Good Morning!
The weekend has arrived! 🙂
On this day in 1815 U.S. General Andrew Jackson achieved victory at the Battle of New Orleans.
In 1861 Alabama seceded from the United States.
In 1878, in New York, milk was delivered in glass bottles for the first time by Alexander Campbell.
In 1902 “Popular Mechanics” magazine was published for the first time.
And in 1958 “Seahunt” debuted on CBS-TV.
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Quote of the Day
“It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government.”
Alexander Hamilton
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We’ve got 3 good ones today. 🙂
Today is Jim Bryson’s birthday. From MercyMeVideo
It’s also Dan Haseltine’s. So it’s Jars of Clay covering the Talking Heads. From NoiseTradeVideo
And it’s Jeremy Camp’s as well. From JeremyCampVEVO
Told ya. 🙂
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Wandering Views 
All those guys are guitar pickers!
Did I tell you that Chuck got a Les Paul guitar for Christmas?
He still playes every day. I didn’t know that.
This guitar has all sorts of gadgets on the front. Kinda like Jerry Camp’s.
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Good morning! Son and I left Atlanta yesterday around 6:30 a.m. and arrived at Texas destination at almost midnight. Bosley is boarding again. They were happy to see her again so soon. Son might want her in the future but can’t have pets where he lives now.
How is baby Graham? I like that name.
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Janice, baby Graham hasn’t arrived yet. He’s as bad as most of the lazylouts here.
I don’t care for the name “Graham”. The only Graham I’ve ever heard of is Graham Greene, the author.
But the didn’t ask me. Mary’s husband was born in Graham, NC. I’m glad he wasn’t born in Horse Shoe or Bat Cave. 😆
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Although Ole Hickory was a good General, he was a complete Jerk when it came to how he treated the Native American people in Georgia when he was president. Jackson is responsible for the forced relocation of the 5 civilized tribes. I have absolutely zero respect for the man.
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I have a nephew named Graham. It took him until he was 25-26 to grow up and become a productive member of society. He is probably one of my best successes. He sent me photos of his Christmas tree all decorated in white, silver, and gold. What is most funny is that his full name is Graham, my former last name and then his father’s last name. Back the beginning of the Summer he bought himself a very nice white BMW and put GMiddleName as his personalized tag. He also works at our local resort. I started getting calls from all sorts of people wanting to know when George came off the dollars to buy a BMW and what was up with the personalized plate. I assured every one that it most certainly wasn’t George but couldn’t explain that the name was spelled “our way”. Finally I was talking to George and he told me how proud he was of Graham and that he had by HIMSELF bought a white BMW, then it all clicked and I burst out laughting!
Today is also the traditional date of the Baptism of Jesus Christ. It was on this date 16 years ago that Baby Girl was Christened. She wore my Christening gown and her Aunt R’s handmade, crocheted baby booties, she was wrapped in the banket I came home from the hospital wrapped in. Daughter in Law has indicated that they are trying for another baby. Her mother and I are praying for a girl this time, although it may be the end of my marriage. A girl would mean that the Grandpa I am married to would most likely try to move in with Son and DIL, a girl would just send him over the moon. DIL’s mother was one of 7 children so her Christening gown was slap worn out. We have discussed that a grand-daughter would be Christened in my gown….hmmmmm Next year January 11 will fall on a Sunday, that would be a good day to Christen a granddaughter.
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Drivesguy, I assume you are referring to the Trail of Tears. What are the names of all the tribes? I have never been strong in history. The guys in my family all know a lot of history.
Chas, I like the name Graham because the few guys I have known by that name have been nice people.
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Joe, the Cherokees who live in Oklahoma originated in NC & that area. There is a Cherokee Reservation near the Smokey Mountain Park. They are getting rich now from gambling.
Every summer they have a play called “Unto These Hills”, about the Trail of Tears. i.e. the transfer of the Cherokees from their homes.
Cherokees and settlers had a peaceful relationship around here until gold was discovered in the hills.. Gold changes things.
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Chas, Graham sounds like a strong name to me.
I’m personally not crazy about the current tendency to give children all sorts of new names with new spellings. But we probably overused about six or eight male names in the past. (Let’s see: Richard, James, Charles, Robert, John in particular, but also Michael, Joseph, Christopher, and a couple more.) I really feel sorry for today’s kindergarten teachers, who might have an Ashley spelled Ashleigh or Ashlaye or whatever parents might come up with. It was bad enough that Katherine might be Cathryn or about six spellings, but these days I imagine Kate might well be spelled “Khaahte.” Anything to be different.
I don’t like it when definitely masculine names like Hunter or Micah are given to girls.
