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

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I think it is unfair to try to change the rules on someone after they've been calling you something for over 20 years. And I think she's being a bit pretentious. I did enjoy the conversation when she told my mom that she and dad had mispronounced her name for all these years though. Good stuff.

You just have to put up with people calling you, for the rest of your life, what they learned to call you when you first met.

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.

Freakonomics (again) has a hilarious example of a woman who was really pissed off that her new nephew had been named "shee-TAYED". Unfortunately, it was spelled "Shithead."

BR(and how's Semaj doing, I wonder?)C

paigowprincess

06-08-2005 06:35 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
RP's progeny's progeny with Str8's progeny can.

What if its Mildred Lee Puppy Von Trapp Holden Tomato Basil-Outtavannuys?

ltl/fb

06-08-2005 06:37 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
What if its Mildred Lee Puppy Von Trapp Holden Tomato Basil-Outtavannuys?

I had a dream last night that someone I know, who is female, had male as well as female genitalia.

Perhaps it was *really* about RP's progeny's progeny with str8's progeny.

dtb -- do you mean "trendkiller"?

Anne Elk

06-08-2005 06:37 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Someone's never read the Old Testament!

I used to work with a woman named Hagar. She didn't like it because she thought of it as a 'slave name'.

Who was Hagar?

robustpuppy

06-08-2005 06:38 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I'm not sure. I'm still working on my logo.

I have a friend who has been attempting for the past couple of years to change from Jeff to J (I think no period, but I can't recall for sure). He decided there were too many Jeffs in the world (at least 3 in the small company that he works for) and he's never liked the way it worked with his last name. I'm not very good at calling people who change their names by something new, so I still say Jeff at least 1/2 the time. Plus his nickname with me is "Hot Jeff" (these nicknames really pissed off "Cold Jeff" at the time of naming), and for some reason "Hot J" just doesn't work as well for me.

My sister decided to change the pronounciation of her name in her twenties. She decided that the pronounciation given by our parents was mid-western and wrong*, so she adopted a more (in my opinion) snooty sounding pronounciation. I still use the original pronounciation (when we are speaking, which is not much of late) because I think it is unfair to try to change the rules on someone after they've been calling you something for over 20 years. And I think she's being a bit pretentious. I did enjoy the conversation when she told my mom that she and dad had mispronounced her name for all these years though. Good stuff.

*her name was more popular than mine in the early 1970s, and now might not even be on the Top 1000 (I didn't check the lower half to find out). she is not a trendsetter.

Ahn-dray'-uh?

ltl/fb

06-08-2005 06:41 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I have a friend who has been attempting for the past couple of years to change from Jeff to J (I think no period, but I can't recall for sure). He decided there were too many Jeffs in the world (at least 3 in the small company that he works for) and he's never liked the way it worked with his last name. I'm not very good at calling people who change their names by something new, so I still say Jeff at least 1/2 the time. Plus his nickname with me is "Hot Jeff" (these nicknames really pissed off "Cold Jeff" at the time of naming), and for some reason "Hot J" just doesn't work as well for me.

If someone had told me (speaking, not writing) about this Jeff person wanting to be called "J" instead of "Jeff" I would have thought that he wanted to be called "Jay." I'm not sure whether that rises to the level of "Weird that."

Pretty Little Flower

06-08-2005 06:41 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Recently named twins of someone I know: Zoe and Mackenzie. I instantly threw up in BnB's vomitorium. That's about as bad as it gets.

Apologies to any Zoes or Mackenzies.

The person who wrote this post is bile-stained half-wit mutant.

Apologies to anyone who wrote this post.

str8outavannuys

06-08-2005 06:41 PM

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Originally posted by Gattigap
When you roll, is there a soundtrack accompaniment?

I take it you didn't vote for Antonio, then.

There is such a soundtrack, but it's mostly Belle & Sebastian songs about how much they hated being forced to play football in the school yard. That and bands like Prefuse 73, Caribou, and Deerhoof imports.

And as for Villlllllarrrrrrrigosa, I wasn't yet a citizen as of the mayoral elections, but now I am, so watch out.

Did you just call me Coltrane?

06-08-2005 06:42 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
What if its Mildred Lee Puppy Von Trapp Holden Tomato Basil-Outtavannuys?

The hills are alive with the sound of RP's granddaughter knocking over bottles with her giant schlong?

greatwhitenorthchick

06-08-2005 06:43 PM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
The person who wrote this post is bile-stained half-wit mutant.

Apologies to anyone who wrote this post.

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

tmdiva

06-08-2005 06:43 PM

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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?

tm

Sidd Finch

06-08-2005 06:44 PM

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Originally posted by dtb
I do not have the same last name as my husband and children (it is just the way the Spanish-speaking world rolls - by and large), and it really chaps mr.dtb's ass when people call him mr.dtb (hmm, I don't know how to do that in some cutesy way...). When I get calls at the office, and when he identifies himself as my husband, the people who answer the phone say, "Oh, Hello Mr. [my last name]". He used to get all pissed off, but he's given up - I think he realized it was no big whoop.

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.

Anne Elk

06-08-2005 06:45 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
http://www.newzoorevue.com/images/who_hen.jpg
Wow, I thought I was the only idiot who got up early for that one.
I don't know what time it was on in your neck of the woods, but in my area, it was ungodly early.

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.

Did you just call me Coltrane?

06-08-2005 06:45 PM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
The person who wrote this post is bile-stained half-wit mutant.

Apologies to anyone who wrote this post.

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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