Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Golfhaus]

I'm a little late to the party here, but welcome. My daughter's name is Madelynn. I doubt you spell it the same way (if in fact Maddie is a nickname at all) because my daughter's mother had to have it that way. It is my hope that one day she grows up to have the sense of humor to dress up like a cartoon cat to win a contest.

[wombat]

Nothing's stopping us from running our own costume contest, you know.

[sjlimmer]

Nothing's stopping us from running our own costume contest, you know.

Besides the last shreds of our sanity and/or human decency, you mean?

[littlefox]

I'm a little late to the party here, but welcome. My daughter's name is Madelynn. I doubt you spell it the same way (if in fact Maddie is a nickname at all) because my daughter's mother had to have it that way. It is my hope that one day she grows up to have the sense of humor to dress up like a cartoon cat to win a contest.

My full name is Madelyn and it's actually spelled Maddy, but I think Onstad just didn't remember how I spelled it in the e-mail I sent with it. I hate the spelling Madelyn because it's sort of ridiculous. My parents wanted my nickname to be Lynnie, but look, it's not. I've heard of my spelling before - rarely - but never with two n's. I guess I should appreciate that my name could be even MORE ridiculous.

[wombat]

Don't take it personal, O is a bad name-speller.  In the photo contest results he spelled both ferociousJ's name (Jon) and my dog's name (Lilly)wrong till someone corrected him. 

And as long as I'm the subject, J should totally have won that one.

[AugustWest]

Wombat, can I stalk your dog on the internet?

[V-Adore]

And as long as I'm the subject, J should totally have won that one.

Yeah, looking over it again, "I disqualified it because it was too good" just doesn't stop being total bullshit. I mean, look at that. YOU CAN SEE THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE IN THE BACKGROUND. Oh, Onstad, what does it take to move your heart?!

[wombat]

Wombat, can I stalk your dog on the internet?

You can stalk my dog anywhere you want, honey.

[pmcd9]

Wombat, can I stalk your dog on the internet?

Augie are you trying to have an internet affair with Wombat?  Didn't Jough and my tussle over Side Show prove that to be a bad idea?  Did we learn nothing from that?

~Paul

[AugustWest]

You're not the boss of me, Paul.

[wombat]

Paul, you know that making something forbidden will just make it more desirable, don't you?

[Golfhaus]

My full name is Madelyn and it's actually spelled Maddy, but I think Onstad just didn't remember how I spelled it in the e-mail I sent with it. I hate the spelling Madelyn because it's sort of ridiculous. My parents wanted my nickname to be Lynnie, but look, it's not. I've heard of my spelling before - rarely - but never with two n's. I guess I should appreciate that my name could be even MORE ridiculous.

Her mother's middle name is Lynn, and wanted that to be reflected in there somewhere, much the same way as I've always said I wanted my first son's middle name to be Eric because my middle name is my dad's first name. I guess in the grand scheme of things, Madelyn(n) isn't a weird spelling of it. It's certainly more phonetic than Madeleine or any of the others.

The idea of parents naming someone in order to craft an easy nickname out of it is a goofy idea.

[CortJstr]

My grandfather and his brothers were named specifically to make nicknames impossible. His mother thought they were vulgar and disrespectful to the parents. Needless to say the aunts and uncles went out of their way to not use the kids real names.

[pmcd9]

I've always said I wanted my first son's middle name to be Eric because my middle name is my dad's first name.

Hello Eric.

~Paul

[V-Adore]

The idea of parents naming someone in order to craft an easy nickname out of it is a goofy idea.

Seriously. Is there any better way to make sure the kid decides that it will only be known by its Real Name by age five or so? Heaven knows it worked for me. (Of course, I also had the extra twee factor of my childhood nickname functioning as a portmanteau of my parents' first names, which was entirely unintentional but which all of my parents' friends thought was a "cute idea," much to my parents' eternal chagrin. Then again, getting into all the ways that my name has caused my parents eternal chagrin would take a while.)