But we ended up with some previously uncommon boy names like Cooper and Graham that are strong, different enough not to be boring but not so different that they’re weird or mockable. (Who these days wants to be Fred or Bruce?) I just hope the “weirder is better” craze passes before our daughters are having children, or that they are immune to it!
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Janice: According to Wikipedia, the tribes were the “Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations.” There is now a “Trail of Tears National Historic Trail” route marked on the highways closest to the route the tribes took. Part of it goes through Southern Missouri. That was a sad part of our history.
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Agree about Jackson. I believe the tribes were the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole. My great-grandmother was Cherokee. I don’t know how her ancestors escaped the Trail of Ttears.
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Joe,
Agreed. 😦
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I love that Jars of Clay video.
Chas is right. That’s some serious pickin’. 🙂
The Mercy Me is good too.
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Re: Names.
I heard of a woman who complained when the school misspelled her daughter’s name. The given name was La-a, pronounced “la-dash-a”. So the school spelled it Ladasha, just like it sounds. I think I would rather put up with the umpteen spellings of Ashley than have a name with a hyphen in it.
Oh, did you know that Ashley used to be a boy’s name? It wasn’t until the 1950s that Americans started using it as a girl’s name. Check out this name website my daughter found a few years ago:
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More n names: Imagine in 50 years when the US is a totally secular society, and the names John and Mary are considered odd names. “You mean your parents gave you a name from the Bible? They must be old-fashioned, ignorant religious fanatics.”
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The Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole joined with George Washington in fighting the British during the war for Independence. Both Washington and Jefferson wanted the 5 civilized tribes to be part of the American Experience. During the war of 1812, a group of militia men from another state were marching to meet up with Jackson in LA. They were literally starving to death. A Chickasaw Chief saw their plight. He ordered the tribe’s winter stores opened up to feed the starving American’s. Jackson paid the tribe back by forcing them to move during the trail of tears.
While I do not agree with Gambling as a source of revenue, It is a valid source of income even though most that play the slots can not afford too and become addicted to the habit. The Chickasaw nation is also a Defense Contractor. They provide the Army with the heavy equipment transport vehicles.
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We let our children choose their names. Fourth son chose to be named an Ethiopian name, after his brother who had died and his bio father. We tried to come up with a spelling that would be easy for Americans to pronounce. It makes sense to me but it gets butchered a lot. He is generally just called by the name he was given when he came to the States before he came to us. Short and simple. But we try to remember the African name because he did choose it.
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The Nez Perce in our area lost a lot of reservation when gold was found in them thar hills. Before that, they were generally quite peaceful. Remember they saved the lives of Lewis and Clark and offered them lodging both west and east. Now they have casinos and many are doing well, others not so well. Like most folk.
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I believe Chief Joseph was sent to Oklahoma after his “will fight no more forever” speech. They feared he would lead another escape mission to Canada or some such thing. Sad parts of our history.
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I went to see my cousin play high school football once. The cheerleaders were listed on the program. There were at least four different spellings of the name Meagan.
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So Jackson repaid good with evil? And they used to call the natives “savages”. Out West the same kind of thing happened. Peaceful tribes were mistreated by those who wanted the land for cattle and minerals. Sad that the “civil” Mexicans and Americans were the savage ones.
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Surely I’ve told you this story before?
The Santa Cruz area has long been a hippie/alternate lifestyle area and this was never so true as in the 60s and 70s, when they named children things like Sunbeam, Moonglow, and ——— fill in your own blank.
This made for an amusing first day of kindergarten when the children arrived from the bus with their names printed on a name tag and pinned to their shirts (or whatever else they were wearing).
One teacher was perplexed by an adorable little boy whose name was “Fruitstand.” She went with it, though, using it throughout the day, but he didn’t respond well.
Of course he was only five.
She didn’t think much of it until it was time to put the children on the bus in the afternoon. Their bus stop in the hilly semi-rural area was written on the.back of their name tag. When she flipped over Fruitstand’s name tag, she was chagrinned to see his drop off spot: John.
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Many “girl” names started out as “boy” names. And some really sound like girl names, at least to our ears. Ever read the novel Shirley by Charlotte Bronte? It isn’t the best book ever written, but as I recall part of its premise was amusement at a girl who had a male name (Shirley). And of course George Beverly Shea was still called “Bev” by his friends when they were all old men.
