Name of the day

[muckefuck]

Accademico Bizzarro Capriccioso (Italian composer, fl. 1620-1623)

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[sconstant.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floruit

Who knew? I learned something OTHER than what you had intended. Take that!

My Name of the Day

[bunj.livejournal.com]

While reading a news article the other day, I ran across Gigi Lawless, Asst. DA for the Commonwealth of Virginia. I can't imagine the trouble she has getting taken seriously.

[oh-meow.livejournal.com]

I used to go to school with a boy named Arsilan Butt. I have no idea what his parents were thinking.

[gorkabear.livejournal.com]

I once saw a magazine with weird spanish combinations (real ones):

Dolores Fuertes de Barriga
Juan Carlos Rey España

Generally speaking these names of Southern Spain virgins are quite remarkable: Martirio, Dolores, Angustias, Consuelo, Visitación, Socorro (imagine what happens when you call little Socorro on the street: "Socorro, Socorro"), Fe (the latter two cousins of my mum nonetheless)...

Thankfully they're very outdated.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Would anyone call "Socorro" "Socorro"? Or would they use some crazy nickname that no sane person would even connect to it, like "Lola" for "Dolores" or "Pupita" for "Guadelupe"?

[gorkabear.livejournal.com]

We actually call her "Socorro" - of course, this makes a laugh sometimes but she's used to it.

I forgot another batch of virgins: Inmaculada Concepción (Conchi or Concha, although the later is vetoed in Latin America for pussy reasons, Inma), Presentación, Asunción, Ascensión, Soledad - these related to bible events. Then we also have "places", which can be so weird as Pino, Pilar (column, and this is Spain's patron and National Holiday!), Montserrat, Paloma...

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Si sea yo una latina me llamaría "Asún".

The parish next to my high school was called Our Lady of the Pillar, which I always thought was strange. I didn't realise how strange until years later when I met e. Her father was at the military academy in Saragossa and talked about how other cadets would go to the church in the morning and talk to the Pilar.

M'agrada molt el nome "Neus", tot i que no és tan divertit dir com a "Macarena"!

Here's another one...

[ursine1.livejournal.com]

I met a bear whose name is Segundo, because he was the second child.

Oh, and then there was this computer salesman back in California named Bill Dollar.

Chuck

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

The best I can offer from personal acquaintance are Marlonbrando Oliveira da Silva, Napoleonbonaparte (surname unknown) (this seems to be something of a habit in Rio, BTW) and my wife's childhood friend, Illustrissima.

Are you sure Accademico Bizzarro Capriccioso isn't a stage name, or a name given to him by his critics? In any event, it surely takes some beatin.

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

You can't go wrong with Bizzarro. I'm going to encourage my son to say it whenever someone asks what his middle name is.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I'm certain it's a pseudonym and I'm 90% sure it was assigned him by critics. I didn't mention this because I never dreamed anyone would take it for an actual given name.