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dtb · 10-07-2003, 04:05 PM

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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
[Justification for use of surname as first name.]

I was not saying it's inappropriate in all circumstances. For example, when I mentioned the name "Hunter" I was thinking of the young daughter of a friend of mine. They are very WASPy, and have a last name that goes quite nicely with it. That's cool, I have nothing against the names themselves (except for things like Brittany, Ashley, Kayla, Amber etc. that sound "fake fancy" (almost classy, if you will...) -- and as someone aptly pointed out, that demand institution of a fund for all the eventual plastic surgery bound to be required).

In sum, Hunter (or Kendall, or Madison, or Graeme or whatever) can be a great name, but not if your last name is Wolfowitz (or anything that ends in "ski").

10-07-2003, 04:06 PM

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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Ah, but that trailer trash comes by such names legitimately and by long tradition. I believe most of those white trash surname names are the names of significant confederate officers, and naming one's children after the man under whom their father served is a long, longstanding tradition. There is a reason Beau ("Beaumont" "Beauregard") is a common southern name.

if this is indeed accurate, how come these names are only trendy now when the person for whom the white trash brat is named for died in 1865 and the interceding peole were named Billy, Bob or Billy Bob?

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I guess I don't get as worked up over people wanting their kids names to sound "waspy," any more than I do people wanting their kids names to sound biblical. Do we required ethnic-advertising in child naming now? What is a "legitimate" reason for picking a name? I only get annoyed by the cross-cultural pretention when the guy named "Lipschitz" wears his clan tartan discovered in Glasgow - and then only because (i) he got sadly ripped off by the crafty scots and (ii) he is advertising himself as a fool.

and what exactly is the difference here besdies the fact that one ethnic xerox is in the form of a name and the other is in the form of a man skirt?

it is a recent trend that screams "self loathing wannabe". Have you read the Nanny Diaries? It is all about social climbing women who finally marry some cash and give their kids the most rEdiculous names.

Some of the women in my family are named Edith, Beatrice and Roxine. I am totally naming my future daughters Edie, Bea and Roxy. However, I will not be naming any sons for my Uncle Marvin. I think I will just stick with the classic names of Charles, Henry and James. Simple, classic, lovely.

SlaveNoMore · 10-07-2003, 04:07 PM

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Not Bob
So, basically, the Blueshirts are relying upon Eric "Eggshell Skulled Plaintiff" Lindros, Bobby "Freakishly Scary Head" Holik, and Mark "I Played Against Maurice Richard" Messier.

I'm actually betting they make they playoffs this year, since they aren't expected to do anything.

Besides, the top 2 lines are really good on paper, and the Poti-de Vries defensive pairing should be damn good.

Slave4(who the fuck am I kidding)Ever

PS - At least they're wearing blue at home again

dtb · 10-07-2003, 04:07 PM

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Originally posted by evenodds
Now, I cannot use this name for my own children because it has become not just common, but, frankly, trashy. It always reminds me of the simpsons episode when Cletus is calling the kids out of the shack: "Taylor, Sheridan, Dylan, Montgomery, etc"

Yes. This is it exactly. That's the point I was laboring to make, and should have scrolled. (Thank you e/o.)

I guess I won't win any pith awards today -- such a disgrace.

10-07-2003, 04:12 PM

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Originally posted by dtb
I was not saying it's inappropriate in all circumstances. For example, when I mentioned the name "Hunter" I was thinking of the young daughter of a friend of mine. They are very WASPy, and have a last name that goes quite nicely with it. That's cool, I have nothing against the names themselves (except for things like Brittany, Ashley, Kayla, Amber etc. that sound "fake fancy" (almost classy, if you will...) -- and as someone aptly pointed out, that demand institution of a fund for all the eventual plastic surgery bound to be required).

In sum, Hunter (or Kendall, or Madison, or Graeme or whatever) can be a great name, but not if your last name is Wolfowitz (or anything that ends in "ski").

Disagree. Hunter is a bullshit name. I dont care if the surname is waspy. its trendy. its a Caitlin, a Brandon, a Dylan, a Taylor.

leagleaze · 10-07-2003, 04:12 PM

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Originally posted by ThrashersFan
First my avatar and now this. Mayhap Leagl likes me. Happy Dance.

Of course I like you.

dtb · 10-07-2003, 04:19 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
Disagree. Hunter is a bullshit name. I dont care if the surname is waspy. its trendy. its a Caitlin, a Brandon, a Dylan, a Taylor.

