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What's in a name?

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00:37 / 18.04.03

I don't think of Todd at all as the lifeguard type, Todd. I think you're confusing Todd with Chad, Brad, and other names that end in D, but not Todd. Incidentally, did you used to get called Toad a lot? I think this all just has to do with the kinds of kids you knew in elementary school though. Doesn't it?

I want to see what people think my name is. With the assumption that everyone will just skip over this post like all my posts and I'll be secretly relieved that no one reads what I say. So my name. I don't like it. My first name... it makes me think humorless and vaguely unattractive, unstylish, maybe old-fashioned. It occurs to me that maybe I'm just describing myself here... except the old-fashioned part. Think reclusive 19th-century writers and insufferable etiquette mavens. I think I just gave it away. Fuck it. My last name is a verb. I don't like it either, that much. Does anyone really like his/her own name?

00:52 / 18.04.03

My name suits me quite well, I think. Ironically, for an only child, I'm the twin. It works. My (two) middle names are pretty dull though, and I shall attempt to rectify this in my own children. Sons might be lucky enough to be called Thelonius Sphere; Girls are going to be called Ariadne. Because it's a great name, damnit.

You're not a Brian, are you, Fridge?

00:54 / 18.04.03

Toksik, no, not Latifah! lol.

Lolita, hmmm. stumped. Jane? Charlotte? Betty?

01:00 / 18.04.03

I feel like I'm phrasing a Jeopardy question. Most of the possessors of this very common, and one would think very neutral, girl's name are either bitches or bimbos. (At least insofar as I've observed)

01:02 / 18.04.03

Oh, and there's a deep seeded, unspoken animosity between those of us who spell it with an H and those who go without.

01:03 / 18.04.03

Betty, you know, that famous writer.

Mazarine, er...but Mazerine's so lovely. can't you just be called that?! Julie? Lucy?

01:07 / 18.04.03

Don't I wish, Oulabelle (thank you, by the way!) but I'd have to go around to all my friends and say "Um... okay, from now on could you start calling me Mazarine?" And they'd look at me for a second and then burst into a fit of giggles. And probably call me Marzipan for a month.

No, they'd probably just laugh. *Sigh*

01:09 / 18.04.03

sara.
sarah.

personally i like sera, but i watched that movie when i was a bit young and impressionable.

(have you ever thought about just getting mazarine on a tshirt, so that people ask you what it means? this avoids the embarrasing 'giving yourself a nickname and asking to be called by it' feeling.)

and paleface... was janus the twin? was he the one with two faces? not being entirely familiar with that particular story i feel safe stabbing the name into the dark.

01:15 / 18.04.03

And toksik gets a cupcake! I'm from the Sarah camp. Was the movie Leaving Las Vegas?

The lamest part about my name is the fact that I have a slight lisp, so half the time people think my name is Shara or Sharon. Which aren't bad names, mind. They're just not mine.

Oullabelle- Um... Semiramis? Sheba? Anne? (Dammit, I know of far too few queens.)

01:23 / 18.04.03

The weirdest thing I ever heard regarding my name was "My god! Thats soo british it shits scones!". Some people are just odd.

01:24 / 18.04.03

Janus had the two faces, but was not a twin. Nothing so flashy.

I still enjoy the suggestion (from The Last Samurai) of "Darius Xerxes" as a name for a son, Darius X. for short. It rocks. But everyone would think he was named after that singing cunt.

01:30 / 18.04.03

Not a Catherine, are we, Oulabelle?

01:32 / 18.04.03

Was the movie Leaving Las Vegas?

chu-ching!
correct!

The lamest part about my name is the fact that I have a slight lisp, so half the time people think my name is Shara

i will now commence the cyber stalking, for in my overanimated minds eye, i have already heard your voice and fallen in love with it...
what accent do you have? is it anything like a worcester girl who has lived in london a long time?

01:40 / 18.04.03

oulabelle, you will be the second female george i know then.

Tryphena Absent

01:43 / 18.04.03

Olulabelle- Margrethe, Sophia?

I love Adeline, I think it's a wonderful name and it runs in my housemate's family but hasn't been given to any of the children, which is a crying shame IMHO.

01:49 / 18.04.03

Yes, it's Alasdair. Spelt like that, not Alisdair or Alistair or Alister or Aleister or any other shite. I've had Allison before.

02:12 / 18.04.03

do you pronounce it as it is spelt?
i always made a point of saying my friend alisdair's name with a D not a T, but probably no one noticed.

