'Conviction (1)'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
The U.S. Marines first used it a as a slogan during World War II, after general Evans Carlson adapted the Chinese kung ho, which means “work in harmony”. While the teamwork element of the definition has faded, the enthusiasm bit has certainly remained.
I'm wondering if it were maybe Cantonese or another dialect. The Mandarin would be 'gong he', I think. Close, but not quite Kung ho.
Meanwhile, you guys woke up chatty. Um, carry on. I'ma sleep now.
My mom was so sure I'd be a boy (Nicholas, I think) she didn't pick out a girl's name. So she let the nurses name me! (They were friends because my dad worked at the hospital at the time so it wasn't like strangers naming me but still.) I like my name but I often wished it was something more interesting.
Wait- Jesse is really Jessica!?! My mind is blown!
Next she'll try and tell us she's not even a cowgirl.
Sorry Corwood, that's nuts.
Happy Birthday GC!
Yeah, it does seem efficient to use the if-it-were-a-boy name the next time you have the opportunity, if you're going through all the choosing anyway.
From my own experience, there can be a very strong sense of the name belonging to that particular hypothetical child. It doesn't always feel right to just transfer it to the next one.
Birthday Happies, GC!!
Next she'll try and tell us she's not even a cowgirl.
There are some things I'm simply not willing to accept.
From my own experience, there can be a very strong sense of the name belonging to that particular hypothetical child. It doesn't always feel right to just transfer it to the next one.
My parents discussed naming my older brother Jeff but settled on Jim. So then I would have been Jeff but by then my mom's sister named their son Jeff so I became Tom.
I've even heard of surprise twins (though you'd think that would be pretty rare - two heartbeats, people!)
I had a roommate who was a surprise twin! They split up the one name they had picked out for the two girls, and came up with new middle names.
From my own experience, there can be a very strong sense of the name belonging to that particular hypothetical child. It doesn't always feel right to just transfer it to the next one.
That makes sense now, didn't when I was 6.
My mom was so sure I'd be a boy (Nicholas, I think) she didn't pick out a girl's name.
That happened to my mom - Grandma had no girl's name picked out, but Grandpa had Shirleymae Elizabeth up his sleeve. No one know where he got that, he never said.