L'shana tova!!
People frequently think my name is Sam on the phone, due to the elision of my first and last names.
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
smonster - Sep 29, 2011 2:31:21 am PDT #446 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Strix - Sep 29, 2011 3:30:18 am PDT #447 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I used to get a lot of "Karen?" "Anne?" but Erin is a heck of a lot more common than it used to be.
Toddson - Sep 29, 2011 3:50:03 am PDT #448 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Happy National Coffee Day, people!
sj - Sep 29, 2011 4:04:45 am PDT #449 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I am babysitting this morning! I have really missed G.
Toddson - Sep 29, 2011 4:06:32 am PDT #450 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
In "I don't have to make this stuff up," Exploding toilets injure 2 federal workers.
Fred Pete - Sep 29, 2011 4:39:45 am PDT #451 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
We're moving very close to that building next year. Our building has recently been remodeled. I think that's a good thing.
I'm occasionally mistaken for Frank on the phone, and very rarely Bret. Nothing wrong with either name, but I'm a Fred. You know, like the second or third male lead in every forgettable movie from the '30s, as well as some memorable ones.
My last name is unusual enough that I automatically go to the spelling. And if I had a dollar for every time someone pronounced it wrong at first reading (it's a long "e," not a short one), I could probably put a down payment on Buffista Island. At least a starter island.
SailAweigh - Sep 29, 2011 5:01:12 am PDT #452 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I often get mistaken for Erin or Helen. It peeves only minorly, except in the cases where someone has known me for years and still gets the name wrong. On first hearing, I give it a pass.
§ ita § - Sep 29, 2011 5:04:44 am PDT #453 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't give anyone a pass. I'm old and bitter and it's really easy to pronounce and I spelt it for you to boot.
The people I whip the pass back from most irritably are those that wrote it down themselves, without me spelling it. Yeah, you heard what I said (I mean, for those that don't promptly call me Rita or Edith), you transliterated it, yet you're reading back gibberish? That's all on you.
My sister's name, I give them more of a pass. But it's one letter longer, and people tend to confuse it more readily with existing names. It does kinda sound like it could be other stuff.
Burrell - Sep 29, 2011 5:08:47 am PDT #454 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Thanks to Miss Jones, nowadays people tend to hear my name as my name. Growing up I was more often mistaken for Laura than not.
Liese S. - Sep 29, 2011 5:19:54 am PDT #455 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I don't have issues with my first name, because every third person my age is named it. But I do with my last name, where I say, "Yeah, just like it sounds." Then they laugh. Then I say, "I married into it, I knew what I was getting." Eight hundred times.
But with my maiden name it didn't matter if I said it and spelled it and freaking held their hand as they wrote it, they would still get it wrong. Even though it was very very simple. It was furrin and therefore confusing, before they even tried.