Mal: That's not what I saw. You like to tell me what really happened? Book: I surely would. And maybe someday I will.

'Safe'


Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Polter-Cow - Jan 21, 2011 8:17:49 am PST #18008 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

4 Hitchcock films?

At least!


amych - Jan 21, 2011 8:19:24 am PST #18009 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

How did your parents pick your name? Were you named after anybody?

Only slightly - there was an Amalia in the holocaust generation, but it's more of a nice reference than directly "we named you after your darling Auntie". Claire was purely a matter of liking the sound of it.


askye - Jan 21, 2011 8:20:43 am PST #18010 of 30001
Thrive to spite them

My dad picked out my name - I think before my parents were married he had an idea of names for kids. I've never asked where he got the Allison from but Skye is for the Isle of Skye (ancestors are from there so the story goes).

Mom picked out my brother's name - there was some debate about his first name because my uncle was dating a girl with same name and her sister had a dog with the name. But she held firm and this story is the only reason anyone mentions the girlfriend or the dog. His middle name is the same as my Dad's.

My nephew - got his original first name because my bro and xSIL liked it. Then my SIL decided it wasn't enough so they expanded it and he became Evander. She'd actually never heard of Evander Holyfield (that's the first person anyone thinks of when they hear his name). Nephew's middle name is the same as my Bro's and Dad's.


Jesse - Jan 21, 2011 8:21:40 am PST #18011 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

My parents were having so much trouble trying to agree on two names that they decided just to agree on one that worked for a boy or a girl. I don't think they realized how popular Jessica was/would be.

My plans for the weekend are a possible date tonight, a massage tomorrow, and lots of staying inside. And then family Sunday dinner, per usual.


Amy - Jan 21, 2011 8:21:50 am PST #18012 of 30001
Because books.

I was supposed to be Rebecca until my mom had one in the second grade class she was teaching who was apparently the devil's own spawn. I think Amy was just because they liked it, but my middle name, Elizabeth, is for my great-grandmother. I was her first great-grandchild.


Steph L. - Jan 21, 2011 8:22:18 am PST #18013 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I don't know exactly how my name came about, just that my parents had a choice between two starting letters based on the lunar cycle or whatever. I forget what the other one was.

I was wondering if "Polter-Cow" was a family name, or what.


erikaj - Jan 21, 2011 8:23:02 am PST #18014 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

Meeting an internet axe murderer for coffee.


Lee - Jan 21, 2011 8:25:13 am PST #18015 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

How did your parents pick your name?

After my sister was born, my parents had tons of people come up and say, "oh, I have a sister/brother/friend/great uncle twice removed named [sister's name]", so they decided to find a name that was unusual enough for that not to happen.

Then they discovered the new president of my dad's university was also named Lee.


JenP - Jan 21, 2011 8:30:17 am PST #18016 of 30001

I was supposed to be named Michael David, but that didn't pan out. They named me after no one - just two names they liked. Apparently, my father was pulling for the name Nel, but he was overruled. I was born in Argentina, and the hospital wanted to shave my head (sanitary reasons, is what I'm told) and pierce my ears (cultural norms); they, too, were overruled. My mother - refined but mighty.


Vortex - Jan 21, 2011 8:31:44 am PST #18017 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

3/4 idiot? I mean, he's asking for over a mil because of not enough sex. Even if it was legal, I'd still think he was stupid.

I'd say 9/10. Just not totally stupid in calling the cops.

I was named after a friend of my mother's. If I had been a boy, I would have been Robert, after my grandfather.