We have not one, but TWO Mollys in the office here. I had to reconfig the phone displays to distinguish them with last initials. Never thought I'd have to do that when the first one was completed.

BRIDGET!

Laura Leigh

Mulva

Submit

:lol: :lol2:

I have no ass right now having just laughed it off.

Gwendolyn?
Susan?
Sarah?
Maureen?

Gladys Knight and the Pips!

I give up!

My grandmother's given name was Vela Ozelle. It wasn't until recently that I realized that those can't possibly be real names. But they are. Thelma, Fannie Lou, Marguerite, and Roger Ennis were her younger siblings. Everyone got a real name but her.

[/RIP nana, i'm just teasing]

Picked my handle up in the Marine Corps. That was quite some time ago. I have never been able to shake it and don't really mind, as my real name sucks. Mind you this was long before "Exorcist" was ever filmed. I am called Capn Howdy everywhere I go and lots of folks don't even know my real name. Hell I reckon it could be worse.

*******
My guess on Bri's name is Chastity. Don't ask me why. Maybe my mind is in the ironic mode. I'm a catholic also. May be why my real name is ...tony...
*******

How long before? The book was out in '71.

My older brother is called "Champ". Has been call Champ forever.

I knew him as Champ for years before I realized he had a different "real" name.

capnhowdy: The fim, I think, was released in '73......
I became a Marine in '71. Never read the book. And I found the movie quite disturbing. But good. Disturbingly good.

Britta. That would be a name like Brianna but not as exotic.

If it was L, I would guess Lenore or Lorna. Laverie is a last name, but it could be a first name.

How is the name Brianna exotic? i know about 50 of them, one of my closest friends is Brianna and she hates it. we just call her bri though.

I bet your real name is just fine.

I used to HATE my real name.. because its a unisex name and i only knew boys with that name. but now i love it, i think its pretty.

Alma?
Daphne?
Fiona?
Mavis?
Winnifred?
Wilma?
Hazel?

Somebody must have guessed it by now.... :question:

haha my nanna and my dog is named Daphne. its cute!!

ok ill try...

Enid
Dolly
Betty
Fleur
joy


Bri = will you even tell us if one of us DO guess it?!?!?

The origin of sycamore

you know---ONE of you is suspiciously CLOSE to guessing my real name! Wolf knows what it is of course (she has to, for bail reasons) so maybe you should try bribing her?

I'll give you a hint: it's not Bernadette, or Brigid, or any of those conflagurations. It's a name that could be Latin or French. And, it has an "A" in it. It's gross. I hate it. I would've killed to be a Niki, or a Jennifer, or similar.

Merna
Mernae
Marguerite
Louise-Hélène
Felicienne-Hélène

Undertoad is right...it's Mulva.

Not Mulva. Not Delores. Not Wanda (although, I once was called a Wicked Wanda) and not Bertha. Not hyphenated. Shakespeare used a form of my real name in a play. That's it! No more hints! you'll guess it and then have power over me! :)

Hortensia?

Portia?
Magdala?
.........

sunsparks: Terry?

Miranda
Isabella
Beatrice

Margaret
Cordelia
Ophelia

minerva

Here, just put a check mark next to the one that is closest.



