Well, my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Michael was the first Englishman in the Western hemisphere to be convicted of child abuse, and my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great aunt Elizabeth was the first woman born in America to be hanged for lewdness.
Never will I let the commoners forget that I am of an ancient lineage.
I'm not even quite getting the freaky. Cleric can't be all that uncommon a profession; what's weird about being descended from one?
That's not weird, it's having the details confirmed that's a little strange and like I said, the arbitrariness of the name is also a bit freaky. I'm attached to it, it seems important that it's descended from a line, and its origin seems so fragile (I mean, they're all like that, but still).
Kotsko believes that his family name on the other side was Kosciusko.
When was this?
I'm not clear on that. Need to ask.
Yeah, last name decisions like that are a little freaky. My own last name is quite clearly an enwhitening of a somewhat common Ashkenazi Jewish last name. It's enwhitened enough that it doesn't sound Jewish to non-Jews, but it sounds extremely Jewish to Jews and Germans. And it's totally made up, and we don't have the evidence for who or when all this de-Jewifying happened. When I ask about our family history, I'm told we're, like, Western European.
Relative of the Holy Baal Shem checking in over here, ok thanks. You can form a line to the left for obeisances.
I wish my parents would tell me my last name.
Some people didn't quite understand the processing of `enwhitening', either. I know someone whose great-grandfather, upon arriving in America, changed the family name by removing most of the vowels. He thought it was too long for Americans, and you didn't really need the vowels anyway.
10: It doesn't really make much of a dent in "Przycewicz" to remove the vowels anyway. Better to remove the consonants.
A cousin of mine has been doing some genealogical research, and has been calling everyone up with the scandalous revelation that some woman several generations back was probably maybe Scottish. That is, not German. I explained that the rest of the ancestors were actually Frisian, anyway.
I'm surprised no one has yet commented on the fact that this means ogged is an Arab.
11: It didn't actually make much difference in his name either, but I won't reproduce here because it is, as far as he can tell, unique. They did leave one vowel in.
The names that are really tough to pronounce come from when they remove the vowels but leave the umlauts.
14 -- Maybe an 8th Arab. Or a 16th. Details are vague. Is there a one drop rule on that?
So, O, are you a descendant of the Prophet?
17: Is that a joke, or does that really happen?
20: isn't that very roughly what happens in persian?
I've heard that the great Iranian last-naming came under the first Shah Pahlavi, like in the 20s or 30s. A very funny Iranian guy told me this, and also that his last name meant "super-awesome guy with much awesomeness"----which is also roughly the translation of my honey's completely different last name.
the arbitrariness of the name
At least it wasn't state-imposed, or lazy-bureaucrat-imposed. </immigrant-misery-poker>
My dude came over before 1900. I really should find out exactly when.
which is also roughly the translation of my honey's completely different last name
All immigrants were rich and noble in the country of their birth, except for the ones who ate nothing but dirt.
23: You mean like the well-known Jew, Sean Ferguson?
26: I'm pretty sure I've told that joke here. I know I told it in my German class. The teacher, at least, was amused.
That's odd, I'd heard it as Ike Ferguson.
I'm pretty sure I've told that joke here.
If you haven't, I have, I'm sure.
28: Goyim always mess up the jokes when they tell them.
20: That's where Spinal Tap gets it. (Joke being funnier if I could get the umlaut over the "n" and option+u isn't doing it. Grr.)
Goyim always mess up the jokes when they tell them
Not just, or even most spectacularly, goyim.
addendum to the above-mentioned name, and uniqueness. He may set some sort of record, because while there are 40+ pages of google hits on his name, every reference is to him.
32: Even the Chosen People have the cousins everyone's a little embarrassed about.
My last name is almost, but not quite, as boring as "Smith" or "Jones." One finds it attached to all sorts of ethnicities, too.
You know, I don't think any of my immigrant ancestors (that I know of) had their names changed by any means when they came over. They almost all had surnames that were pretty common in the areas they came from, and they kept them pretty much intact over here.
Of course, this is just the ones we know about, which basically means my mom's family, all of whom immigrated around 1905. My dad's family has been over here so long that we don't know when any of them first came over, with the exception of the ancestor from whom the last name comes, and that's only because it's an unusual name and he's the only one who ever immigrated. Everyone in this country with our name is descended from him, but we, at least, have no idea exactly how.