You think so? Somehow, it just fits her. Come to think of it, her first name is Jane, but Hunter is her middle name, and that's what they call her. She's actually not so young anymore, she's probably about 10.

I have met only one other person with that name, so it's not as "nails on a blackboard" sounding as Taylor and Brandon {{shudder}}.

ThrashersFan · 10-07-2003, 04:23 PM

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Originally posted by dtb
so it's not as "nails on a blackboard" sounding as Taylor and Brandon {{shudder}}.

Not to be confused with Tyler which is my son's middle name and thus is automatically exempt from being "nails on the blackboard." And hey, how was I supposed to know that people were gonna start naming girls Jordan too -- I thought it was a name only for boys.

My son attends school with a boy named Justice. I am not sure on this one yet but I am leaning towards trashy after meeting his mom and dad.

ltl/fb · 10-07-2003, 04:26 PM

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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
At the moment you are sounding like Goldie Hawn in "Death Becomes Her."

I have not seen that movie. Though I do generally like Goldie, I won't say thank you because I suspect this is intended to be an insult.

ThrashersFan · 10-07-2003, 04:29 PM

A German bar is offering women who want to go shopping without their partners the chance to park them at what it bills as the country's first kindergarten for men.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,99363,00.html

"Whether we keep it going depends on who comes when the buzz dies down," Stein said. "Some of our regulars have put their head round the door and recoiled in horror."

And here I am trying to figure out why people seeing men in the bar would recoil in horror. Are the men in diapers? Was it formerly a lesbian bar? What?

ltl/fb · 10-07-2003, 04:30 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Whatever the point, I think we can all rest easier knowing that the world will not be limited to just one Dwight Thomas Roth.

(spree: Dwight Thomas Roth Jr. born in toilet, wheelchair-bound mother surprised)

(fringe disclosure: news article, not "click here to purchase" Dwight Thomas Roth Jr.)

Between this and the hogging article I read yeterday in some Cleveland publication, I am starting to believe that Ohio may be a truly creepy place.

You don't need a spree disclosure if there's no link, brainiac. Also, there would be a problem only if your link was not to an expected news story, but to a graphic shot of Dwight Thomas Roth Jr. being squeezed out into a sewage-filled toilet on a "hot women giving birth in sewage" fetish site.

ltl/fb · 10-07-2003, 04:31 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
You said you wouldn't out me to the fb for this. Bitch.

That was you?!?!?!? I had no idea you practiced in NYC.

ABBAKiss · 10-07-2003, 04:31 PM

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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
BR(also had a teacher whose given legal name was "Candy Ball." Literally. She got married at 18)C

The name Candace, while beautiful, should simply never be shortened. A physician in my church, Dr. Dick, unfortunately did not get the memo.

It is not uncommon for Dr. Candy Dick to read the lessons. There is also an older couple (not related to Dr. Dick) who sponsor the bulletin several times a year. His name is Hank. Hers? Delite. "Today's bulletin is sponsored by Hank and Delite Dick in honor of their 57th wedding anniversary." Good Grief.

10-07-2003, 04:36 PM

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Originally posted by dtb
You think so? Somehow, it just fits her. Come to think of it, her first name is Jane, but Hunter is her middle name, and that's what they call her. She's actually not so young anymore, she's probably about 10.

I have met only one other person with that name, so it's not as "nails on a blackboard" sounding as Taylor and Brandon {{shudder}}.

Its not as bad but its up there. Brandon, Dylan and Taylor have to be the top three most nails on blackborad boy names and Caitlin, Dylan and Taylor have to be the top three girls name. Though Caitlin is awful in that Tiffany kinda way, not the pseudo wasp name. It is the Ashley or Brianna of the late nineties. I would love ot see a list of the top fifty baby names.

Flinty_McFlint · 10-07-2003, 04:37 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
What a sick fuck. Why would someone think it is nice home furnishing to have a bunch of stuffed bodies hanging around the office/den/whatnot? To me it is not a far cry from the Dahmer refrigerator. I want to look at the expression of an animal in its last second of life before soe asshole from NYC on a small dick trip decides to murder it for fun? I am now going to apply to work there so I can secretly infitrate his life and ruin it. If I am really on a roll, I poison his coffee and then have his head chopped off for a nice wall decoreation and have him skinned for a nice rug.

Uh, does this mean you have a small dick?