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M Is For Michelle, An Elegant Mystery
Name Games
L Is For Lisa, Whose Looks Are Deceiving
K Is For Kate, Who Kicks Ass, Takes Names
J Is For Jennifer, The Vanilla Of Names
H Is For Hillary, A Barrel Of Laughs
G Is For Grace — What's That Up Her Sleeve?
Latin & Hispanic Names: "Doomed"
D Is For Danielle (Or Dani, Who's Apparently Kinda Judgey)
C Is For Courtney, Who's Too Cool For School

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CherriSpryte
11/20/09

In reply to M Is For Michelle, An Elegant Mystery
Aww, not my M name. .... but honestly, I don't think you can define a person by a name. Or astrological sign, or any of that. People are who they are, and commonalities come through experiences, not names or birthdays.
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girlscoutcookie is back from hiatus
11/20/09

In reply to M Is For Michelle, An Elegant Mystery
Bummed my name wasn't the M name, but it never is. For anything.

Michelle was my best friend growing up. She had, like, a different personality every week-- not in a bad way, or how she'd treat you, but in the way of like, oh this week I'm into yoga! Now I'm obsessed with soaps! Now we have to go buy workout gear 'cause I'm a RUNNER now! Now I'm going to be a singer! No, an actress! No, an interior decorator! No, a doctor!--and she was always the first person in school to have the funky new haircut. She was kind of fearless but wore her heart on her sleeve a lot-- I'd probably have called her a drama queen if I didn't like her so much. I moved away when we were 15, eight years ago, and we lost touch. I miss her. She'll always be the one the Beatles were singing about to me.
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rodmanstreet
11/20/09

In reply to M Is For Michelle, An Elegant Mystery
And how about Me'Shell?
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mfnher
11/20/09

In reply to M Is For Michelle, An Elegant Mystery

Don't forget Michele Norris! Her voice continues to soothe me on my drive. Maybe she doesn't count, because it's Meeeshell?
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myyysharona
11/20/09

@mfnher: woah, i think that's the first time I've seen (instead of heard) anyone from NPR
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mfnher
11/20/09

@myyysharona: I wish I could find it, but they did a thing on their website where they did audio clips, and you had to try and match it up to their pictures. I did a horrific job at guessing.
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myyysharona
11/20/09

@mfnher: i would have probably screwed up on that quiz, too. right after i commented on this and went to npr.org. i poked around the site until i found out what the other commentators and reporters looked like. what i imagined in my mind versus what i saw were completely different. (well, except for carl kassel.) now i am wondering how far off my mental images of what my clients from work (the ones i only have phone relationships with) are...
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frugal
11/20/09

In reply to M Is For Michelle, An Elegant Mystery
Michele Norris! She has a beautiful voice, my sometimes she uses it to sound so bitchy.
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Penny
11/20/09

In reply to M Is For Michelle, An Elegant Mystery
The Michelles I know are professional acquaintances. They are all nice, but nothing like you described as far as elegant, etc.
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the dodo, the cuckoo, and the nene
11/20/09

In reply to M Is For Michelle, An Elegant Mystery
I think of Michelle Tanner when I hear the name Michelle. When I discovered that Michelle was played by twins, it blew my mind. I guess I don't really know very many Michelles in real life.

I am also late to this name game, as I didn't realize that my name (my name lacks an N though and is not pronounced the same way) was the first one covered.
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Mary McCarthyite
11/20/09

In reply to M Is For Michelle, An Elegant Mystery
No! I beg to differ. My best friend is a Michelle, and while she is indeed tall and cool, she is one of the messiest people I know, and she gets asked out a lot.
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Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
11/18/09

In reply to Name Games
Somewhere in my country, there lives a child named Awesome-Rage Venus Unique. Pretty sure his parents didn't need to look that up before naming him, tho- the name seems pretty straightforward.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
11/18/09

In reply to Name Games
I'm kinda surprised Tom and Katy didn't want to spend the money.

But then again, they could have thought those linguists were cheap and inaccurate and hired their own.
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pantsless economist...access RESTORED
11/18/09

In reply to Name Games
Can they do it in reverse? I want to know the name that means "she who passes gas" or "destroyer of zombies."
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Lymed
11/18/09

In reply to Name Games
This motivated me to play with Google's translator and my name. Well, apparently, my name means Denmark in the language of my mother's country of birth.
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Atomic Bowling
11/18/09

@Lymed: Let me guess, your name is Qallunaat Nunaat! (the way it's said by the native people of Greenland)
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Lymed
11/18/09

@Atomic Bowling: You're right!

#tips
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MrsAbraxas
11/18/09

In reply to Name Games
Hrm. Perhaps useful.

But I'm still waiting for baby-name auditors who'll cross-check future offspring's namesakes for likelihood to inspire nasty school yard chants...
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morninggloria
11/18/09

In reply to Name Games
Why does it matter if the unsaved browner peoples of the world believe that my son "Cabron" and my daughter "Bruja" have strange names? The only reason that they'd ever come in contact with my children is if they decided, out of the goodness of their American hearts, to spend their freshman year spring break at Bob Jones University on a missionary trip teaching the unenlightened about Christ.
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Tchotchke
11/18/09

@morninggloria: I'm swooning over your comment.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
11/18/09

@morninggloria: Madge? Is that you?
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Tchotchke
11/18/09

In reply to Name Games
I suppose Suri Cruise does sound more pleasant than the alternative: "Sticky-Fingers Cruise."*

*Which is precisely how I will be referring to her for now on.
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