My sister wanted me to name the Dillo "Edward Copernicus," but we didn't.
I know a family with kids named Tycho and Celeste. The mother is an astronomer.
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
flea - Dec 13, 2012 11:13:29 am PST #4309 of 30001
information libertarian
bon bon - Dec 13, 2012 11:14:33 am PST #4310 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I do not understand why publishing requires an environment like that. Get over yourselves, wordsmiths!
Gudanov - Dec 13, 2012 11:20:37 am PST #4311 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
I feel like we missed out not giving either kid the middle name "Danger".
Jesse - Dec 13, 2012 11:26:49 am PST #4312 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I know one of those! And a mutual friend who is super judgey about it.
Calli - Dec 13, 2012 11:26:58 am PST #4313 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I have an ancestor named "Experience," too. Experience Baker. She married a Collins. She was from the Puritan side of my family, too. Hey flea, maybe we're 300th cousins!
flea - Dec 13, 2012 11:29:49 am PST #4314 of 30001
information libertarian
Nah, mine was Experience Wing. She lived to be over 80 and had 11 children, so she did live up to the name eventually.
msbelle - Dec 13, 2012 11:38:42 am PST #4315 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
We just have president names on one side of the family.
multiple Van Burens, a Woodrow Wilson, and I thought one other, but I cannot locate it now.
-t - Dec 13, 2012 11:49:38 am PST #4316 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
My grandfather's name was Weed and his brother was Reno. It was a large family and many of the boys ( I don't think the girls so much) were named after where they were born ( or nicknamed like my grandfather, but he legally changed his name when he turned 18)
We have a Minor (or Miner, now I don't remember how it was spelled) on another branch. A few of them, actually, it became a family name but I don't know why the first one was called that, it doesn't seem to have been anyone's last name)
zuisa - Dec 13, 2012 11:55:44 am PST #4317 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
The wackiest name I ever came across while substitute teaching was J'Mani, which was pronounced Gemini. Why didn't they just spell it that way?
I once bought something on eBay and the return address label said the guy's name was Axel Falcon.
I have a friend named Keziah, which isn't a name you see a lot, and we asked her where it was from, and she said she was one of Job's daughters. Job's other two daughters were Jemima and Keren-Happuch, so Kez definitely got the best name.
Connie Neil - Dec 13, 2012 11:59:53 am PST #4318 of 30001
brillig
Oh, that's where Jemima comes from.