Jars, why don't you choose to believe she was named after a pirate: [link]
I might be able to get behind a pirate name.
Good morning, Suzi!
I wanna die in bed surrounded by fat grandchildren, but guess that's off the menu.
Jenny ,'Bring On The Night'
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Sparky1 - Jan 24, 2008 4:46:39 am PST #3694 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Jars - Jan 24, 2008 4:51:01 am PST #3695 of 10001
Jars, why don't you choose to believe she was named after a pirate
I DO choose! That's so cool! Yup, now I can fully apprecciate the name. Well, appreciate it more anyway...
I'm totally going to buy her a baby-grow with a skull and crossbones.
SuziQ - Jan 24, 2008 4:51:41 am PST #3696 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Huh. My company was named the 54th best place to work by Fortune.
sumi - Jan 24, 2008 4:52:48 am PST #3697 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Temps here have warmed up to -11 with a windchill of -25 instead of -28.
Fay - Jan 24, 2008 4:55:30 am PST #3698 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Awesome! All babies should be named after pirates! They could be called The Dread Baby Roberts, and Blackbeard, and Jack Sparrow, and Captain Blood, and Moll Cutpurse, and so on and so forth! It would make for a brave new Kindergarten era!
I seem to have become more or less blase about stupid names for kids, since so many of our kids have !!! names. (Prince, Mai-Tai, Baby, Porsche, BJ, Boss, James Bond, Mickey Mouse, VIP etc etc).
If you're not a believer it stays bread and wine.
If you ARE a believer you're not going to be making snacks out of one of your most sacred rituals.
See, you'd think this would be how it would pan out. But a couple of months ago I was tutoring a wee (Catholic) girl, and she was munching on some weird snack in a bag. It looked like a giant, ricepapery version of the stuff you get after you've cut sequins out, you know? And I was baffled.
It was offcuts of The Host.
!!!
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Sorry, also meant to say (1) Susan, I think your wrath was entirely reasonable; (2) The cupcakes sound teh yum and (3) Suzi, I'm totally psyched about your tattoo! It's making me feel all get-more-tattoos! (Which, okay, is a little voice in the back of my head all the time, but still...)
Aims - Jan 24, 2008 4:57:19 am PST #3699 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
The Dread Baby Roberts
Dibs.
Jars - Jan 24, 2008 5:01:22 am PST #3700 of 10001
(Prince, Mai-Tai, Baby, Porsche, BJ, Boss, James Bond, Mickey Mouse, VIP etc etc)
And now Halsey seems like a wonderful name.
vw bug - Jan 24, 2008 5:02:04 am PST #3701 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Who stole my motivation?
Volans - Jan 24, 2008 5:03:18 am PST #3702 of 10001
move out and draw fire
And yet, I'm fairly sure that'll be a the surname of a male explorer and not the first name of a baby girl.
Yeah, well, we named our son the surname of a male explorer and yet everyone else with the name is a girl (including, unfortunately, a character in an upcoming kids movie).
Prince, Mai-Tai, Baby, Porsche, BJ, Boss, James Bond, Mickey Mouse, VIP
OK, I know Lexus is a popular baby name in the States, and obviously if you drive a Hummer you name your kid BJ.
But please tell me the rest of those are exaggeration.
DCJensen - Jan 24, 2008 5:05:41 am PST #3703 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Speaking of Mickey Mouse... A ticket came through the helpdesk the other day.
The woman calling in gave me the ticket number.
Me: "Lets see here...Mickey?"
Her: "No, Nikki."
Me: "Sorry, let me fix that. Weird typo."
Her: "That's OK, I get it a lot. I go to a restaurant and get called Mickey."
Me: "At least they don't call you 'Jessica.'"
Her: (Laughs.) "True. "
Obviously watches Heroes.