From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #48 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Thursday, January 31 2002 Volume 02 : Number 048 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Re: names [rlewis@nethere.com (Russ Lewis)] [loud-fans] mo' names [rlewis@nethere.com (Russ Lewis)] RE: [loud-fans] Names ["Keegstra, Russell" ] Re: [loud-fans] Names ["Aaron Milenski" ] [loud-fans] on the popularity of the name "madison" & c. [dmw ] [loud-fans] Baby Naming Conventions ["Douglas Stanley" ] Re: [loud-fans] Names ["Dennis McGreevy" ] Re: [loud-fans] Names ["Roger Winston" ] Re: [loud-fans] Names ["Dennis McGreevy" ] Re: [loud-fans] Names ["Keegstra, Russell" ] [loud-fans] Names... [Richard Gagnon ] Re: [loud-fans] Names ["Andrew Hamlin" ] Re: [loud-fans] Names [Stewart Mason ] Re: [loud-fans] Names ["ana luisa morales" ] Re: [loud-fans] Names ["Aaron Milenski" ] [loud-fans] gleanings ["Brian Block" ] [loud-fans] this time with conclusion ["Brian Block" ] Re: [loud-fans] Names... [jenny grover ] [loud-fans] Re: gleanings [Jon Gabriel ] [loud-fans] actual music content [jenny grover ] Re: [loud-fans] Names... [Michael Mitton ] Re: [loud-fans] Names... ["Pete O." ] Re: [loud-fans] Names... ["O Geier" ] Re: [loud-fans] Names... [John Cooper ] Re: [loud-fans] Re: Names [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: [loud-fans] Names [lorrie smith ] Re: [loud-fans] this time with conclusion [Steve Holtebeck ] [loud-fans] The Wake [Jer Fairall ] [loud-fans] Re: editor [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: [loud-fans] this time with conclusion [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] [loud-fans] Names (ns) [Dana L Paoli ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 01:57:18 -0800 From: rlewis@nethere.com (Russ Lewis) Subject: [loud-fans] Re: names The percussionist/vocalist for Grunt Records hitmakers One: Reality D. Blipcrotch. For real. The act of the sexes is the axis of the sects. -- surrealist proverb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 02:16:54 -0800 From: rlewis@nethere.com (Russ Lewis) Subject: [loud-fans] mo' names Forgot to mention: a neighbor kid in the old neighborhood was named Charlie Brown. Swear to God. I can't imagine what it must have been like for him. You don't believe me, Greg Louganis mentions him on p. 37 of his autobiography _Breaking the Surface._ (Yes, we grew up in the same neighborhood.) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 07:29:49 -0600 From: "Keegstra, Russell" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] Names That Norman Guy: >I just saw a bit in the daily paper about a couple named Renee >and Robin. One's male, the other female - but it's not the way >you'd guess. My folks are Pat and Carroll. As in Patricia Ann and Carroll Eugene. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 08:40:36 -0500 From: "Aaron Milenski" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Names >And when I was a kid, there existed somewhere between Dayton, OH and >Richmond, IN on US Route 40 (or maybe it was I-70), a huge lot full of RVs, >vans, and camper trailers for sale, owned by a cheerful fellow named Tom >Raper. He's still there, and in fact the billboards screaming RAPER RVs are all over Indiana and Ohio. There's one as far north as Lorain, Ohio, which is probably four hours from his store. Aaron _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:52:37 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: [loud-fans] on the popularity of the name "madison" & c. obviously, it's all those people listening to _interbabe concern_, no? i wonder to what degree the increasing use of first names that aren't what we're used to seeing as first names are the result of so many celebrities (not just porn stars) being referred to frequently by their first name only, and a seeming pressure to carve out new first-name territory so that everyone maintains their individuality. i think i already told you, in some other thread, 'bout how my friends d. eastlack and j. foreman named their daughter "hostile sphere forelack," right? i *still* think "trauma" sounds more "female" than "hostile" (trauma was the proposed "boy" name for the babe) but mostly they call her "tilly." she's two and a half, and the word "hostile" has just entered her vocabulary. (yes: the 'sphere' is honor of thelonious sphere monk.) my room-mate's parents: dick herr and mary herr i'm the result of a weird bargain: my mom could spawn a brat, my dad could buy a corvette AND name the kid after an airplane -- in my case, the douglas dc-3, the gooney bird, the inaugurator of the age of commercial air transport. you have to know me better to get the story of the surname, though. - -- d. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:38:52 -0600 From: "Brian Jones" Subject: [loud-fans] Re: Names girl in a neighboring high school ca: 1976-79: fonda dix she played basketball and i believe that repeated introductions to hostile crowds made her the bravest person in the world. fans of the iowa cornets womens professional basketball team will be thrilled to learn that fonda, who was quite lovely, was a high school teammate of molly "machine gun" bolin (ne: van benthuysen), 1979's co-mvp (32.8 ppg). just inexplicable, really. both fonda's name and molly's jumpshot. brian ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:01:23 -0800 From: "Douglas Stanley" Subject: [loud-fans] Baby Naming Conventions I know when my wife was pregnant, we had a hell of a time deciding on a name for a our coming attraction. We knew she was a girl. We had picked Jennifer, but at one point, we realized that people would think she was named after Jennifer Aniston. Couldn't have that now could we? Somehow, I was able to convince my wife to go with Allison. One book had it listed as the second most popular girl's name among "educated" women (Emily was #1). And, with all the great songs using that name (albeit with different spellings), how could we go wrong. Let's see - Game Theory, Anton Barbeau, Vulgar Boatmen, Lemonheads, Gin Blossoms, Elvis Costello. Hey, I smell a mix tape coming on. I even had a chance to ask Ms. Faith-Levy if she would recommend it, which she did. Some of the things that most amused us was one guy I met who said that in his daughter's kindergarten class, there were 7 "Ashley"s and 3 "Brittany"s (not "Britney", thank God), and then cow-orker named his daughter Ashley. I read on another website that said in L.A. one of the most popular names for boys that year (1998) was Shaquille and/or various misspellings. We even saw a list where "Camry" was ranked high as a name. Once you start paying attention to these things, it's gets rather discouraging. I used to be disgusted, now I'm really disgusted. Doug S. P.S. - Spellcheck thinks he should be Anton Barbie. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:29:49 -0600 From: "Dennis McGreevy" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Names somebody (maybe Aaron Milenski?), then dana: One trend I've noticed is that last names being used as first names have become extremely popular for girls. Thus Madison and Taylor, also names like Morgan, Cameron and so on. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> That's apparently a southern custom, hence Parker Posey. Maybe it's spreading. <><><><><><><><> The way I understand the customary aspect of this (and any life long southerners better versed in this tradition should feel free to clarify) is that one uses last names of ancestors or other family members, not just some random president. Stuff that I've been called: Basically anything that rhymes with my name. Other name goofiness: I saw, firsthand, a job application from a woman who spelled her name "Fellatia" some years back. My brother and his wife named their second child (who is male, if that is consequential in processing this) "Lake". I find this ridiculous, but kept my mouth shut, as, when I offered my opinion that their first son, Alec, should be taught at an early age to fence, so that he might live to be more than just a voice over in the sequels, this was not well received. It seems he was named, in all seriousness, after Alec *Baldwin*. Oops. - --Dennis, thinking that "self-expression" on the part of a parent ought probably to be a pretty low ranking criterion when laying out such basic components of a child's identity ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:39:27 -0600 From: "Dennis McGreevy" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Names Matt sez: And when I was a kid, there existed somewhere between Dayton, OH and Richmond, IN on US Route 40 (or maybe it was I-70), a huge lot full of RVs, vans, and camper trailers for sale, owned by a cheerful fellow named Tom Raper. <><><><><><><><><><><> I could not say where (might be that same stretch of road, but that would make this at least five years ago, and I think this might have been morte recently, so maybe he's branched out), but I've also seen the Tom Raper lot, and it is indeed vast. - --Dennis ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:39:49 -0700 From: "Roger Winston" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Names Dennis McGreevy on 1/31/2002 10:29:49 AM wrote: > I saw, firsthand, a job application from a woman who spelled her name "Fellatia" > some years back. Well, that's one way to get hired. Later. --Rog ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:49:01 -0600 From: "Dennis McGreevy" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Names Jer sez: My sister used to know someone in high school named B.J. Gaylord. Ouch. I've also encountered the name Richard Head a few times. What *are* some parents thinking? <><><><><><> I have a paperback on my bookshelf that I picked up in a used bookstore maybe a decade ago called "Etiquette for Young Moderns". I don't have it here to check the publication date, but by the cover illustration style, I'd say it's late '50s / early '60s. The author's name: Gay Head. - --Dennis ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:03:06 -0600 From: "Keegstra, Russell" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Names I should probably also mention that I went to college with Barbara Doll. No one ever called her Barbie. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:20:24 -0500 From: Richard Gagnon Subject: [loud-fans] Names... Back in college, I dated a lovely girl named, of all things, Daisy Fresh. What were her parents thinking, etc... Rick - -- "If you die, you do so at your own risk" ******Neil Hannon, "Note to self"****** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:35:31 -0800 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Names >My folks are Pat and Carroll. As in Patricia Ann and Carroll >Eugene. I'm sure Stevie and Lindsey could relate! In the new Ann Rule book (yes) I've just finished reading, the villain names his two oldest daughters Stevie and Daryl, from Stevie Nicks and Daryl Hannah. Trendy, sure, but also, in a pinch, he could use their social security numbers without arousing suspicion. Always have a backup plan, you see. So good to see a Brian Jones posting--will an introduction be forthcoming? (Curious to learn how he cheated death, just like Tim Buckley--whom he probably knows!) I used to know a pair of twins named Zoe and Chloe. You had to--they insisted on this--pronounce their names using only one syllable, each. They looked really cute together singing "Last Caress." Still my favorite Misfits song. The distinguished Mr. Block's Customer Service tales reminded me of this here other page--again, apologies if you've seen it before: http://www.jetwolf.com/hof/osb/ (I like "Fuck Of The Week" best, but it all makes me smile) ...also--improbable how nobody's put this up so far: http://www.tomraper.com/ Etiquette For Young Modems? Andy A man complained about a cable problem he had been telling the cable company about since he got it and it had never been fixed. He was most upset. So upset that it took him two minutes to actually tell me the problem. "It's these commercials!" he said. "They come on two, three, four times an hour! Right when I'm watching my shows!" [--from http://www.jetwolf.com/hof/osb/fotw7.html#64 ] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:42:17 -0700 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Names At 11:49 AM 1/31/02 -0600, Dennis McGreevy wrote: >I have a paperback on my bookshelf that I picked up in a used bookstore maybe a >decade ago called "Etiquette for Young Moderns". I don't have it here to check >the publication date, but by the cover illustration style, I'd say it's late >'50s / early '60s. > >The author's name: Gay Head. I have another book by the same person called HI THERE, HIGH SCHOOL. I was rather disappointed when a native of the Commonwealth pointed out that this is undoubtedly a pseudonym taken from the town of Gay Head on Martha's Vineyard. Why Provincetown is the region's queer mecca instead, I have no idea. S ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:57:44 -0800 From: "ana luisa morales" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Names *"no symmetry"**albany california u.s.a.* >--- Original Message --- >From: "Andrew Hamlin" > >I'm sure Stevie and Lindsey could relate! > >In the new Ann Rule book (yes) I've just finished reading, the villain names his two oldest daughters Stevie and Daryl, from Stevie Nicks and Daryl Hannah. Trendy, sure, but also, in a pinch, he could use their social security numbers without arousing suspicion. Always have a backup plan, you see. as i'm sure you know, stevie nicks' given name is "stephanie". guess that villain did not. - --a. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:58:08 -0500 From: "Aaron Milenski" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Names >Why Provincetown is the region's queer mecca instead, I have no idea. Maybe it's because it's much cooler for it to be someplace where you have to cram thousands and thousands of people into about two blocks. Or maybe it's because there's more sand there than any other non-desert place on earth. Or maybe it's just because it's so fun to call it P-Town. Aaron, who will never forget the time one of my obnoxious friends called me at work and the student on phone duty yelled out in front of an entire waiting room "Aaron! It's for you! It's Richard Face!" _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:08:27 From: "Brian Block" Subject: [loud-fans] gleanings Since i assume not everyone had time or patience to enjoy the most-common-names website http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/note139/2000/top1000_of_2000.html , i'm passing along the bits i found interesting. I figure y'all are the most word-happy bunch of people even older and farther out of touch than i am, thus a good target audience. All data harvested from girls' names: The name Jennifer, which in six of the seven years 1972-78 was more common than the next two girls' names _combined_ (which i have zero trouble believing from experience), has fallen slowly but steadily to 26th. The most common girls' name is now Emily, followed by Hannah, followed by Madison -- the street sign for which the little mermaid in SPLASH was named. The list does not combine different spellings ... if it did, Sarah might still rank as high as 2nd. Yuppie update: Ashley, which spent three years as the most common girls' name around the turn of the '90's, is still 4th, but Brooke has falled to 52nd and Brittany, which had peaked at 3rd, has fallen to 61st. Tiffany is down to 100th. On the other hand, Caitlyn and Hailey would probably be in the top ten if parents could agree on a spelling (which, in my opinion as a customer service representative, the law should mandate). Taylor peaked as the 3rd-most-common girls' name of 1997 and is now 9th. Olivia and Victoria have rebounded, a century late, to 16th and 20th. Grace, perhaps aided by WILL AND GRACE, has moved steadily up to 19th. Destiny was the 24th-most common name for girl babies in 2000, but be patient, Jeffrey, it hasn't been higher yet. Amanda, the name my Mom would've given me had i been a girl, grazed the top three from 1979 to 1983. This means that people would've intuitively underestimated my age by half a decade, which would be cool. Amanda is now 32nd. 1968, the year the hippies had their peak, was the second year without Mary in the top three, and the first with neither Mary nor Maria (which soared in 1960, THE SOUND OF MUSIC's release year. I watched SOUND OF MUSIC last week. I liked it a lot, actually). Mary still holds on at 47th, though. Mackenzie is 43th, which alas is probably not a delayed reaction to Mackenzie Phillips' role in AMERICAN GRAFFITI. Jordan is 51st, only fifteen spots behind its rank among boys; Makayla is 67th, Bailey 68th, but Melissa only 71st and Laura 83rd. Jada is 85th, ahead of Kelly (113th). Ariana and Mikayla (103rd, 110th) vs Heather (129th). Alondra 148th, Karen 155th. Payton 165th, Peyton 171st, Brooklyn (!) 178th, Camryn 184th, Genesis 190th; but Julie 195th. On the other hand, Queens and Deuteronomy don't appear at all. Esmerelda, Amelia, and Giselle have recovered from at least a century of neglect to 200th, 210th, and 216th; but Christine is 218th (admittedly Christina is higher), Sandra is 257th, and Cindy -- the only listed spelling of that name -- is 263rd. Shania has slumped to 291st, back behind Tori, but Alanis hasn't been above the mid-700s... of course, the 1995/96 figures might be different if we had them in such detail. Lisa was the most common girls' name every year from 1962-69. It is now 298th; Anne is tied for 299th with Dakota. Dakota ranks much higher among boys, and is also the name of my fiancee's parents' dog. Heaven 344th vs. Helen 345th. Linda was the most common girls' name every year from 1947-52. It is now 357th, behind Addison (323rd) and Ashton (355th). Jane, represented in the fonder parts of my music collection by "Jane Says", "Understanding Jane", "Jane of the Waking Universe", "Sweet Jane", "Queen Jane", "Jane and John", "Jane Whitfield is Dead", "Janie Abstract", and "Janie's Got a Gun", ranks 437th, right behind two misspellings, Lilly and Maddison. Precious ranks 445th vs. Ellen 449th, in case you wondered about Ms. DeGeneres's drawing power. I have no conclusions to offer. cheers, -Brian _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:10:31 From: "Brian Block" Subject: [loud-fans] this time with conclusion Late note: the girls' name Baby, gaining momentum, is up to 873rd. Yes, 251 American girls born in 2000 are named Baby. This is sick. That is all, -Brian _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: 31 Jan 2002 14:14:01 -0500 From: Dan Schmidt Subject: Re: [loud-fans] this time with conclusion "Brian Block" writes: | Late note: the girls' name Baby, gaining momentum, is up to 873rd. | Yes, 251 American girls born in 2000 are named Baby. This is sick. I have two great-aunts named Pauline. To avoid confusion, the younger one has always been known as 'Baby'. She still is, and is now 90. A bunch of friends and I were compiling a list of weird real names a year or so ago. Here are some of the results: Bambi Francisco, Buffy Childerhose, Reo Fortune, Tom Conduit, Royal Lovingfloss Dulcie Foo Fat, Annalee Patipatanakoon, Bill Smook, Dick Hardt Fred Funk, Royal Cathcart, Dick Pole Uphama Ann Duff (http://www.greencity.org/d0000/g0000044.html) Zen Tao Journey Jimalric Stevensson Zenith (and his sisters Mystical and Celestial, and his brother Freedom). Will Smugglesworth, Mete Uz, Pok Hon Wally Yu Chiwetel Ejiofor Gleb Finkelstein Cotton Seed and his brother Caraway Crystal Shandra Lear Monsanto Pope Chichia Chiu Karin Sham Poo, Tucker Malarkey, Paisley Strellis, Tara Thirtyacre I once knew a fellow named Richard Clapp, except, um, he went by a nickname. Harvard Yale Brown. Also, my friend Bonnie's cousin Prairie Booth took her husband's name when she married and became, terrifyingly enough, Prairie Householder. Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Lancelot Turtle There used to be a company near my school with a massive sign saying, 'Cumming-Cockburn'. It was amusing, in a juvenile sort of way. Bodo Pareigis and Hudson Kronk. they're math professors Shanda Lear. Also a firm contender in the "Never forgave her parents" category Fuming Wang Arshavir William Frederick Henry Shiragian Blackwell III Ralph Randolph Calloway Rea III Christopher Regan Ignatius of Loyola Maden Oriel Maxime Stalin Colinet Jean-Remy Facq Shobha Deshmukh, Jacques Tits. (more mathematicians) Charlie Butt Xochitl Ferraro. Kaczia Stanclick. Keylan Qazzaz. Geza Gyuk. Yogesh Roy Ivadel Snaveley. Sunshine Haire Hollywood Harvard. Akosua Osei-Frimpong and Johara Freedom Sykes-Davies Kiboko Kiboko I can't believe I forgot my HS classmate's mom: Rusty Bever. - -- http://www.dfan.org ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:19:49 -0600 From: Wes_Vokes@eFunds.Com Subject: [loud-fans] this time with conclusion I take it those are the ones that do not get left in the corner of the nursery? - ----- Forwarded by Wes Vokes/MKE/eFunds on 01/31/02 01:19 PM ----- "Brian Block" cc: Sent by: Subject: [loud-fans] this time with conclusion owner-loud-fan s@smoe.org 01/31/02 01:10 PM Late note: the girls' name Baby, gaining momentum, is up to 873rd. Yes, 251 American girls born in 2000 are named Baby. This is sick. That is all, -Brian _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:26:59 -0800 From: John Cooper Subject: Re: [loud-fans] this time with conclusion On 1/31/02, Brian Block wrote: >Late note: the girls' name Baby, gaining momentum, is up to 873rd. >Yes, 251 American girls born in 2000 are named Baby. This is sick. >That is all, Ah, but 264 male babies are also listed as being named Baby, leading me to the hypothesis that these are not actual names but "Baby Does" not yet formally named. At least, I hope so. Otherwise I look forward to a 21st century populated, however thinly, with football and hockey stars named Baby. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:46:57 -0500 From: Dan Sallitt Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Names > I used to know a pair of twins named Zoe and Chloe. You had to--they > insisted on this--pronounce their names using only one syllable, each. The one-syllable pronunciation of Chloe's name is the German word for toilet. Use your judgment about telling her this, if you see her again. - - Dan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:49:48 -0500 From: jenny grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Names... Richard Gagnon wrote: > > Back in college, I dated a lovely girl named, of all things, Daisy > Fresh. What were her parents thinking, etc... I went to high school with Daisy Hill (isn't that the puppy farm Snoopy came from?), and the couple we bought our house from, the woman's name is Billie Hill, which showed up on all the official papers as Hill, Billie. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:53:33 -0800 (PST) From: Jon Gabriel Subject: [loud-fans] Re: gleanings - --- Brian Block wrote: > On the other hand, Caitlyn and > Hailey would probably be in > the top ten if parents could agree on a spelling > (which, in my opinion as a > customer service representative, the law should > mandate). Norway actually has a recently-enacted law mandating that all babies are named using an approved national list. (See http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/norway-names.html ) The only addition I have to the ever-growing list of odd names is the branch manager at my bank when I was stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Her name was Chiquita Yap. I swore then that whenever I take my stab at penning the Great American Novel, that will be the protaganist's name. My wife and I are battling over names for our child-in-waiting. She has already rejected my male name suggestions of Ragnar, Cletus, Slobodan and Eero. Guess we'll be stuck with Conor. Jon ===== 777777777777777777777777777777 JON GABRIEL mesa, arizona usa inkling communication + design 777777777777777777777777777777 Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:02:53 -0500 From: jenny grover Subject: [loud-fans] actual music content Big Star is scheduled to play The Fillmore in San Francisco on March 2. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:00:32 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Mitton Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Names... I guess I have to throw into the mix here the names of my brother's children: Paris (boy), Madrid (called Maddie), and Cairo (called Cai). I don't mind any of the names by themselves, but I really could do without the theme. - --Michael http://www.filmatters.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:06:30 -0800 (PST) From: "Pete O." Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Names... - --- jenny grover wrote: > I went to high school with Daisy Hill (isn't that the puppy farm Snoopy > came from?), and the couple we bought our house from, the woman's name > is Billie Hill, which showed up on all the official papers as Hill, > Billie. > I remember years ago, Letterman found a guy (in the phonebook, I think) who was a guest on the show only because of his name, Dick Assman. If I remember correctly, the audience was equally amused at his hometown, Regina (Saskatchewan*). * Inadvertent content. - - Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:33:20 +0000 From: "O Geier" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Names... <> They went further with this. He owns either a gas/service station or tire (tyre) shop. They did gag ads, and even got Joe Namath to do one, claiming that the service was so great, he was an 'Assman-iac'. They harped on this guy for about a week. Then, like everything else on Letterman, it got old, and stopped being funny. Support anti-Spam legislation. Join the fight http://www.cauce.org/ - ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Pete O." To: loud-fans@smoe.org Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Names... Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:06:30 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [66.89.201.78] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBE22EFD00059400438914259C94EC55B0; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:11:02 -0800 Received: from smoe.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])by smoe.org (8.12.0.Beta16/8.12.0.Beta16) with ESMTP id g0VK6hZr018851for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:06:43 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost)by smoe.org (8.12.0.Beta16/8.12.0.Beta16/submit) id g0VK6gJT018850for loud-fans-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:06:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from web11205.mail.yahoo.com (web11205.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.131.187]) by smoe.org (8.12.0.Beta16/8.12.0.Beta16) with SMTP id g0VK6XZr018835 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:06:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from [66.46.138.130] by web11205.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:06:30 PST From owner-loud-fans@smoe.org Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:12:00 - -0800 Message-ID: <20020131200630.2776.qmail@web11205.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3C599FDC.AA0CE6C2@citynet.net> Sender: owner-loud-fans@smoe.org Precedence: bulk --- jenny grover wrote: > I went to high school with Daisy Hill (isn't that the puppy farm Snoopy > came from?), and the couple we bought our house from, the woman's name > is Billie Hill, which showed up on all the official papers as Hill, > Billie. > - Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: Click Here ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:32:44 -0800 From: John Cooper Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Names... On 1/31/02, Michael Mitton wrote: >I guess I have to throw into the mix here the names of my brother's >children: Paris (boy), Madrid (called Maddie), and Cairo (called Cai). >I don't mind any of the names by themselves, but I really could do without >the theme. Yeah, the Mac OS hasn't included those fonts since System 6! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:38:02 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: Names On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Brian Jones wrote: > girl in a neighboring high school ca: 1976-79: > fonda dix Y'know, I'm against the death penalty...but for parents who name their kids like this, I might make an exception... - --Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html Today's Out of Context Quotation: ::"I mean, I castrated pigs and dipped snuff when I was younger":: ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:00:53 -0800 From: lorrie smith Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Names i had a student last term named holly boob. didn't much like saying that one out loud while taking attendance... stef had a student last year named sarah slutz... that's slootz. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:08:50 -0800 From: Steve Holtebeck Subject: Re: [loud-fans] this time with conclusion John Cooper wrote: > On 1/31/02, Brian Block wrote: > >Late note: the girls' name Baby, gaining momentum, is up to 873rd. > >Yes, 251 American girls born in 2000 are named Baby. This is sick. > >That is all, > > Ah, but 264 male babies are also listed as being named Baby, leading > me to the hypothesis that these are not actual names but "Baby Does" > not yet formally named. > > At least, I hope so. Otherwise I look forward to a 21st century > populated, however thinly, with football and hockey stars named Baby. One of my Filipino co-workers has a daughter named Baby; apparently it's a fairly common name for both girls and boys in the Phillipines. Steve ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:34:13 -0500 (EST) From: Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Names You can read about "Clytemnestra Moon" here: http://www.theonion.com/onion3803/lesbian_identity_ends.html it made me laugh ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:12:53 -0800 (PST) From: Jer Fairall Subject: [loud-fans] The Wake This week's list of Siren Disc releases includes three discs by the former Sarah band The Wake: ASSEMBLY (a mostly live, it seems, compilation), HERE COMES EVERYBODY/SINGLES (a reissue of their second album from 1985 b/w their 1984-7 singles output) and HOLYHEADS (which combines their two Sarah albums, 1991's MAKE IT LOUD and 1994's TIDAL WAVE OF HYPE). I really liked most of what I heard from them on the mixes that Stewart put together for me a while back and I think that the latter two discs would be of interest to me, depending on what is on them (Siren doesn't provide track listings). So, do you any of you Sarah people have any track listings for these records? And if anyone is interested, it looks like Siren is one of the few places where you can buy them (I found no trace of them at CD Now, Amazon, HMV, etc.) and they're selling at $15.99(US) each. Thanks in advance, Jer ===== Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:48:21 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: [loud-fans] Re: editor On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Joanne E Staudacher wrote: > 2. A PhD student from another school is asking us to edit her > dissertation. While there *is* money involved, and, of course, everyone > knows graduate students need money, where does this idea that you should > go asking *graduate students* in English to be your editing service? Are > we all cheap whores? Well I am. But I accept pay only in Girl Scout cookies. - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::American people like their politics like Pez - small, sweet, and ::coming out of a funny plastic head. __Dennis Miller__ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:58:27 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] this time with conclusion On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, John Cooper wrote: > On 1/31/02, Brian Block wrote: > > >Late note: the girls' name Baby, gaining momentum, is up to 873rd. > >Yes, 251 American girls born in 2000 are named Baby. This is sick. > >That is all, > > Ah, but 264 male babies are also listed as being named Baby, leading > me to the hypothesis that these are not actual names but "Baby Does" > not yet formally named. I think somewhere buried amongst the explanatory apparatus of this site is a note explaining that, yes, that's the likeliest source of names like "Baby." Y'know, I mind *a little bit* the way people make *their* names a field of creativity (I won't bore you too much w/why...except that I believe the fact that one doesn't name oneself is an important