Mercy is the mark of a great man. Guess I'm just a good man. Well, I'm all right.

Mal ,'Shindig'


Natter 62: The 62nd Natter  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Fred Pete - Jan 07, 2009 7:22:35 am PST #9758 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.

Unfortunately, I had an Emmett for a college roommate. He was kind of a jerk. No, he was a pretty complete jerk.

And I see Frederick continues to slide down the lists.


Ginger - Jan 07, 2009 7:23:45 am PST #9759 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

"Old-fashioned" sounding girls' names are very in right now, so a comeback for Susan wouldn't surprise me at all.

I'd lay odds against Virginia. Want unique? Give them my name.


P.M. Marc - Jan 07, 2009 7:24:34 am PST #9760 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I work with a Kip. Only one I have ever met.


Glamcookie - Jan 07, 2009 7:25:12 am PST #9761 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Friends of mine are due in Feb and are having a boy. The guy said absolutely no biblical names, making naming the child difficult. They first settled on Lester (even after "the molester" was pointed out to them), and then switched to Harvey. So there is about to be a newborn Harvey. That just amuses the hell out of me. I know Harvey will be kick ass, though, so it won't matter.


Tom Scola - Jan 07, 2009 7:30:10 am PST #9762 of 10002
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Banana-fana-fo-fayden.


DavidS - Jan 07, 2009 7:30:37 am PST #9763 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Banana-fana-fo-fayden.

Hayden!


Kathy A - Jan 07, 2009 7:30:38 am PST #9764 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Back in the late '50s/early '60s, there was a sportswriter for the Chicago Sun-Times whose first name was Kip, which is where my mom saw it and liked it enough to use it. There were issues (I think with my grandma, though I'm not sure about that) with the name being so short and seemingly informal, so Mom made his official name Kipley, shortened to Kip for everyday.

If he was a girl, the name was going to be Kimber Leigh, so she had a thing for unusual names. What can I say--she was only 21 when she had him!


Jesse - Jan 07, 2009 7:31:15 am PST #9765 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

The renewed popularity of Lillian makes me wonder what's up with Marguerite -- my (born in 1919) grandmother is a Marguerite, has a friend Marguerite, and has had several friends named Lillian. So I figure they must have both been pretty popular in those days, so why not come back together?


DavidS - Jan 07, 2009 7:34:07 am PST #9766 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

So I figure they must have both been pretty popular in those days, so why not come back together?

One shortens to Lilly, the other to Marge.


beekaytee - Jan 07, 2009 7:34:25 am PST #9767 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant

Old fashioned girls names are all the rage in this 'hood. I know two Claras under the age of 4, a Helen and a Charlotte.

I know two male Haydens, which is weird, since that is the name of the store above which I live.

You named your kid after the liquor store? Dude. Hardcore.