Toot Sweet!
I love Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
I was so bummed when I finally read the Ian Fleming book and realized it was nothing like the movie.
But if the world doesn't end, I'm gonna need a note.
Cordelia ,'Potential'
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.
megan walker - Jan 07, 2009 11:05:32 am PST #9922 of 10002
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
billytea - Jan 07, 2009 11:30:23 am PST #9923 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I'm vaguely irritated by the "boys names ending in N" trend that seems to have cropped up - our goal was never to give D a name that our special little snowflake would have all to himself, but we'd decided years ago that our first child would be named Dylan, and now we look like sheep. We're not sheep! Just ahead of the curve!
Yeah, we're planning on avoiding any name that's in the current top 5 or anything like that. We want him to feel just a little special when he starts school. And yet, still we resist the temptation to use the Palin baby name generator. Something in the range #11 - #100 would do fine. (Currently my name is #3 in Victoria - it's having quite a resurgence - and my middle name is #2. Oh, BTW Cashmere, Olivia is currently the most popular girl's name in Victoria.)
Matilda is still nowhere to be seen in the top 1000
It's in the top 20 in Victoria. You're not out of sync, just misplaced.
amych - Jan 07, 2009 11:36:08 am PST #9924 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Victoria has lovely taste in girls' names. (Victoria also is a lovely girl-name.)
I'm surprised there are so many boys there named Tea.
tommyrot - Jan 07, 2009 11:39:03 am PST #9925 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm surprised there are so many boys there named Tea.
It'd be funny if Frodo had a brother named Tea.
Kathy A - Jan 07, 2009 11:41:50 am PST #9926 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
It'd be funny if Frodo had a brother named Tea.
::groan::
DavidS - Jan 07, 2009 11:42:50 am PST #9927 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I like the name Prudence. In fact, Clovis' second-in-command is named Prudence.
As noted, my grandmother's name was Prudence Azalea.
It's in the top 20 in Victoria. You're not out of sync, just misplaced.
We want to be ahead of the sync! I blame Heath Ledger for the Matilda resurgence, though it makes JZ tenderhearted to think of his semi-orphaned daughter.
Cashmere - Jan 07, 2009 11:46:28 am PST #9928 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Actually, it's Repentance Cobblepot.
Oh, I want to be Anathema Brewer!
Liese S. - Jan 07, 2009 11:47:27 am PST #9929 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Juan Carlos will always be, to me, a super hot teenager I met in Venezuela. I mean, he was a teenager then. He's probably a banker or something now.
quester - Jan 07, 2009 11:59:26 am PST #9930 of 10002
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
One secret favorite of mine is Amaryllis, from The Music Man.
Kathy A - Jan 07, 2009 12:02:13 pm PST #9931 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
That's "Amaryll-ith"!
God, little Ronnie Howard was a cutie-pie in that film.