Posted on 03/30/2006 12:41:35 PM PST by twippo
Did you get the commercials for his one album circa 1975. His old man was half a mobster and they tried to force a career, even had Paul Anka write some songs...(Do I Love You?). He was part of the NYC cultural landscape for a while.
See my 640, lol
Yeah I know but I probably should not have posted in the first place before forming my thoughts carefully. It happens.
Now I'm going to have to look up some sources to see where I got that!
Sadly you are not sh*tting me. Devotion to diversity. I'd love to peer edit her application. 530 SAT, and she gets to go to Amherst : (
Unnamed in the biblical text, she is called Makeda (not this way/not thus) in the Ethiopian tradition, and in Islamic tradition her name is Bilqis. Alternative names given for her have been Nikaule or Nicaula.
"He said he about lost it when one little twerp replied in a squeaky voice "Stonebreaker, sir".
LOL! That's a funny story, I hope it is really true!
" tragic naming is what Dr. Gonorrhea "
I keep coming back to the Dick Trickle thing!
The years creep slowly by, Lorena
The snow is on the grass again
The sun's low down the sky, Lorena
The frost gleams where the flowers have been
But the heart throbs on as warmly now
As when the summer days were nigh
Oh, the sun can never dip so low
A-down affection's cloudless sky.
Pretty tune; a lot more verses. Probably every single soldier on both sides knew the whole thing.
What a great sense of humor, "Blaxian", LOL.
Heres the bottom line,IMHO.
When I taught school in the hood down in New Orleans thirty five years ago,almost everyone had names like Gail,Edward,James,Deborah,Arlene,Annette,Anthony,Dorothy,etc.
Now its Sharnice,Dequan,Jamal,Tishawanna,Tamika,Demondre and Rovanna.
And so what?The good kids will do things the right way and the miscreants will keep up the drama.
The names of those invoved means nothing.
He grew up in western India, among Muslims, so his Indian stories draw on that tradition.
Thanks! Alternative spellings from the Arabic source. I'm a Kipling fan, so that's probably where I came up with it.
Asians are no smarter than whites,blacks or Latinos.
They simply work harder!
My mom was a nurse at Johns Hopkin Hospital in Baltimore in the late 1940s, often told the story of the new Black mother who named her child (girl) Placenta, because she thought it "sounded pretty".
Well, those dumb parents spelt the kid's name wrong. They were too dumb to know that G doesn't sound like J just whenever you want it to. The sound changes from a glottal stop (g) to an aspirated sound (j) preceding a short vowel (i or e).
Never before an A, O or U. Sorry, idiots.
"My name might be spelt 'Raymond Luxury Yacht, but it's pronounced 'Throat-warbler Mangrove!'" No, it doesn't work that way.
She likes her name, the only others she knows with it are Jamaican. That name traces into the history of Haile Selassie, Rastafarians and Ethiopia.
I found that Bilqis is a Muslim name. The Nikaule or Nicaula names are pretty, I wonder what their origin is. I wonder if that is where the name Nicole comes from.
My Dad wanted to name me after a boxer, Jabbo Lane. My Mom couldn't bring herself to do it. They wouldn't let her take me home without a name, so she looked around the room and named me after a box of tissue instead (Scott). Thank God the hospital didn't use Kleenex.
Thanks! Great to find out how that came about.
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