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!
Nobody can tell Marmaduke what to do. That's my kind of dog.
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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.
Calli - Dec 13, 2012 11:26:58 am PST #4313 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
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?"
Atropa - Dec 13, 2012 12:31:12 pm PST #4322 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I'm going to lose all the holiday song games, starting today. My cube was moved (yay!), and I'm right next to the cafe. Our cute-as-a-button newish barista (who sadly doesn't make very good coffee) has decided to play Christmas music in the cafe. Loudly enough that I can hear it through the closed doors. Time to live with my headphones in all the time.