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Tartan_Tart
12/04/09

In reply to N Is For Natasha, A Femme Fatale
I was sure it was going to be Natalie - yay for thinking outside of the box!
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MsFeasance
12/06/09

@Tartan_Tart: I was hoping for Nicole, myself. So little love for the Nicoles.
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DutchessOfDork
12/04/09

In reply to N Is For Natasha, A Femme Fatale
I was hoping you would do my name :D My dad did get the name from Rocky and Bullwinkle.
But I am emotional :P
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JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing!
12/04/09

In reply to N Is For Natasha, A Femme Fatale
Ah, shit. I could have sworn you were going to do "Nicole" so I could complain on behalf of Noelle name-holders that we keep getting the shaft.

Le sigh.
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Lolita Hazed
12/04/09

In reply to N Is For Natasha, A Femme Fatale
She's also quite fatal because ah, Satan sees her.
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Skellatrix
12/04/09

In reply to N Is For Natasha, A Femme Fatale
Ooo! I knew a Natasha. She was very petite, with long blond hair and freckles. She masked her daintiness with black eyeliner and dark red lipstick. She wore JNCOs with a wallet chain, did drugs, drank, and had a mom who didn't care who was sleeping over. My best friend used her as an excuse. She would sneak around with her boyfriend and then go to Natasha's basement in the middle of the night. Then the "I'm sleeping over at Natasha's house!" lie would be partly true.
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Penny
12/04/09

In reply to N Is For Natasha, A Femme Fatale
I am feeling kind of dumb for not knowing that Sasha's full name was Natasha. I saw her and for a moment was like "waaaahuh?"
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TheFormerJuneBronson
12/04/09

In reply to N Is For Natasha, A Femme Fatale
I always remember that Michael's dog's name in Forever was named Tasha. She was a schnauzer. I think I may have read that too many times as a teen.

I know two IRL Natashas, and neither are your high school Natasha. One is a dim receptacle who has chosen someone unfortunate with whom to reproduce, and the other is a high school friend who is pure awesome, and a gifted athlete in a sport not traditionally for women.
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SunburnedCounsel
12/04/09

In reply to N Is For Natasha, A Femme Fatale
I knew a Natasha in high school, but I did go to boarding school, and she dated models and did a boat-load of coke. So, par for the course I guess.
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eloiseonahill
12/04/09

@SunburnedCounsel: Ah HA! That's why Natasha is hard to imagine going to high school. Of COURSE she went to boarding school! (for those of us who didn't)
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mikaelamac
12/04/09

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A friend of mine gave me the alias of "Natasha Brooksfield"... I'd like to think the description actually fits to some degree.
(btw, her alias was Rory Killjoy - a stern, quiet type).
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Tchotchke
12/04/09

In reply to N Is For Natasha, A Femme Fatale
Natascha McElhone has one of the best bodies that I have ever seen. Also, her cheek bones are to die for.
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MyNameIsChris
12/04/09

@Tchotchke: She's completely not my type at all, and yet I'm shockingly attracted to her. It makes watching Californication with my wife much more entertaining than just laughing at her cooing over Duchovny. Also, something about her voice and the way she speaks just kills me.
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Tchotchke
12/04/09

@MyNameIsChris: I think it's the cool, bohemian air about her. She just seems very laid back, and her body is perfect. I'd love to be that tall. Plus, she doesn't seem like the type that needs much makeup; she seems natural.
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MyNameIsChris
12/04/09

@Tchotchke: You raise a good point... I always go for the cool bohemian vibe... laid back and natural... So she's got all that.
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Snowbunny
12/04/09

@Tchotchke: She is ridiculously beautiful. Every scene she's in on Californication basically turns into me staring at her perfect face.
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Tchotchke
12/04/09

@Snowbunny: You know why I find her so beautiful too? She is unconventional by Hollywood standards. She has a bit of a nose, her eyes give off a sad, soulful vibe because they are tilted slightly downward, and her mouth is slightly crooked. But all of that is exactly what makes her so beautiful! (Also, full disclosure: I love women with strong noses. I think it's so beautiful.)
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Twerpsichore
12/04/09

In reply to N Is For Natasha, A Femme Fatale
I move that Nastassja be considered a variant. Ms. Kinski is definitely a Natasha.
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
12/04/09

In reply to N Is For Natasha, A Femme Fatale
It is a pretty name, but it seems (to me, anyway) like it could be a heavy load, you know, like you might have to really work to live up to it. Then again, I have a sturdy old-timey ethnic name, so certain names just seem generally exotic and intimidating to me. This is one of them.
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princesspineisempowered
12/04/09

In reply to N Is For Natasha, A Femme Fatale
Yea!! Natasha is my first daughter's name! She was supposed to be born on Christmas Eve but was born on Dec 4th instead. So Happy Birthday Natasha G! You will always be special to me!
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AndPreciousLittleofThat
12/04/09

@princesspineisempowered: Congrats! So is today the first birthday, or the VERY first birthday?

