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Is it wrong to laugh at this?

deja_vroom

11:14 / 18.03.02

I loved waking up on Saturday morning to watch Thundarr, while I was in college at the time. The show was imaginative, fantastic, and realistic. Thank you to the show's creators and cast. To me, the show lives on. When my wife and I had our daughter, I chose to name her, Ariel. I often call her, even today, "Princess Ariel". I often remind her that she was named after the character from Thundarr. She was born in 1984, long before the Disney movie with an Ariel. Ariel is also the name of an angel in the bible, and a character from Shakespeare. The name means "protector". My daughter is growing up strong, intelligent, and with high self esteem. We are proud of our princess. She is a proud warrior. To me, my daughter is, Princess Ariel.

Tell me it's not...

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w1rebaby

11:17 / 18.03.02

it's not wrong

i particularly liked the bit about "We called her Ariel way before
Disney. We didn't name her after a Disney character. That would be tacky."

deja_vroom

11:19 / 18.03.02

LOL!
There are so many subtle details...

Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?

11:20 / 18.03.02

I found it very amusing, and so did my beautiful daughter Metroplexia.

deja_vroom

11:30 / 18.03.02

There's gonna be some really embarrassed princess in a wedding at some point in the future:

"I'd like to say to our guests that even though Lester is not the valorous type of man who walks around sporting furry undies and yelling stuff, I trust he will prove to be a good husband to My. Princess. Ariel..."

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Less searchable M0rd4nt

13:52 / 18.03.02

Could be worse. I mean, all parents hang unrealistic shit on their kids, right? At least Princess Ariel is totally unrealistic, leaving less potential for future recrimination than if, say, they wanted her to be a nurse and she went in for chainsaw juggling.

Mourne Kransky

14:17 / 18.03.02

I do feel a bit sorry for her twin brother, Ookla. Mind you, I had a grandfather whose name was Napoleon and an uncle called Ivy.

Vadrice

15:51 / 18.03.02

It's not wrong to laugh, as long as it's a slightly painful laugh. One involving deep dark inner turmoil and understanding of the suffering that is being born a child of the 80s...

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

17:39 / 18.03.02

Hey, I've never had a problem with it. But my parents wanted biblical names, which are usually popular (so long as you go for angels or heros. Abaddon would be kind of...well, you know).

Vadrice

17:51 / 18.03.02

Speaking of which, I wish I knew the Witch of Endor's name, so I could then have a kid... and...

oh, wait... so I could convince someone else to have a kid and name them just that.

~pats his bible patronizingly~

gridley

18:36 / 18.03.02

oh the humiliation, walking out of the high school every day to find dad yelling from the station wagon, "Ariel, Ookla, we RIDE!"

I mean, Lords of Light, daddy! you're so uncool....

Our Lady of The Two Towers

13:26 / 19.03.02

Is there really an angel called Ariel?

Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?

13:55 / 19.03.02

Oh, yeah - good Hebrew name, Ariel.

What scares me is a) that he "often reminds her that she is named after the character in Thundarr". Like, nightly. Why? Why is this necessary? I for one would struggle to forget...

and b) that to him, "his daughter is, (unnecessary comma just in case we missed the fact that a man who named his daughter after a character on Saturday morning cartoons and only later found out that it was the name of a character "from Shakespeare" may not be the brightest bulb in the box) Princess Ariel.

I mean, does he want to say by that that she is precious to him, as Princess Ariel was to whatever land Thundarr took place in, or that she is his (daughter) Ariel, and his princess (metaphor for a valuable young woman), or, and this is what I suspect, does he actually believe that she is Princess Ariel from Thundarr?

Sax

13:57 / 19.03.02

There's certainly one called Uriel. That was Doctor Dee's mate.

Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?

13:59 / 19.03.02

And one of the four guards of paradise, IIRC....

sleazenation

14:04 / 19.03.02

i thought uriel was the archangel of eden...

Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?

14:09 / 19.03.02

Also IIRC, Ariel crops up in Isiah as a name for Jerusalem - it means "Lion of God. Milton has him as an angel of Lucifer's party, who gets deep-sixed fairly early on in the way in Heaven.

Elsewhere, I think he is a good guy, and a Throne, but damned if I know where that is attested.

Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?

14:11 / 19.03.02

quote:Originally posted by sleazenation:
i thought uriel was the archangel of eden...

YEs, sorry, my mistake. Guard of Eden, not paradise. Him, Raphael, Michael and Gabriel - is that it? Thus why you used to invoke the four at each of the compass points of your magic circle before summoning....

Or am I mistaken again?

Reason

15:29 / 19.03.02

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Mourne Kransky

18:36 / 19.03.02

Could be worse. She could've been named after the soap powder by OCD parents, keen on hygiene.

"These are my siblings: Omo and Daz."

Actually, Omo and Daz would be good names. Hmmmm. Just as well I'm never going to breed.

Ierne

18:40 / 19.03.02

Him, Raphael, Michael and Gabriel - is that it? Thus why you used to invoke the four at each of the compass points of your magic circle before summoning.... – Haus

We'll make a Ceremonial Magickian out of you yet.

Pass the macrame...

Margin Walker

04:36 / 20.03.02

quote:Originally posted by Vadrice:
It's not wrong to laugh, as long as it's a slightly painful laugh. One involving deep dark inner turmoil and understanding of the suffering that is being born a child of the 80s...

Hey, she could've been named Rambo. For this reason, amongst many others, there ought to be an 80's documentary called "See? I wasn't bulllshitting you--that shit really happened!"

gridley

18:48 / 20.03.02

There were people in my home town named Rambo. One of them was Dot Rambo. Always loved that one. They lived on Rambo Street, which I believe was named after their grandfather. Of course, you never knew the street was called Rambo, because as soon they'd put a sign up, somebody would steal it...

Mourne Kransky

19:06 / 20.03.02

There was, famously, a little Scottish girl named Poccahontas MacBride a few years ago. Wonder whatever happened to her? Didn't seem to propel her into fame and fortune, being given a distinctive name.

Ariadne

19:20 / 20.03.02

I met a man in New Zealand who told me he loved everything Scottish and had called his daughter Airdrie, because it seemed a nice, romantic name.

I spluttered slightly, then asked "Have you ever been to Airdrie?"

No, he said, they just thought it was a pretty name. I changed the subject as fast as I could. For anyone who's not been there, it's a fairly ugly wee town near Glasgow -not really what people have in mind when they think of romantic lochs and glens.

Chubby P

14:13 / 21.03.02

Princess Arial was born in 1984. That makes her now 17 or 18 now. And she's still being reminded that she was named after a cartoon character! Imagine what happens when she brings a lad back to meet the family. Her father proudly boasts where her name came from as she cringes in shame and the lad begins to wonder what the hell he's got himself into.

She's either got a great sense of humour or is very bitter and twisted.

Chubby P

14:15 / 21.03.02

Thinking of bitter and twisted by girlfriend works with someone called Jenny Taylor. I think its the lifetime of sniggers about her name that did it.

deja_vroom

14:17 / 21.03.02

"Hi, how are you? I'm Princess Arial"
"Nice to meet you, I'm Times New Roman. I'm just a postman."

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00:36 / 22.03.02

I think the really alarming thing is that this guy found a human female who is not only content to have sexual relations with him, but actually consented to naming her first-born daughter after some cartoon cavewoman that her husband fancied.

I'm willing to bet that he's given his wife a pet name taken from some other cartoon. What was that chick from "Masters of the Universe"? Teela?

Sax

05:31 / 22.03.02

I'd like to father triplet girls so I could name them after the Teen Angels in Captain Caveman.

Ariadne

06:10 / 22.03.02

so what are the teen angels' names? Do you actually know, or would you just name them Teen Angel 1, Teen Angel 2 and 3?

Sax

06:15 / 22.03.02

Dee, Brenda and Taffy.

Um, that's quite sad isn't, really. Knowing that.

Ariadne

06:28 / 22.03.02

Quite ... peculiar really.
And what if you have boys? Do you have a naming plan for them?

Sax

06:32 / 22.03.02

Fred, Shaggy and Scooby. Obviously.

Aren't you up a bit early for a holiday, by the way?

Ariadne

06:35 / 22.03.02

Oh, I'm back... at work and trying to avoid doing anything but my boss is pestering me.

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