Does Your Name Fit You, and Would You Like Another One? Janine picks a new name

[smetchie]

why Dolly? Is it because of your huge pregnancy mammaries?

I LOVE the name Clyde! I wanted to name a son that but I never got one.

[Mary]

I almost got named "Fanny", middle name "Doggett". It's an old family name on my mother's side.

Fanny Doggett Featherstone. I would not have survived childhood.

[Sally, la reina]

No, because on the phone people always think I said Dolly when i say my name.
If we were naming me because of my mammaries I think I'd be Pamela.

[smetchie]

People always think I'm saying Rachel.

[smetchie]

nope. I get it a lot but I'm always baffled. Sometimes I get Kristen too, which makes more sense.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

I get people thinking my name is Kathy. What???

[Rachel]

I like my name...But I dunno...people have never told me I'm not a Rachel...

[Zen]

People think I say Danielle. I know how baffling that feels.

[Flora]

My daughter named her baby Lillian Raige. I tried really hard to talk her out of the middle name, it just sounds so angry.

[smetchie]

Do people call you King Dinosaur in real life, Scott?

[smetchie]

:) that was fun.

[Zen]

Goodreads is not real life?

[smetchie]

edit: in 3D world?

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

I call him Scott when I see him at the library. But I WANT to call him King Dinosaur. :)

[Sally, la reina]

You see KD at the library? He exists outside of my laptop?

[Félix]

Sally wrote: "If I chose a penname for GR it would have to be Dolly."

Hello Dolly. Bet you never heard that before.

[Félix]

Rachel wrote: "I like my name...But I dunno...people have never told me I'm not a Rachel..."

It's a good name. Fits you just fine.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Sally wrote: "You see KD at the library? He exists outside of my laptop?"

Yes, I've seen him at the library, shelving books. And he's seen me sitting on the floor in the kids' section, weeding books.
Oh! And I've seen him in his Colt Winchester persona, too, playing with his band Rodeo Kill a couple of times.

[janine]

my name is not janine. my real name is unique, but a bit old fashioned, people can't spell it right and it is very dutch. i still like it though, mainly because it is unique and because i was named after my grandmother.

[[deleted user]]

I like janine too!

[Sally, la reina]

Janine reminds me of Claudia's older sister in the Baby Sitter's Club books. I never knew how to pronounce it as a kid.

[janine]

janine is an anagram of my middle name, my real middle name is jannie, with a j as in yes, an a as in dark and ie as in ski.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Middle names that start with "j" ROCK!



- Jacqueline Jeanne Marquardt

[smetchie]

I think I will now refer to you as scott dinosaur.

[Félix]

janine wrote: "janine is an anagram of my middle name, my real middle name is jannie, with a j as in yes, an a as in dark and ie as in ski."

Okay, Jannie, or whoever you really are.

[Phil]

janine wrote: "my name is not janine. my real name is unique..."

Hi Unique. Nice to meet you.

[[deleted user]]

I have always hated my name. Sort of a harsh, awkward to pronounce name, it doesn't get shortened or lengthened. It has too many ways to spell it, so I am always forced to spell it for people & even if you spell it, they often insist on spelling it a different way. The only nick name I ever had was Windy. Why don't I use something else? It simply never occurred to me.
I wasn't going to contribute to this discussion because all I could do was whine. :(. But now I have finally got it off my chest (not chestier) I feel a whole lot better. :).
Does it suit me? Who knows!!!

[Félix]

Thanks for your contribution, Gale.

[janine]

Phil wrote: "janine wrote: "my name is not janine. my real name is unique..."

Hi Unique. Nice to meet you."

i also go by nobody.

[Félix]

Nobody Unique Janine.

[Rachel]

Hey Bod! You're like that boy in Neil Gaiman's book! His name is also Nobody, but people call him Bod.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Yeah! That's a great book, too, The Graveyard Book, I was really happy when it won the Newbery Award.
But, I don't want to call Janine "Bod," because that sounds like we're commenting on her physique.

[janine]

now all i need is a last name, something creative.

[Félix]

Netherlander?

[janine]

rhymes with neverlander

[Félix]

never-neverlander ever

[Matt]

Bod Netherlander sounds like the name of someone who would have competed in the World's Strongest Man competition...

[janine]

bod netherlander would only work in an ironic sense, i am always surprised when i manage to open a jar without help.

[Rachel]

Janine...Bod Netherlander...Bod Neverlander...I tried saying it outloud and it sounds like the lazy way of saying Bored Need a Lender..which makes no sense.

**cackles**

[[deleted user]]

I get called everything under the sun - Chuck, Craig, Scott, asshole - except for Clark.

I know it's not a common name, but get it straight wouldya?

[[deleted user]]

Sorry Charles, we'll try harder.

[janine]

maybe i should just keep my name as it is, it makes much more sense than any of the other names we have come up with.

[janine]

and i like it!

[Félix]

And does Mr. Yummy like his name as well?

[janine]

mr yummy is always happy, as long as i remember to feed him.

[[deleted user]]

::bites tongue, breaks fingers, anything to stop from saying or typing it::

[Félix]

And I'm sure he won't let you forget.

[Heidi]

I LOVE my name, and I think it suits me fine.

And then horseyface Heidi Monta*COUGH COUGH*CAN'T SAY*COUGH*HER NAME*COUGH COUGH COUGH* pops into the public eye and gives the rest of us Heidis in the world a bad name. She's not fit to be a Heidi. She doesn't deserve to be a Heidi.

I'm just sayin'...

[Félix]

This place hasn't been same without you, Heidi.

[Heidi]

:) God bless you, Larry.