I always assumed I would use names that are the same in French and English. For girls it's easy, for boys, not so much.
Tomas!
Close, anyway.
You want to meet the real me now?
Mal ,'War Stories'
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.
tommyrot - Jan 07, 2009 1:02:38 pm PST #9942 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.
billytea - Jan 07, 2009 1:07:48 pm PST #9943 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.
Because of the role that my teddy bear played in my life (long story), and repeated viewings of the BBC Brideshead Revisited while young, I adore Aloysius. I would never seriously foist that upon a child though.
My older brother chose St Aloysius for his confirmation name, because said saint was apparently able to strip down and reassemble a gun at a ridiculously early age. Aloysius also took a vow of chastity at age 9, and refused even to look women in the face to stay chaste (including the queen and his own mother); Gareth has been less inclined to follow this example.
I chose St Francis of Assisi.
billytea - Jan 07, 2009 1:09:37 pm PST #9944 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.
Kathy A - Jan 07, 2009 1:11:27 pm PST #9945 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Ron Howard and his 50(!) years in show business
Fifty years? Wow!
I just recently saw Avalon on tv and was startled to see the year on the movie description--1990! And that's 19 years ago! If you think about it, Elijah Wood has been in Hollywood for twenty years now, which is almost as scary to think about as Ron Howard's fifty.
Barb - Jan 07, 2009 1:15:27 pm PST #9946 of 10002
“Not dead yet!”
I was blown away by seeing that VH-1 had the special Scott Baio is 46 and Pregnant and I was like, "Noooooo... Chachi can't be forty-six. That's unpossible!"
tommyrot - Jan 07, 2009 1:15:57 pm PST #9947 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.
tommyrot - Jan 07, 2009 1:24:29 pm PST #9948 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.
Something you don't see every day - a picture of Obama posing with Bush and all the living ex-presidents.
JenP - Jan 07, 2009 1:29:58 pm PST #9949 of 10002
It saddens me that Twilight may ruin a perfectly good obscure family name. SADDENS.
I'm dismayed on your behalf. I didn't read Twilight, so I didn't know that until today. Esme remains untainted by sparkly vampires in my world if it's any tiny consolation.
I knew twins in grade school who shared the middle name Aloysious. John and James. I can't believe I remember that. Well, I mean, we hung out through high school, so. One was good and one was evil (but got less so as he grew up).
Barb - Jan 07, 2009 1:30:23 pm PST #9950 of 10002
“Not dead yet!”
Has the imminent downfall begun? Anyone else having trouble with LJ?
Amy - Jan 07, 2009 1:31:53 pm PST #9951 of 10002
Because books.
::raises hand::
And please don't say that. I haven't done that backup thing yet, and it intimidates me.