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A Is For Anna: What My First Name Says About Me
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notwhoyouthoughtiwas
09/03/09

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Whenever my mother hears about women with long fingernails, she only has one question. When they go to the bathroom, how do they wipe?
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LaComtesse
09/03/09

@notwhoyouthoughtiwas: Better question--do they use tampons?
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dj_chick
09/03/09

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Am I the only one who really and truly wants a break from bickering about ridiculous things like health care and gay marriage? And I say ridiculous because it really doesn't matter what anyone says, I don't understand why someone would be against either. Why, why, why? I feel like I'm at wits end as far as arguing/having a conversation about it. I'm ready to say to people who are anti-health care reform, "You're selfish. End of story." And to people who are anti-gay marriage, "Get over yourself." Seriously, I'm past the point of eloquence. :(
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Laulau
09/03/09

@dj_chick: I just cut people out of my life who are against either. No joke. This, unfortunately, is not making any changes in policy.
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dj_chick
09/03/09

@Laulau: I'm sure it cuts down on stress though! I've tried to do the same... but you can only avoid your siblings so much. :)

I'm just mentally exhausted from it. A week of vacation from work AND the internet might be just the thing I need. The weekend can't get here soon enough!
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Crackers In Bed
09/03/09

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ok, so the Australian study regarding HPV and breast cancer really upsets me. the past 3 generations of woman on my mother's side have had breast cancer, and she just tested positive for the "breast cancer gene" BRAC. which means I am more than likely to test positive. AND i've had HPV since college. guess i'll go ahead and plan for a masectomy. not sure who I direct this to but, MOTHERFUCKERS!
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Dodgergirl
09/03/09

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I can barely keep my nails long enough to open things wrapped in plastic... they always get brittle at some point and/or I get frustrated with them and chop them all off. I cannot imagine 30 years and nearly 3 feet.
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LaComtesse
09/03/09

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That’s it. *I* want to start gathering signatures to put to a vote something that in no way affects me but could make other people miserable.

Who has ideas? What should we ruin for someone? What group should we target? The possibilities are endless…
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
09/03/09

@LaComtesse: I want to ban all live broadcasts of baseball games!
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
09/03/09

@LaComtesse: I want to ban all live broadcasts of baseball games!
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LaComtesse
09/03/09

@Zombie Ms. Skittles: I was thinking maybe the eating of lobster. I do not care for lobster, so why should anyone eat it?
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Dodgergirl
09/03/09

@Zombie Ms. Skittles: HOW COULD YOU!
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
09/03/09

@LaComtesse: My petition is called "Send Carrie Prejean Somewhere Else. And also, Fox and Friends."
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Maritsa
09/03/09

@LaComtesse: I don't like purple underpants, so no one should be able to wear them. I'm sorry, that's just what my religion teaches me, and I have no agency or ability to questions its teachings.
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
09/03/09

@Dodgergirl: Well I am sorry but if it is that important to you then just shell out the money to see the games yourself! You're taking away the meaning for those who DID pay to go see the game as it happens! Your TV is stealing the meaning from millions of Americans. And you call yourself a Dodgers' fan...
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LaComtesse
09/03/09

@Maritsa: It's Adam and EVE not Adam and PURPLE UNDERWEAR! And John the Baptist wore animal fur underwear. And King David didn't even WEAR underwear as he pranced drunkenly through the streets of Jerusalem before the Ark of the Covenant. So, clearly, the Bible shows us that purple underwear is NOT okay by God.
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Dodgergirl
09/03/09

@LaComtesse: I don't like mustard. When people around me eat mustard, I am FORCED to taste mustard, too, and it ruins the sanctity of my hot dog. BAN MUSTARD!
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LaComtesse
09/03/09

@Zombie Ms. Skittles: An excellent point. Televised games destroy the sanctity of baseball. Baseball is between a man and his overpriced Yankees ticket.

@Dodgergirl: Good point. Besides, everyone knows yellow is the Devil's color.
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missteenwordpower
09/03/09

@LaComtesse: I think mushrooms are pretty unacceptable. Let's not only ban them, but pretend they don't exist.
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LaComtesse
09/03/09

@missteenwordpower: They could be Godly celery stalks if they prayed hard enough...
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Maritsa
09/03/09

@LaComtesse: When other people wear purple underwear it makes MY underwear less important!
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Maritsa
09/03/09

@missteenwordpower: Let's consign them to the fiery pits of hell.
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CurtCole
09/03/09

@BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): If that includes Megan Fox, then I am in!
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wtfox?!
09/03/09

@CurtCole: I am sensing a lot of fox hate here. NOT ALL FOXES ARE LIKE THEM!!

