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

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
You totally just burned Coltrane! Did you know that when you were typing your post?

Coltrane, my bad! Totally my bad. You're still cool in my book. It was a completely inadvertent dis!

Originally posted by tmdiva
Re Baldomero, here's what it says in the Oxford Dictionary of First Names (which I have handy):

Spanish: from a Germanic (Frankish) personal name composed of the elements bald bold, brave + mari, meri famous. This name was borne by a 7th-century saint from Lyons, patron of locksmiths.

Though they share a component, it's not a cognate of Vladimir, which comes from Slavonic volod rule + meri great, famous.

Re last names, who knew str8 cared so much? I didn't change mine--there didn't seem to be much benefit to trading one boring Scandinavian patronymic for another--but I might have if I'd married someone with a really cool last name. Someone I grew up with, last name Hoffman, married a guy named Wolfgang Smith. He took her name--wouldn't you have?

tm

Either I am whiffing or Hoffman is a cool name in Stumptown?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Coltrane, my bad! Totally my bad. You're still cool in my book. It was a completely inadvertent dis!

Word up, yo.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Either I am whiffing or Hoffman is a cool name in Stumptown?

He took her first name.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
The idea that your parents don't know how to pronounce the name they gave your sister is pretty hilarious, though. She can change the pronounciation all she wants, but they devised the name for her, so they should know.

Exactly. Is it more prolish to have a prole name or to try to change the pronounciation of your prole name to something less prolish? Paigow?

I might understand if they had named her RenALT (their first car together was a Renault, which is not exactly pronounced in the mid-west as it is in France). But still I think I'd just work to be the best RenALT I could be. Own it.

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Either I am whiffing or Hoffman is a cool name in Stumptown?

Cool? Not really. It just goes better with Wolfgang.

tm

[Not Flaming]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Mrs. Finch doesn't have my last name -- so I guess she's not really Mrs. Finch. I'm always kind of surprised when women change their names; I'm not sure why anyone would, or why any man should care (leaving aside LFM's emasculation point).

It's a way to assert ownership over your chattel.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Word up, yo.

I got your back, Coltrane.

[dtb]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
dtb -- do you mean "trendkiller"?

That is another appropriate form of the word, yes.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I got your back, Coltrane.

Gracias. I now have a posse.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by barely_legal
How the fuck do you people remember your great-grandparents' names? Did you actually know them? did you parents and grandparents talk about them by name a lot? I couldn't name a single one of my great-grandparents. I think the name of my paternal paternal great-grandfather is buried somewhere in my subconscious b/c my dad used to talk about how he would scare the shit out of his grandchildren with stories of the ghost who lived in the shed -- the ghost was named Old Man John.

Ok, so I remember the name of the ghost, but not my great grandfather's name. That's just spiffy.

I remember my great-grandfather, everyone in the family refers to him as "edashupa". I have no idea how it's spelled.

I always thought it meant 'dear papa' in his native language, but that's not coming up in any of the on-line translation engines.

[Replaced_Texan]

Update on mother's grandparents: Verna and Joseph, Joseph, and Mary.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Word up, yo.

Note to Not Bob: One way of improving your coolness rating is to adopt the street patois used by the kids of today. The exchange between me and Coltrane is a good example of this.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Update on mother's grandparents: Verna and Joseph, Joseph, and Mary.

Was there a Jesus borne from the latter?

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Exactly. Is it more prolish to have a prole name or to try to change the pronounciation of your prole name to something less prolish? Paigow?

Lace-curtain Irish, my grandmother would say. Hence the song line "but with propriety, society will say Marie."