Let him do his thing, and then you get him out. No messing with him for laughs.

Mal ,'Ariel'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

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.


Calli - Dec 15, 2020 12:46:25 pm PST #1097 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Empress Maria Theresa named all her daughters "Maria [middle name]". If it's good enough for the ruler of the Austro-Hungarian empire, why not for others?

I just found out that my niece has tested positive for COVID. She's in her mid-20s and reasonably healthy. I hope she'll come through it with no major complications.


-t - Dec 15, 2020 12:48:22 pm PST #1098 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I found out fairly late in life that my uncle Svetik went by Steve in the army and at his job. I didn't find out until his funeral that Svetik was a nickname for a longer name with only a few letters in common. And Babushka's second husband Arkady was called Mike out in the world, which I found out when I introduced him to my friend Mike at a holiday dinner and he said "oh, my name is Mike, too" and the whole family went "bwuh?"


-t - Dec 15, 2020 12:48:48 pm PST #1099 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Niece~ma, Calli


meara - Dec 15, 2020 12:51:19 pm PST #1100 of 30000

My dads family had a lot of boys with the same names, so Big Mike and so on. I’m occasionally annoyed my name is so unique but it definitely is!

My family seems to have as little desire/energy to go Christmas shopping as I do. We are just giving presents to the pets.


msbelle - Dec 15, 2020 12:52:12 pm PST #1101 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I have two uncles that were Uncle Nicknames and then to find out they were known in later life jobs as real name and I can call them real name, but never Uncle real name. Butch and Skip ftr, Charles and Joe.


Topic!Cindy - Dec 15, 2020 12:52:21 pm PST #1102 of 30000
What is even happening?

Calli, I hope your niece is okay. Was she feeling ill, or was she tested due to work/contact tracing?

My cousin's wife is back at work after having had it. She isolated in her room, and my cousin and the kids who are still at home didn't contract it, which is great.


Toddson - Dec 15, 2020 1:02:13 pm PST #1103 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

My father's family was country - from rural Tennessee. They got ... inventive ... with some of the names. My aunts Willie Martha May and Myrtle Dew and uncles who died young named Harmon Woodrow (which is pretty reasonable) and Claude Oppolous. My grandmother Roxy Ludella (called Della) and grandfather Harvey called Dick.

I guess we're kind of an identity crisis built in.


Toddson - Dec 15, 2020 1:02:54 pm PST #1104 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

In other news, have you seen the Contact Tracys?


JenP - Dec 15, 2020 1:03:12 pm PST #1105 of 30000

Helth ~ma to your niece, Calli.

It works for a dozen+ years before you have to figure something else out.

Middle K? Special K?

My mom had an uncle named Uncle Son. His parents, apparently, gave him an actual name and then just called him Son. They had other kids with actual names that they used. But not Uncle Son. It's a little, uh, odd to think about.


msbelle - Dec 15, 2020 1:15:52 pm PST #1106 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

My grandfather had a brother they all call Unky because he was so much older than his younger siblings (12 kids). So he was known to everyone as Unky eventually.