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I had an Uncle Beverley. I was shocked the first time I heard a woman called by that name. He mostly went by his middle name. With my grandmother, I am assuming he was named after George Beverly Shea. She was a devout Assembly of God woman. She wore no make-up, never entered a church in pants, mostly wore her hair in a bee hive, until much later in life. She was also the smarter of my paternal grandparents. In 1958 my grandfather divorced her to be with his mistress, leaving her destitute with 10 children at home with a miniscule amount of support which he paid a day late every month so that eventually he was months behind. She opened an in home day care and managed to buy her first home. She went on to buy several homes from her earnings, keeping them and renting them out. In 1978 they remarried and remained so until his death in 2001. He was a handsome devil and quite the ladies man. She had been beautiful…I have the photos to prove it. I have good memories of both.
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Mrs L had a male teacher whose name first name was Shirley. The students thought the middle initial of ‘S’ stood for Sue.
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Yes, it is difficult for the kindergarten teachers. The worst was when I was substitute teaching and there were two girls in two different rooms next door to each other. Both were named Cassandra, but they pronounced the name differently. I could never remember which was which and the classes corrected me every time.
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I know people use unusual spellings to differentiate their children, but somehow well-meaning parents don’t seem to think ahead to the fact those kids will spend the rest of their lives spelling their names.
That’s true of me. I always say, “two Ls, please.”
And of course my ridiculous last name-that-comes-with-a-terrific-guy, has only added to the problem. I don’t even bother. I say it and just spell it.
Three letters makes it easy, of course. 🙂
What a funny thought. I never before realized my last name is only three letters long!!! 🙂
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I mean, it just sounds so short when you put it that way.
I do know it’s only three letters long. 🙂
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What is annoying as a parents is when several of your Kid’s friends have the same name. My son has three friends who we call “neighbor Tyler”, “School Tyler” and “baseball Tyler”.
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Michelle, I think of two l’s as the “correct” way to spell Michelle, though I’ve known a couple of ’em who only used one.
My name is spelled the way Cheryl is usually spelled. There are multiple alternative spellings (most notably Sheryl), but people frequently try to put “ly” at the end instead of “yl,” and when people verify the name, they often seem to assume it’s usually “Sh.” Mail from people I don’t know comes with all kinds of spellings.
My former last name was usually misspelled and mispronounced as a similarly spelled name that’s actually a corruption of the original (which was my name). My current last name is simple enough, but unfamiliar to people (our branch of the family changed their name a few generations ago), and it could be spelled more than one way. So we just say it and spell it when people ask for our name.
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I have a very easy name. Ginny. Comes from Virginia. But can people call me Ginny? No! It has to be Jenny. Or Jeannie. Seems simple to me but apparently not so for many. I have given up caring about it though. I might correct it once in a while but for the most part, whatever.
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kBells, years ago I taught a couple semesters of college English, adjunct. In one class I had four young men who were over six feet tall, and three of them were James or Jim. I forget what the fourth one was called, but one time I called him “James,” and he bristled and acted like it was a major offense. I quickly apologized and explained that I knew his name, but three out of the tallest four guys in the class were all “Jim.” He un-bristled at that point and seemed perhaps a bit flattered that I made the error because he was one of the big men.
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Some names are very, very specific to a time period, dating the person with that name.
My younger brother is named Jeff. It isn’t a very common name, but he was once one of FOUR Jeffs in his class. That’s because Jeff was extremely popular in 1970 and apparently not any other year in history. In fact, in Nashville my best friend had a younger brother named Jeff, also born in 1970. When a new black man came to our church, and he was named Jeff, we all compared notes, and sure enough he was born in 1970 also. (He was tickled that both of us had baby brothers his age and with the same name.)
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I’ve been looking at WWI photos on Pinterest. I know many of you are not involved over there, and I wasn’t for a long time either, but I’ve found fascinating information–including photos of places I could not find information about anywhere on the Internet. Have a look here for my WWI shots: http://www.pinterest.com/michelleule/world-war-i-shots/
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I am a Southern White Girl. My maiden name was Black. How easy is that? B l a c k. Aside from the fact that on computerized school forms I was Bla Kim 1234, I had other issues. I was often referred to as “that little Black girl”. I would tell people my name and they would reply White? Then of course some time in the 80’s a show came on called BlackE’s Magic and that started a who ‘nother set of misspellings. I have an extra E in my first name, my middle name isn’t a comman spelling and my first husband’s family couldn’t spell the name of a fabric correctly so I got another E to fight about. Do you know how stupid you look when autocorrect, corrects the spelling of your last name so it looks like you are too stupid to spell your name correctly? This last name? Well there is an Air Force base nearby that everyone wants to know if it is named after our family so most people don’t misspell it, but even Mr. P’s sons asked me if I was sure I wanted to take their dad’s last name it sounds so ugly. I offered them all the last name of Black but no one took me up on the offer.
