What's Your Name?

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HollyGolightly

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My name is Michael (although I do not have a nickel).

And if you get that joke, I will know roughly how old you are.

; )

I've got a nickel, shiny and new, I'm gonna buy me all kinds of candy, that's what I'm gonna do.

I'm that old.

Also, that's my favorite name, and there's the Archangel Michael, but the Ogre wouldn't let me name our son Michael
I have an old boyfriend named Michael, so...
 

Pucker

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I've got a nickel, shiny and new, I'm gonna buy me all kinds of candy, that's what I'm gonna do.

I'm that old.

Also, that's my favorite name, and there's the Archangel Michael, but the Ogre wouldn't let me name our son Michael
I have an old boyfriend named Michael, so...

I had a brother -- first-born son -- whose name turned out to be Robert Michael.

My father -- that old truck-drivin' son of a gun -- had wanted to name him Robert Eugene, but my Irish mother put her foot down hard on that.

"You are not calling my son Bobby Gene!"

Mom always won.

Every time.
 

Pucker

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Just so you guys know, If we ever meet, I will never remember your real name. But, you tell me your screen name and I will know you! I know Flake's real name, but I told her, she would always be JustFlake to me so I never call her by her real name.

I think it was Ursula K. LeGuin who based a wildly successful series of books on the idea that "magic" was nothing, more or less, than learning the "true" names of things.