The Cellar / Names. (My obsession) ((Well one of them))

**Posted by monster** 6/05/2023 8:13 pm

And in the credits of the series I'm streaming ... Patina

**Posted by Limey** 6/07/2023 5:37 am

monster wrote:
Today I saw a piece of mail for Shatrine. I googled. It's a real name. for more than one person.

Anything beginning "Shat" would be bad enough, but to also rhyme it with latrine????

Truly wonderful!

**Posted by Carruthers** 6/07/2023 6:12 am

monster wrote:
Today I saw a piece of mail for Shatrine. I googled. It's a real name. for more than one person.

Anything beginning "Shat" would be bad enough, but to also rhyme it with latrine????

Is 'shat' a passed participle?

**Posted by griff** 6/07/2023 6:22 am

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shat

Verbshatsimple past tense and past participle of shit

**Posted by monster** 7/10/2023 6:18 pm

Loving that there's a kid on my kids' old summer swim team called Mordecai

**Posted by toranokaze** 7/17/2023 6:23 pm

Rainbolt is one of the more interesting names I have run across

**Posted by monster** 7/17/2023 8:09 pm

Oh wouldn't it be fun if we went for non-nature but so useful and essential.....

Wrench
Nutandbolt
Silicone
Bandsaw
Welder
.......

wait I already know a girl who's gone by "Wheels" for the ?10 years I've known her..... I don't know if it's her given name or not but I have never seen anything to the contrary

**Posted by monster** 7/17/2023 8:12 pm

Caliper
WD40
Pointynosedpliers

**Posted by Clodfobble** 7/17/2023 10:01 pm

New surprising front runner for uncommon-common names this year is Gus. We've had three of them over the course of the summer.

**Posted by griff** 7/18/2023 5:50 am

That's really interesting. I'm expecting a Gus bump from Sweet Tooth but we're too early. I actually like the name.
BF Hammer
Crow Bar

**Posted by monster** 7/18/2023 11:53 pm

Oh we have plenty of Gus-tiness here. Some are just Gus, Some are Augustus, some are August ..and I've seen an Argus but don't know that that one was shortened (yet)

Feminine form Gussette, gender-neutral Gusset?

**Posted by monster** 7/18/2023 11:57 pm

... but then there was also a kid by the name of T-Rex. really. I know the T was an initial for something, but he never used it. He walked the stage at high school graduation as T-rex Smith (or whatever)

....so I may not live in the best place to truly judge name trends...

**Posted by monster** 5/03/2024 10:54 pm

Schtiffanee.

Real. Trust me.

but maybe don't google. because there is only one and I maybe came across this through w--k middle letters not an or at least, ya know, take turns so they don't get suspicious.....

I was kind of glad to not actually meet them because it would have been hard not to ...ask?

**Posted by glatt** 5/04/2024 11:07 am

Looks legit

**Posted by monster** 5/05/2024 8:22 am

the thought crossed my mind

**Posted by monster** 5/05/2024 8:53 pm

but google does that anyway........ sell out.....

me "best time to prune apple tree"
Google "did you mean best time to buy apple tree"
me: clicks search for best time to prune apple tree anyway"
Google: brings up a sponsored ad for apple tree saplings which has the word prune in the blurb somewhere. maybe

Last edited by monster (5/05/2024 8:54 pm)

**Posted by griff** 5/06/2024 6:18 am

Google has completely gone to shit. When I was a boy, you could get search results.

**Posted by monster** 5/06/2024 9:08 pm

I wonder how many poor kids are names Google?

I'm telling you my poor, poor daughter was named before Amazon existed

**Posted by monster** 5/15/2024 11:25 pm

OMFG ... swap all As for Is and all Is for As.....

I have encountered a person called Bish Silima

F'realz. Now I know I have a mind like a Welsh railway and the name is probably from an immigrant culture...... but if my name was a euphemism for wanking where I lived and worked I'd change it. never thought I's find a better one than Randy Dong, but........

and this one is an employee who I might have to interact with face-to-face in a couple of weeks. I hope beyond all hopes it is not pronounced as I would in English

**Posted by Flint** 5/16/2024 2:11 pm

monster wrote:
never thought I's find a better one than Randy Dong, but........

I worked with a Randi Arreola

**Posted by monster** 5/17/2024 12:08 am

I still think the meat sausage spanker wins

**Posted by monster** 6/16/2025 6:30 pm

Today I came across someone called.....
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.
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Trivia.

**Posted by monster** 6/16/2025 6:34 pm

I have a new project at work ....and my task is to try and tidy up the mess of a contact file we have. The project is longitudinal and concerns people born approximately 27 years ago in inner cities across the US.

The subjects are my kids' age. I have seen so many variants on Latrine, but this is the first Trivia.

**Posted by Limey** 6/17/2025 9:48 am

Long ago in a land far away I failed to persuade someone who had won the green card lottery to change her name from Assol to something, ANYthing, else.

**Posted by monster** 6/17/2025 6:02 pm

many don't. But these were born here.

My fave is still Randy Dong ...who was an associate researcher or something when I was PhD student. He chose an anglicized name, but apparently was underinformed about the differences between British and American English. But he was very friendly and enthusiastic and when he introduced himself to the group, it was several minutes before any of us could respond