My last name is a first name. My middle name is a language. Neither is particularly unique, although in context they're sort of odd.
My first and last names are adjectives. In a language that is not English.
(Which puts me in mind of the terrible movie Johnny Dangerously where the hero is asked, "Do you know your last name is an adverb?")
My last name is a first name. My middle name is a language. Neither is particularly unique, although in context they're sort of odd.
Ooh, this could be fun:
Spencer Icelandic Tweety?
Jones Bantu Tweety?
Boghossian Low Frissian Tweety?
Oh, wait last name is a firstname.
My last name is a first name, rob. It's true, my first name is a last name, but that's a borderline case.
Everyone in this country with our name is descended from him, but we, at least, have no idea exactly how.
I'm going to guess that sexual intercourse was involved.
Who speaks Turkey, ogged? Besides Madden.
Rob's first name is a middle name! It's true!
Oh, a language, not a country. Ok, I give up, what is it?
You're not very good at this game, ogged.
My last name refers to a trade. My Dad's family is Alsatian, so there's a mix of French and German, but we've got the French last name. My Mom's family is almost entirely English, and my first and middle names are biblical and Englishy. My sister's name works better with a French last name.
My Mom's maiden name is an adjective which is easy for English-speakers to spell. I always have to spell mine out.
Cogg-Willoughby !Xhóõ Billy, go back to Slovenia.
Okay, okay. It's Hogg Pig Latin Dick.
My porn star name is Pussywillow Seaman.
So how totally suspicious is it that ogged is a secret arab? No wonder he likes Obama.
My first name is Scandinavian, my middle name is most common among the Scottish, and my surname is one of those made-up things like AWB describes. Nobody (on the Internets or beknownst to me) has my surname who isn't closely related to me.
My first and last names are adjectives. In a language that is not English.
Nice to meet you, Jolie Laide.
I used to know a girl whose full name consisted of four last names. Surprisingly her parents were hippies and not yuppies.
My porn star name is Pussywillow Seaman.
Awesome.
These things get better if you allow for more than one pet and more than one street as options.
One friend announced that hers was "Frisky Forward". Her story checked out.
I always have to spell mine out.
So do I. Really.
59: Olaf Haggis Beerknuk it is, then.
62: yeah I have to say I've never been that excited about George Pleasant as a porn name.
My first name is Scandinavian, my middle name is most common among the Scottish, and my surname is one of those made-up things like AWB describes.
Mjollnir Cairns Smallstone?
Okay, Stuart English Stuart.
Unlikely. Stuart Scots Stuart, maybe.
Unlikely. Stuart Scots Stuart, maybe.
Well, he did say the effect of them all together was odd!
Wotan Freeballin Laserface?
I laughed.
Having lived two places as a kid, I have a waspy porn name, and a more ethnic one. I suppose it depends on the picture whether they want to use Piper Genoa or Piper Curzon.
O hasn't mentioned whether he's a descendant of the prophet, and I'm not sure what the status of the Lur thing is at this point. Must I read the archives?
I figured it out, Sify.
Ono Ainu Juno.
O hasn't mentioned whether he's a descendant of the prophet
Not that I know of. Seems like the kind of thing I would have heard about earlier.
75: right back atcha, in the style of Pacino in Scarface.
I have a friend whose ancestors immigrated to our shores and wanted to trade their unwieldy Polish-Jewish name for something more American. Great-Grandpa thought of the only person he knew in America and chose the name "Rosenberg."
My last name is a first name and my first name is a last name. To the degree that I get misfiled more than 50% of the time.
On the other hand, my middle name isn't a language. It's sort of made up.
17: Is that a joke, or does that really happen?
Umlaut is a sound change on a vowel, so it couldn't really happen.
My maternal grandfather's family name went from Eichengrün to Gruen on immigration. His first name was anglicized as well.
I'm not sure what the status of the Lur thing is at this point.
Presumably the fact that this Najafi cleric thing is a surprise implies that all the rest of his ancestors were Lur.
I'm going to guess that sexual intercourse was involved.
You'd think so, but somehow we have no proof.
