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Not Bob · 06-08-2005, 07:00 PM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
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.

Thanks, daddy-o. You're the cat's pajamas.

taxwonk · 06-08-2005, 07:01 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Jesus was a Jewish name originally.

And now it's really only popular in Spanish-speaking countries and Elton John lyrics.

06-08-2005, 07:02 PM

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Originally posted by Not Bob
Lace-curtain Irish, my grandmother would say. Hence the song line "but with propriety, society will say Marie."

Once the proles have taken a name, its a prole name. Its forever ruined. I cannot name my kid Madison, Madeline, Amber, Brittany or Cate-lyn. Pronunciation is irrelevant.

But I am curious to know what the name is. Did she change it to Kaht-lin? Ahm-ber?

tmdiva · 06-08-2005, 07:07 PM

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

Grandparents: Davis (probably named after Jefferson; #565 that year) & Dorothy (#3 that year in the US--she was born in Canada); Wes(ley)(#125 that year) & Ruby (#36 that year).

Of these, one of my brothers likes Wesley--am I the only one surprised that it's never fallen below #200 in popularity?--and one of my sisters likes Ruby, though it's currently spiking in popularity.

Great-grandparents: Samuel & Jessie; Floyd & Jennie; Louis & Ida; Parley & Eliza. I have a cousin named Jennie, and a cousin named her daughter Eliza. I like Samuel, but can't use it because of the ex-boyfriend issue (not that I really would, anyway, since it's a solid top-100 name).

I could probably name my great-greats off the top of my head without too much difficulty.

tm

greatwhitenorthchick · 06-08-2005, 07:08 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Was there a Jesus borne from the latter?

Jesus didn't have a mother. Get with the program. And did you mean "born" or "borne"?

Flinty_McFlint · 06-08-2005, 07:14 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Jesus didn't have a mother. Get with the program. And did you mean "born" or "borne"?

I'm no religious scholar (hi Atticus!), or even very religious (hi Fringey!), but the bibles I used to see said that JC's mom was Mary. At least here on earth. Maybe I got a bum copy.

taxwonk · 06-08-2005, 07:15 PM

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Originally posted by Not Bob
If memory serves, he was Abram, right?

Anyway, I hate my name. Which is why I am Not Bob instead of, well, Bob.

(Was also considering "The Anti-Bob" and "Anything But Bob" as my infirm moniker.)

In Aramaic or Hebrew, he would have been Avram. I used to work with an Avram. He was pretty cool, but it took him a long time to convince me he wasn't a total weenie.

ThurgreedMarshall · 06-08-2005, 07:18 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
and you should have turned it back on my wife.

Everyone else does.

TM

ThurgreedMarshall · 06-08-2005, 07:20 PM

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Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
Yeah, I'll bite. It's for charity.

Bite? Or bite bite bite?

TM

dtb · 06-08-2005, 07:25 PM

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Originally posted by tmdiva
Of these, one of my brothers likes Wesley--am I the only one surprised that it's never fallen below #200 in popularity?--and one of my sisters likes Ruby, though it's currently spiking in popularity.

Really? Ruby? I think it's a cute name, but I've never heard it as a kid's name (not that I know so many kids, but you know...).

I think Wesley is a rather popular southern name, and also popular for heroes who fashion themselves The Dread Pirate Roberts.

My grandmother (Ann - remember?) had three siblings: Kathleen, Virginia and Joseph.

Virginia's daughter (my first cousin once removed? I think that's right) has one of my favorite girl names: Georgiana (though it's pronounced "Georgina"). There's a girl in my son's class called Georgia, which I also like. I would have guessed that Georgia is becoming more popular (although I don't think I can think of another kid called Georgia in the younger set nowadays), but Ruby is a surprise.

notcasesensitive · 06-08-2005, 07:30 PM

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Originally posted by dtb
Really? Ruby? I think it's a cute name, but I've never heard it as a kid's name (not that I know so many kids, but you know...).

I think Wesley is a rather popular southern name, and also popular for heroes who fashion themselves The Dread Pirate Roberts.

My grandmother (Ann - remember?) had three siblings: Kathleen, Virginia and Joseph.

Virginia's daughter (my first cousin once removed? I think that's right) has one of my favorite girl names: Georgiana (though it's pronounced "Georgina"). There's a girl in my son's class called Georgia, which I also like. I would have guessed that Georgia is becoming more popular (although I don't think I can think of another kid called Georgia in the younger set nowadays), but Ruby is a surprise.

Wesley to me is now gay, gay, gay. Gay as cheese even. That's just because I think of Wesley from Boy Meets Boy and his sexuality was never a question to me. I was as sure he was gay as Paigow was that he had a bad nosejob. I'm just sad that ultimately he and James didn't make a love connection. Sigh.

Confidential to RT: I also think of Wesley Crusher a bit when I hear Wesley (and thanks to you, I believe, Wil Wheaton's blog is now on my favorites list), but I'm trying to keep my nerd quotiant down here this week, so keep this on the dl for me. Word.

Tyrone Slothrop · 06-08-2005, 07:31 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Right. I am thinking of the Stone Angel with Hagar and Bram. Damn you, Margaret Lawrence!

fwiw, I love the name Hagar. I wouldn't name my kid it though, for one reason which I won't say and the other reason is that kids would call her "hag" or something. Maybe I will name my next cat "Hagar." If my next cat is a boy, I will name him "Chairman Meow." Just fyi.

I once knew a dog named Mae, only for several months I thought her name was May. (Mei never occurred to me.) It was a shocker when I found out her name was Mae instead of May. It was like I'd been confused about who she was all that time.

Flinty_McFlint · 06-08-2005, 07:36 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Bite? Or bite bite bite?

TM

If I lose, the latter.

06-08-2005, 07:39 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Wesley to me is now gay, gay, gay. Gay as cheese even. That's just because I think of Wesley from Boy Meets Boy and his sexuality was never a question to me. I was as sure he was gay as Paigow was that he had a bad nosejob. I'm just sad that ultimately he and James didn't make a love connection. Sigh.

Confidential to RT: I also think of Wesley Crusher a bit when I hear Wesley (and thanks to you, I believe, Wil Wheaton's blog is now on my favorites list), but I'm trying to keep my nerd quotiant down here this week, so keep this on the dl for me. Word.

Funny, when I started reading this, I thought "ah, wesley, thats the guy with the bad nose job from dallas".

I miss that show. ALmost as much as I miss "Are you Hot?"

ltl/fb · 06-08-2005, 07:41 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I once knew a dog named Mae, only for several months I thought her name was May. (Mei never occurred to me.) It was a shocker when I found out her name was Mae instead of May. It was like I'd been confused about who she was all that time.

A friend at a prior job brought up a cow named Mae, but I referred to the cow as "May" in an email (having only heard her name said, not seen in written) and she thought that was the so, so funny. We were working together on a slaughterhouse deal, so it was relevant.

I never met the cow, as it was long dead (and eaten, probably) by that time, so I didn't have the feeling I'd never really known her.