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

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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?

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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). Unless you just don't like your name, or like the parent it came from -- that I can understand.

I've been called Mr. not-Finch a few times, usually when travelling and going to a hotel or restaurant where my wife made the reservation. I can't imagine being bothered by that. I also can't imagine having my ass chapped; it sounds pretty painful, whatever it is (in SF, asses and chaps can be combined to horrible effect).

Hyphens are a horrible idea. Nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos, as the saying goes.

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In my neck of the woods it was an after school show. My sister and I would run home from the bus stop and turn on the tv. I caught a re-run on one of the obscure cable channels recently, horrible.

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Why are you apologizing to yourself? Self-hate? Now the venom makes sense.


ETA: Sorry, Zoe. I forgot. If I listen to some obscure music, will I redeem myself (or just appear pompous?)?

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

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

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Word up, yo.

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He took her first name.

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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.

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

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

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I got your back, Coltrane.

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That is another appropriate form of the word, yes.

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Gracias. I now have a posse.

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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.

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

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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.

Was there a Jesus borne from the latter?

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

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

And Jesus, he wants to go to Venus
 

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

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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?

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.

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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.

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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.

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Everyone else does.

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Bite? Or bite bite bite?

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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.

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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.

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If I lose, the latter.

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?"

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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.

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Translation: This past weekend, the hotel person at the front desk kept calling me Mrs. [name of bf]. I loved it.

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That's correct. Because the idea of getting out of Alcatraz and immediately strolling into Sing Sing is very appealling.

Those are the only prison names I know of.
But you get the idea.

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Trim it back a notch, Zoe. He apologized, didn't he?

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Hate the playah, not the game.

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Oooooh. Women in prison. Hot.