I know one of those! And a mutual friend who is super judgey about it.
River: They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see the sky and they remember what they are. Mal: Is it bad that what she said made perfect sense to me?
'Safe'
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.
Jesse - Dec 13, 2012 11:26:49 am PST #4312 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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
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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
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Oh, that's where Jemima comes from.
Ginger - Dec 13, 2012 12:05:08 pm PST #4319 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
My many-times-great grandfather was named Benoni, which means "child of sorrow," because his mother died in childbirth.
We also have a Hepsibeth and an Ora Dora.
Hil R. - Dec 13, 2012 12:21:07 pm PST #4320 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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.
I know someone named Cassia, which is another way of Anglicizing that same name.
flea - Dec 13, 2012 12:23:47 pm PST #4321 of 30001
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I knew a guy with the last name Weed in high school, and his nickname from young childhood was Speed. He now produces L&O SVU (I think) and if you Google his name you see a lot of people asking, "Who is this guy named after 2 drugs?"