Making a buck cleaning Lester's spittle trays on Sequels' 22-year old supermodel abs

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
It certainly seems true, and I'm not sure why, either. Maybe there's an assumption that girls don't need to be taken as seriously, so you can have more fun with them. That response sets my bullshit detector off, but I can't think of anything better.

You can't be serious.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
forhskihn

Diane.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I just discovered that my name actually is on the Top 1000 list for 2000-2004, though it is lower than a couple of the similar alternatives. The fact that it made the list shocks me somewhat, because it is quite unusual. I'll have to check whether it was on the list or not in the 70's. I'd guess no.

I disliked my name somewhat when I was growing up. Mainly just because of the common mispronounciation problem. Now I really really like it. If I were a celebrity, I would only use my first name. That is harder to accomplish in the legal world, it seems.

I have noticed though that it seems more common and accepted for girls to be given unusual names than it is for boys. I'm not sure why this is. I've never dated a guy with a name that was not in the top 50.

My name has been in the top 1000 for the last 15 years, at least, but has never cracked the top 500. Which is why people frequently think I have some other name that kinda sorta sounds similar to it and is much more common. I am happy to go along with that name at Starbucks and Baja Fresh.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Before the Brazenette's gender was determined, we decided that we would name the little fetus after my grandfather if it turned out to have two x's rather than an x and a y. My grandfather's name was Abraham and we settled on Braham as a reasonably modern take on the name. My mother was apalled.

Uh, you were going to name it after your grandfather if it was a girl, but not if it was a boy?

Abraham is much, much better than Braham. Braham sounds like Brahmin.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by dtb
We could have gone with Solomon (a name I rather like), but it happens to be the surname of an ex-boyfriend that mr.dtb is rather (and without cause) sensitive about, so that was out.

Rick Solomon?

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by dtb


All my elementary school teachers totally butchered my name, despite my correcting them countless times. I've since stopped bothering to correct people (sometime during college, I think), and now when people discover they have been mispronouncing my name, they get all uppity and shit.

I think I may have told this story before, but I'm not sure.

On my second day of Property class in law school, my scarily-socratic Property professor called on me, misprounouncing my last name in a very common way. Along the lines of "Miss Brah-zen... Am I pronouncing that correctly?" Dumbstruck with fear, I nodded. And spent the rest of my first year as "Miss Brah-zen". Towards the end of that year, my mother had ocassion to come to the law school building, looking for me and asked a classmate of mine if she knew where she might find Bold n' Bray-zen. My law school classmate pointed her towards my carrel in the library and then grabbed her by the elbow, whispering to her "You do know she pronounces it Brah-zen, don't you?"

Oh, how we laughed.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
I'm still not naming my next daughter "Receptacle".

you shouldn't. no one names their daughters after the mom's name.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Uh, you were going to name it after your grandfather if it was a girl, but not if it was a boy?

Abraham is much, much better than Braham. Braham sounds like Brahmin.

Damn, I always fuck that up.

confidential to spookyfish: You may commence laughing at me now.

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Uh, you were going to name it after your grandfather if it was a girl, but not if it was a boy?

Abraham is much, much better than Braham. Braham sounds like Brahmin.

How would you have pronounced Braham? BRAY-um? Bruh-HAM? Bram?

tm

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Uh, you were going to name it after your grandfather if it was a girl, but not if it was a boy?

Abraham is much, much better than Braham. Braham sounds like Brahmin.

How would you pronounce Braham? And wasn't Abraham's name Bram or something like that before God renamed him Abraham? So I don't understand the appallment (if that is a word).

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
My name has been in the top 1000 for the last 15 years, at least, but has never cracked the top 500. Which is why people frequently think I have some other name that kinda sorta sounds similar to it and is much more common. I am happy to go along with that name at Starbucks and Baja Fresh.

Huh. It was in the top 250 the year I was born. I guess I have encountered it a couple times, but I'm surprised by that. Maybe there are more in areas of the country other than the ones I have spent most of my time in.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by tmdiva
How would you have pronounced Braham? BRAY-um? Bruh-HAM? Bram?

tm

It would have rhymed with graham, as in the cracker.

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
How would you pronounce Braham? And wasn't Abraham's name Bram or something like that before God renamed him Abraham? So I don't understand the appallment (if that is a word).

I think he was Abram before.

tm

Originally posted by tmdiva
Avoidance of popular names is a topic on which the SFC and I differ. I've never met anyone with my name. The SFC, on the other hand, pretty much always had at least one other boy in his class with the same name. I place a pretty high value on unusualness, the SFC not so much.

And even avoiding the nationally-common is not a guarantee of unusualness, especially in places like Stumptown proper where literacy is above-average and the weird is prized. There are two little boys in our neighborhood named Solomon. And while neither Magnus's real name nor a current leading contender for No. 2's are in the top 1000, friends have friends with kids with those names. Sigh.

tm

Just please, for the love of god, do not name your kid Holden, Taylor or. if a girl, Kaitlin (or whatever variable spellings one may come up with). Its all I ask and its the least you coud do for me.

I personally am into old school names. I like the uncommon as I bear an uncommon one as well (that has become in vogue unfortunately). I have great aunts named Edith, Beatrice and Teddy (her Ziegfield Follies showgirl stage name but i dig it). I also like Maude quite a bit. Maybe something in a Mavis?

And str8, may I suggest Ely over Evan? Evan sounds like the schlubby, skinny debate camp wuss who went to Yale and became a name dropper in Hollywood who tried to make a buck ripping off the fans.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by tmdiva
How would you have pronounced Braham? BRAY-um? Bruh-HAM? Bram?

tm

Ham. It's a silent bra.