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Column: What's in a name? By ChaToyya Sewell (Yours truly AND FR attacked - again)
The Maneater ^ | 11/17/2009 | ChaToyya Sewell

Posted on 11/21/2009 9:43:37 AM PST by Responsibility2nd

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To: Responsibility2nd
How far are we from having to take a name like Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel seriously? Seriously.
21 posted on 11/21/2009 10:08:50 AM PST by Oratam
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To: gardengirl

If you’ve never read “Unintended Consequences”, you should chase down a copy and find the origin of the name of a female ATF agent generally known as “Gigi”.

If you have read it, harken back to that one.


22 posted on 11/21/2009 10:09:47 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: gardengirl

For years I worked with a guy, married with kids, named David. Yep, your regular pronunciation of David until one day he walked in and demanded it be pronounced DaVeed. He quit a few months later to open a cosmetic store. Whatever.


23 posted on 11/21/2009 10:10:25 AM PST by bgill (The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I don’t know why anyone would stick a kid with such an awful name. It screams ‘my mother was a ghetto crack ho’ to me. Sorry but that’s what pops in my head when i hear a name like that.


24 posted on 11/21/2009 10:12:46 AM PST by pgkdan ( I miss Ronald Reagan!)
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To: ansel12

KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

I think Mr. K.I.Liberalseattle should be proud of
his name after all it was the one he was born with.

This lil gal needs to get over herself,” Everything
is not about YOU honey, or your race”.

I remember a kid from boot came whose name as I recall
the drill instructor saying it was:
“Hey Sunburned through a Screen!” Pretty wierd eh.


25 posted on 11/21/2009 10:15:28 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Chaw toy ya Sewer. Your folks had to not like ya.

Poor woman


26 posted on 11/21/2009 10:15:36 AM PST by dforest (Who is the real Jim Thompson? I am.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

More hollering from the culture of made-up names....
By the way, whenever I see “the” Free Republic in somebody’s screed, I know they are not at all familiar with Free Republic. It’s always a dead giveaway.


27 posted on 11/21/2009 10:16:11 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Responsibility2nd

Chew-toya, the reason why we’re making fun of made up ghetto names is because

People and places have names with meanings, it’s been that way since the beginning of time. My name means something. (Brave, noble, lionlike and insightful.) Jim Robinson’s name means something (Supplanter, son of man named after bird/son of a rabbi). Heck, even Barack Obama’s name means something. (Ironically, it means “Blessing to be twisted”). Names are supposed to carry a power behind them. You can name anything with a random toss of scrabble pieces, but it always ends up sounding artificial and fake. Case in point, Zzyzx, California. Zzyzx has no name meaning, other than it was named that way to get itself in the back of the dictionary. Every time you go to Zzyzx, you can tell that the name’s artificial, much like your name, chewtoy.

Your name means nothing other than the result of angry black Marxists who are angry enough at the “establishment” to try to create a separatist society, but not angry enough to move to Liberia and take their money where their mouth is. Some of the smarter ones who were angry at the same Ango-Saxon establishment took on exotic sounding French, Italian and Spanish names. The dumb ones who were also angry tried to sound smart and exotic, but failed and ended up with names like “Chewtoya”.

Guess which camp you’re in, Chewy.


28 posted on 11/21/2009 10:16:25 AM PST by TypeZoNegative (Pro life & Vegan because I respect all life, Republican because our enemies don't respect ours.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I hadn’t read the original thread but ChaToyya has a legitimate beef, and then goes overboard with it. I’ve on several occasions posted in opposition to making fun of an INDIVIDUAL’S name. Normally it’s a cheap shot. To the extent that happened here we were in the wrong.

However looking broadly at the issue of making up names deliberately to be different and separate, I don’t think it very surprising when people take you at your word and respond accordingly. Complaining becomes hypocritical since to be taken as different is the objective. I don’t suppose it helps that these “cultural” names normally are seen in connection with some crime or other behavior unacceptable in any civil society.

As for “ChaToyya”, I thought it sounded Spanish/American-Indian. It’s not that far off the beaten track.


