Buffy ,'Help'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Liese, I'm so sorry for your loss, but I'm glad you were able to be with your dad at the end.
After I hit "Post" I am going to look out the window at the house across the street for 20 seconds (it's easy to measure because the clock in the living room ticks loudly enough that the people in the aforementioned house across the street can probably hear it -- so, easy to count 20 seconds).
Wow, Patty Duke died, and she was only 69. What is it about that age recently?
Patty Duke died. [link]
Shocking thing from that obit -- her real name, Anna, was "too ethnic" for Hollywood?!? Does that mean Catholic?
Jinx.
her real name, Anna, was "too ethnic" for Hollywood?!? Does that mean Catholic?
Maybe Catholic, maybe too Eastern/Southern European. Good Anglo-Saxons are called Ann/Anne.
Too Irish?
Liese, I'm so sorry.
Scola, enjoy your unexpected freedom!
Woo hoo for plumbing!
I am so sorry for your loss Liese.
I guess "ethnic" is always non-WASP, right? (Whichever letter you focus on.) Anna just seems so innocuous to me. It's not like her name was Saoirse or Agnieszka.
It was the '50s, wasn't it? the great bland wasteland ... popular names were Cathy/Kathy, Karen, Linda, Susan, Mary ... and perkiness was probably a factor.