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align=left>As You Like It</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Ceres</TH><TD align=left>The Tempest</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Charmian</TH><TD align=left>Antony & Cleopatra</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Cleopatra</TH><TD align=left>Antony & Cleopatra</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Constance</TH><TD align=left>King John</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Cordelia</TH><TD align=left>King Lear</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Cressida</TH><TD align=left>Troilus & Cressida</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Desdemona</TH><TD align=left>Othello</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Diana</TH><TD align=left>All's Well that Ends Well, Pericles</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Dionyza</TH><TD align=left>Pericles</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Dorcas</TH><TD align=left>Winter's Tale</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Emilia</TH><TD align=left>Winter's Tale, Othello</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Francisca</TH><TD align=left>Measure for Measure</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Gertrude</TH><TD align=left>Hamlet</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Goneril</TH><TD align=left>King Lear</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Helen</TH><TD align=left>Troilus & Cressida, Cymbeline</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Helena</TH><TD align=left>Midsummer Night's Dream, All's Well that Ends Well</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Hermia</TH><TD align=left>Midsummer Night's Dream</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Hermione</TH><TD align=left>Winter's Tale</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Hero</TH><TD align=left>Much Ado About Nothing</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Hippolyta</TH><TD align=left>Midsummer Night's Dream</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Imogen</TH><TD align=left>Cymbeline</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Iras</TH><TD align=left>Antony & Cleopatra</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Iris</TH><TD align=left>The Tempest</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Isabella</TH><TD align=left>Measure for Measure</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Jessica</TH><TD align=left>Merchant of Venice</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Julia</TH><TD align=left>Two Gentlemen of Verona</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Juliet</TH><TD align=left>Romeo & Juliet, Measure for Measure</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Juno</TH><TD align=left>The Tempest</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Katharina</TH><TD align=left>Taming of the Shrew</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Lavinia</TH><TD align=left>Titua Andronicus</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Luce</TH><TD align=left>Comedy of Errors</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Lucetta</TH><TD align=left>Two Gentlemen of Verona</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Luciana</TH><TD align=left>Comedy of Errors</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Lychorinda</TH><TD align=left>Pericles</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Margaret</TH><TD align=left>Much Ado About Nothing</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Maria</TH><TD align=left>Twelfth Night</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Mariana</TH><TD align=left>All's Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Marina</TH><TD align=left>Pericles</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Miranda</TH><TD align=left>The Tempest</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Mopsa</TH><TD align=left>Winter's Tale</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Nerissa</TH><TD align=left>Merchant of Venice</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Octavia</TH><TD align=left>Antony & Cleopatra</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Olivia</TH><TD align=left>Twelfth Night</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Ophelia</TH><TD align=left>Hamlet</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Patience</TH><TD align=left>Henry VIII</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Paulina</TH><TD align=left>Winter's Tale</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Perdita</TH><TD align=left>Winter's Tale</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Phebe</TH><TD align=left>As You Like It</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Phrynia</TH><TD align=left>Timon of Athens</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Portia</TH><TD align=left>Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Quickly (Mistress)</TH><TD align=left>Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry IV</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Regan</TH><TD align=left>King Lear</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Rosalind</TH><TD align=left>As You Like It</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Rosaline</TH><TD align=left>Romeo & Juliet</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Silvia</TH><TD align=left>Two Gentlemen of Verona</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Tamora</TH><TD align=left>Titua Andronicus</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Thaisa</TH><TD align=left>Pericles</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Timandra</TH><TD align=left>Timon of Athens</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Titania</TH><TD align=left>Midsummer Night's Dream</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Ursula</TH><TD align=left>Much Ado About Nothing</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Valeria</TH><TD align=left>Coriolanus</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Viola</TH><TD align=left>Twelfth Night</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Violenta</TH><TD align=left>All's Well that Ends Well</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Virgilia</TH><TD align=left>Coriolanus</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Volumnia</TH><TD align=left>Coriolanus</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

Wow, Hobbs! Impressive! BUT! I only said he used a FORM of my name---coulda been a MALE character---a feminization of a guy's name, couldn't it? :)

Let's see. French-Canuck, Irish, Catholic. Form used in Shakespeare. Contains "A".

From Hobbs' helpful list, Francisca and Margaret seem to fit best. Of the two, Margaret has the most variants...the most French being Marguerite. Similar Gaelic names are Marge, Madge, etc.

But Margaret isn't an iconic Shakespearian character, and that connection isn't likely to be made for most people....unless Bri is misdirecting us...

I've thought myself into a corner. I need one more clue. Till then, I guess Margaret.


edit: crap, didn't think of male names. List, Hobbs? :lol:

I know it too, remember? *ahem* Feel free to start the bidding. :)

Oh, yeah! Damn, I forgot. And, Els knows, too, but that's all. You realize that this means I may call on you for bail at some time? :)

Ok, Clodfobble--how much do you want? Or! I could loan you my car or something!