(You could have those two little dots above a consonant, of course, but then they couldn't be an umlaut.)
79: Nixon Klingon Richard, I presume.
83: I don't know that we're talking about linguistically sophisticated people making these decisions.
Presumably the fact that this Najafi cleric thing is a surprise implies that all the rest of his ancestors were Lur.
Right, the cleric came over a while ago, and my mom's family has been in Khorramabad for as long as anyone can remember. Of course, my maternal grandmother also spoke Laki, but that doesn't take her out of Khorramabad.
My last name is a first name and my first name is a last name. To the degree that I get misfiled more than 50% of the time.
That's the topic of a young-adult novel that I really liked as a kid.
My last name is a very common noun, but people seem to think that that would be too simple and often want to know how to spell it. I always say "as in your mouth".
Asilon Tooth! Asilon Greatbigcock!
Uvula? That seems like a first name. A girl's name, like "Ebola". Ebola and Uvula could be twins.
88: your name is Babs Uvula?
Also, I just discovered that at least one member of G-Unit is half Iranian. A relative of Ogged?
My last name is a first name and my first name is a last name. To the degree that I get misfiled more than 50% of the time.
That happens to my friend's daughter. Her last name is a boy's first name, just to further confuse people.
I always get people asking me for my last name and then, when I tell them, they say "that's your last name?" like I might have gotten mixed up. Yes, I do remember my own name, thanks.
I got ripped off by that porn name thing, because I lived on a numbered street. How uncommon can this be?
97: sadly, nobody in the entire state of Iowa has a good porn name.
there's a writer out there named Osha, leading me & my husband to joke that we were going to name all our daughter after federal agencies & regulatory laws. Osha, Epa, Cercla, & Foia.
there's a writer out there named Osha, leading me & my husband to joke that we were going to name all our daughter after federal agencies & regulatory laws. Osha, Epa, Cercla, & Foia.
Assedic is a good French name for a boy.
we were going to name all our daughter after federal agencies
Fannie Mae!
94 - where did the Babs come from, Ned? (I have a friend who is always referred to as The Babs.)
I do know a Cock actually. I went to collect him from his house late one night, and he didn't answer the door. I thought he might be in the pub next door, so I popped in, and was looking round. A well-meaning bloke asked if I was looking for someone, to which I replied, "Yes, M/ke C/ck" and then he pissed himself laughing at me.
102: See here. (Also a Green Day song.)
My last name is a verb, my first name a noun, and my middle name an adjective.
And they're all the same word.
And you rose to the rank of Major by an administrative error?
104 would be especially good if you were from the Canadian Rockies and you could come up with a way to teach him to teleport, so that eventually Batf from Banff could go "BAMF!"
I always get a kick out of the fact that I had a great-grandfather on the paternal side named Calix. None of the names in my family, as far as I know, have been changed or adulterated, with the exception of my father's dropping the capitalization of the third letter of our last name--a practice his sons have followed, though not always recognized by others writing it out.
I also share a name with a deceased Canadian pro wrestler of some repute within his circles. I particularly enjoy thinking of this fact when I imagine others trying to do internet searches on my name. And my porn name is Boots Spaziano.
I did once work with someone of Slavic ancestry whose family name was in fact an odd variant of the name of the boat on which his grandfather had arrived. (Too unique to mention, I just googled him and found out what he is up to.) I had heard those stories, but assumed that they were apocryphal.
Asilon Tooth! Asilon Greatbigcock!
There are people named Tooth. CMT disease is named for one.
As for Greatbigcock, it may not be anyone's name, but there are people who are synonymous with it. Modesty forbids me from identifying any such person, though.
110: Calix is a nice name (assuming it comes from kalyx). It means flower bud.
I got ripped off by that porn name thing, because I lived on a numbered street. How uncommon can this be?
Are you telling me that Fluffy Third is NOT a porn name?
113: That's the meaning I've always understood it to have. Hard to imagine the man whom, in this case, it applied to being much suited to it.
In botany it means the outer part of the flower. The sepals form the calyx.
Usually not the nicest part of the flower. That would be the corolla. The petals form the corolla.
