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To: ExCTCitizen

...and Shirley was a BOY’S name, until a little blonde urchin in skirts hit the Big Screen.

The “gender” of names has always been somewhat fluid; they weren’t set in cement the day you were born.


71 posted on 04/27/2011 8:57:49 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
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To: ApplegateRanch
Ditto "Beverly." Florence King talks about it in Southern Ladies and Gentlemen.
74 posted on 04/28/2011 2:11:00 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: ApplegateRanch
...and Shirley was a BOY’S name, until a little blonde urchin in skirts hit the Big Screen. The “gender” of names has always been somewhat fluid; they weren’t set in cement the day you were born.

True...

76 posted on 04/28/2011 11:00:51 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (Palin/Bachman 2012 (what will the NAGS say??? :-) ))
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To: ApplegateRanch
...and Shirley was a BOY’S name, until a little blonde urchin in skirts hit the Big Screen.

Surely, you can't be serious.

77 posted on 04/28/2011 11:02:51 AM PDT by dfwgator
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