pix - Sep 07, 2007 12:53:27 pm PDT #4662 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
As I mentioned earlier, my mom's name is Eunice. When people ask her if she hates her name, she shakes her head vehemently and says, "My mother almost named me 'Wanda Hope.' I am forever grateful for Eunice."
NoiseDesign - Sep 07, 2007 12:53:45 pm PDT #4663 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
I'm heading home after the preview tonight. I will probably get in around midnightish.
Pix - Sep 07, 2007 1:12:54 pm PDT #4664 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
I'm heading home after the preview tonight. I will probably get in around midnightish.
Okay, cool. Looking forward to seeing you. The house has been quiet the past few days. Well, except for the crazy kitten and the two antagonized cats.
Steph L. - Sep 07, 2007 1:45:26 pm PDT #4665 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
See, I swing the opposite way on full name vs. shortened version (like the way juliana is always full-name juliana, not "julie") -- I always introduce myself as Steph, and the person I'm introducing myself to will, 9 times out of 10, reply with, "Stephanie?"
And I'm left thinking, "I just uttered ONE SYLLABLE -- how in the hell do you jump from that to three syllables?" Or, "If I *wanted* you to call me 'Stephanie,' I damn well would have introduced myself that way!"
And yet, people love to use my full name, despite the fact that *I* didn't do so. When they do that, I try to fuck their name up as soon as possible. Like so:
Other person: "Hi, I'm Bob."
Me: "I'm Steph."
Other person: "Nice to meet you, Stephanie."
Me: "You too, Bobarino."
No, for real. I do this at least once a goddamn week, because the world at large doesn't seem to grasp that yes, I want to be adressed by the single syllable that I used in my introduction.
omnis_audis - Sep 07, 2007 1:59:25 pm PDT #4666 of 10001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Ya, I'm with you Steph. me: Hi, my name is BC them: Oo, whats the BC stand for?
If I wanted you to know that, why would I say "My name is BC"
So I use stuff like: British Columbia, Baja California, Before Christ, Before Common, Bravo Charlie, and once to shut up an annoying person Big Cock. Boy did that stop her pestering me for my name. Which led her to pester why I'd have it embroidered on my jacket. "o, it's a college nickname that just stuck". Oy. That's a much longer story.
DawnK - Sep 07, 2007 2:01:50 pm PDT #4667 of 10001
giraffe mode
Man, I got teased a ton for my name when I was in elementary school -early '60s well before the Summer of Love and unusal names started popping up. I got "isn't that a boy's name?" "Donkey" the always popular "Donald Duck" and then later in high school thanks to Helen Reddy "Delta Dawn". The worst was during the Eve Plumb movie-of-the-week "Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway"...sheesh!
My mom's nickname is Toots, nothing close to her real name (Ruth) because when they were bringing her home from the hospital my aunt (at 6) said she had "cute little tootsies" and it stuck. My cousins still call her Toots (and mom's 70 now!)