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08:44 / 18.04.03

Thank God for that, fridge- I was guessing Brian due to the Archers comment, and would thus have mentally associated you with the bastard Aldridge, which would have been, I'm sure, most unfair.

09:03 / 18.04.03

But very sexy, Brian Aldridge. And he's being a good boy at the moment.

Some famous bastard stole my name and people often make little jokes about it. I try to smile as if I haven't already heard them all a hundred times but I suppose it does break the ice sometimes. Twice recently on the phone people have been very deferential, thinking I was the famous one, only to become distressingly the reverse upon realising it's only me.

Sax and I share the same first name, apparently, which is nice.

And olulabelle's real name is Jean Paul Gautier.

09:27 / 18.04.03

Damn. Xoc wins...

09:53 / 18.04.03

Do we, Xoc? It isn't Gary, which was gingerbop's guess, by the way.

My second clue is the big giveaway... but you have to be British, of a certain age, and have watched a lot of public information broadcasts....

pointless and uncalled for

10:32 / 18.04.03

olulabelle - wrong I'm afraid as I am not a car mechanic. My name is far more unassuming than that, although in the right place it has been known to strike fear into the heart of many.

10:37 / 18.04.03

Indeed we do, Gary /Sax Toy. Only you seem to prefer the abbreviated form whereas I stand on my dignity and insist on all the syllables.

Not a jot of Garyness about either of us, btw, gingerbop. "Gary" would be a little laddish for me. I was named after my grandfather. Fortunately not my great grandfather, because his name was Napoleon. Unlikely name for a coal miner, I know.

10:48 / 18.04.03

Actually, I used the abbreviated form when I was younger but now tend to give myself the full length as I am older and more dignified. Most people insist on the diminutive, though.

12:30 / 18.04.03

*grin*

So it was Buddy when you were small & now just Bud, right?

I have an old lady name. Or perhaps a middle-aged French woman's name. What am I talking about, I am middle-aged. But I'm not French.

13:13 / 18.04.03

Incidentally, did you used to get called Toad a lot? I think this all just has to do with the kinds of kids you knew in elementary school though. Doesn't it?

Do I look like a Toad? Nevermind, don't answer that. I was only called Toad once, by the older brother of a kindergarten girl who was stalking me (I was in kindergarten at the time, as well, just so you don't get the wrong impression). I was an immensely popular elementary and middle school pupil, only to suddenly plummet into non-personhood when I hit high school. So I was never bullied or picked on.

Incidentally, I quite like your first name (and Mazarine's, too ), because I've always had good experiences with people with those names. Or, if not good, interesting. I don't think they're 'neutral' names at all. And your and Flux's last names are kind of awesome, in my opinion. Much better than mine, which for some reason makes stupid people think that I'm Italian.

My girlfriend happens to be saddled with the first name of a very famous porn star, which makes her working in a predominantly male office all that much more fun.

13:14 / 18.04.03

Persephone - Josephine? Helen?

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13:28 / 18.04.03

I nearly had "Isambard" as a middle name, but my dad wouldn't let my mum impose her- frankly bizarre- love of civil engineering history on their kid. I got saddled with a biblical middle name and the Christian name of a martyr.

I don't actually like using my real name on Barbelith- not for reasons of privacy, but I just prefer my online persona. And name, obviously.

13:38 / 18.04.03

Between the ages of nine and eleven, I would have given my left nut to be called Josephine. That was *the* fantasy name that I wrote all over my notebooks. And all the lovely variations you could do, like "Jo" and "Josie." I could have been an extrovert. I would be living a different life now.

13:42 / 18.04.03

I don't like using my real name either. Partially because I have a weird thing about names, but mostly because I am Cholister, now...

13:47 / 18.04.03

Yes.

thinks: come on, Kit-Cat, get on with it...

Anyone else do this?

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13:50 / 18.04.03

Nope. I do that the whole time. Fortunately, there's not that much difference between ****** and Stoatie (other than that ****** never flew a Sopwith Camel), so I'm integrating the two into some crazy new kind of... thing. Which, thus far, is going well. Stoatie's giving ****** more social confidence, and ****** pays for Stoatie's beer and internet connection.

13:59 / 18.04.03

Sadly, Sax, you're not dubbed by James Earl Jones, though, are you?

14:29 / 18.04.03

I think ****** should learn to fly a Sopwith Camel too. That would be really cool.

15:31 / 18.04.03

When I look at my name, on emails, or letters from the Inland Revenue, I don't get anything- it's like a Fregeian sense without a reference...

My first name makes me think... "above average", always in the background, a bit player, someone who is just 'there'.

(Oddly though, this isn't how I see my self at all, weird).

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