My ancestor of the same surname who came to North America from Europe was found by us in a census book. His name, nationality, and religion were all wrong. We figured the census-takers had gotten it wrong, but it would be nice if my grandfather wasn't so silent about what his father's life was like.
108: The first use of "BAMF*" I ever saw was in a Pogo cartoon. Walt Kelly then tied it into a joke about Lake Banff. So great comedic minds etc. ...
*It was the sound of a football exploding. Howland Owl had mistaken it for a pumpkin and had begun to carve it thereby releasing Pogo's bee colony that he had stored inside and which Albert ultimately inhaled... (somehow it all works in the comic strip).
My last name is....
Oh.
It's a shame, because I never had a childhood pet, but I lived on Hollywood Ave. So much wasted potential.
Nice to meet you, Jolie Laide.
WRONG! Bella Bellissima, thank you.
My first name is the Anglicisation of a Hebrew adaptation of the original Egyptian; my middle name is Norwegian and my last name is English. Oddly enough, the latter is the one that people most commonly stumble over. [Or perhaps, not so oddly, in LA.]
Oh, and my porn writer surname was a variant of my first husband's. Even tho' he didn't know about it, it amused me immensely.
His name, nationality, and religion were all wrong. We figured the census-takers had gotten it wrong, but it would be nice if my grandfather wasn't so silent about what his father's life was like.
It seems unlikely that the census taker got it all wrong. Have you checked other census years? other records?
Per conversation with my mom, I'd like to revise and extend my remarks. The name was chosen only recently, by my great-grandfather; before that my people roamed in single-named splendor. The cleric came over from Najaf around 250 years ago.
Who speaks Turkey, ogged?
I don't know who speaks turkey.
There's a whole train of thought here, but take it as read.
There was a very large family named Jones in the town where I grew up. All their first names started with "J" so there was a lot of alliteration going on and they were really, um, inbred, so no one's last name needed changing when they paired off. They all lived in one rambling, ramshackle old farmhouse and one day they were all simply gone. That must have been sixteen or seventeen years ago and to this day I know no one who knows where they went.
Someone with a poor grasp of idiom, I suppose. Like crypto-Arab Persians.
My last name is a verb, my first name a noun, and my middle name an adjective.
And they're all the same word.
Buffalo buffalo buffalo.
127 makes me think "Talk English, Motherfucker!" would make a fine t-shirt.
I don't know the name of the first street I lived on and I've never had a pet of my own, but if you count the pets we had when I grew up, my first name as a porn star would be either Odette or Odile, presumably depending on the depravity of the role. (Two cats, one light, one dark.)
My porn name is Goldie Gallatin, which I feel great about, should I ever need to use it. Much better than I do about my actual name, the sur part of which subjected me a lot of teasing in jr high. Names are so cathected.
I am descended from this guy. According to my grandmother, he was an abandoned child, so named because his adoptive family found him between a blacksmith and a mill.
Oh, the porn name is the *first* street you lived on, like as an infant? I don't know it.
Those are lovely names, Ben. Too lovely for porn, bien sur.
I only named one goldfish, and for some reason it was called Valerie. I lived on Vine St. Thus, Valerie Vine. Alliterative, but not very salacious. Not bad though.
too personal info may be, well
my mom's side grandma's all four brothers were monks, then revolution happened, some of them were executed, some of them became laymen
her grandma were as i mentioned before Borjigin
my dad's side ancestors lived near the lake Baikal, in Mongolian it's Baigal which means Nature, khori buriad they came to Mongolia in 1916 but still were repressed in 1937 as people who avoided the October revolution, that's why two of his uncles were in Gulag
at least 5 generation up there was someone named Ondrii in his genealogy, may be he was Russian may be not and my dad's family name, tribal name to be exact, translates wise
"This place is sacred to the Buryats; they are of Mongolian type."
Thanks to the thread I now have this earworm running through my head:
My bologna has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R. My bologna has a second name, it's M-E-Y-E-R et fucking cetera.
I don't know who speaks turkey.
I do! Seriously! There's this big-ass turkey at the little zoo part of the Museum of Life and Science here in Durham. He's been there for years. When I go to his pen, I make a turkey noise, which involves shaking my head back and forth really fast with my cheeks all loose and flappy. It's a very good turkey noise, if I do say so myself. Ask me at the next UnfoggeDCon. Anyhow, the turkey always trots right over and gobbles back at me for as long as I'll gobble at him.
