Timelies all!
No repeat names in my family or Gary's, due to the Jewish thing of not naming kids after living people.
None of it means a damn thing.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
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.
Sheryl - Dec 15, 2020 2:12:33 pm PST #1114 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
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
Punishingly Intricate
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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
msbelle - Dec 15, 2020 3:15:20 pm PST #1122 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Lisah - the same grandfather that had Unky also has an Sis.
My grandmother was Babe as the baby of the family. She was really a Marjorie, her mother was also a Marjorie but called Treasure. There was also a Margaret, but she went by Marg.
Steph L. - Dec 15, 2020 3:15:31 pm PST #1123 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
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.
I have an Aunt Sis, too! Same reason.