How did you choose your screen name?
I'll go first.
I wasn't always SmartAZ, I used to be Wallstar. I didn't think about it, it was the first word that came to mind. It seemed like something I had seen every day.
Then it occurred to me that I didn't know exactly where I had seen it. I started looking for it.
It took a few days, but I finally found it. I was in the men's room at work. The screen in the urinal had the brand name Allstar. But from a certain angle, the reflection of the overhead light looked like a W in front of it, making it WAllstar. I had named myself after a urinal screen!
Back in the heyday of the Fido BBS, SmartAZ was the name of the board run by the Arizona chapter of Mensa. I never liked the board but I admired the name, so I swiped it.
You in AZ SmartAZ? That would make three of us is so. Whoohooo, lookout youse Pilly folks, we're coming up from behind you.
my name's jim, and i carry the "big wood" hence: lumberjim
big wood, huh? i just figured you were a big oaf who just sort of lumbered every where he went.
yeah, that's more accurate.
I started out with a login that incorporated my real name.
This was fine when access to The Cellar was via dialup modem. Upon reflection I decided it wasn't such a hot idea in the days of Google. (I can still read stuff I posted on Usenet from 1993.) So my current name honors
a character from Bloom County, one of my favorite comic strips of all time.
Uh ... I'm English and this is an American board ...
kagen was a name i got back in my wiccan days, then i started using it for online games such as quake TF and starsiege tribes. in tribes i joined the clan [4o4] which made my name Kagen [4o4]. and its stuck ever since.
I read a book.
Prize if you can guess which one.
Dagney is named after Dagney Taggert in the book Atlas Shrugged. This cat is a survivor, even though she can't run a railroad! ..
Where do I collect my prize?
My name is melida... I like dinosaurs... hence melidasaur.
plthijinx - pilot hi-jinx
big, ya know i've got the plane(s) so you can collect your prize if you choose!
Freshman year college discussion on the precise fun content of a barrel of monkeys led to an illustration, which became my logo, and then my screen name.
I'm from Grifftopia PA so... oh thats not right. Its the bulk of my last name and my meat world nickname.
I do love travel. I detest a long commute, however. What did you have in mind? I am in the upper left hand corner of the map. My travel today has been limited to one trip downtown, one trip to the neighborhood grocery store, and a couple of trips to the kitchen. I seem to be spiraling inward to the couch...watching the Pac-10 getting eaten alive. Reggie Bush is a machine!
Brianna is my best Porno-Wiccan-Celtic-Cape-Wearing guess. My real name is way more fucked up, but no where near as porno-ish. My real name is what a First Generation French Canadian Catholic woman would name her second daughter. After bowing to the Irish. She had three girls...Kathleen, me, and Melissa. I lost the name-draw in a big, big way.
I shall never recover. I once thought of legally changing my name to Sandy. It's that bad.
PS--no, it's not Mary, Maureen, Miriam or Sibohhan.
A shortned nick name from when i was in the Marines ,
The whole thing , Zippy the wounder doof , with his infinent knowlage of that witch matter not , one nite YEARS ago I had had a BIT to drink , Prodigy let me change my screen name , I tryed my real name and EVERY varation I could think of ,no good,
then I tryed zippy , nope , then zippyt , it took and wouldn't let me change it , and well it has hung around since then , hell I even answer to it , now HOW scary is that ?????
I started out life on the Cellar as Packey. Packey is/was my name I used when I was clowning. I didn't feel right using my clown name, so I re-packaged myself as Hobbs, named after my ultimate favorite cartoon strip character - Calvin and Hobbes. Unfortunately, after I registered it, I realized I left off the 'e' at the end of Hobbes. All well...
Guyute was the ugly Pig,
Who walked on me and danced a jig,
That he had learned when he was 6,
Then stopped and did some other tricks;
More lyrics, then 7 minutes of music, then
I'm bouncing like a newborn elf,
I can't believe, inside myself,
Guyute glances in my eyes,
Then manages to hypnotize, me
As I sleep the sleep of Death,
He sucks from me my only breath,
That I had breathed since I was Ten,
I hope this happens once again! (then outro)
I am a major Phishhead; This character is the title name to an amazing song Phish played for years live, then recorded on an album. It's over 8 minutes long, and captivating.
