My mom's mom was Hope. I always loved that name. Of course, I only ever got to call her Nana, but still loved the idea of someone named Hope.
Tara: Do you have any books on robots? Giles: Oh, yes, dozens. There's a lot of research to be done in order to--no, I'm lying. Haven't got squat. I just like watching Xander squirm.
'Get It Done'
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.
SuziQ - Jan 07, 2009 10:12:34 am PST #9885 of 10002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Fred Pete - Jan 07, 2009 10:15:37 am PST #9886 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Fred, is this the same Emmett I knew who fell through an uncovered manhole?
I remember a Russell who did that, but not Emmett. It was night, the road was closed for repairs, Russell decided to walk down it anyway.
Emmett had a beard and liked to claim he was a demon. Basically drank himself out of school. And I swear I referred to his fashion sense as "modern American wino" before I learned how much he drank.
javachik - Jan 07, 2009 10:15:48 am PST #9887 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.
Maybe with the Obama association, there will be a lot of "Hopes" born this year!
flea - Jan 07, 2009 10:16:00 am PST #9888 of 10002
information libertarian
The Baby Name Voyager woman has a daughter born on or right after 9/11, and her middle name is Hope.
megan walker - Jan 07, 2009 10:16:02 am PST #9889 of 10002
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
My other grandmother had a beautiful 19th century name, Lelia.
Love this name. And the George Sand novel.
Steph L. - Jan 07, 2009 10:16:11 am PST #9890 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I always wished I had a cool middle to default to...or any sort of cool nickname.
My middle name is Monica, which, after a childhood rife with classmates calling me "Harmonica," I'm still not reconciled to.
Relatedly, my mom told me a few months ago that I was named after a neighbor girl from when my mom was a kid. A neighbor girl who mom BEAT UP. Repeatedly.
I told Mom that if I had known that years earlier, therapy would have gone a lot more smoothly.
Jessica - Jan 07, 2009 10:17:46 am PST #9891 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
It's like the middle class white kid list.
Like I said, it's based on self-reporting from Babycenter.com users.
DavidS - Jan 07, 2009 10:18:48 am PST #9892 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Dude, that's way too day-job-related. This is my fun internet!
It was more of a generalized "Will nobody think of the accents?" cry than a work order for you.
It's like indoor pants, but with speeling.
Speeling's the best.
I always wished I had a cool middle to default to...or any sort of cool nickname. My father's name for me? Buggy.
Can't you pick a cool middle name? You could keep it secret for a while and just know that you are secretly Esme.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 07, 2009 10:18:53 am PST #9893 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
My mind has been completely corrupted by fandom. I'm proofing a book with illustrations of the Wright Brothers, and one totally looks like Captain Jack and Ianto Jones in pre-WWI period dress rolling around in a meadow.
JZ - Jan 07, 2009 10:20:28 am PST #9894 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Plus, growing up in Hawaii, it got shortened to "Nani" which I also really love. Just a good name all around.
Okay, we really, really have to nail down a date for a Lilo & Stitch viewing. Seriously.
Matilda is still nowhere to be seen in the top 1000, but, as Hec notes, a ridiculous number of people have told us it was their #2 name choice--and it sounds like there's a mini-boom of Buffista-adjacent Matildas happening, too. Nevertheless, having been named way back in '06, ours is still out there on the bleeding edge.
Antonia is a lovely name. So are Eleanor, Caridad, Annabel (I love SusanW's spelling choice), and Lillian. I lobbied hard for either Eleanor or my maternal grandmother's name, Memorie, but I'm perfectly happy with Matilda.
Yay megan walker cuteheadness! I'm sorry I missed the final unveiling due to collapsing in a puddle next to the fussaboo.