But, seriously, don't you think my clues are good?

i bid 5 crown royal bags! :D

Well, that certainly narrows the field (I got tired of formatting them, but you get the idea)

Male Characters in Shakespeare's Plays:

Name Appeared in

Aaron Titus Andronicus
Abhorson Measure for Measure
Abraham Romeo & Juliet
Achilles Troilus & Cressida
Adam As You Like It
Adrian The Tempest
Adriano Love's Labour Lost
Aegeon Comedy of Errors
Aemilius Titus Andronicus
Aeneas Troilus & Cressida
Agamemnon Troilus & Cressida
Agrippa Antony & Cleopatra
Ajax Troilus & Cressida
Alarbus Titus Andronicus
Alcibiades Timon of Athens
Alexander Troilus & Cressida
Alexas Antony & Cleopatra
Alonso The Tempest
Amiens As You Like It
Andrew Twelfth Night
Angelo Measure for Measure, Comedy of Errors
Angus Macbeth
Antenor Troilus & Cressida
Antigonus A Winter's Tale
Antiochus Pericles
Antipholus Comedy of Errors
Antonio Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing,
Twelfth Night, The Tempest
Antonio Two Gentlemen of Verona
Apemantus Timon of Athens
Archidamus A Winter's Tale
Ariel The Tempest
Aruiragus Cymbeline
Autolucus A Winter's Tale
Balthasar Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo & Juliet
Balthazar Comedy of Errors
Banquo Macbeth
Baptista Taming of the Shrew
Bardolph Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V
Barnardine Measure for Measure
Bassanio Merchant of Venice
Bassanius Titus Andronicus
Bassett King Henry VI
Bates Henry V
Belarius Cymbeline
Benedick Much Ado About Nothing
Benvolio Romeo & Juliet
Bernardo Hamlet
Berowne Love's Labour Lost
Biondello Taming of the Shrew
Borachio Much Ado About Nothing
Bottom Midsummer Night's Dream
Boult Pericles
Boyet Love's Labour Lost
Brabantio Othello
Brandon Henry VIII
Butts (Dr.) Henry VIII
Caithness Macbeth
Caius Titus Andronicus
Caius (Dr.) Merry Wives of Windsor
Caius Lucius Cymbeline
Caius Marcius Coriolanus
Caliban The Tempest
Camillo A Winter's Tale
Candidius Antony & Cleopatra
Caphis Timon of Athens
Capucius Henry VIII
Capulet Romeo & Juliet
Cassio Othello
Cato Julius Caesar
Cerimon Pericles
Charles As You Like It
Chatillon King John
Chiron Titus Andronicus
Christophero Sly Taming of the Shrew
Cicero Julius Caesar
Clachas Troilus & Cressida
Claudio Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure
Claudius Hamlet, Julius Caesar
Cleomenes A Winter's Tale
Cleon Pericles
Clitus Julius Caesar
Cloten Cymbeline
Cobweb Midsummer Night's Dream
Cominius Coriolanus

AND:

Conrade Much Ado About Nothing
Corin As You Like It
Cornelius Hamlet, Cymbeline
Costard Love's Labour Lost
Court Henry V
Cranmer Henry VIII
Cromwell Henry VIII
Cupid Timon of Athens
Curan King Lear
Curio Twelfth Night
Curtis Taming of the Shrew
Cymbeline Cymbeline
Decretas Antony & Cleopatra
Deiphobus Troilus & Cressida
Demetrius Antony & Cleopatra, Midsummer Night's Dream
Dennis As You Like It
Diomedes Antony & Cleopatra, Troilus & Cressida
Dion A Winter's Tale
Dogberry Much Ado About Nothing
Dolabella Antony & Cleopatra
Domitus Enobarbus Antony & Cleopatra
Donalbain Macbeth
Dromio Comedy of Errors
Dull Love's Labour Lost
Dumaine Love's Labour Lost
Duncan Macbeth
Durdanius Julius Caesar
Edgar King Lear
Edmund King Lear
Egeus Midsummer Night's Dream
Eglamour Two Gentlemen of Verona
Elbow Measure for Measure
Eros Antony & Cleopatra
Escalus Measure for Measure, Romeo & Juliet
Escanes Pericles
Fabian Twelfth Night
Falstaff (Sir John) Merry Wives of Windsor
Fenton Merry Wives of Windsor
Ferdinand The Tempest, Love's Labour Lost
Feste Twelfth Night
Flavius Timon of Athens
Fleance Macbeth
Floritzel A Winter's Tale
Fluellen Henry V
Ford Merry Wives of Windsor
Fortinbras Hamlet
Francis (Friar) Much Ado About Nothing
Francisco Hamlet, The Tempest
Frederick As You Like It
Froth Measure for Measure
Gallus Antony & Cleopatra
Gonzalo The Tempest
Gower Henry V
Grandpré Henry V
Gratiano Merchant of Venice, Othello
Gregory Romeo & Juliet
Gremio Taming of the Shrew
Griffith Henry VIII
Grumio Taming of the Shrew
Guiderius Cymbeline
Guildenstern Hamlet
Hamlet Hamlet
Hector Troilus & Cressida
Helenus Troilus & Cressida
Helicanus Pericles
Holgernes Love's Labour Lost
Horatio Hamlet
Hortensio Taming of the Shrew
Hortensius Timon of Athens
Hugh Evans (Sir) Merry Wives of Windsor
Hymen As You Like It
Iachima Cymbeline
Iago Othello
Jamy Henry V
Jaques As You Like It
John (Don) Much Ado About Nothing
John (Friar) Romeo & Juliet
Julius Caesar Julius Caesar
Junius Brutus Coriolanus
Laertes Hamlet
Lartius Coriolanus
Launce Two Gentlemen of Verona
Launcelot Gobbo Merchant of Venice
Laurence (Friar) Romeo & Juliet
Lear (King) King Lear
LeBeau As You Like It
Lennox Macbeth
Leonardo Merchant of Venice
Leonato Much Ado About Nothing
Leonine Pericles
Leontes A Winter's Tale
Lodovico Othello
Longaville Love's Labour Lost
Lorenzo Merchant of Venice
Lucentio Taming of the Shrew
Lucio Measure for Measure
Lucius Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus
Lucullus Timon of Athens
Lymoges King John
Lysander Midsummer Night's Dream
Lysimachus Pericles
Macbeth Macbeth
Macduff Macbeth
Macmorris Henry V
Malvolio Twelfth Night
Mamillius A Winter's Tale
Marcade Love's Labour Lost
Marcellus Hamlet
Marcus Andonicus Titus Andronicus
Marcus Antonius Julius Caesar
Marcus Brutus Julius Caesar
Mardian Antony & Cleopatra
Margarelon Troilus & Cressida
Mark Antony Antony & Cleopatra
Martius Titus Andronicus
Mecaenus Antony & Cleopatra
Melun King John
Menas Antony & Cleopatra
Menecrates Antony & Cleopatra
Menelaus Troilus & Cressida
Menenius Velutus Coriolanus
Menteith Macbeth
Mercutio Romeo & Juliet
Messala Julius Caesar
Montague Romeo & Juliet
Montano Othello
Moth Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labour Lost
Mountjoy Henry V
Mustardseed Midsummer Night's Dream
Mutius Titus Andronicus
Nathaniel Love's Labour Lost
Nestor Troilus & Cressida
Nym Henry V, Merry Wives of Windsor
Oberon Midsummer Night's Dream
Octavius Julius Caesar
Octavius Caesar Antony & Cleopatra
Oliver Martext (Sir) As You Like It
Olivier As You Like It
Orlando As You Like It
Orsino Twelfth Night
Osric Hamlet
Oswald King Lear
Othello Othello
Pandarus Troilus & Cressida
Panthino Two Gentlemen of Verona
Paris Romeo & Juliet, Troilus & Cressida
Patroclus Troilus & Cressida
Peaseblossom Midsummer Night's Dream
Pedro (Don) Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles Pericles
Peter Romeo & Juliet
Peter (Friar) Measure for Measure
Petruchio Taming of the Shrew
Philario Cymbeline
Philemon Pericles
Philo Antony & Cleopatra
Philostrate Midsummer Night's Dream
Philotus Timon of Athens
Pinch Comedy of Errors
Pindarus Julius Caesar
Pisanio Cymbeline
Pistol Henry V, Merry Wives of Windsor
Polixenes A Winter's Tale
Polonius Hamlet
Popilius Lena Julius Caesar
Posthumus Leonatus Cymbeline
Priam Troilus & Cressida
Proculeius Antony & Cleopatra
Prospero The Tempest
Proteus Two Gentlemen of Verona
Publius Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus
Puck Midsummer Night's Dream
Quince Midsummer Night's Dream
Quintus Titus Andronicus
Rambures Henry V
Reynaldo Hamlet
Robin Merry Wives of Windsor
Robin Goodfellow (Puck) Midsummer Night's Dream
Roderigo Othello
Romeo Romeo & Juliet
Rosencrantz Hamlet
Ross Macbeth
Rugby Merry Wives of Windsor
Sampson Romeo & Juliet
Saturninus Titus Andronicus
Scarus Antony & Cleopatra
Sebastian The Tempest, Twelfth Night
Seleucus Antony & Cleopatra
Sempronius Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus
Sextus Pompeius Antony & Cleopatra
Seyton Macbeth
Shallow Merry Wives of Windsor
Shylock Merchant of Venice
Silvius As You Like It
Simonides Pericles
Simple Merry Wives of Windsor
Siward Macbeth
Slender Merry Wives of Windsor
Snout Midsummer Night's Dream
Snug Midsummer Night's Dream
Solanio Merchant of Venice
Solinus Comedy of Errors
Speed Two Gentlemen of Verona
Starveling Midsummer Night's Dream
Stephano Merchant of Venice, The Tempest
Strato Julius Caesar
Taurus Antony & Cleopatra
Thaliard Pericles
Thersites Troilus & Cressida
Theseus Midsummer Night's Dream
Thidias Antony & Cleopatra
Thomas (Friar) Measure for Measure
Thomas Erpingham (Sir) Henry V
Thurio Two Gentlemen of Verona
Timon Timon of Athens
Titus Coriolanus, Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus Titus Andronicus
Toby Belch (Toby) Twelfth Night
Touchstone As You Like It
Tranio Taming of the Shrew
Trinculo The Tempest
Tubal Merchant of Venice
Tullus Aufidus Coriolanus
Tybalt Romeo & Juliet
Ulysses Troilus & Cressida
Valentine Titus Andronicus, Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen of Verona
Varrius Antony & Cleopatra
Ventidius Timon of Athens, Antony & Cleopatra
Verges Much Ado About Nothing
Vernon King Henry VI
Vincentio Measure for Measure, Taming of the Shrew
Voltimand Hamlet
William As You Like It

