Stuff by any other name
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retsuko:
1. What is your middle name?
Rasheeda. Hey, it was the late seventies and it was still cool to give your little black child some righteously fruit-of-the-Islam underwear black name. Alls I got to say is it could have been worse - it could have started with the ubiquitous "La-" or "Sha-" prefixes... I mean really you gotta love it. Take a really non-descript common name, like Wendy or Lynn, add one of the above prefixes, and poof! Instant ethnicity, just add water..
2. If you had been born the other sex, did your parents tell you what your name would have been?
No. Though I did have an invisible twin brother named Andrew.
3. Do you have children and if so, what are their names?
kids? me? oh, hells no, not right now.
4. If you were to ever have a child or more children, what would you name them?
Aryxon (Klingon for "wax my forehead, supple wench"), Voldemort, Sturm, Dragon and Phoenix. I kid of course. Hey, 'tis the season. Seriously, if I ever have a girl, she's going to be a Claudia. I've never encountered a Claudia I didn't like, either in fiction (they were all cool) or in real life. With possibly Delenn as a middle name. I also like Siobhan, Amber, Rae, any of those Greek myth type names that end in a not-silent "e" sound for girls. Boys, I generally go for the biblical and boring... Except I really like Orlando. Big fan of October too, for anyone. I know it's a month and naming people for months is corny but I like it. Nyeh.
5. Most people know their mother's maiden name, but do you know your grandmother's maiden name?
well of the grans I know about, I haven't a blessed clue, seeing as both of them married twice.
6. Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?
I mentioned andrew. Not to mention the hoardes of invisible cats. Named my bitchy alter-ego Andrea.
7. What was the name of your first pet?
That would be Husky, the huge-ass mean tempered malamute my parents had when I was barely into training pants. This dog was the most vicious thing walking, hated guests and squirrels with equal passion (we didn't let him strew pieces of the guests all over the back yard though) and yet loved me. Go figure.
8. What was the name of the first person you ever kissed?
Konstantin Alexandrovitch Koptev. There's a mouthful. (er, no pun intended.) Looks like one of those appallingly pompous names that should have a roman numeral after it except the Russian system of naming doesn't quite allow for that. I think that just sort of happens when your first name and middle name/patronymic outstrip your surname syllabically. By a lot. Or maybe if your last name just sounds pompous. Or you're named something really eye-rolling, like Wilhelm.
9. What was the name of the school you attended as a child?
K-1 - The Berkeley-Carroll Street School.
2-12 - United Nations International. Nothing like learning at a very young age that it is sooooooooo not all that to be an American.
10. What was the name of your English teacher in high school?
I had several fabulously kooky ones. There was Ms. Knox, who smoked like a chimney and was positively obsessed with sex (she graded higher if you pointed out the sexual imagery in book du jour, not to mention somehow managed to incorperate stripteases in the yearly school shakespeare productions), Mr. Banton, who styled himself after Humphrey Bogart and told wonderfully noir tales of his life in New York, and Mr. Cisek, who would find me and a couple of other people in the geek squad to compare notes on the latest episode of Reboot.
Don't get me started on the music, language or science departments. I could tell you some stories...
11. Do you name your vehicles? What are the name(s)?
Don't have any vehicles to name as yet. Named Mom's Cadillac Murgatroyd ages ago. If I ever get my penis truck, thinking of naming it Saucy Wench. Other cars I have come in contact with... Missy, Mama Cass, Methuselah, Otto Versipellis (sp?) Cy, Dishwater (forget the Japanese for this), Clifford, Penelope... I think that's all the named ones.
retsuko:1. What is your middle name?
Rasheeda. Hey, it was the late seventies and it was still cool to give your little black child some righteously fruit-of-the-Islam underwear black name. Alls I got to say is it could have been worse - it could have started with the ubiquitous "La-" or "Sha-" prefixes... I mean really you gotta love it. Take a really non-descript common name, like Wendy or Lynn, add one of the above prefixes, and poof! Instant ethnicity, just add water..
2. If you had been born the other sex, did your parents tell you what your name would have been?
No. Though I did have an invisible twin brother named Andrew.
3. Do you have children and if so, what are their names?
kids? me? oh, hells no, not right now.
4. If you were to ever have a child or more children, what would you name them?
Aryxon (Klingon for "wax my forehead, supple wench"), Voldemort, Sturm, Dragon and Phoenix. I kid of course. Hey, 'tis the season. Seriously, if I ever have a girl, she's going to be a Claudia. I've never encountered a Claudia I didn't like, either in fiction (they were all cool) or in real life. With possibly Delenn as a middle name. I also like Siobhan, Amber, Rae, any of those Greek myth type names that end in a not-silent "e" sound for girls. Boys, I generally go for the biblical and boring... Except I really like Orlando. Big fan of October too, for anyone. I know it's a month and naming people for months is corny but I like it. Nyeh.
5. Most people know their mother's maiden name, but do you know your grandmother's maiden name?
well of the grans I know about, I haven't a blessed clue, seeing as both of them married twice.
6. Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?
I mentioned andrew. Not to mention the hoardes of invisible cats. Named my bitchy alter-ego Andrea.
7. What was the name of your first pet?
That would be Husky, the huge-ass mean tempered malamute my parents had when I was barely into training pants. This dog was the most vicious thing walking, hated guests and squirrels with equal passion (we didn't let him strew pieces of the guests all over the back yard though) and yet loved me. Go figure.
8. What was the name of the first person you ever kissed?
Konstantin Alexandrovitch Koptev. There's a mouthful. (er, no pun intended.) Looks like one of those appallingly pompous names that should have a roman numeral after it except the Russian system of naming doesn't quite allow for that. I think that just sort of happens when your first name and middle name/patronymic outstrip your surname syllabically. By a lot. Or maybe if your last name just sounds pompous. Or you're named something really eye-rolling, like Wilhelm.
9. What was the name of the school you attended as a child?
K-1 - The Berkeley-Carroll Street School.
2-12 - United Nations International. Nothing like learning at a very young age that it is sooooooooo not all that to be an American.
10. What was the name of your English teacher in high school?
I had several fabulously kooky ones. There was Ms. Knox, who smoked like a chimney and was positively obsessed with sex (she graded higher if you pointed out the sexual imagery in book du jour, not to mention somehow managed to incorperate stripteases in the yearly school shakespeare productions), Mr. Banton, who styled himself after Humphrey Bogart and told wonderfully noir tales of his life in New York, and Mr. Cisek, who would find me and a couple of other people in the geek squad to compare notes on the latest episode of Reboot.
Don't get me started on the music, language or science departments. I could tell you some stories...
11. Do you name your vehicles? What are the name(s)?
Don't have any vehicles to name as yet. Named Mom's Cadillac Murgatroyd ages ago. If I ever get my penis truck, thinking of naming it Saucy Wench. Other cars I have come in contact with... Missy, Mama Cass, Methuselah, Otto Versipellis (sp?) Cy, Dishwater (forget the Japanese for this), Clifford, Penelope... I think that's all the named ones.
