Maybe with the Obama association, there will be a lot of "Hopes" born this year!
She just... she just did the math.
Kaylee ,'Objects In Space'
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.
javachik - Jan 07, 2009 10:15:48 am PST #9887 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.
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.
quester - Jan 07, 2009 10:20:29 am PST #9895 of 10002
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I was supposed to be named Jane. Apparently, after I was born, my mother decided I looked more like an Antonia. Weird.
My father's name was Otto, and he forbade my mother from naming anyone of us after him. My only brother was born just after my mother's father died, so he got his name instead, Joseph.
Fred Pete - Jan 07, 2009 10:20:47 am PST #9896 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
which, after a childhood rife with classmates calling me "Harmonica," I'm still not reconciled to
As a Fred who went through childhood when the Flintstones were in, I empathize. And with George for a middle name, I couldn't go the "cool middle name" route.