29 posted on 11/21/2009 10:16:28 AM PST by tlb
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To: Responsibility2nd

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30 posted on 11/21/2009 10:17:43 AM PST by kcvl
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To: Responsibility2nd

Uh, Chat, it’s ok if I call you that isn’t it?
Would Cootie be better?


31 posted on 11/21/2009 10:17:52 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Can we say narcissist. Seems to be epidemic these days.
32 posted on 11/21/2009 10:19:25 AM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: szweig

I can give you some insight on Tarvaris’ first name. He was originally supposed to be named “Travis” but the name office screwed up.


33 posted on 11/21/2009 10:19:39 AM PST by TypeZoNegative (Pro life & Vegan because I respect all life, Republican because our enemies don't respect ours.)
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To: denydenydeny

Exactly.

And we go to primary care doctors named Sandeep. And engineers named Nguyen help build American buildings.

While Cha Toya fumes about our reaction to her silly antics.


34 posted on 11/21/2009 10:19:53 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Ack, is that the site with "Responsibility2nd"? Some weirdo. ...)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I guess she wants to have it both ways, a typical “underpriviledged minority/middle class college student” approach. She can’t decide which she wishes to be at any given moment.

That said, she should bear in mind that black names were often actually supplied by white medical students as cruel practical jokes. H.L. Mencken says that white medical students who were doing some phase of their training in local city hospitals would often suggest names based on medical terms for the black babies that were born there. He cites “Urea” and even tells of a man who went through life as “Positive Wasserman Jones” because of one of these “jokes.” It was evil and cruel to take advantage of the trust of illiterate people to make their children into the laughing stock of the better educated (and, probably, the doctors) who would meet them in the future.

And it’s sad that blacks are now doing this to themselves. We recently had a young man appear in court under the first name “Regional.” I was wondering who would name their child “Regional” when a friend pointed out that the mother had probably meant “Reginald” but hadn’t known how to spell it.


35 posted on 11/21/2009 10:20:57 AM PST by livius
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To: Responsibility2nd
"There are rules for interacting with larger society, and I'm pretty sure one of them is not to laugh about people's names. If you don't have that social skill set, we probably can't be friends."

I'm pretty sure if you have a made up name, your employment/advancement opportunities are severely hindered.

36 posted on 11/21/2009 10:20:57 AM PST by manic4organic (Obama shot hoops, America lost troops.)
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To: bgill

That’s how the name’s originally pronounced.


37 posted on 11/21/2009 10:21:33 AM PST by TypeZoNegative (Pro life & Vegan because I respect all life, Republican because our enemies don't respect ours.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“...ignoring that my name has...a history...”

Not it doesn’t, your mother made it up. What history it will have is up to you, and you’re not off to a good start. And it will be detrimental to you in life if for no other reason than employers like names they can spell, not to mention how it reflects upon your probable upbringing and the education level of your parent(s).

But looking at your picture you might still be not guilty.


38 posted on 11/21/2009 10:22:05 AM PST by PLMerite (Ride to the sound of the Guns - I'll probably need help.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Column: The Duggars need to cut it out already

By ChaToyya Sewell

Published Sept. 15, 2009

It didn't really hit home until I read an article about how Michelle Duggar had been pregnant for the majority of her adult life. I mean even the “Jon and Kate Plus 8” parents and octomom had the distinction of having all or most of those herds at once. (Although if I went into in-vitro fertilization and came out pregnant with octuplets, someone would be getting a stern talking to. There is a thing called over-success.)

In some misplaced form of sympathy, it felt like my uterus balled into a fist and I thought about Michelle's body: What about the minerals leeched from her poor tired bones every time she got knocked up, what about her poor vagina? Is a modern woman's body even made to shoot out 19 children? All in a day of doing God's work, I suppose.

******

She really needs to mind her own business or at least worry about the out of wedlock illegitimate little bastards being popped out like rabbits where the taxpayers pay for them from birth to death for generations. No one paid a cent to the Duggars for anyone of their children so that makes it none of her damn business.

39 posted on 11/21/2009 10:22:38 AM PST by kcvl
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To: Responsibility2nd

HEY! Watch it! “ChaToyya Eryn ChaNayle” are my middle names!


40 posted on 11/21/2009 10:22:45 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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