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Pilau's brother is called Dante (aka Dan, Dan-the-man, Big Brother Dan and Dante-burger). When I was a kid I hated my name (Danielle). I hated how it sounded in the bolton accent. Also, it wasn't a name you heard much back then, and anything unusual is hateful at that age :P I always envied two of my friends at primary school: Colette and Fiona. They sounded delicate and feminine but cool. Danielle sounded too round and clumsy to me. Of course nowadays I hear that name everywhere. |
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07-26-2008, 12:50 PM | #167 |
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I had to laugh... a friend from Brooklyn, NY, named Phyllis, always wanted to be Danielle. Maybe it's the accent thing, but it could be the, greener on the other side, thing too.
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07-26-2008, 01:21 PM | #168 |
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I have a friend named Dan who wants to be Danielle, too.
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07-26-2008, 03:10 PM | #169 |
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Surely if she didn't know it was a name Muslim parents gave their children then other people wouldn't know either? I might just be reading it wrong (I don't know the name after all) but it hardly sounds like a gaffe to me. I know a couple of white women called Aisha. That's an acceptable Muslim name.
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07-27-2008, 05:00 PM | #170 |
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Well it sounds like a gaffe to me, especially when my friend is not muslim, and doesn't want to be stopped with her baby in airports trying to get on planes. Other people do know. There are large databases with names in them. Just because she doesn't know something doesn't mean other people don't. And too often they think they know something that they don't as well.
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07-27-2008, 05:08 PM | #171 |
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Aisha is a nice name. I've known a couple of them and neither were Muslim.
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07-27-2008, 06:39 PM | #172 |
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Aisha is a nice name....I haven't known any.
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07-27-2008, 09:34 PM | #173 | |
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racist/religionist much?
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07-27-2008, 09:44 PM | #174 |
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lol! Yea I think it's a gaffe. I don't want my friend's baby to get stopped at the airport trying to come and see me. mmmm'kay? And I have every right to think so. Look at the undue speculation at obama right now. Don't name your kid Hussein. I have no issue with Muslims outside of their hatred of women (which is not exclusive of just Muslims),written right inside of the Koran, which I read. So get off your trip. I will check any name against the watch list if I damn well choose.
The fact that I am scared of the name being Muslim because of my country more than theirs, says a whole lot.
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07-27-2008, 09:47 PM | #175 |
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mmkay.
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07-27-2008, 10:03 PM | #176 | |
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Airport security: You're free to go, but your child will need to submit to questioning. In stark, white interview room, somewhere deep in the bowels of the airport: Airport security: How long have you been a Muslim? Friend's baby: Da da. Goo goo goo. Airport security: Have you been to Pakistan or Afghanistan lately? Friends baby: Puts fist in mouth. Drools on fist. mm mm. Da da. Giggles and smiles Airport security: Holds up picture of Osama Bin Laden Do you know this man? Friend's baby: da da goo. Airport security: Are you saying this is your father? Friend's baby: ga ga goo goo.
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07-27-2008, 10:16 PM | #177 |
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...terrorist.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/09...s-detains.html ga gaa TSA.
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07-27-2008, 10:21 PM | #178 |
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Aisha has been a popular black girl name ever since the Stevie Wonder song. I don't think it'll raise a lot of red flags at this point.
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07-28-2008, 04:09 AM | #179 |
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Aisha isn't the name of her friend's kid, that was just mentioned at some point as a name which is sort of Muslim but widely accepted.
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07-28-2008, 04:57 AM | #180 |
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Both your links are about children being detained at airports because their names match those on security lists. The first happens to be a Muslim name. Yes it's ridiculous - I'm not defending it - but his name was the same as a deported man who was not allowed to enter the country again. That's just bad luck. Unless your friend also has a Muslim surname I'm pretty sure her child won't have the same bad luck. Then again I worked with a woman who called her daughter Rosemary. Lovely name. Her surname was West - I'm no longer in contact with her, but she probably regrets the name slightly now. Just bad luck.
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