My initials + a power of 2 - I'm a computer geek.
maybe someone should start a new picture thread too
I really liked how 'ashke' sounds (I have a thing for names that start with the letter 'a'). It was from Mercedes Lackey's Valdemaran books. And anyway, my teacher was using it so I was like, why not? (Btw, ashke means beloved ;) )
Bullitt.. favorite movie.. Steve Mcqueen is my hero, I love 67 Mustangs and California, etc.
This thread is around somewhere in a couple of earlier iterations, but I like it when it comes up every now and again so that new people can share, too.
Elspode comes from a couple of things. When I was in junior high, my buddies and I were semi-pro class clowns; sort of an adolescent version of an improv comedy clan, only less organized and without any planning whatsoever. Out of that group came the term "spode", which was applied pretty much the same as "dipshit", "doofus", etc. There is, in fact, a cartoon character which was created by one of our number to accompany the descriptive noun itself, but I don't think I have a rendering anywhere.
When I first hit the Internet, it was a lot easier to get nicks, and I used "Starship Trooper" (my Yahoo handle is still that, FWIW, because I was an early adopter there). After being online for awhile, it became impossible to get that handle, and besides, it was too long to type all the time, so tried to use "spode". Even *that* was frequently used, so I Spanishized it by adding "el", and there you have it.
The original source of "spode" was one of my junior high buddy's grandmother's china, which was an English variety manufactured by the Spode family.
maybe someone should start a new picture thread too
Please, for the love of God, No. :mg:
It's my real name. Or, rather, it has been my nick for at least 10 years since I was in interpreter's school, so when we got a computer I began to use that as my online name too.
Tonchi is a Mexican word (not Spanish), either Aztec or Tarahumara but also found in Argentina and Bolivia. You use it to call to the cats outside, kinda like "Here kitty kitty" is used in the USA. It is applied to a cat without an owner - as opposed to a feral cat - and is what some South American countries call the jaguar-cats that live in the high mountains. The word is without gender. Tonchi is also a word in Japanese, in fact if that name is already in use at another forum you can bet it went to someone in that country where it's also the name of a scholarly journal. None of my Japanese acquaintances can tell me what the word means in their language.
Tonchi was a name used in the final episode of Quantum Leap, one of my all-time favorite programs, although how they stuck it on a Pennsylvania miner is beyond me. Maybe Bellisaurius heard it while he was in Australia, where it is the name of one of their more famous folksingers. But I did not know any of this until years after I got the name in school, because the teacher proclaimed that it definitely suited me to a T.
So now you know *everything* and aren't you sorry you asked lol :p
Please, for the love of God, No. :mg:
aww, i kind of miss the pic association thread
I'll go first.
I thought that was pretty big of me, seeing as how I started the thread.
I am wolf.
You can ask anybody.
I just am.
This topic seems to come up about once a year. Like I said
last year , I switched to my real name to support my personal interest in protecting free non-anonymous speech.
Cyclefrance owes its origins to my French cycling trips (now there's a surprise!)
I discovered Cellar after searching the web for more info on the giant puppets I stumbled upon in Amiens this year, at the end of my annual cycling holiday in north France. I have been doing these since 1999, usually with my cousin's now ex-husband, Paul, and they started off as a result of wanting to find a way to get around the WW! battlefields so as to appreciate the terrain but also to be able to cover a reasonable distance. Walking was too slow, Car was too fast. Cycling hit the button.
Neither of us had ridden bikes since being teenagers so it was quite an eye-opener to learn how unfit we both were (my first practise ride of only five miles saw me nearly collapsing when I got off the bike back home - my son thought I was having a coronary, but it was just jelly legs, and weak lungs!). After a few weeks 25 mile sessions were do-able, and 40 miles ones by the time we went.
The first year was the Somme, but pre digital camera days (I have plenty of 35mm pictures and still toy with the idea of scanning and backfilling to create websites for these earlier sorties). We enjoyed our first holiday so much that in 2000 we went to Ypres and Paeschendaele, then 2001 was Arras and Vimy Ridge (for the first time). We were also in France on a cycling day trip on 9/11 that year. 2002 we did two short trips: first one to the two V2 rocket sites near St Omer and the second for a spot of sand-yachting near Boulogne.
2003 saw the first digital photo record and the first website on Geocities. After a few attempts at other IDs, Cyclefrance2003 was the one that was accepted and so the Cyclefrance tag was born. Seemed only fair to use it on Cellar in view of the association with the Amiens puppets.
I thought that was pretty big of me, seeing as how I started the thread.