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LaComtesse
09/03/09

@BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): see, I don't know if that's the kind of legislation that I'm talking about... that law would just make everyone's lives better, even the aforementioned Fox and Friends/Prejean/Megan Fox, etc. Their lives would be improved if they just... went away... somewhere.
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
09/03/09

In reply to Maine Will Vote On Gay Marriage • Miss Universe Pageant Adds "Condom Olympics"
Blowing up a condom until it bursts sounds like a really good way to pass out.
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Her Grace
08/23/09

In reply to A Is For Anna: What My First Name Says About Me
I'm an Ali, which went through a brief phase of Ally McBeal jokes. The perrenials, especially from people my parents age, are ones about alley cats and Alley Oop. My full name is Alison, which led to Alison Wonderland (say it out loud, it parses). My mom is super neurotic about the spelling of my name, which she passed on to me (one L! JUST ONE ZOMG!).

I've known a few Annas, and had an entertaining time in college being repeatedly confused with a classmate-Anna, and they were usually calm, clever people. I quite like the name. It's also the name of my mom's cat, but she's, um, special.
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Ipomoea
08/21/09

In reply to A Is For Anna: What My First Name Says About Me
Could we maybe re-visit Jessica again? There are a lot more of us on the site now, and we aren't all bad, I promise. Some of us are quite lovely.
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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
08/21/09

In reply to A Is For Anna: What My First Name Says About Me
Three years ago, first day at improv class, we played a game where the names of every classmember was read off by the instructor, and based on how people looked, the other members of the class would assign whose name was whose.

I'm black and my name is Rebecca. I have an Irish last name because my dad is biracial. There was an Asian girl in class named Tanya. Everyone named me Tanya and gave my name to a girl with curly red hair.

I went for a job interview last year, walked into the interviewer's office and he said, "Rebecca (my middle name is equally boring) O'____????", and was visibly surprised to see me. Then followed with this: "Oh I thought you'd be a good Irish girl. Are you Irish." And chuckled. I laughed it off and didn't answer, but then he said, "Are you? You have curly hair." More laughter....

So yea....

That said, I absolutely LOVE my name and find these incidents funny rather than offensive.
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LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman
08/21/09

In reply to A Is For Anna: What My First Name Says About Me
I was perfectly happy with the Megans I knew of until Ms. Fox came along and associated my name with that horrid sexyface. ; )
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Ipomoea
08/21/09

@LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman: Whatevs. You and all the Megans I know of (except for her) totally make up for it.
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ammre
08/21/09

In reply to A Is For Anna: What My First Name Says About Me
I'm an anne. (the e is not pronounced but that didn't stop people from saying annIE) Anna seems slightly more proper then anne. I got "anna banana", "anne the man" (I was taller and broader then the boys in my grade) "annie fannie" "annie fat fannie"

"annie are you ok? are you ok annie?!" and then the effin band did the cover of that song which became re-popular in my lifetime.

I also happened to be 12 when sublime came out with "wrong way" "Annie's 12 years old, in two more she'll be a whore. Nobody ever told her it's the wrong way"

people who say "add" or "and" or "an" funny often make me think they are talking to me.

Then in Highschool my class of 92 girls had 3 anne's. So there was an anne, an annie, and I adopted my middle name, "AnneMarie" which said fast is how i got my screen name.
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ClockOnTheStove
08/21/09

@ammre: Lately, I'm always on the receiving end of "Annie Get Your Gun!" Or something about Green Gables?
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hej hej
08/21/09

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Anna Wintour has not soured me on the name at all. I think it's lovely. It's old-fashioned without being outdated. Plus I have a Swedish grandmother named Anna too!

If you're taking name recommendations, can you do Sarah? I know there's lots of other Jezebel commenters with my name, especially considering every other girl born between 1980-1989 has the same name.
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Ratinski
08/21/09

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Amanda. Amanda, just like every fourth girl born in the 80s. (The only name that was more common was Jennifer.) The hilarious part? My mother culled our names from the family tree, and I only got Amanda because she decided Ella Amanda would be too old-fashioned.

By high school I really, really wished she'd gone with Ella.
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cupscake
08/21/09

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So my real name is Alexis. I got teased a lot growing up since I went to elementary school during the heyday of Dynasty. So you can guess that I have a pre-conceived notion that when some people hear the name 'Alexis' they think husband-stealing, gold digging, bitchfor me the bitch part is true just every 28 days. also I was always bummed that I could never find my name on keychains at Disneyland when I was little!
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Skellatrix
08/21/09

@cupscake: My best friend is Alexis and all of what you described is true!
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MalinaMango
08/21/09

In reply to A Is For Anna: What My First Name Says About Me
I have lexical-gustatory synesthesia, which means I taste words (not all, but many.) A lot of the flavours are semantically related to the words, so Anna tastes like bananas (of course) drenched in tomato sauce (I have no idea why.) That's how I judge whether or not I like a name- I see what they taste like.
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Grim Reaper of the Forest
08/21/09

@MalinaMango: So...do you like the taste of bananas drenched in tomato sauce? I must know.
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MalinaMango
08/21/09

@Grim Reaper of the Forest: I've never actually attempted it, but I think it would taste good enough. Both ingredients are tasty on their own.
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