Guest guest Posted December 15, 2003 Report Share Posted December 15, 2003 wrote: > Don't you just love Southern names? =) Actually, I've always hated Southern names, or rather, the penchant for using tandem names like Jim Bob, Ray, Bobby Lee, and so on. They use the names together like that for life, I guess. It would drive me nuts to have to hear names like that all day. You've heard of the phrase, " What in the name of Ned...? " Has anyone actually known someone named Ned? Sounds like a reliable farmhand. I've been thinking about the name, " " . I wouldn't mind it so much, it's much better than " Fred " , or " Herbert " , or " Irving " , all of which are somehow nerdy or out of date these days. I don't know why it should sound " icky " , unless you equate it with frankfurter or weiner or hotdog. In a stuffy old book by Sir Frazer, " The Golden Bough " , names are discussed at length, and it tells of some groups who believed that if someone knew your actual name, it gave them a sort of " power " over you. For this reason, their children were given a " milk name " , which they carried until they were old enough (puberty) to choose the name they would have others call them. I think there's something to that. One good thing about the name is that the ending blends in nicely with the beginning of your last name. Rolls off the tongue. If you seriously don't like the name, you should change it, and I don't think you'd have the same problem with a name you chose yourself. I'm very happy that I changed mine. Clay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 16, 2003 Report Share Posted December 16, 2003 adamsCLAYADAMS@... wrote: > Actually, I've always hated Southern names, or rather, the penchant > for using tandem names like Jim Bob, Ray, Bobby Lee, and so on. > They use the names together like that for life, I guess. It would > drive me nuts to have to hear names like that all day. My father was born in Louisiana, and he has a lot of family that still lives in the south. One day, I got a call from someone asking for someone whose name sounded like " Billafrang, " and I said that the caller must have the wrong number. The caller, by now obviously talking in a southern drawl, insisted that this was the right number. Eventually, I figured out that the caller wanted my father, Bill. His first name (as I said earlier in the thread) is , but no one calls him that. His middle name is . ... " Billafrang. " > I've been thinking about the name, " " . I wouldn't mind it so > much, it's much better than " Fred " , or " Herbert " , or " Irving " , all of > which are somehow nerdy or out of date these days. I don't know why > it should sound " icky " , unless you equate it with frankfurter or > weiner or hotdog. It just has a sound I don't like. > One good thing about the name is that the > ending blends in nicely with the beginning of your last name. As in " enklein? " <g> Fortunately, only a few of the kids came up with that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 18, 2003 Report Share Posted December 18, 2003 >We had an Airman Sargent when I was in basic training. She should be Sgt. >Sargent by now, or possibly Tech-Sergeant Sargent. I worked at a conference once that was attended by a lot of military folks. We had one attendee who was about six feet two, had a short blond crew cut, and was muscular and built as hell, the kind of body that men work years to get (and that very few ever *do* get, no matter how hard they work). He had an aquiline nose, chiseled, angular jaw, perfectly shaven... he looked *exactly* like a comic book hero. He was in full military uniform, and he was a captain in the army. His last name, I kid you not, was Champion. Captain Champion. And he totally *looked* like a Captain Champion, too. It was the funniest damn thing I'd ever seen. It was all I could do to maintain my professional composure instead of busting a gut laughing. --Parrish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 18, 2003 Report Share Posted December 18, 2003 Hi, And you know he had a red spandex jumpsuit on under his uniform with " CC " writen on the chest and a cape somewhere nearby. Camille > >We had an Airman Sargent when I was in basic training. She should be Sgt. > >Sargent by now, or possibly Tech-Sergeant Sargent. > > I worked at a conference once that was attended by a lot of military > folks. We had one attendee who was about six feet two, had a short > blond crew cut, and was muscular and built as hell, the kind of body > that men work years to get (and that very few ever *do* get, no > matter how hard they work). He had an aquiline nose, chiseled, > angular jaw, perfectly shaven... he looked *exactly* like a comic > book hero. He was in full military uniform, and he was a captain in > the army. His last name, I kid you not, was Champion. Captain > Champion. And he totally *looked* like a Captain Champion, too. It > was the funniest damn thing I'd ever seen. It was all I could do to > maintain my professional composure instead of busting a gut laughing. > > --Parrish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 18, 2003 Report Share Posted December 18, 2003 Hi, Which raises the question, has anyone here ever met a real life Sgt. Rock? To the moderator--I promise I'll shut up about this name thing now... RE: Re: Names > Probably! > > Louis > In my house, " normal " is only a setting on the dryer. > > From: Camille > Hi, > > And you know he had a red spandex jumpsuit on under his uniform > with " CC " writen on the chest and a cape somewhere nearby. > > Camille > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 18, 2003 Report Share Posted December 18, 2003 I wonder how many people laugh in his face when they hear his name! We had a Sgt Gillis in my last unit, we called him Dobie, and he really looked like Dobie Gillis. Louis In my house, " normal " is only a setting on the dryer. From: Parrish S. Knight >We had an Airman Sargent when I was in basic training. She should be Sgt. >Sargent by now, or possibly Tech-Sergeant Sargent. I worked at a conference once that was attended by a lot of military folks. We had one attendee who was about six feet two, had a short blond crew cut, and was muscular and built as hell, the kind of body that men work years to get (and that very few ever *do* get, no matter how hard they work). He had an aquiline nose, chiseled, angular jaw, perfectly shaven... he looked *exactly* like a comic book hero. He was in full military uniform, and he was a captain in the army. His last name, I kid you not, was Champion. Captain Champion. And he totally *looked* like a Captain Champion, too. It was the funniest damn thing I'd ever seen. It was all I could do to maintain my professional composure instead of busting a gut laughing. --Parrish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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