Does Anyone Know...?
 

Does anyone know a good, decent man called Ian?

I don't.

I do. Several in fact. One of them was my dad :-p

Oops.
Still, I never met him.

Now you can ask a searching question if you like.

So what's the deal with Ian then?

It just occurred to me this morning when I was walking round the park.
Three Ians I have actively disliked, none I have been keen on.

Oh, Ian Rankin I suppose.
Damn - Ian Hislop too.
But maybe they're both shits if you meet them.

Ian McKellen's pretty decent.

I've known a couple of Ians. They seemed alright to me.

Roberts, on the other hand. I've had a lot of trouble with employers named Robert. Every one of them has been dishonest and conniving.

I seem to have a lot of difficulties with Ben/Benjamins, myself.

I love Roberts, but I don't trust Bobbys. (Bobbies?)

I've never met a Brittany I liked.

Every Marilyn I've ever met has been evil. And I have to agree about the Brittanys.

Doug, now - somehow Dougs always seem to be nice guys.

Walter (Gib) Gibson: Yeah, Nick. Nick's a real name. Nick's your buddy. Nick's the kind of guy you can trust, the kind of guy you can drink a beer with, the kind of guy who doesn't mind if you puke in his car, Nick!

I knew a Ben who was a real smarmy jerk. Can't think of any good ones.

Yeah, Ian McKellen. PLEASE NOTE: if there is anything uncool about Sir Ian McKellen, I don't want to know.

He's in my HOF with Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Christopher Lee. Attention English Royalty: I expect to--eventually--see Hugo Weaving on this list.

My friend believes there are two kinds of names for naming baby girls, Supreme Court Justice names and Stripper names. Brittany is definitely a Stripper name.

I have a stripper name :(

My sister has the name of a woman beloved by Dante.
My brother has the Anglicised name of a Saint.
Me, I get the name of someone who pops their chewing gum and has badly painted toenails. Thanks.

I have a stripper name, too. I made sure my kids were both Supreme Court Justice names, though the girl admittedly has a nickname until she's an adult and can decide to accept her lifelong term on the bench.

Ian Anderson took my rock and roll cherry, everything up to that point was mere dalliance.

Evil? Aqualung was not very seemly, but I don't think it was "evil".

Plenty of good ians and iains, I have problems with Daves. nothing good ever came from the Britney sisterhood.

My name is a rare crossover stripper/judge-royalty You be the judge if you know what it is....

I'd say yours is more of a VIP room stripper name Monster, not a pole dancer stripper name.

My name is a stripper name.
A teenage stripper, all bubblegum and badly painted toenails.

As an adult I am a woman with children I hate, who never wear enough clothes (and neither do I) and who I like to alternatively slap or ignore in public. With a fag hanging out of my mouth.

Yeah, for monster I'd go more with "madame of the brothel" than plain old stripper. Me, I'm a "fresh off the bus from the Midwest lookin' to make it big in the city as an actress" kind of stripper.

Agreed. You are rocking the whole 'girl next door' things between your looks and name.

I have the misfortune of having neither a true, gritty stripper name, nor a Supreme Court Justice name. I have a '60s go-go girl name. Pathetic.

You could never put 'Queen' in front of my name, nor 'Supreme Court Justice', nor 'President'.

So I chose another name and added it to my legal name when I took US citizenship. It's much more powerful and respectable, but very few people know I have it at all. As I don't expect I'll become a Supreme Court Justice, there's no problem. I know I have it, and that's good enough.

Is there any similar dichotomy for men's names?

dickotomy?

yes. pres/prince or high-school-dropout

Princess Beans has a ring to it, don't you think?

Beest has a high-school-dropout name.

Or can you add The Great after your name?
My Dad can. I know that because some old chap in history did it and he had the same name.

My Mum can too. Because Judy Blume wrote a book about it.

Back in the day, at university, one lecturer told three of us girl students that we sounded more like a trio of nightclubs than three language students. That was when the clubs were named after the strippers that worked there. :p

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