Plus, your kid shares a birthday with the illustrious Jay-Z.
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Snowbunny
12/04/09

@princesspineisempowered: Happy birthday to your daughter! What perfect timing for the name game!
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Ailatan
12/04/09

@princesspineisempowered: I'm a Natalia and was supposed to be born on Dec 25th as well, yet I was born on Dec 8th (Immaculate Conception day)

Happy Birthday to your daughter!
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princesspineisempowered
12/04/09

@AndPreciousLittleofThat: My very first child,(and first daughter)named Natasha, is having her 29th birthday today. I have 2 daughters and one son. I can't wait to see if my second daughter's name makes the cut
(unlikely but I never imagined *Natasha* would either).
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princesspineisempowered
12/04/09

@Ailatan: Natalia is a beautiful name! A loving celebration of a new life.
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Marla Singer
12/04/09

In reply to N Is For Natasha, A Femme Fatale
"Sasha" is short for Natasha!?
I'll never understand the mechanicals of nicknaming in English.
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hortense
12/04/09

@Marla Singer: I would think "Tasha" would be the more common diminutive. Or "Nat."
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lizdexia
12/04/09

@Marla Singer: It will help if you accept that there really aren't any rules and it's entirely arbitrary. In fact, many people with slightly off nicknames can attribute them to a sibling's speech impediment or something totally nuts.

I imagine the Obama's just liked Sasha better than Tasha.
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BlondeGoddess
12/04/09

@Marla Singer: That's actually nicknaming in Russian, in this case.
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Tchotchke
12/04/09

@Marla Singer: Sasha is the diminutive of Aleksandr in Russian. Alexandra as well, but it's especially common as a nickname for men. Natasha, is actually a Russian diminutive of Natalia. So, not really, but I guess it might be different in English...?
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Marla Singer
12/04/09

@Tchotchke: Oh, that's cool. So it's just an English thing, or maybe just an Obama thing, heh.
It's fascinating to me because in Spanish we mostly use a piece of the actual name and/or diminutives ("ito" and "ita"), and that's about it.
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Alys Brangwin has a huge talent
12/04/09

@BlondeGoddess: Yeah, except Sasha has nothing do with Natasha, which is already a diminutive of Natalya. My favorite diminutive, however, is Zhenya, and I was totally jealous of my friend Evgenia's sweet nickname. Mine is okay, though, since I get to be Anya in Russian.
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Tchotchke
12/04/09

@Alys Brangwin has a huge talent: Russians have the best diminutive names. It's also a really good language for cutesy nicknames and little kid voices because of the prevalence of "sshhh" and "zh" sounds. A little kid whining in Russian is the only time whining is cute.
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highjump
12/04/09

@Alys Brangwin has a huge talent: I love the name Zhenya, but if I named any lil highjumpers that it would seldom be pronounced correctly. We need to import that letter from cyrillic that makes that rather specific sound!
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highjump
12/04/09

@Tchotchke: A big, big yes to all of this.
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BlondeGoddess
12/04/09

@Alys Brangwin has a huge talent: I stand corrected!
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DutchessOfDork
12/04/09

@hortense: I hate Nat. People at work forget that, and I have to say "I AM NOT A BUG".
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DutchessOfDork
12/04/09

@lizdexia: Funny story. My great-uncles name is Henry, but people call him Dick becasue when he was a kid he used to say "Stickum up!" But had a speech problem and said Dickum up! 70 years later...it prevails.
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hortense
12/04/09

In reply to N Is For Natasha, A Femme Fatale
I had NO idea that Sasha Obama's actual name is Natasha. How did I not know this?!
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rodmanstreet
12/04/09

@hortense: I didn't know that, either! They must be hiding her birth certificate from the public!
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TransFat
12/04/09

@rodmanstreet: Not so loud! Don't you know birthers can hear web comments from miles away? Your wit has doomed us all!
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