And my porn name would be Vernon Midnight.
As a kid I gave my pets exciting names like "Bill", "Joe", and "Sam". I bet if I told you my real name and my porn name you couldn't guess which was which.
And you wonder why you have a wattle, Vernon.
What kind of animal did you have named Vernon?
145: Some sort of vermin, of course.
+s
what is porn name you are talking about, a nickname?
set off - what does it mean?
My porn name, using this formula: Tramp Turnpike. Aw yeah.
Your address was the turnpike?
Not possible in my state. Even less possible than your address being an interstate.
I love names. I remember getting grouchy at my childhood babysitter when she told me I would drop one of my names as an adult because it was "too long." Um, no.
It's surprising to me how many modern-day immigrants have their names changed. Often it's not voluntary. Really disrespectful, too.
And I had always heard of that game as the soap opera star name. Hmmm.
Do I have it backwards? Vernon is the road, Midnight was a black cat.
153: it depends on what kind of names your pets had.
My name is definitely in the soap opera actor category.
(Bill Carverton)
That is backwards, but in your case clearly superior. Maybe doing it that way around yields one's DJ name.
148: take the name of your first pet as your first name, and the name of the first street you lived on as your surname: that is your porn name.
What's yours, read?
I think the concept works better as "stripper name" than "porn name" anyway. Stripper names tend to be more playful instead of just sexual. See 62.
Peppi, street name is very long
Enkhtaivnu Orgon Choloo
I did once work with someone of Slavic ancestry whose family name was in fact an odd variant of the name of the boat on which his grandfather had arrived.
My last name has a somewhat similar history.
Definitely fetish porn, that one.
the, it seems i'll never master indefinite, definite articles, Peppi is our dog's name
i looked up set off - it means to plan something
still can't get the meaning of the sentence in the book
Peppi Enkhtaivnu Orgon Choloo would be a good name for a commenter seeking a new pseudonym.
Set off can mean to embark on a journey -- we set off on our trip. Or it can mean to trigger something -- he set off the bomb.
My wife comes in with a respectable Bridget Heather Hill while I don't hold up my end with Coco Greenwood. (Maybe it works as a back-to-nature lesbian act ... works for me.)
ah, i got it, trigger then, thanks
if to translate it's Peace avenue, so may be it'd better sound Peppi Peace
Your address was the turnpike?
It was, in all seriousness, Turnpike Road.
My favorite street name was always Pond Hill Mountain Road.
168: Santa Barbara, by any chance? I guess there are a lot of Turnpike Roads around the U.S.
No, a tiny town in the mountains of Western North Carolina. I did, however, watch Santa Barbara for a while in jr. high.
it'd better sound Peppi Peace
The porn spelling would probably be Peppi Piece.
My favorite street name was always Pond Hill Mountain Road.
I've always like WA WA Avenue.
i won't accept that spelling, urban dictionary gives very weird definitions of it, so i'll go native may be
BR just asked me to put in a request for a spring or summer Unfogged party.
It's like you don't even want to be a porn star, read.
174: I'd drive up if you guys hosted it.
Richmond is an easy drive from DC or from some DC airports (DCA & IAD).
Sweet. Apo is in! BR, Apo, and me! Two gingers - I'm bound to score!
I'll totally host one at the beach
Which beach? Northern Maine? Brrrrr.
157: Joaquin Andujar Birdie. Disturbing, huh? If I went with our other turtle, it would be Li'l Bub Birdie.
Golf-themed neighborhood with absolutely no golf courses anywhere nearby.
MD is in. w-lfs-n is out. But, send Belle.
182, cont'd: Also, 3-year-olds should not be allowed to name turtles.
182: Having a pet named Joaquin Andujar is great. Was it sufficiently loco to deserve the moniker?
It has to be the *first* street? Oh come on, I am not downgrading from Seaman to West 28th when I lived at Seaman for 10x as long, and had my father make "the profession, not the fluid" jokes long before I knew what he was talking about.
187: yeah I think "street you grew up on" is an acceptable compromise.
