[wc] Re: Don't name your boy Sue

Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:10:20 -0700

There are other ways to honor someone besides naming someone after
them if you don't want them burdened with an undesireable name.



--- In [email protected], "dvm8375"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What's ironic to me, is that Phenie seems like exactly the kind of
> woman you'd want to name your daughters after.  Although, Phenie is
> pretty awful.
>
>
>
> --- In [email protected], "Kate Jones"
> <eutrpist@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "Elizabeth Collins"
> > <ecolins@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Maybe he didn't like the name Herman. My great grandmother was
> > named Agnes, but hated it. By the
> > > time I came around, everyone called her Grandma Joe. Her second
> > husband was named Joe and we
> > > called him Grandpa Joe. Even my mother and grandmother used
> these
> > nicknames, so I'm not sure who
> > > originated them, or when. I don't remember how old I was when I
> > figured out that her name was not
> > > Joe, and that Joe was a first name rather than a last name.
> > >
> >
> > My great-great grandmother was named "Josehpine," detested her
> name,
> > and refused to answer to "Jo," so the family called her "Phenie" 
> > (rhymes with "teeny").  She said "if you love your daughters,
> don't
> > name them after me!" 
> >
> > She was quite a character.  At 80 she fell over a footstool and
> > insisted that the family tell everyone that she got it in a beer
> > brawl because she didn't want people to think that she was a
> little
> > old lady who falls over footstools. 
> >
> > She also raised my grandmother, who learned early in her dating
> years
> > to be ready when her date showed up.  If she wasn't Phenie would
> play
> > craps with the young man in question and take all his money.  (My
> > brother swears the dice were loaded and round with wear, but I
> doubt
> > he ever saw them.)  If Phenie didn't like my grandmother's
suitor,
> > she wouldn't give him his money back.
> >
>





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