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Not infrequently I’ve been asked if I’m native American because of my last name. 🙂 I tell them, no, it’s English/Scottish. Think Robin Hood and …
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I once taught a class with the following girls in it; Kate, Kathrine, Kathleen, Katie, Kathy, Katelyn and Kat. Now, at a different school, I always have at least one Mohammed in my class. With two or three, one person remains Mohammed, the next is called Mo, and the last will go by his last name or some other variation. Most often the other kids have come up with ways to distinguish between them. When the secretary will page the school asking Mohammed Ali to come to the office she will quickly come back to clarify from which classroom.
I have a friend who married a guy in England named Laurie. Ashley was already mentioned but I’ve also encountered Kim as a boys name.
The most popular name in my Dutch immigrated classroom was Wilma — named after the Dutch Queen. I don’t think Biblical names will go out of style, right now the lesser known Biblical names are popular — Micah, Job, Joel, Aaron, Nathan, Caleb, Zack (spelled wrong), etc.
In the northern US, the “civilized” Iroquois Confederacy choose to fight for the British during the Revolution and the War of 1812. After both wars, they moved out of the Ohio Valley and now live in southern Ontario from Detroit to Montreal.
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H– Unfortunately I would have been Kim either way. Kimberley L or James Kimbrell. God was merciful and I was a girl.
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For a girl, I love the name Kate. And Tess. 😉
As for Ashley, I always think of the GWTW (male) character.
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Another interesting map — We’re all busy moving to Oregon and the Carolinas, it would appear.
http://www.businessinsider.com/2013-moving-map-2014-1
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I know a guy named Uel. I don’t know why. It’s a Biblical name, but not favorable. (Ezra 10:34)
A woman at the Y goes by Shelly. I once aked if it were a nickname for Michelle. (As is one of my nieces.) She said, “No her mother loved the poet.
Does our Michelle get “Shelly” Or “Shell”
My nieces’ brother has the same name, Michael.
My dad and one of his brothers had the same name. Charles and Carl.
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Some of the people moving to NC (and probably SC) are moving up from Florida.
We call them “half backs”. Not a derogatory term, they moved to Florida from the north and decided they didn’t like summer all the time.
That’s the reason Hendersonville celebrates the moniker “Four Seasons”.
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Interesting that some biblical names are popular, others not. Sarah, Rebekah (with all its various spellings), Mary, Rachel or Leah. But are there any Hephzibahs? She was the mother of Manasseh the wicked king, so maybe there is a reason for that. Job’s daughters are said to have been the most beautiful around, but there are not many Jemimas, Kezias or Kerenhappuchs that I know of. The only Jemima I know is the one on the pancake mix.
As for boys, we name them David or Josiah, but who names a child Hezekiah? He was a good a king as Josiah. And the prophets’ names get used some. Isaiah, Jeremiah and Micah. But have you ever met a boy named Habakkuk?
Interesting.
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My husband and our two sons have Biblical names; my daughters and I do not.
Second Arrow (oldest daughter) would have gotten a Biblical name if she’d been born before the due date (Sarah), but we changed our mind after her due date was past. My husband never misses an opportunity to tease me about the spelling of the name we gave her. I wanted to spell her name with a “y” at the end of the first syllable, and hubby wanted it left out. The baby name book we were using had the “y” in the middle as the primary spelling (there is also an actress whose first name is spelled exactly that way), and listed as a secondary spelling was the name without the y.
Hubby liked it better without the y, and I liked it better with the y, because I thought it looked more feminine. (Plus, the name has been used as a male name, and is spelled without the y in that case). Hubby let me win that one, and our daughter has a y in the middle of her name.
What we didn’t know was that that name would have a sudden surge in popularity right around the time she was born, and almost everyone was spelling their daughters’ names without the y. So our daughter’s name is very frequently misspelled without the y. (And there are a whole bunch of other, creative spellings for the name now, too, I see.)
I hear “I told you so” a lot from a certain male who shall remain nameless. 😉
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Cheryl, from over in R&R. A meteriologist here in Hendersonville says that, generally, it takes an inch of rain (percipitation) to make ten inches of snow. That varies of course, mentally, i figure a foot per inch.
He also says that the elevation difference, generally, is 3.5 degrees per thousand feet.
That can vary also, of course.
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I know a little boy named Ezekiel; in fact at least 50 percent of the small boys I know have Biblical names. Ethan is a very popular boy’s name, rating #2 on the list for 201. Most people don’t realize it is Biblical – Ethan the Ezrahite was second only to Solomon in wisdom (I Kings 4:31) and wrote Psalm 89.
