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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
No, thanks, though you’re welcome to use Eleanor as well ;-)
Or maybe Elinor, I haven’t decided.
Elenora Threadkiller
...Speaking of such things, did I mention that my nephew -- who should be born in the next couple of days -- is going to be "Bertrand Theodore"? I just don't know quite what to think of that.
Um. Eeh. Old-fashioned is one thing...but that’s...
Did I mention there was a Liberty Ann Justice Smith (don’t remember the last name, but it doesn’t really matter) in the paper back home awhile back? I mean...Liberty isn’t toooo bad a name, but...ungh.
Um. There’s something to be said for nice, strong, old-fashioned names, But then again there’s old fashioned and there’s just a little... archaic.
Which brother’s kid is this? Aren’t both their wives pregnant?
This is the brother who used to hang out here. ;-) It’s their first.
The other baby is now five months old. Time flies...
Oh yeah, I remember now, your niece number 2. Forget what her name was though I do remember niece 1. Your family seems to go in for slightly unusual names.
Second niece (my god-daughter) is Bernadette Lucia. Actually not all *that* unusual, but a bit, I suppose.
Considering that all of us in my generation have good, solid, standard Anglo-Saxon type names, I guess my brothers are rebelling a little. ;-)
Personally, I like a lot of the simpler names. And we never used a lot of the good ones. Don’t have a Michael or an Andrew or a Paul, or a Mary or a Katherine or an Anne...just to name a few.
And ev'ry one was a Henry...wouldn't have a Willie or a Sam (or a Sam)...
Grrr...do you know how badly that gets stuck?
Oh my, that’s a mouthful.
See, the problem with either Bernadette or Bertrand is that they just don’t shorten well. At least, “Bertie” has been out since the time of Jeeves and Wooster, and “Bernie” is almost as tragic for a girl as it is for a boy.
There’s “Bert”...that’s not too bad. Bernadette just isn’t very shortenable. They don’t shorten it.
mmmmmm...Bernadette...
Yeah but probably it will get shortened at some point... or she’ll get saddled with a nickname.
(cheating on my homework and looking over story notes) Did I mention that thanks to time shifting and spells, characters who were born ten or fifteen years apart end up the same age? That makes for headaches on my part.
You stole that from an episode of Bewitched...
No I didn’t... I didn’t watch much Bewitched ever...
I dunno...now that I think about it, every one of the girls in the family (with the single exception of one sister-in-law) have three syllable names, and primarily use their full names. Bernadette has more letters, but it isn’t any longer to say aloud.
Er...I meant to say “at least three syllable names”
I kin count...really I kin!
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