bit of cultural continuity) - but I mind *a whole lot* when *parents* make their kids' names a field of creativity. But then, as we know, there are way more requirements to become a beautician than to become a parent (in strictly the technical sense, of course). There's nothing to be done, of course: please let no one imagine I propose mandatory sterilization or something...but it's surely sad that so many folks having children imagine the event as opportunity to pay homage to their favorite soap opera characters... (There. That was a nice, nearly conservative rant - just in case anyone thought I was 24-7 crazed radical leftist.) - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::The more you drive, the less intelligent you are:: __Miller, in REPO MAN__ np: Rocket _7 Miles High_ (yep...at least a mile lower than the Byrds) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:06:32 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: gleanings On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Jon Gabriel wrote: > My wife and I are battling over names for our > child-in-waiting. She has already rejected my male > name suggestions of Ragnar, Cletus, Slobodan and Eero. > Guess we'll be stuck with Conor. Furthering the impression of my tenuous grasp of reality, I found myself thinking, "hmmm...someone I know just named their child Conor. Who was that?" Sheesh: 'twas Angel, the eponymous TV show character, who named his freaky vampire baby thusly. My uncle at one time wanted to name his firstborn "Timberlake." Sanity prevailed (it was Alexia Mary). - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::Some see things as they are, and say "Why?" ::Some see things as they could be, and say "Why not?" ::Some see things that aren't there, and say "Huh?" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:07:22 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] actual music content On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, jenny grover wrote: > Big Star is scheduled to play The Fillmore in San Francisco on March 2. So who constitutes "Big Star" these days? - -j ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:24:36 -0500 From: jenny grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] actual music content Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > > So who constitutes "Big Star" these days? > > -j As far as I know, it's still Alex Chilton, Jody Stephens, Jon Auer, and Ken Stringfellow. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:25:07 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: editor Yes, I hit "loudlist" instead of the proper address for this one. But what the hell: discuss. (The GS cookies thing? This was meant for my department list: someone had posted a message from their daughter asking if anyone on the list wanted to buy GS cookies from her. As it was crossposted to five departmental lists, I noted that it probably wasn't a good idea to solicit cookie sales on those lists...since probably everyone on the list had a daughter/niece/etc. who might sell cookies, and the list might potentially be besieged w/cookie solicitations. A shitstorm ensued, as I was an evil ogre in even suggesting that anyone's daughter should not post to sell her cute little innocent wares. I still think I'm right, though.) - -j ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:30:22 -0500 From: Dana L Paoli Subject: [loud-fans] Names (ns) I have a kind of interesting book called "The Big Fun Book" which was published in 1940 and is filled with games for teenagers. One of them involves listing boys'/girls' names. The less common names get more points, so it's possible to figure out which names were common or uncommon at the time. Interestingly (to me) Aimee scores only one point (out of a possible 10), the same as Amy. Other low scorers are Elisia, Elma, Margaretta, Minna, Nanna and Rae. For boys, Adolf is very popular (in 1940) as is Aldridge, Berton, Isidore and Isadore, and Junius. Dana appears only as a boys name. Hah!! Another game involves naming Radio, Screen and Stage Stars. In case anyone wants to try, here's a list of some of the easiest ones, which score only one or two points out of a possible ten for difficulty: Brian Aherne F.F. Gosden C.J. Correll Richard Arlen George Arliss Constance Bennett Mary Boland Major Edward Bowes Bobby Breen Joe E. Brown George M. Cohan Ronald Colman Mitzi Green Hugh Herbert Sonja Henie Elsie Janis Wayne King Una Merkel Paul Muni Jack Oakie Merle Oberon Parkyakarkus Joe Penner Rosa Ponselle Al Ritz Lewis Stone Gladys Swarthout Constance Talmadge ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! 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