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Jim Webster, (In On a Chance! )
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Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)
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Sep 27, 2014 09:29AM
There's reputedly a young man in Glasgow delighting in the name of Canoe, because his mum really liked Keanu reeves but couldn't spell...
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Patti (baconater) wrote: "The poor kid"Think what he has to live up to when he reads the books.
Especially if he starts off with a fear of heights
Jim wrote: "One day someone will christen their baby boy Benor and I will whimper"So will the poor kid.
Will, what if one of your readers calls her child Griselda?
Will wrote: "Jim wrote: "One day someone will christen their baby boy Benor and I will whimper"So will the poor kid."
Only when he's old enough to read the book, before then he'll just assume he's named after a forgotten Italian footballer
I reckon the world is safe from any DefrevillesCheers
MTM
M T wrote: "I reckon the world is safe from any DefrevillesCheers
MTM"
A family of fishmongers apparently http://www.ancestry.co.uk/name-origin...
Apparently Webster means weaver. Of tall tales?
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "Will, what if one of your readers calls her child Griselda?"I'd give her a free book every time I released another
Everytime I think of a surname, I always run it through the local ophone book now. It's depressing how many names are taken.I did the same for that racehorse I was using for a gag in Satnav. Luckily Madcap Harry was free when I wrote the book.
Even the old fashioned ones like Carterthigh-Pinkrimington?
I'll bet there's one somewhere!Probably in Budleigh Salterton.
Nope - no results on Google. So there.
I reckon its a bit of a David Hadley type name. Maybe we could offer it to him.
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "Ben or what?"Jerry.
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "Apparently Webster means weaver. Of tall tales?"Apparently the name comes from either the black forest where it means something in German or it's a Lancashire cotton town trade name.
Apparently (and I haven't a clue whether it's true) a webster is the one who put's the warp on the loom that the weft is woven through
Surely it means spider, no?
That would explain why Jim seems to have webs everywhere, wouldn't it?
And why he's so adept on the World Wide Web. Phnark.
Forgot to put his watch forward in Spring, I expect
Current watch has lost its wheel so that the hands can be altered manually.So last winter I went through it in summer time :-)
Better than hammer time!
Actually Jim, I think your name is Jim Webmaster, and you just shorten it so you can hide in plain sight.
I have spent a lifetime not knowing about Hammer Time. Now, also, thanks to Google I am aware of its existence. I do not feel that the universe is a better place for this
Sorry Jim, I shouldn't have done that to you.
No sulking, young man.Don't make me send a note home.
You'll be needing the appropriate trousers for hammer time, Jim.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "No sulking, young man.Don't make me send a note home."
I'll go off to London for three days and not write,see if I don't!
What are you going off to London for Jim? You know it gives you the collywobbles*.Cheers
MTM
* and black bogies.
Business meeting, so I'm going early to catch up with people
The early bird catches the worm, not people. Oh, misread that.
Not that fussed about catching worms either to be honest
I recall reading that some people purposefully consume worms in order to get slim.
'Nobody loves me, everybody hates me, think that I'll go and eat worms...'
I'm glad I'm not going to London.Too many nice restaurants and museums and suchlike there.
Will wrote: "'Nobody loves me, everybody hates me, think that I'll go and eat worms...'"Reminds me of Dean Spooner, who told a student that he had 'Tasted the whole worm'.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "I'm glad I'm not going to London.Too many nice restaurants and museums and suchlike there."
fear not, i can resist. Grab a bite somewhere and loiter in secondhand bookshops ;-)
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "I reckon its a bit of a David Hadley type name. Maybe we could offer it to him."As it happens, I was offered a name on Twitter this morning.
https://twitter.com/SimonMagus/status...
I could be on the cusp of developing a reputation.
LOL!I think mine is better though ;)
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "LOL!I think mine is better though ;)"
They are both on a list now.
Waiting....
One thing about a name, it has to be sayable. Octopus Stinkhorn does achieve this.I still here the voice-over "And here we see the rare stinkhorn octopus going about its regular routine..."
Jim wrote: "One thing about a name, it has to be sayable. Octopus Stinkhorn does achieve this.I still here the voice-over "And here we see the rare stinkhorn octopus going about its regular routine...""
I sometimes think that SF and fantasy authors sometimes choose names that are deliberately awkward.
Having spent many years as a GM in role-playing games I long ago learned to make darned sure that I could say the names :-)
As a fantasy novelist and reader, I'm on the ordinary sounding names side of the fence. I've been put off many a read because of unpronounceable names. That's not to say they cant be made up, they just have to follow the rules of language and not be something like: X'Jkichnbglbl.
X'Jkichnbglbl - pronounced Kitchenbell
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