I have no idea where my name came from! Maybe I should investigate that.
Oh, I'm gonna go to the special hell.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
Nora Deirdre - Jan 21, 2011 9:32:34 am PST #18060 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Jesse - Jan 21, 2011 9:32:42 am PST #18061 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jilli, I'm so sorry. You, your dad, and all who love your mom are in my thoughts.
Beverly - Jan 21, 2011 9:32:55 am PST #18062 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Our deepest sympathies, Jilli, to you and your dad and to Pete.
My mom wanted something that kind of sounded like Velvet (Brown, of National Champion) that wasn't actually, thank goodness. The middle name is my dad's first, with an e tacked on at the end.
I do have stage name, pen name, and several online pseuds, thanks. No, I'm not sharing, that's why they're pseuds.
Jesse - Jan 21, 2011 9:33:44 am PST #18063 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have no fake names lined up. Which is why I just use my own name everywhere. I just registered somewhere with a fake name for the first time!
WindSparrow - Jan 21, 2011 9:34:43 am PST #18064 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
My first name came from the newspaper. While pregnant with me, Mom saw someone in the Wedding announcements whom she thought was so pretty, and thought that was a good name, Andrea. My middle name is a bit of a family name, insofar as it is the same as one of my aunts' middle names, Lea.
I never settled on an alternate first name (other than the brief period in adolescence in which I wanted to change my name to Andriana). But I have often thought that if I needed an alternate last name, it would McAnally, my paternal grandmother's maiden name.
Fred Pete - Jan 21, 2011 9:36:26 am PST #18065 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
The short answer is, I was named after my father. I'm a Jr., which was far from unusual for first sons in the early '60s. If I'd been a girl, I'd have been named Elizabeth, but I don't know why.
Not sure how my grandmother came up with Frederick George for my father. But she was quite fond of classical music in her younger days, and there is a composer named George Frederick Handel.
Jesse - Jan 21, 2011 9:38:57 am PST #18066 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, but reading that Peter Dinklage interview reminds me that I do have the best porn name: Angel St. James. Also that I walked away from The Station Agent wanting to date Dinklage more than Cannavale, and who could have predicted that??
hippocampus - Jan 21, 2011 9:39:59 am PST #18067 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
So very sorry for your loss Jilli. Much peace to you and your family.
§ ita § - Jan 21, 2011 9:40:44 am PST #18068 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My head hurts me so much that I want to cry. Fuck this.
My porn/drag/stripper name of choice is Baba Ganouche. Which I think goes pretty well with my sister's online pseud, but hers is just a Jamaican town name.
Kathy A - Jan 21, 2011 9:41:13 am PST #18069 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My mom was named after her grandmother (traditional in Irish families), but got saddled with another family name for her middle one which she really hates, Agnes. I believe Dad was named after a family member in his dad's side in Sweden, and he also got a family name from his mother's side for a middle one, Albert.