:king:Ok, jeeze. Good job...nice going... :gift: Here you go.:gift::gift::gift:
Mary Jane is my favorite person to hang out with.........so its just Mary Jane+Me.....kinda stupid I know.......But dont be hatin.....:joint: :rasta: :blunt: :apimp: :rainfro:
I think I mentioned this in a previous thread.
"Glatt" is German for "smooth." In college, my nickname was "smooth" and to a lesser extent, "glatt." Both were a variation of my actual last name. The added joke being that I was far from smooth.
old nick from a band i was in. i lack the ability to not fool around on my guitar during breaks between practice. they had it made into a label and put it on my guitar case. it's a lame nickname, but a fine internet handle.
i also get called 'dekken'. i think it's a play off 'dokken', who was a band i was keen on in the 80s. also a lame nick, but a fine WoW name. :lol:
'derek' doesn't lend itself to snappy alterations. 'dekken,' however, will come in handy if GH ever decides to become a norwegian death metal act.
All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.
--Bob Dylan
I always thought barefoot serpents would have been cooler...
Original name was e unibus plurum a spoonerism of the Latin phrase e pluribus unum meaning *from many, one* found on US currency.
Brianna is my best Porno-Wiccan-Celtic-Cape-Wearing guess. My real name is way more fucked up, but no where near as porno-ish. My real name is what a First Generation French Canadian Catholic woman would name her second daughter. After bowing to the Irish. She had three girls...Kathleen, me, and Melissa. I lost the name-draw in a big, big way.
I shall never recover. I once thought of legally changing my name to Sandy. It's that bad.
PS--no, it's not Mary, Maureen, Miriam or Sibohhan.
Bernadette by chance?
My handle is a half of my CB handle (half because back in the dim mists of time many BBSs didn't allow spaces in UserIDs) and a reflection of the fact that I can't spell to save my life. Mitheral from mithril. The misspelling also turns my ID into something that is the perfect length as it meets both the must be 8 characters and can't be more than 8 characters that seem to be common requirements.
Bernadette by chance?
Worse.
Bernadette is actually kind of cute as there are several good nicknames you can generate from it.
No so for poor Brianna.
Bari? Bebe? Belle? Brie? Comeon girl, give it up. You can trust us not to laugh...your among friends.
Mine doesn't really signify anything other than the fact I was born in November. I made it up without giving it much thought when I joined another board where I thought my usual moniker might not be appropriate.
Mine comes from the fact that I'm the area problem solver.
I fix cars, computers, applainces, domestic problems, minor injuries, etc.
I'm the guy everybody ends up calling when official channels run dry. If I can't fix it or answer it, I know someone who can.
...She had three girls...Kathleen, me, and Melissa. I lost the name-draw in a big, big way....
I would have to at least guess that it starts with an "L"
Worse.
Bernadette is actually kind of cute as there are several good nicknames you can generate from it.
No so for poor Brianna.
Could it be Agnes?
One of my best friends was also Irish Catholic and he got stuck with Ambrose. He'd die if anybody ever called him that.
I'm kinda round, and sometimes flaky. I also have 24 digits of pi memorized, but someone had that nick already...
swiped mine from a radio show...."From Be-Bop to Hip Hop" was da title :D
swiped mine from a radio show...."From Be-Bop to Hip Hop" was da title :D
And do they actually play jazz from time to time, or is that marketing verisimilitude?
When the inchinchinch was a tiny tadger I was reading him Dr Seuss's foot book. A lot.
His favorite part was "Feet feet feet. How many different feet you meet" I assume it was his favorite part because he usually laughed at the way I said feet feet feet. (like you might say beep beep beep if you were imitating an impatient, but not angry driver.)
After reading the book for the 75th time that night I felt compelled to
post and had to come up with a log in name, being sleep deprived I forgot that it was feet feet feet and not footfootfoot. Now it is too late to change. Oh, I could change nicks, but my post count would return to zero and then there'd be no chance of me being regarded as the attention whore I so sorely want to be.
[hijack]Best all time Dr Seuss read to SonofV was Green Eggs and Ham. We (me, but him too) read that book to death. We read it to each other. We read alternating pages. We read it backward (the literal truth, still a fun read). We read it with made up verses. We read it in a plane we read it in a train, ok, getting carried away here... sorry. The second runner up, and a close second at that is Fox in Socks. SonofV can read much better now, and can read that tongue tangler much better than I can. He gets a kick out of my tripping tongue, laughs, then schools me. *sigh* First Dr Seuss, then the basketball court, then... One of these days I'm gonna have to break out the ol' Old Age and Treachery, just to preserve my final shred of dignity.
