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I thought it was funny. Children are short.....

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An update - I'm sure you are all riveted. My name was on the top 1000 for the year I was born, but just barely (in the 900-1000 range). It is several hundred places higher on the list today. Yes, I'm that much of a trendsetter. Carry on.

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I ran into Danny DeVito at his daughter's college graduation a couple of weeks ago (my cousin was graduating from the same school). He appeared shorter than his reputed 5 feet.

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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.

The only guys I've dated with unusual names had surnames as first names. One of those names is now wildly popular, but it wasn't about 20 years ago.

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I'm still not naming my next daughter "Receptacle".

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I understand from a guy who used to work with him (when he was a hairdresser before he took up acting) that he is 4'10" in his shoes.

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Only if I'm from the five towns area.

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http://www.whitechapelchurch.com/Eve...f%20praise.jpg

(Is this a whiff?)

TM

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Ha! and 2 (for my own name, that is -- I didn't have a view on your name in the 70's - and for the record, my view on your name is "three thumbs up!"). Actually, I like your name way better than mine. In fact, if I were a celebrity, I think I'd change my name to yours. Not only that, I think I'm going to start insisting people call me by your first name. Only the first name. I'm going with no last name, difficulty-to-accomplish be damned!!!

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.

2 again! If I had girls, there are loads of names that I think would be nice, but with boys, options are limited. 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. Our boys have very common names. The thing is, everyone tries to be so unusual, that the "basics" are the new unusual! I realize now that I'm so ahead of the curve, it's frightening. {{shudder}} (I just scared myself.)

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Dorothy and Edward
Gloria and Gumecindo

Of my grandparents names, I'd most likely to choose Gloria for my little kid were I inclined to try to keep up tradition.

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That sounds like a fun dream.

As I sit here today*, I can't recall ever having a dream about the FB or FB people. Am I the only one?

*I am still waiting for paigow to finish her search of my posts over at infirm to confirm.

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Yes. Though I also really did think he was taller than that.

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Someone told me Jude Law looks like a very handsome man who was put in a clothes dryer on "hot" and then taken out an hour later, shrinky-dinked.

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I think its cool that you're cool with bisexuality. Cool.

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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.

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You can't be serious.

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Diane.

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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.

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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.

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Rick Solomon?

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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.

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

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Damn, I always fuck that up.

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

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

tm

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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).

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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.

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

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I think he was Abram before.

tm

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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.

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Ham. It's a silent bra.

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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.

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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.)

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Aren't there regional differences on this? Some say GRAY-um and some Gram.

Not that it makes that much difference.

tm

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And you're picking on Evan?

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Interesting. I just ate a cupcake that someone brought to work. I had no idea what the occassion was. Thanks for the info.

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This sounds right up my alley. Link, please.

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Only the Joe Millionaire one...

Oh, and suck it.

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The only Hagar I've heard is that bad viking comic. But there its a boy's name.

http://members.aol.com/lshauser/haghor1a.jpg

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I say the former. So I guess that's the one I meant.

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Your opening hand requirements have become way too low. You need to tighten up and wait for a better hand to play.