I can think of a very good reason why nobody is named Hephzibah. To quote from the children’s novel Pollyanna:
” ‘Well, anyhow,” she chuckled, “you can be glad it isn’t ‘Hephzibah… Mrs. White’s name is that. Her husband calls her ‘Hep,’ and she
doesn’t like it. She says when he calls out ‘Hep–Hep!’ she feels just
as if the next minute he was going to yell ‘Hurrah!’ “
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Two ladies at church have the name Sandie. One goes by SandE and the other by SandI. 🙂
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I know someone who named their son Cotton. That seemed really different to me although I had heard of Cotton Mather.
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The most unusual Western name I ever came across was a woman’s name, Alythe, and the bearer was quite elderly. I’m still not sure of its origins or meaning but it might be a variation of Alice, which is a very ancient name.
Many of the African names sounded very beautiful. A lot were of Biblical origin as many of the Bible characters are mentioned in the Koran. There was, however, an almost unending line of variations on the name Mohammed – very few were actually called by the original form.
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It is t-shirt weather in Waco. Sunny blue sky with a slight breeze. Dr. Pepper has always been my favorite soda and this is the place for it.
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Alythe seems to be a nice Scottish name. I will have to go back and look but it rings a bell as having someone in my family tree by that name.
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When I was student teaching, I had a student named Dazzle. It was hard to tell whether he or she was a boy or a girl, and it’s honestly been so many years since that time, that I don’t remember. I think a girl who looked and dressed more like a boy.
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Elvera doesn’t know where her name came from. The wife of a Supreme Court Justice had that name. I think it was rather common at the turn of last century.
She sometimes gets Elvira by mistake, and a friend called her that deliberately, in fun, when the song came out and she was young and pretty.
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I have just been reminded why God gave children a father and a MOTHER. I am at an open house in a new subdivision. The price point is good for young families. I have the door open to the “office/garage” and I can hear a little girl chattering away. I look up and she is about 4 and is driving her Barbie Jeep. I notice that Baby Brother! is in the passenger side. Immediately I think, “Oh no, no,no…what if she tips the Jeep over. She is big enough to be OK but the baby isn’t. I walk to the door to look out and sure enough there is only one car at the house. Dad is sitting in a chair in the driveway and isn’t even looking that way!
They stopped and brother is old enough to walk so perhaps he will survive!
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I once worked with a black lady who named her daughter La Vivian. That seemed really different to me back in those days before people got Into the different names that seemed to coincide with Alex Haley’s Roots series. I liked the uniqueness and sound of La Vivian. I assume the La is like acknowledging the lady as The Vivian? Like The Real or La Real?
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Bible names: I’ve never heard of a white man named Haman; he wasn’t exactly a nice guy (from the story of Esther). But I have heard of/known two, I think three, black men with that name.
Several years ago I saw a cartoon of “ways to freak out your parents” or something like that. One panel had an obviously pregnant woman saying, “Judas if it’s a boy, Jezebel if it’s a girl.” Of course, there were at least a couple good men in the Bible named Jude/Judas, but the Iscariot ruined the name for everyone!
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How would you pronounce Alythe?
I was going to be a Rebecca. But a friend of my mom’s back in Iowa had just named her baby Rebecca so my mom switched to Donna (which she later found out that the above friend already had named her older girl a couple years earlier unbeknownst to my mom, so either way she lost the creative vote).
So just call me Becky.
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When I was a child, I had one doll named Rebecca and one Becky. Mom told me they were the same name, which made no sense. But at some point I decided my first daughter would be Rebecca–until one of my brothers named his own daughter Rebecca (and my mom hated the name).
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Mumsee, I knew I liked you. My name is Virginia Jo. My mom and stepmom were both Virginia, so I have never gone by that name.
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One of my arrows has the same name as one of Mumsee’s. Another arrow has the same name as one of the pets on here. No, not Cowboy. 😉 Yet another has the name of a month. Sixth Arrow has two middle names, a flower and a character quality.
We had lots of fun coming up with names. Of course we had lots of help with that the more kids we had, which added to the fun. That’s one reason 6th Arrow ended up with two middle names; it was hard to narrow it down with all the good suggestions. The names that the kids wanted that didn’t get picked we told them to save for their future children. 🙂
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Chas, I just about laughed out loud reading your comment about being glad your granddaughter’s husband wasn’t born at Horse Shoe or Bat Cave! I was at the library when I read that and had to restrain myself. 😉
You wouldn’t want to name your kid after your place of birth if it was in one town or city I heard of once: Embarrass! LOL 😀
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6 Arrows, could it be one of the towns in the Amish area of Pennsylvania?