If Blume and BG dont come, we might not do it. So, I guess Sifu can come too.
186: It was just a baby turtle. He escaped, with his brother, shortly after he was named. So yes.
I use first pet and mother's unmarried name for the stripper/porn name, which in my case yields Tiger Maguire. An excellent one of one of my relations: Queenie Vo/lp/ic/el/la.
My porn/stripper name would be Henry Military.
Summer party! Woo!
If I went with my longest residence and pet ownership, it would be (get ready) Rusty 69.
Original pet and street: Bigfoot Pine.
Switching to longest lived pet and longest residence (which is clearly not allowed) yields: Ruffy Reynolds.
Joaquin Andujar...mmmm, sigh. Tied with Sixto Lezcano for the most fun name to say.
We let my dad name our dogs growing up, and he named them after herpes medicine and jock itch medicine: Acyclovir and Teriomycin (sp?). Anyway we called them Ace and Terry.
So my porn name could be Acyclovir 3rd Place.
I can send you some acyclovir if you need it. We have too much here and it's going to expire.
If I can choose from any street I've ever lived on and any pet an immediate family member has owned, I could be Bubba Blackstone. Or ... Saffron Page. I haven't lived on very many interesting streets.
If only I were born on 69th and Cuming, I would have had a great name. There are plenty of great street names on this annotated Google map.
A friend of mine, when he was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, had his room cleaned by a woman whose address was 69 Crotch Crescent. That has to win some kind of prize.
Porn name: Candy California.
Surname: confirmed by a co-worker of KR, is comprised in part of a Polish slur against Germans and means, roughly, "that family of dumb German people [who moved here to Poland]".
I ran across someone recently who lived on Licking Hole Lane. Nice.
Goldie Salah ed-Din. Now if only I'd named the damned goldfish "Salome".
I could also be Swimmy Seaman--that was the first pet I had who was specifically mine instead of a family pet.
Oh, and will: you can certainly count eekbeat and me in for an RVA meetup. Just let us know the date well in advance so as to not book any shows or out-of-state travel. Woo! Next-day brunch at Coppola's!
Nemetznik or like that? The Slavic name for Germans often is derived from the word "nemetz" = mute. Or variants.
Szwab? (standard derogatory name for a German) Prusak? (Prussian, also means cockroach - us Poles really love Germans.
209 being pedantic - niemiec - German, niemy/a mute.
Talking of Jewish names - my grandmother's family must not have paid up since her maiden name was Zimmerspitz. She used to swear that one of her classmates was Mistaufstrasse.
standard derogatory name for a German
So I hear. Which is why I'm wondering why we incorporated it into our Polish surname. Probably some dumb Polack* thing.
*Actually another family name!
203 - that's too funny. Crotch Crescent made me laugh whenever I went past it. And of course, it's a crescent, so when you're going along the road it's off, you get to see it twice!
My last name is a respelling of a Swedish name that contained weird diacritical marks but was often mispronounced as a common American swear word. So Grandpa changed it. Of course now everyone thinks it's Irish. Sigh.
Of course now everyone thinks it's Irish
There are worse fates in the world, McBitch.
Porn name: Cookie Nottingham. Not bad.
Houses in Crotch Crescent are usually about 10% cheaper than identical houses in non-offensively-named streets in Marston. I've always thought that the university should replace all the crazy financial schemes to help academics buy local housing with a straightforward one-off payment to the city council to give *all* the streets offensive names. Nobody's going to pay three million quid to commute to London every day from Anal Drive.
Jaguar Laze Simi d;a would be my porn name, which is not really very exciting, even with the unicode.
My own name is unbelievable common; my wife's maiden name so rare that it is safe to assume that anyone who shares it is a relative. When first she discovered the internet, I showed her altavista or whatever we used in those days, and she found a student in Chicago who shared the first and last names of her incredibly boring uncle, but used the middle name "Firecrutch".
He's probably on Unfogged now.
it would be even more exciting if the unicode worked. Where are czech-speaking scotsmen when you need them?
I was trying to do a c with a hacek on top of it.
"Firecrotch". Fuck. I need more coffee.
my wife's maiden name so rare that it is safe to assume that anyone who shares it is a relative.
