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mynxcat
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Hi, my name is ...
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Jun 5 21:05 UTC 2002 |
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jp2
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response 1 of 61:
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Jun 5 21:08 UTC 2002 |
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michaela
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response 2 of 61:
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Jun 5 21:48 UTC 2002 |
My parents loved the name Sarah, and they didn't know anyone by that name.
(Surprising...)
Sarah is Hebrew and means "princess".
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orinoco
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response 3 of 61:
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Jun 5 22:03 UTC 2002 |
Daniel is also Hebrew, meaning "God has judged." Not a very happy name,
really, but the Biblical Daniel kicks enough butt that I don't mind.
They were going to name me Milo, after the guy in The Phantom Tollbooth, but
my mom thought it would get me teased. I got teased anyway. It would have
been damn cool to be named Milo.
I don't know why they called me Daniel instead. I think they just liked the
sound of it. I've got an uncle with the same name, but I wasn't named after
him, really -- I think they just got uncreative and recycled it.
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oval
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response 4 of 61:
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Jun 5 22:09 UTC 2002 |
i was named after 2 dead relatives, and when you take the first 3 letters of
one, and the last 3 of the other you get carrie
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ric
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response 5 of 61:
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Jun 5 22:16 UTC 2002 |
Richard Jay Root
My mother's father's name was Richard. My dad's name was Jay.
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scott
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response 6 of 61:
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Jun 5 22:26 UTC 2002 |
I'm not sure where "Scott" came from. Oh well, it's the same as my login,
so it's easy to remember.
My middle name is "Andrew", which comes from my renowned ancestor Andrew Boss,
who was a student and then researcher at the University of Minnesota, and who
was responsible for a great deal of significant agricultural research. I've
also got the same nose as him, for better or worse.
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glenda
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response 7 of 61:
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Jun 6 00:49 UTC 2002 |
My father's name is Glenn, you can guess where my came from.
Damon and Staci were just because we liked them. Staci was suggested by
STeve's great aunt Bertha but we got no explaination why.
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katie
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response 8 of 61:
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Jun 6 00:50 UTC 2002 |
My parents named us all after kings and queens of England.
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polytarp
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response 9 of 61:
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Jun 6 00:57 UTC 2002 |
My name is Phil Green, after Tom Green and Phil Hendrie.
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hash
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response 10 of 61:
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Jun 6 01:11 UTC 2002 |
my name was picked out of a baby book. my dad liked how it sounded.
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bru
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response 11 of 61:
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Jun 6 02:13 UTC 2002 |
My mother never said Why they chose my name. No one in either family has ever
had those names as far as I can determine. Naybe I should call dad and ask
him if he knows why?
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buddy
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response 12 of 61:
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Jun 6 02:38 UTC 2002 |
Okay i got the name i did (Mary) because my parents were going for a theme
when they named my other two sisters (Rebecca,Rachel). If you know your bible
well, then you should recognise these bibical names.
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gelinas
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response 13 of 61:
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Jun 6 04:46 UTC 2002 |
Which queen was "Katie"?
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other
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response 14 of 61:
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Jun 6 06:10 UTC 2002 |
I was named in memory of my maternal grandmother, who died less than a
year before my birth. I share her first initial.
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jaklumen
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response 15 of 61:
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Jun 6 12:07 UTC 2002 |
Jonathan-- "YHWH gives." I think my folks just liked it.
Roger is my father's name.
baby Sarah's name stuck out above all the rest: "Sarah Lynn." michaela
gave the meaning of Sarah, of course-- Lynn means spring or
waterfall. Somehow, all the other names just melted away and this one
seemed right. It felt right, and this was long before conception.
Say what you will, but we have felt her presence for quite a while
before she was even conceived. Took us long enough =)
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other
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response 16 of 61:
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Jun 6 12:58 UTC 2002 |
That was just the alien infestation. You should have that looked at.
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viper2
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response 17 of 61:
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Jun 6 14:21 UTC 2002 |
Erika = Norse meaning the Royal
Leigh = French origins I think meaning of the Meadow
Lee/Leigh is a family name (first born child of the first born child
has the middle name). Erika came out of the blue. My parents thought
I was a boy and would have been Jonathan Lee, then I turned out to be a
girl so they were thinking of Jessica and Montana (dad's name is Montie
and Montana is the closest to a female form of his name they could get)
but when it came to it they just picked Erika out of the air it seems.
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edina
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Jun 6 14:26 UTC 2002 |
Brooke - the feminine of the Old English Brook - but I'm named for Brooks
Robinson.
Christi - because it sounded good with Brooke - not because my mother is a
latin freak with a Jesus complex.
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johnnie
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response 19 of 61:
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Jun 6 15:11 UTC 2002 |
I don't know why my folks picked the names they did, but I do know that
if I'd been a girl, I'd be "Patricia".
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slynne
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response 20 of 61:
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Jun 6 15:46 UTC 2002 |
My parents named me Lynne because they liked the name. I guess my dad
had a girlfriend in high school named Lynn who he really liked but
mostly they just liked the name. They added the 'e' at the end to make
the name more feminine. The problem with the name though was that there
just wasnt a Russian equivilant and my Russian grandmother insisted
that I have some proper Russian name. Stephanie is the english version
of that name. I dont know why they picked it other than they had a
friend named Stephanie that they liked and I think they thought it
sounded good with Lynne. They never calld me Stephanie and always
called me Lynne. Later on, I was sometimes accused of being pretentious
because I used my middle name instead of my first name. And some people
wonder about that good old first initial. I kind of like the whole S.
Lynne thing but initially it was only because it really confused people
when I would just sign Lynne without the S. When the S was there, they
usually were able to figure out that I was the Stephanie on their list.
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brighn
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response 21 of 61:
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Jun 6 16:09 UTC 2002 |
My name is Paul Timothy. My older brother is John Mark. My younger brother
is Joel David. I grew up thinking my father, a United Methodist minister, had
named us for the various prophets and writers, but I mentioned that to him
in the course of a conversation about something rlated this last Christmas,
and he looked at me stupidly, as if it was the first time the pattern had been
pointed out to him. I couldn't believe he'd never noticed before, but he
claimed he hadn't, and that our mother had picked out the names.
I still don't know if he was being weird, or if he honestly never noticed.
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fitz
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response 22 of 61:
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Jun 6 16:34 UTC 2002 |
Don Carl = Don Carlos, the Mozart opera my mother liked.
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orinoco
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response 23 of 61:
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Jun 6 16:44 UTC 2002 |
I imagine if you ask a minister for six names off the top of his head, you're
pretty likely to get six biblical names.
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brighn
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Jun 6 17:49 UTC 2002 |
I suppose so, but my own name (an epistle writer and the common recipient of
his epistles) is a pair, so it seemed deliberate.
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