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Florence Nightingale was named after the city where she was born – so all the girls who were named after her were actually named after a city in Italy. Her older sister had the misfortune to be born in Parthenope, a city of Naples.
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Donna, Alythe is pronounced A-lee-th.
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Loved that story of the kindergarten teacher and Fruitstand, Michelle.
I thought my daughter, Sara, would be the only one. So did all the other parents of girls her age. She almost always had two others in her classroom.
She worked in a camp one summer and a friend of hers later came to work in the same camp. They had both the first and second name, so the others decided to call them by Sara one and Sara two, according to which came first.
I always thought my name was way too common.
Our last name is one that should be easy to pronounce, but for some reason is not to people who do not live near here. That makes it easy to know when it is a salesperson on the phone. They usually mispronounce it for some reason.
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I think the name Embarrass came from a Native American term, if I remember correctly.
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Chas: generally, it takes an inch of rain (percipitation) to make ten inches of snow. That varies of course, mentally, i figure a foot per inch.
I have also heard a lot depends on the moisture in the snow. A snow when it’s really cold has a lower moisture content, so it would take closer to 15″ to make an inch of rain. That’s why it’s hard to pack it for snow men or snow balls. When the temperature is in the 30s, the snow has a lot more moisture, so the equivalent of an inch of rain would be closer to 6 or 7 inches of snow. So, when Cheryl says in the R&R thread that her area got over a foot of snow but only .56 inches of precipitation, it makes sense, considering how cold it was last week.
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Chas, Embarrass is in Minnesota. I may have heard about it on Minnesota Public Radio, as that is what I listen to online.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrass,_MN
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Thanks roscuro — pretty name. And without looking it up, it does seem Scottish?
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Hubby’s sister is named Karen. Hubby’s brother married a Karen. I am now known as Kare 🙂 My generation used Karen like the previous one used Anne. My Dad had several Annes in his extended family. I wanted to name daughter Gillian, but hubby wanted it to start with J so she wouldn’t be called Gilligan. Well, she still got called Gilligan.
A name that is becoming quite common up here now is Henry! My dad’s name is Henry, but I would not name a baby boy that 🙂 My mom always hated the name Henry. There’s even an Ada in our toddler room at church. I haven’t heard of anyone else with that name for generations.
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It might be fun to name a baby boy “Cowboy,” now that I think about it. 😉 But I’m sure it’s a popular nickname for some boys — in some parts of the country anyway.
Because (my) Cowboy’s favorite game at the dog park is “hump,” he gets a lot of people there yelling “Ride ’em, cowboy!” as I rush to pull him off in total embarrassment. Arrrgh. But it is a case where the name fit the dog.
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I remember friends of my mom’s in Iowa who had a little boy who wound up with the nickname of “Buckshot.” I can’t even remember what his real name was now!
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You would like our friends whose only son (after 3 daughters) is Stetson.
You know, like the hat!
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Just discovered our coldest temperature without windchill over the past few weeks was -54F. I have never lived anywhere that cold before.
Now we’re under a snowfall warning for over night. Gotta love winter.
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Buckshot, LOL!
First Arrow had a nickname before he was born: Bart. We didn’t know before his birth whether we were having a boy or girl, but he got that nickname anyway because of a misspelling on his ultrasound picture. The technician meant to type “Baby (Our Last Name’s) First Picture”, but typed “BABY” as “BABT”, and my dad misread “BABT” as “BART”. So it looked to him like “BART…’S FIRST PICTURE.” LOL! So that was his name up to the time of his birth.
We told that story to the nurses, and on the name tag that went in his isolette, along with his first and middle name, they wrote, “Or you can call me Bart”!
His real name caught on, though, once we came home, so he shed the nickname pretty quickly.
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We called Baby Girl The Butterbean, She was so cute when she called herself Toe ee Tat rin. Her daddy calls her Cricket. You all know what I call her. Her Pop used to call her Itty Bitty.
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“Wellll! It was sure enough cold!”
Elvera’s sister in SC on last week’s weather.
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I was remarking recently to Emily how I didn’t like it when Sydney started being used as a girl’s name. She replied, kind of surprised, “It used to be a boy’s name?”
Chrissy’s nickname was Chrissy Critter, but usually just Critter. But we didn’t use that all the time, just sometimes.
Today, I was trying to say something to her, & I called her, “Emily…Forrest…Heidi…Chrissy!” 🙂
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Loved the Bart story!
My dad’s nickname as a kid was “Speck.” I think it was because he was the youngest — and the smallest — of three boys growing up on an Iowa farm. But despite his size, he fought a lot, I remember hearing. 😉
Karen, I’ve done that with my dogs a lot, I especially get mixed up between Annie and Tess, weirdly enough.
