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Atavachron
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Posted: June 17 2012 at 05:10 |
for female names, Bertha is tragic; she goes from 'Bright One' to 'Unusually Fat One'
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Dean
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Posted: June 17 2012 at 05:07 |
...with apologies to anyone called Malcolm ... I actually think Dean also qualifies - once "the leader of ten men" now reduced to a sad old goth on a prog forum
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Dean
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Posted: June 17 2012 at 05:02 |
We have a huge car-port nailed on the side of the house that's never seen a car (no oil stains on the floor) that we use as a general eating-outside area like a covered patio.When we first bought the house we were trying to decide what to call it as car-port was inappropriate given its normal use: It's not posh enough to call a veranda and since we already have a paved uncovered-area that deems to be a patio we couldn't call it a patio either. Jokingly I said let's call it Malcolm, and that's what it's been called for the past ten years.
Edited by Dean - June 17 2012 at 05:07
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Atavachron
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Posted: June 17 2012 at 04:57 |
oh Malcom's perfect
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Dean
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Posted: June 17 2012 at 04:47 |
Malcolm - disciple of Saint Columba and slayer of Macbeth... currently used in our household (along with Colin) as the name of things that don't have a name and the slayer of dumb card tricks:
Amateur Conjurer: Name a card, any card...
Me: I name that card Malcolm...
Amateur Conjurer: git!
Me:
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Daughter: Dad, what's that tree called?
Me: Malcolm
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Atavachron
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Posted: June 17 2012 at 04:17 |
^ I think that says it all
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Icarium
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Posted: June 17 2012 at 04:12 |
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Posted: June 17 2012 at 04:11 |
Atavachron wrote:
can you imagine the poor kid named Galahad, "Ooh, it's Galahad everyone, oooh.."
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then the kid have to proove he is worthy of the name ,
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Atavachron
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Posted: June 17 2012 at 04:06 |
ExittheLemming wrote:
There has never been a philosopher called Gary. | and there never will be, dammit
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Atavachron
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Posted: June 17 2012 at 04:04 |
can you imagine the poor kid named Galahad, "Ooh, it's Galahad everyone, oooh.."
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: June 17 2012 at 04:02 |
There has never been a philosopher called Gary.
There has never been a fearsome warrior who instilled abject terror into his adversaries called Colin.
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Icarium
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Posted: June 17 2012 at 03:52 |
Donald have a great meaing to it etymologicaly and was probably a prominent name in the past,
or Galahad, Lance,
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Man With Hat
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Posted: June 17 2012 at 03:48 |
Hector is a good one. Emerson is a name I miss (and wish I had of course).
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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Atavachron
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Posted: June 17 2012 at 03:41 |
^ indeed-- and I'm sure some evangelist in 1978 was saying the same about the Star Wars Luke
how about Lawrence; martyred Saint of the poor and sick, now a spoiled college fraternity kid who just got a sportscar from Daddy.
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Posted: June 17 2012 at 02:59 |
Luke.
Once a mean lean fighting machine from Star Wars - now sounding more like a camp hairdresser from Beverly Hills.
Serious: Ernest Hemingway. Ernest? Really?
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams
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Atavachron
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Posted: June 17 2012 at 02:53 |
...for instance, Hector; among the greatest warriors in Mythology, now it sounds like some computer geek with snot running down over his bow tie. And Leon; Spanish city and ancient Roman stronghold, in our time a guy who wears a lot of jewelry, smells like lamb, and "Likes the ladies".
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