My wife's likewise. Although recently this has been complicated by the Vietnamese immigration to the US, as several people seem to have "anglicised" their name to it by accident (my wife is Irish).
Our first pet was a chocolate lab named Boswell. The first street I remember living on was Pinckney. I don't think that Boswell Pinckney works as much of a name at all.
I don't think that Boswell Pinckney works as much of a name at all.
I think you're overlooking the possibilities for authoring Civil War novels.
Or opening the bowling for the West Indies.
222: "Ing" is a Sino-Norwegian name. "Yuengling" is a Sino-German name, though the Chinese spelling is non-standard.
Fluffy Pearl. Aw, yeah.
My last name is pretty much made up, and it's a first name, causing no end of misunderstandings over the phone. My father's mother's second husband changed his name from Finkelstein, and successfully chose something that throws off people's Jew-dar.
"Gypsy Pike" would be a slightly pornier name than "Gypsy Highway 52". "Crisco Pike" is pretty bad (the cat's name).
I was about 12 before I knew that our street had a name. An attempt was made to bring Wobegon into the modern word about 1960. Before that we thought very concretely, indicating things by pointing or by definite descriptions.
Same for the cat; "Crisco" is the only name I remember, but I'm not sure we really called her that. I suppose "Kitty Pike" would meet some kind o bare minimum standard.
Oh, and will: you can certainly count eekbeat and me in for an RVA meetup. Just let us know the date well in advance so as to not book any shows or out-of-state travel. Woo! Next-day brunch at Coppola's!
No, Stanley. Brunch at Godfrey's.
"Firecrotch". Fuck. I need more coffee.
I can assure you that coffee will not cure firecrotch.
202: The site is missing "Clit Court" in Albany, NY.
Lat: 42°41'35.20"N
Long: 73°46'55.01"W
If you're allowed the first street you can actually remember, I come up with Shabby Kings, which is a rubbish porn name, but has a certain charm.
My porn name is Mickey Goodnight. That actually has quite a ring to it.
232: It would work for clown porn (NSFW).
"Rikki Charlesfield". WASPy, and yet wrong.
If I got to use my first street and pet that wasn't while living under my parents' roof, it would be Protein 54.
If I got to use my first street
For some reason, I read that as "I got to use my street name," with predictable results: "Apo has a street name? Actually, I could see that."
A couple of ex-local friends now live in Richmond and Rah and I have wanted to visit them for some time. A Richmond party would mesh nicely with that.
238:
Everyone told me that Rah was the better half, but I didnt get to meet him so that would be a good opportunity.
My last name is pretty much made up, and it's a first name, causing no end of misunderstandings over the phone. My father's mother's second husband changed his name from Finkelstein, and successfully chose something that throws off people's Jew-dar.
Hebrewsmasher?
I think you'll find that Colonel Jeffers is even more of a rapscallion in my new one. Although of course the focus is still on the heroism of Mulligan's Independent Cavalry Company, there's still time for good fun.
I am a foreigner
Arab and Lur collide
My last name came out of the sky
Yeah, from the desert like a Shia spy
It came from a cleric's backside
You know it looks so good tonight.
I am a foreigner
I swim under glass
I look through my goggles so bright
I see a lifeguard play bass tonight
I see my bright and hollow life
In a blog where racists write
And everything looks good tonight.
My porn name is kind of like apo's, except I don't even need to go to my adulthood to get it: Beelzebub 254.
My porn name sounds like an Austen/Gaiman mashup.
Barkley Rural Route 1.
It's a little better with the mother's maiden name thing: Barkley Bernat.
Or by the rules of 236, I'd be Bertrand Russell Wydown.
Coco Arlington. Before the dog, though we had a parakeet named GWOT.
It's a little better with the mother's maiden name thing
Ooh, I remembered there was a short-lived goldfish some years before Midnight the cat. So, using the maiden name, I get good alliteration: Flipper Fleming.
Napoleon fought a battle at an (Austro-Hungarian) river bearing my (German) last name. Hence, it is carved on the Arc de Triomphe.
We didn't know this until we were in Paris, innocently touristing around and -- bam -- there it was! Quite exciting when I was 12. (I've also verified that it's on the replica arch in Las Vegas, you'll be happy to know.)