Sydney is a name that reminds me of Tom Sawyer.
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Re: amount of snow to make an inch of rain. I really doubt it ever takes nearly two feet; I think the weather.com statistic was just wrong. (It would not be the first time I’ve seen that.) The snow we got was quite wet, with up to a couple of inches of accumulation on trees and branches. A few hours after it fell, the temperatures plunged below zero and the wind blew it off the trees, but it was normal snow weather while it fell. I don’t know what the “official” total accumulation was, but the prediction as to amount as of the day before was 10 to 14 inches, and then they lowered it to 8 to 14 inches. We got about a foot, but I don’t know exactly how much. But we already had about six inches on the ground, so we had roughly a foot and a half, and thus some amazing drifts. Only today can one tell, looking in my backyard, where the deck is. The drifts made no distinction whatsoever about the edge of the deck, since they were several feet high at the front of the yard. One of the photos I took was of a junco standing in front of last year’s coneflowers, which only poked a couple inches above the snow. Yet the flowers stand at least a foot higher than the deck, which itself is a couple feet high. (I don’t know heights of decks, but whatever takes a few steps to get up to.)
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Isn’t funny. I knew a man named Sydney and thought it was a horrible, old fashioned name, then I heard it as a woman’s name and thought it was pretty. I also like the variation of Sydnia. I think the one I liked best was a girl I went to college with. There were lots of Elizabeths in her family and they for generations had shortened it to Sabeth.
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My dad has a cousin (male) named Sydney (or actually, I think it may be spelled Sidney), and I had a piano student (female) named Sydney. That was the first time I’d heard of the name being used for a girl.
Karen, my husband and I do that a lot with our girls, go through several of their names before we get the right one. Our boys are almost 14 years apart, so the younger doesn’t get called by the older’s name often.
I am the oldest of five, and three of my siblings are sisters. Two of them have names starting with the same letter as my name. They said teachers at school frequently called them by my name instead of theirs.
My husband has three brothers, and, like me with my three sisters, two of his brothers have first names that start with the same letter as my hubby’s. Plus, there are four girls, and although two of them have names starting with the same letter, a third one has a nickname that starts with that letter, too. So there was a whole bunch of running through a series of names before the right one got called out, with the boys and the girls. 🙂
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I went to school with a group of siblings that all had a name starting with M except the youngest, her name was Amy. Her nickname at home was Mamie because her name didn’t start with M.
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6 Arrows – Did you notice I threw a male name in there, too (Forrest)? I have called Forrest Heidi, & vice versa. I’ve called Emily Leon (Lee’s actual name) & vice versa. 🙂
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Cheryl, “I had one doll named Rebecca and one Becky.” I know a set of twins named Jimmy and Jamie. Their mother was rather young when they were born. Also my father and his brother were both named James, but were named after two different people named James..
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HRW, I know soooo many Micahs and Calebs.
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My sister’s name is Teresa, but has always gone by “Terri”. When she turned 18 during the Vietnam War era, she got a draft notice. I guess the draft board thought she had a boy’s name.
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Karen, yes, I noticed that. 😉 I did something like that one time, calling 6th Arrow (a daughter) by one of the (male) cats’ names. They both have names starting with the same consonant, and have other similar sounds.
Also, the neighbor dog, who likes to show up here now and then, has a name similar to 1st Arrow’s, and I accidentally called son by the dog’s name. 🙂
Twins: we know a pair named Greg and Craig. Really hard to tell which one is being referred to when we hear the name of one or the other, as the starting sounds are so close.
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Had a delightful time watching “Saving Mr. Banks” with my girls. Praying on the way home about the pain of losing a father, which is really what my girls experienced.
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6 arrows’ mention of the neighbor dog visiting reminded me of this story that’s made the rounds:
“An old, tired-looking dog wandered into the yard. I could
tell from his collar and well-fed belly that he had a home.
He followed me into the house, down the hall, and fell
asleep in a corner.
“Curious, I pinned a note to his collar: ‘Every afternoon
your dog comes to my house for a nap.’ The next day he
arrived with a different note pinned to his collar:
” ‘He lives in a home with ten children — he’s trying to catch
up on his sleep. Can I come with him tomorrow?’ “
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I was at seminary when Chuck was born. Some of the guys at work asked if I was going to give him a biblical name. I said, “I thought about it, but Ahab doesn’t go well with Shull”.
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I have two sets of uncles on both sides of my family with the same first names. One of the sets spell their first names differently, however. None of them live in the same area, though, so that helps.
