It's my estimation that... every man ever got a statue made of him, was one kind of sumbitch or another.

Mal ,'Jaynestown'


Natter 69: Practically names itself.  

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


JenP - Oct 12, 2011 1:54:55 pm PDT #1428 of 30001

Ha! Ahem. Well, it would be funny now. Maybe not when I was two.


Allyson - Oct 12, 2011 1:58:04 pm PDT #1429 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Oh god, there's another one: [link]

That's kind of nutty. But not in a cheetah on a squash court way.


Anne W. - Oct 12, 2011 2:16:40 pm PDT #1430 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

I have a bazillion doppelgangers out there - including my stepmother.

Yes, that gets odd at times. My dad has taken to using "Anne the Elder" and "Anne the Younger" if he needs to clarify which one of us he's talking to/about.


DavidS - Oct 12, 2011 2:18:28 pm PDT #1431 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Onerous: took pub-trans downtown on grimy, rare hot SF day to deal with gov't agency.

Bonus onerosity: Wasted trip! Nothing accomplished.


Liese S. - Oct 12, 2011 2:19:01 pm PDT #1432 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

When I was single, my name doppelganger was my cousin, who was white and married into the family, very controversially. She was the first, it's all good by now.

Now, there are a few of me out there, a paralegal in Texas and a real estate agent in Asheville. There's more, probably, but those are the ones I know offhand.


Liese S. - Oct 12, 2011 2:20:52 pm PDT #1433 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Oh, that sucks, David. My onerosity is going badly. I really don't like these tasks. But that's why they're still on my desk. And they're necessary. And I would like the SO to come home to a completely up to date office.

But first I want dinner. Which is what I said at lunchtime. So one more 15 minute session of onerous and then I can make a start on dinner. I really just need a nap.


Sheryl - Oct 12, 2011 2:21:00 pm PDT #1434 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

I have one name doppleganger that I know of. Don't remember what exactly she does, but it's fairly high up in a big company.


DavidS - Oct 12, 2011 2:23:42 pm PDT #1435 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I have a doppelnamer who lives in the Bay Area and was a high ranking exec for Chevron. There was another one who died at Andersonville. And another one who is a fighter pilot who flew in Iraq.

(All people of my last name are related, incidentally. We all descend from one guy who had his name mangled from the German when he came to America in the early 1700s.)

However, I am most of the first page of hits when I Googlebate.


DavidS - Oct 12, 2011 2:25:02 pm PDT #1436 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Oh, that sucks, David.

It does, but I'll head over to the Farmer's Market and get some of those really good tomatoes (dry farmed Early Girls) and an empanada for Emmett and life will be just that much better.


sarameg - Oct 12, 2011 2:25:27 pm PDT #1437 of 30001

There are many of me. One was 1 year behind me in middle school.

Got my swimming mojo back after a rough week. Got an estimate on when the downspout will be replace (answer: not for a couple weeks.) Did not make vet appts, which I need to do. WIll have hole in ceiling while parents visit. I might cover it temporarily with paper. I hate looking at it.

My parents arrive in a week. I need to do So Much Putting Away.

But tonight was a good swim, I'm not super cranky, I have an interesting problem to sort out tomorrow at work (it's the sort of thing I enjoy,) and the only unavoidable chore left for the night is to take out the recycling. Which I will do after I finish eating.