Annie Ozone
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Death of Cars, Reader of Books, Drinker of Booze, and Generally Accident-Prone Lady
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Post by Annie Ozone on Jun 12, 2011 22:26:25 GMT -5
I am a Southerner and an English major. My kid is doomed.
Except not, when I think about it. My favorite women from literature are Susan Pevensie, Lyra Belaqua, Amy March, and Scarlett O'Hara, and I would definitely go with Susan first for a daughter, but I could go with all those names.
Boys, though...I have a fondness for Old Testament names. Like Levi and Mordecai and Ezekiel. The creatures I have named, however, have been the dogs Oscar (Wilde) and George (Harrison). Computer I was Beauregard and Computer II is Buford.
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Post by Silva on Jun 12, 2011 23:10:42 GMT -5
The creatures I have named, however, have been the dogs Oscar (Wilde) and George (Harrison). MY COMPUTER IS OSCAR! Also, my iPod is Franz Kafka II AKA Frank. |
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Annie Ozone
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Death of Cars, Reader of Books, Drinker of Booze, and Generally Accident-Prone Lady
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Post by Annie Ozone on Jun 12, 2011 23:44:14 GMT -5
Oscar the Dog! He was my baby, and I fully approve of naming your computer for the Wilde. I did a presentation on him in sophomore year of high school and it was awkward (because a group of 30 15-year-olds does not make for frank and healthy discussions of different sexualities) but it was also the best because a close friend came out to me soon after, since I hadn't glossed over Wilde's sexuality (my main focus was actually De Profundis) and I'd been respectful of it.
TL;DR- ALL THE THINGS SHOULD BE NAMED OSCAR, EVER. I shall now change my name to Oscar Ozone II.
Also, I still have to stifle the urge to spell America as Amerika since reading that book. By contrast, my car's name is Billy Bob (it is a Prius).
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 14, 2011 1:34:27 GMT -5
Also, my iPod is Franz Kafka II AKA Frank. This is the best iPod name I have yet heard. |
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 14, 2011 1:38:08 GMT -5
My computers are named Yuto and Ryuya from the twin brothers in W Juliet. I was big on manga in my younger years.
My only "literary" named device is Sirius for my iTouch.
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 14, 2011 2:19:02 GMT -5
My computers are named Yuto and Ryuya from the twin brothers in W Juliet. I was big on manga in my younger years. My only "literary" named device is Sirius for my iTouch. I've named my thumb drive, external harddrive, and iPod after characters from the manga Nana for similar reasons (Yassan, Shin-chan, and Nana, respectively). |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2011 5:01:56 GMT -5
One of my housemates has two rats called Bill and Ted, and every time I see them I get annoyed because Ted has blue eyes and Bill has red eyes, and I feel like they should've been named the other way around. If I ever get a pet of my own, I'm thinking 'W1n5t0n' after the main character's hacker name in Cory Doctorow's Little Brother - which is itself a reference to Winston from 1984. You know, for extra literary nerd-fu  |
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Post by Silva on Jun 14, 2011 13:38:15 GMT -5
Also, my iPod is Franz Kafka II AKA Frank. This is the best iPod name I have yet heard. Really? YAY! yay = so scholarly. |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 14, 2011 14:54:15 GMT -5
This is the best iPod name I have yet heard. Really? YAY! yay = so scholarly. "Huzzah" is also a terribly scholarly exclamation. |
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Post by ashshields on Jun 15, 2011 3:10:34 GMT -5
I really like Sirius for a kid's name. Laertes is brilliant too.
Semi-related note: does anyone else name characters after writers? The main character in my first novella was Neil (after Neil Gaiman).
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Post by Silva on Jun 15, 2011 14:23:47 GMT -5
Semi-related note: does anyone else name characters after writers? The main character in my first novella was Neil (after Neil Gaiman). I have a character named T.S., sort of after T.S. Eliot, only the initials don't stand for Thomas Stearns. |
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Dobby
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Post by Dobby on Jun 15, 2011 16:32:32 GMT -5
I'm currently reading The Sun Also Rises, and I think Count Mippipopolous is probably one of the best names I've ever come across while reading. I also like Zizi. My friend made a walrus out of clay and asked for name suggestions, so I suggested those two. Guess who got a really weird look. Yep. Me.
I also love Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore (and basically all of the names in the Harry Potter series.
My iPod is named Tweedledum. (And my best friend's is named Tweedledee. Because we're almost like twins. And we both love that book.)
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Post by smallthings on Jun 16, 2011 20:24:31 GMT -5
For a girl, I love the names Desdemona and Calliope (from Middlesex and another YA novel I cannot remember the name of right now).
For a boy, I love the name Aureliano (from One Hundred Years of Solitude) and Ezra (Pound).
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Post by Eternal Lobster on Jun 16, 2011 20:27:21 GMT -5
For a girl, I love the names Desdemona and Calliope (from Middlesex and another YA novel I cannot remember the name of right now). For a boy, I love the name Aureliano (from One Hundred Years of Solitude) and Ezra (Pound). A friend I am no longer friends with named her dog Desdemona but after the character in Othello. They called her Dezzie and I thought that it was really cute. |
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Post by Jannelle on Jun 17, 2011 0:32:17 GMT -5
I've been really into names from literature, pop culture, and the like since I learned that my middle name, Aurora, wasn't actually my name. It's Auroro, as in Storm's name before she joined the X-Men.
Boy or girl, my first kid is going to be Aiden, and the second will either be Basil (as in Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler) or Kezia (Biblical names, all day, every day.)
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