A really excellent profile on Michelle Obama, especially her being a product of the South Side of Chicago.
I just said that you're pretty. Even when you're covered in...engine grease, you're... No, especially, especially when you're covered in engine grease.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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.
Kathy A - Jan 07, 2009 9:15:07 am PST #9838 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
quester - Jan 07, 2009 9:19:33 am PST #9839 of 10002
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Ha! Very few have my cool but obscure name: Antonia! Your sprog are welcome to it! Natural nick-name is: Toni (with an i) Mother's name and my middle name is Ruth. Grandmothers were Evelyn and Ethel.
eta: Gud, your kids have very cool names!
Barb - Jan 07, 2009 9:21:26 am PST #9840 of 10002
“Not dead yet!”
That's actually my sister's middle name, quester.
quester - Jan 07, 2009 9:22:02 am PST #9841 of 10002
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Antonia?
Barb - Jan 07, 2009 9:23:30 am PST #9842 of 10002
“Not dead yet!”
Yep. Maria Antonia. Said in Spanish, it flows really beautifully and given how many Marias there were in my family, it was the only way to keep track of them.
megan walker - Jan 07, 2009 9:25:58 am PST #9843 of 10002
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Which gives you Marie-Antoinette in French, but I doubt that's going to be used anytime soon. Even if my grandmother's name was in fact Antoinette.
javachik - Jan 07, 2009 9:26:41 am PST #9844 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.
Love the baby name talk!
Yes, Jessica, Buffy is really a Buffy. Real name is Elizabeth. When we were little I really, really hated her name and would call her "Barfy". 'Cause I was nice like that. Then when I was 19, I visited her in Nebraska and a waitress at an all-night diner heard me call her (affectionately) "Barfy" and told me that the least I could do was switch it to "Barney". So, now, 20 years later, we still call each other "Fred" and "Barney".
Steven has already named any children we are to have, or so he thinks. Sebastian and Sydney. I like Sebastian but I strongly identify Sydney with OJ Simpson, so that one will likely be switched.
beekaytee - Jan 07, 2009 9:31:27 am PST #9845 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
My favorite batches of sibling names are:
Patience, Lysara (whose written a cool book called Sexy Witch), Yolki (known on the Peace March by all and sundry as "Yolkithedevilchild) and Emmerice.
And, believe it or not, brothers named:
Mai, Kai Tai, and Rai. Each had a cool African middle name that I cannot recall. People were so transfixed by their beauty...incredible eyes...that no one ever really gave them a hard time about the rhyming.
Favorite older men's names: Norfleet and Marion. You called them Ned and Ted, respectively...if you wanted to live. Ted, especially, seeing as how he was a Texas Ranger.
Glamcookie - Jan 07, 2009 9:33:40 am PST #9846 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
I like Antonia, too! Toni is just adorable.
Barb - Jan 07, 2009 9:37:07 am PST #9847 of 10002
“Not dead yet!”
My mother had a thing for that name, apparently. Maria is the oldest of the three of us, but when the Prince of Darkness came around, she named him Antonio Rudolfo.
Not that it mattered. He's still the Prince of Darkness as far as Maria and I are concerned.
Then there's me, with Barbara Caridad, which always made the first day of school heap big fun.