Middle K? Special K?
Heh. We added the middle names when necessary.
I go online sometimes, but everyone's spelling is really bad. It's... depressing.
Tara ,'Get It Done'
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.
aurelia - Dec 15, 2020 2:00:25 pm PST #1112 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
JenP - Dec 15, 2020 2:08:41 pm PST #1113 of 30000
Oh, I'm sorry about your Mom's cousin, Cindy. Well, your cousin, too.
Thanks for sharing that, and I'm sorry your son had to go through such a traumatic time and has to deal with the ongoing condition. We differ in cause but had similar types of removals, it sounds like; I imagine we share some of the same future what-ifs and day-to-day planning challenges. I can completely understand why you wold get mama bearish. Yeah... my descriptors were "necrotized" and "adhered" - super not how you want to think of your insides. I will keep C in my thoughts now.
Sheryl - Dec 15, 2020 2:12:33 pm PST #1114 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
No repeat names in my family or Gary's, due to the Jewish thing of not naming kids after living people.
Fred Pete - Dec 15, 2020 2:18:53 pm PST #1115 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
I'm a Jr., so as I grew up, it was Big Fred and Little Fred, or sometimes Fred and Freddy. Complicated by the fact that my mother had a brother named Edward, whose oldest son is also a Jr. Leading to cousins Eddie and Freddy. And did I mention that Eddie and I were born 23 days apart?
Also in the childhood neighborhood were father James R. and son Jon R. I am told that things were confusing when mail was addressed to "J. R. Lastname."
Topic!Cindy - Dec 15, 2020 2:32:36 pm PST #1116 of 30000
What is even happening?
Leading to cousins Eddie and Freddy. And did I mention that Eddie and I were born 23 days apart?
That's really cute. Two of my mom's brothers were Freddy and Teddy (an Edward too, not a Theodore).
lisah - Dec 15, 2020 2:44:23 pm PST #1117 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
My mom had an uncle named Uncle Son.
My grandfather and brothers only ever called their sister "Sis" and so she was Aunt Sis to her many nieces and nephews and their kids.
lisah - Dec 15, 2020 2:44:37 pm PST #1118 of 30000
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Toddson - Dec 15, 2020 2:50:51 pm PST #1119 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Saw this and had to share - an alternative LDB.
drat ... can't get it to link directly to the illustration ... it's the Little DRAMA Boy
billytea - Dec 15, 2020 3:01:54 pm PST #1120 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
This makes me think of my Korean-American coworker who only goes by one name at work, and my impression of Korean names is that all siblings would have half their first name be the same, like Sung Ho and Sung Jee, so basically the same thing as Mary Alice, Mary Catherine, etc. I guess going by Mary/Sung out in the world isn't confusing, but it still feels funny.
That's true in China too. Not just siblings, but cousins, and everyone of the same generation with the same family name. So, for instance, Biyi is Biyi, while her cousin is Bichang. Ryan's Chinese name is Fang Youren, his cousin - Bichang's daughter - is Fang Youxin. And so on.
Those first characters - Jia for her dad, Bi for herself, You for Ryan - are part of an entire poem, which then gets written out within the family over the generations.
-t - Dec 15, 2020 3:08:02 pm PST #1121 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ooh, that is extremely cool