I pick Bernadette

Wow, mari. Wow. Ok. It's NOT in the second half. How's that for narrowing it down?

Andrea?
Agnes/is/us?
Erin?

When you guess, I'll disappear in a puff of smoke.

ah ok, like Genie? :idea:

Brenda

Well, when Rumplestiltskin's name was guessed, one account says he grabbed his leg and tore himself in half up the middle. Another account says he stomped his feet so hard he sunk into the ground forever.

Claudia
Claudette

Yeah,well, Rumplestiltskin was an idiot. Who goes around singing songs about themselves when someone is trying to guess their name? (Besides Wang Chung and a million hip hop guys) Loose lips sink ships.

He coulda learned something from the little dude in the King's Quest.. That guy's name was Rumplestiltskin spelled backwards with a backwards alphabet.

The bastard.

It's been guessed!


*POOF!*

:)

Uh oh. Where'd she go? echo echo echo...

*vigorously rubs lamp*

oops... come back Claudi umm... anna

I don't think it's her lamp she needs rubbed in order to come
back.

Read or watch "The Forsyte Saga", that explains it all..........

*reaching for her breastessess*

Hey, Brenda's not a bad name. We almost named our first child Brenda Marie. The reason why we changed is we didn't care too much for the initials it would create...BM. Hmmm.

I like me some love potion.
Come back, Bri...........

claudia

claudette

not to be a claudehopper....

claudia and claudette are totally hot names for chicks. erm women.

Claudia is a difficult name for a girl to have. When I was in elementary school, there was a girl named Claudia in my third grade class. Little kids can be MEAN! :worried:

It's not as bad as Lydia

As much as you love that LJ, its a little less lesbianish than that :) *with all de respect to the terries*

Shannon is MY real name.

Shannon's a chick name here in the states ... primarily anyway. There are a small number of guys with that name, but they get the shit kicked out of them a lot.

Unfortunately, sperm donor got to the birth certificate people before my mom did. And hence, my real name is Terry. *shrugs* What can you do? I'm too old to change it now...besides, if I did, I'd probably forget my new name.