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.
Well, you'd better not be thinking what I think you're thinking, because my answer is the same as always — no threesomes unless it's boy-boy-girl. Or Charlize Theron.
Harmony ,'First Date'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
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.
lisah - May 07, 2010 6:10:57 am PDT #27952 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Trudy Booth - May 07, 2010 6:13:05 am PDT #27953 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Wait- Jesse is really Jessica!?! My mind is blown!
Next she'll try and tell us she's not even a cowgirl.
Gudanov - May 07, 2010 6:13:18 am PDT #27954 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Sorry Corwood, that's nuts.
Happy Birthday GC!
Jessica - May 07, 2010 6:14:20 am PDT #27955 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
tommyrot - May 07, 2010 6:15:34 am PDT #27956 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Birthday Happies, GC!!
Gudanov - May 07, 2010 6:15:49 am PDT #27957 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Next she'll try and tell us she's not even a cowgirl.
There are some things I'm simply not willing to accept.
tommyrot - May 07, 2010 6:17:18 am PDT #27958 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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.
Jesse - May 07, 2010 6:17:29 am PDT #27959 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
-t - May 07, 2010 6:17:53 am PDT #27960 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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.
Jessica - May 07, 2010 6:18:34 am PDT #27961 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
My only experience with surprise twins is in Bollywood movies, where they happen almost every time.