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Re: Do you like your first name?
« Reply #30 on: July 03, 2006, 05:59:36 am »
Indifferent, but if I ever have a recording contract I will go by Charles the van Pockette, or pocket.  My name is hell of bland, but not alot of people have it, so I guess that is okay.  Q, how do you spell it?
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Re: Do you like your first name?
« Reply #31 on: July 03, 2006, 08:18:57 am »
Quote from: misterqueue on July 02, 2006, 09:24:45 pm
It's Edward isn't it?  I bet it's Edward!

It's Zebulon.

Man if we followed that granny's maiden name tradition I'd be named Blood. That would be sweet.
But my kid would be named Farmer. Which is I guess not so sweet.

Chase and Morgan and so on just grate right down my spine. No child should be named by a smiling early thirties professional wearing a turtle neck sweater.
Unless 'morgan' was named after the rum, that's alright.
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Re: Do you like your first name?
« Reply #32 on: July 03, 2006, 08:20:45 am »
Wait, are we involving middle names now?

I was middle-named after my uncle Marty, meaning that of course my middle name is Zvi. This is how Jews name after each other.
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Re: Do you like your first name?
« Reply #33 on: July 03, 2006, 12:40:43 pm »
Quote from: pmcd9 on July 03, 2006, 05:02:48 am
Huh, I didn't know it was a southern thing or that it was for girls.  My brother is named Stewart, my Mother's Mother's maiden name.  My sister named one of her sons McRae.  The girls in my family are all sorta named after one another.  My Grandmother was named Fay (yes, just Fay, no middle name), my Mother is Dorothy Annette, my sister is Annette Fay, and my Neice is Casey Annette.  I'm named after my Uncle Paul and my Grandfather Marvin.

I went to camp with a girl named McRae. Well technically it's her middle name, but it's what she went by. Her first name was just Megan, so either she just liked having a weird name or there were a lot of Megans at her school or something.

Regardless, in my experience people named McRae = awesome.
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Re: Do you like your first name?
« Reply #34 on: July 03, 2006, 05:27:29 pm »
yeah, there is also a girl at my school named "Mary-Salem" who just goes by "Salem."

that is probably my favorite. Salem. It rolls off the tongue.
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Re: Do you like your first name?
« Reply #35 on: July 03, 2006, 08:19:14 pm »
Quote from: JudyIsADickSlap on July 02, 2006, 06:43:46 pm
Biblical names are often pretty awesome*, but I had to be lumbered with the most boring one possible. No, it is not Judy.




*Reuben was the eldest of the children of Israel,
With Simeon and Levi the next in line
Naphtali and Isaachar with Asher and Dan
Zebulon and Gad took the total to nine,
Jacob, Jacob and sons,
Benjamin and Judah, which leaves only one
Jacob, Jacob and sons,
Joseph - Jacob's favourite son.

Did your school do 'Joseph'? Were you in it? ALso is one of these your real name?
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Re: Do you like your first name?
« Reply #36 on: July 03, 2006, 09:04:07 pm »
Quote from: AlohaDawg on July 03, 2006, 08:19:14 pm
Did your school do 'Joseph'? Were you in it? ALso is one of these your real name?

I recently played the bass guitar for a production of Joseph last December. There were some funkin' AWESOME basslines. To be fair, I did ignore most of the sheet music and did DYNAMIC improvisation. I didn't get kicked out during the interval, so I suppose it went all right.

And I got this BITCHIN' T shirt.



This is the most you'll ever be seeing of me. I don't even think I managed to pull off a T-shirt shot without looking fat/misshapen (I like to think I am neither of these things)

And much to my regret I am not called any of the names from the Jacob song. Man, if only.
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Re: Do you like your first name?
« Reply #37 on: July 03, 2006, 09:11:58 pm »
You played a giraffe?  That's weak, man.
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Re: Do you like your first name?
« Reply #38 on: July 03, 2006, 09:16:54 pm »
Oh dear, Jough. I thought you didn't like bad puns?

(My Graphics teacher was rather hilariously named Mrs C. Bass. A-CAPck A-CAPck.)
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Re: Do you like your first name?
« Reply #39 on: July 03, 2006, 09:43:07 pm »
I'm kinda ambivalent towards my name. It's frightfully common among women 18-30, but with a slightly less common spelling (I'm Sara, not Sarah - I hardly give a rat's ass anymore, though).

I was named after a great great grandmother, though, so it's not like my mom just pulled the name out of Redbook in 1980 or something.

But if I'd been a boy, I'd be John, named after Mr. Wesley, founder of the United Methodist Church. Can ya tell my dad was still in seminary while I was cookin'?
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Re: Do you like your first name?
« Reply #40 on: July 03, 2006, 10:05:52 pm »
My first name is one grandfather's first name and my middle name is the other grandfather's middle name.  I'm OK with my first name, but my middle name I've never been fond off.

I do have a cousin named Ross Ann.
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Re: Do you like your first name?
« Reply #41 on: July 03, 2006, 10:27:58 pm »
At first glance I thought Judy's sign said "I played balls". Shows where my brain's at.
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Re: Do you like your first name?
« Reply #42 on: July 03, 2006, 10:41:00 pm »
Quote from: Ben-San on July 03, 2006, 10:27:58 pm
At first glance I thought Judy's sign said "I played balls". Shows where my brain's at.

I play boules.
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Re: Do you like your first name?
« Reply #43 on: July 04, 2006, 03:13:57 am »
I have a Pavlovian response to my first name, because the only time I get called by it is when I'm in trouble with my family. I was named after my mom's best friend. It is also similar to the name of a former first lady. People always fuck it up and mispronounce it so I'm just like, "The hell with it, call me Somebody nice".
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Re: Do you like your first name?
« Reply #44 on: July 04, 2006, 04:50:48 am »
OK, worst naming stories, first of a series:

my great-grandmother's best friend had a baby. she named it Ornetta, because that was the tradition in her family. This baby was like, ornetta #1 billion. And then, because this was like 1900, the baby died.
So, when my grandmother was born, my great grandmother named her Ornetta, to comfort her friend.

WTF MISGUIDED GESTURES??
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