I live not far from Embarrass. I was wrong about the origin of the name, though. Apparently, it is from a French word given by the early French fur traders. I will have to check out an old book my folks have that give the histories of all these areas in our county.
Embarrass is often one of the coldest spots in the nation. Its coldest temperature registered is -57, but the thermometer broke, so that is disputed. Another town is their rival for the coldest, so the battle goes on.
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I have an Aunt Cheryl and Uncle Daryl–they were wombmates.
I can cover most of the names out there if I went through my family.
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I knew a gay couple named Tom & Tom.
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One of my sisters-in-law was the oldest in her family and the oldest girl. Her brothers all had Bible names and she didn’t, so she said she would like them at least to “start” with Bible names.
I have sixteen nieces and nephews by birth (two more by adoption), and every one of the boys-by-birth has a Bible name. One girl has a name that isn’t a Bible name, and one girl has one that it “sort of” (two Bible names put together, like a first and middle name except they’re used as one name). My sister chose “significant” Bible names for her boys, but for her girl she chose a name that’s mentioned only once and that many people don’t even realize is a Bible name.
I’ve never figured out the particular significance of using “Bible names.” I can see naming a child for someone in the Bible you admire (I might consider the name Paul, for example), but would probably have chosen names either because I liked the name or because I wanted to name the child after someone (I’d chosen Irene for the name of my first daughter because of someone in my life by that name). But names in the Bible seem no “holier” than names outside the Bible. But apparently I’m a minority in my family. It will be interesting to see what my brothers who don’t yet have children do if/when they have any. (My own girls don’t have Bible names, though of course I had no part in choosing them.)
Interestingly, I have five brothers and fourteen nephews/grandnephews whose names were chosen by their parents (they weren’t adopted), and only one of those males has a first name that would be considered in the top ten boys’ names (James, though I also have two nephews named Steven and one named Michael). Not one of my brothers has a top-twenty first name, though their middle names mostly are. My name was decently popular in the sixties but never extremely popular and I was born at the very end of the “Cheryls.” And my sister’s name is rare enough I’ve only met a few in my life.
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Chloe is only mentioned in Corinthians.
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I didn’t know where Embarrass was until I looked it up yesterday. My niece went to college near there (UMD). She spent her senior year of high school as an exchange student to Ecuador. She told us after she started college, “I don’t know WHAT I was thinking going from Ecuador to Duluth!” Big temperature change 🙂
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I thought I would share this with you today. Today is the First Sunday after the Epiphany and is considered the Baptism of Jesus, when He took up his public ministry. This is the traditional song for this Sunday. This is the best version I could find…it isn’t like it is pop music. 😉
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Nice video, Kim. I liked the brass in there. And the conductor was quite expressive, though not overly so, in a way that was distracting or anything. (I was formerly a vocal music instructor, so I tend to notice those things.) 😉
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I was going to say “not distractingly so”, but spell check didn’t like that word.
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psst…
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On the politics thread,I asked if Obama would have the flags flown at half staff.
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Just checking in to see if baby Graham has made his appearance yet….
Our first grandson’s middle name is Graham….named after Billy Graham 🙂
I’m having great difficulty remembering passwords and which email is attached to which password….I’m too old for this stuff!
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Everyone’s waiting fro Graham.
Graham keeps his own schedule. It may be the last time in his life that he can do that.
I almost said that he can do it absolutely, but doctors have a way.
Mary is a neonatal nurse. She knows about these things.
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Trying to figure out the flags at half staff comment … ?
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As a teacher I had some interesting names; I had Nikita Khruschev Hendricks but I didn’t have his brothers Patrice Lamumba Hendricks or Fidel Castro Hendricks. I had Righteous Lemon. My father went to school with Matilda Hair and Harold Hair (Mattie Hair and Harry Hair). Our adopted son Richard was born half a twinset, Rickie and Ritchie.
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Ah, Ariel Sharon?
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Why not?
We flew the flag at half staff when Nelson Mandella dies.
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True, Chas, about the flag.
I went to UMD and met my future husband there, 6arrows.
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Cool, Kathaleena. 🙂 Did you both have the same major, or did you meet in other classes or clubs, etc.?
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We met when we were standing in line for a history class. That was his major. We were introduced by a mutual friend. We ended up in the class together and hit it off. He was several years older and I never considered him as anyone I would ever date. Nor did he, me. There was no way we should have gotten together. Of course, that was long ago before more than four decades of marriage. 😉
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I love stories like that! “There was no way we should have gotten together.” 😉
God always working in mysterious ways… 🙂
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He was and still is. 🙂
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🙂
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Jo here. Had a wonderful trip to la. The Brisbane flight is pretty full. Please pray that I make it
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