God, I love reading with that boy, especially Dr Seuss. And Calvin and Hobbes. Ahhhh.
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Every now and again I get to borrow my friend's children and read them their bedtime story.
Sometimes they are able to convince Aunt Teeva that since there are two girls, they deserve two stories.
Back when I did Macintosh programming, I was reading a Mac programming magazine. There was a fairly dry technical article with a list of references at the end. Buried in the references was "Go, Dog, Go" by P. D. Eastman.
I wish I'd had the opportunity to meet this guy so I could shake his hand and tell him how much that tickled my funny bone.
PS--no, it's not Mary, Maureen, Miriam or Sibohhan.
Diedre?
Teresa?
Shannon?
Colleen?
Joan of Arc?
Agnes? Angie?
Come on Bri your killing me. :)
if we do get it can we have an autographed picture, Bri?
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.
Mulva
: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.
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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...
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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.
*snip*
How long before? The book was out in '71.
My older brother is called "Champ". Has been call Champ forever.
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.
I knew him as Champ for
years before I realized he had a different "real" name.
capnhowdy:
Mind you this was long before "Exorcist" was ever filmed.
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?!?!?
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! :)
Portia?
Magdala?
.........
sunsparks: Terry?
Miranda
Isabella
Beatrice
Margaret
Cordelia
Ophelia
Here, just put a check mark next to the one that is closest.
<CENTER>Female Characters in Shakespeare's Plays</CENTER><CENTER> </CENTER><TABLE width="75%"><TBODY><TR align=left><TH align=left>Adriana</TH><TD align=left>Comedy of Errors</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Aemilia</TH><TD align=left>Comedy of Errors</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Alice</TH><TD align=left>Henry IV</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Andromache</TH><TD align=left>Troilus & Cressida</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Anne Page</TH><TD align=left>Merry Wives of Windsor</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Audrey</TH><TD align=left>As You Like It</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Beatrice</TH><TD align=left>Much Ado About Nothing</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Bianca</TH><TD align=left>Taming of the Shrew, Othello</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Calpurnia</TH><TD align=left>Julius Caesar</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Cassandra</TH><TD align=left>Troilus & Cressida</TD></TR><TR align=left><TH align=left>Celia</TH><TD 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:
Wolf knows what it is of course (she has to, for bail reasons) so maybe you should try bribing her?
I know it too, remember? *ahem* Feel free to start the bidding. :)
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 know it too, remember? *ahem* Feel free to start the bidding. :)
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
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:
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.
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.
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..........
I don't think it's her lamp she needs rubbed in order to come
back.
*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...........
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:
sunsparks: Terry?
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.
As much as you love that LJ, its a little less lesbianish than that :) *with all de respect to the terries*
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.
Not if you change it to "Sycamore."
That you'd remember.
"Terry" is not a bad name at all! In the south, the boys are always getting named "Leslie", that would be much harder to live down.
And "Claudia" is not so terrible, Maude or Agatha would be MUCH worse. But no matter what name they give us we don't like it anyway. Everybody I grew up with wanted to change their name, my cousin actually changed hers twice and now 40 years later she has gone back to the one she was given at birth! Go figure :headshake
Ah, but my name is not Claudia! It's the way more French and way more disturbing Claudette! Think of the possibilities! Clod-hopper, Clod; and the rednecks have an amusing way of attempting to spell it---Klaw-det. As in, "You know that Klaw-det girl?" Sigh. But, I'm stuck with it. Thanks for the support, though, ya'll. It's just that 'Jenny' would've been so much easier!
PS--thanks, footfootfoot! That really made my day today! :) :)
no no no no nooooo! A jenny is a female donkey, and don't think all the other kids would not have known that. What sounds great at the time might turn out to be even worse :worried:
I like Claudette better than Brianna. Then again, I'm retarded. ;-)
I spent some time in Georgia. I met a man named Geoffrey and his sister Claudia. But it's not what you think. His name was pronounced "Goffry" and hers was "Clay-uda". The parents found the names in a book, but had never heard anyone speak them!
I hate to point out the obvious, but why don't you just use you middle name. Sometimes middle names are more desireable than first names. Not that Claudette isn't bad, I'm just saying...:blush:
In all honesty, you can use any name you want. And a name change is frieghteningly easy, at least in AZ. I had a stalker-ex-girlfriend who had changed her name several times within a couple of years span. Yeah, first she took my last name, then she changed her first name, then she changed her whole name to [first name] [middle name] Kendedy Clinton. She also swore her address was 1600 Pennsylvania Ave....yeah you heard me.
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.
i wonder how much a name can shape you. guys named 'Leslie' tend to be hard asses because it's either you get fucked with, or you get scary enough that people just don't. there was a boy in my high school named Stacey. he was a skin head. he was little, but people were scared of him. If your name is 'Leopold' or Alouicious', i wonder if you tend to be brainy. Kids named 'Max' are usually hyper. is it self fulfilling, or can a parent sense what kind of a kid they have growing in the womb somehow? My kids' names fit purt dern well, i think, as unusual as they are.
it's a good thing
Leslie Nielsen is funny! maybe that's how he got his sense of humor, by joking his way out of fights in school. :)
... I had a stalker-ex-girlfriend who had changed her name several times within a couple of years span. Yeah, first she took my last name, then she changed her first name, then she changed her whole name to [first name] [middle name] Kendedy Clinton. She also swore her address was 1600 Pennsylvania Ave....yeah you heard me.
Do I know her, by any chance? A surprising number of Arizona's crazy people relocate to my county.
The ones we try to swap come back here. The foreigners tend to stay, which is very, very frustrating.
Wolf, I swear this is the truth: In the early 90's when I was living in Phoenix, the Sheriff's Department used to take the people who they did not know what to do with after they were released from jail and buy them a bus ticket to Los Angeles, give them $100, and tell them not to come back. This included a predominence of alcoholics and mental cases I guess, who had no place to go except hang around Phoenix and get arrested again. Los Angeles found out what they were doing and threw a major fit. You would have thought they intended to track down every one of that flotsam and ship it right back to Phoenix, but I doubt they could have caught them all. However, the tremendous heat and bad publicity that got dumped on law inforcement in Phoenix put an abrupt end to this "final solution" of theirs :cop:
Where did they send them after that? New Orleans? ;)
You know that kid's movie, the one with the pony, and the rich kid and the poor kid arguing over who owns it?
Philadelphia PD and Lower Merion PD (a suburban township in my county) do the same thing with crazy people on City Line Avenue, which divides their jurisdictions.
However, instead of calling them, they're trying to encourage them to finish crossing the street in the other direction.
Philadelphia PD wins a lot more often. And then LMPD brings me their prize.
...Sheriff's Department used to take the people who they did not know what to do with after they were released from jail and buy them a bus ticket to Los Angeles, give them $100, and tell them not to come back.
Nahhhh, that never happens :)
It's just that 'Jenny' would've been so much easier!
My younger sis would not agree! She had to listen to guys sing "Jenny, I got your numbah!" all through the 80s. :greenface
Claudette is a lovely name. I think of Claudette Colbert.
My younger sis would not agree! She had to listen to guys sing "Jenny, I got your numbah!" all through the 80s. :greenface
Claudette is a lovely name. I think of Claudette Colbert.
I loved that Jenny song! It's so catchy!
Claudette Colbert is disturbingly close to my real whole name. But, you're too young to know Claudette Colbert, no?
I know who Claudette Colbert is...and I'm younger than blue.
But, you're too young to know Claudette Colbert, no?
Nope, never knew her...she and I ran in different circles!
I loved that Jenny song! It's so catchy!
Claudette Colbert is disturbingly close to my real whole name. But, you're too young to know Claudette Colbert, no?
That was the first person who came to mind when I first saw it. Actually,
Claudette was her middle name, just like it is Celine Dion's middle name (but I won't hold that against you).
She played the smart, spirited babe back in the 30's and 40's. "It Happened One Night" is a classic 'guy meets girl' movie.
I've heard of her but I've never seen a film with Claudette Colbert.
Claudette, French name, make me think of
Claude François , a really famous 60's and 70's french singer. Intellectual people enjoy disliking him and his lyrics but everybody (in France) always dance on his music. It's old fashionned but dynamic and funny disco.
You can listen to "Magnolias for ever" and "Alexandrie Alexandra" with RealOne Player
He was also famous in dancing with
short dressed girls . It was the first time in France. They were called "Les Claudettes". Do you want to dance with them Brianna ?
He's for us a kind of legend with a lot of
incredible look-alikes (like Elvis Presley's ones).
Claude François died electrocuted in his bathroom. :(
My screen name comes from Star wars. George Lucas used this method to find the names of the different characters (like ObiWan Kenobi):
First syllable : First syllable of my family name
Second syllable : First syllable of my first name
Third syllable : First syllable of my mother's family name
Fourth syllable : First syllable of the city where I live.
Ms Colbert was stunning. :love:
My screen name comes from Star wars. George Lucas used this method to find the names of the different characters (like ObiWan Kenobi):
First syllable : First syllable of my family name
Second syllable : First syllable of my first name
Third syllable : First syllable of my mother's family name
Fourth syllable : First syllable of the city where I live.
This totally will not work for my name.
My family name and my mother's family name are each one syllable.
I would ordinarily post the result, but I don't think you all need to know my answer to most financial institutions' security question.
Robbri Lawhaz? doesn't have that certain "something" to it that Han Solo has. Or Luke Skywalker. I like my birthname better.
MY WIFE OF FORTY YEARS, WHO PASSED AWAY 3 YRS. AGO, WAS GERMAN. SCHUNE IS A GERMAN WORD MEANING VERY NICE. SHE USED THE WORD VERY OFTEN.
are you sure it doesn't mean Caps Lock?
Well the Buster came from my 1st wife. I was a welder in S. LA. My helper and I were going somewhere after work. As we started out the door, she said "buster if you come home tonight bla bla." He passed that around on job next day, so there ya go.
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.
Wolf is the funniest. Everyone else, thank you for playing.
My screen name comes from Star wars. George Lucas used this method to find the names of the different characters (like ObiWan Kenobi):
First syllable : First syllable of my family name
Second syllable : First syllable of my first name
Third syllable : First syllable of my mother's family name
Fourth syllable : First syllable of the city where I live.
i need the breakpoints of your syllables
bar
gal
lu
nan
or
barg
al
un
an
?
guess mine is no big secret.
think it might even be b o r i n g :worried:
I thought your name was Renee, actually.
i need the breakpoints of your syllables
You want to send me dollars ? :biggrin:
bar
ga
lu
nan
Okay, so your name is perhaps...
Gabrielle Bartok, and you live in Nantes and your mother's maiden name is Lupin?
Edit: Oh hey look, it says right there that your location is Nantes. And here I was all proud of myself for figuring out what French city it must be...
Good reading
You had the choice between Nantes, Nancy and Nanterre in the main French cities.
I've openened a thread about Nantes in "Cities and Travel"
It could be Gabriel (without "le") because I'm not a girl. (I check... : it's always OK)
Lupin, Bartok, no.
Do you read Arsène Lupin in USA, is it known overseas ?
Do you read Arsène Lupin in USA, is it known overseas ?
No, I'm embarassed to admit that I got "Lupin" from a Japanese anime series, whose main French character is named "Lupin III ('the Third')." :blush:
Also from Harry Potter :)
It's just French for Wolf, isn't it?
LUPINS
Dennis Moore loves them
I think those are LUPINES. Of course, who can tell what the French call them :confused:
"LUPINES OR LUPINS (both spellings are correct) are members of the Bean Family, or Fabaceae, which were introduced to Nova Scotia from the Mediterranean as ornamental plants, but which have escaped cultivation to become common in the wild, along roadways & other open spaces." (I feel more intelligent after copying it ;))
They are called "lupins" or "pois lupins" (pois means bean) as well in France. Perhaps because they come from Mediterranean.
Arsène Lupin "Gentleman Cambrioleur (burglar)" hero of Maurice Leblanc's novels
We must have all the really cool French people here in the cellar. All the Frenchies who've ever joined us have been cool, nice people.
Except for that one who totally dissed us on American food. Otherwise, they've been really fun. :)
All the French people I know or have met are arrogant and smell funny.
;)
Except for that one who totally dissed us on American food. Otherwise, they've been really fun. :)
I dare not to speak about american food, I want to keep US friends ! :cool:
All the French people I know or have met are arrogant and smell funny.;)
Our famous "great" schools (after highschool) produce such French people and we try to send them abroad under the pretext of boasting French culture. Sometimes they meet same kind of foreign people and feel happy together. ;)
PS : You could have kept Céline Dion. She's already back in France with-her-son-René-Charles. "Elle-est-tellement-contente !" (She-is-so-happy !)
plushtoy...because somebody thought I was cuddly.
plushtoy from Orlando... your initials aren't MM, are they? Welcome to the cellar, plushtoy.
Undone because there is still so much left to do
It's the same name on the plates of my own favorite car.