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Rhyming Names

You know how I like to read obituaries. Of course I'm looking for people I know, but I also look at where people were born, and what they did for a living. One of my favorite parts is figuring out how many sisters and brothers they had, and everyone's names.

I was reading one yesterday for a guy named John, but his brothers were named Ronald and Donald. Maybe they were twins, it didn't say, but it reminded me of back in the 1950s when parents named their children so the names went together.

Like my cousins Lindy Lou and Cindy Sue who were two years apart, and a friend of mine named her kids Darren and Karen.

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Speaking of cousins, one of mine sent an email that we should be taking an iodine supplement as protection against radiation coming from Japan. Most of what I've read so far on the Internet says that it wouldn't reach this far, but we decided we'd take some kelp capsules for the heck of it. Maybe it'll cure what ails us.

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Spring may just be peeping out where you live, but I think it's here for sure in Las Vegas. There is no edge to the balmy feeling in the air, it's just pleasant even as evening falls. The mockingbirds are singing from the lamp posts, and a baby pigeon was walking around on the street this morning. The neighbor was out there with a pellet gun for awhile trying to scare it off his roof, so I think it finally fluttered down to street level. Not much sympathy for pigeons here, it's a municipal law that we're supposed to remove them from our property somehow. Plastic owls and such don't work, the best thing we can do is hope they like someone else's roof better than ours.

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My cousin is home from the hospital and glad of it. She really enjoys the food there, but she got bored even though they had more cable channels than she does at home. She saw Beverly Hills Chihuahua II last night before she went home, and just loved it. I've wondered what kind of movies I should get for her to watch, and now I know: talking dogs that dress up as bride and groom and have a wedding.

posted on Mar 14, 2011 2:47 PM ()

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Fall out heads to both Nittineedles & my houses.

comment by crazylife on Mar 18, 2011 11:32 AM ()

Then there are George Foreman's children! What a dork. Send some Spring thisaway! Actually, it's to be in the 60s today--and I'll be conked out!

comment by solitaire on Mar 17, 2011 5:59 AM ()

I have never cared for rhyming names, even for twins. I think it further detracts from their individuality. I also don't like people naming their children with names that start with the same letter. Give them something that is uniquely theirs.

comment by redimpala on Mar 15, 2011 8:48 PM ()

I named my first two girls Glenda and Brenda. I had planed to name the third one Linda, but after the confusion with the first two, I changed my mind and named her Teresa.

comment by larryb on Mar 15, 2011 5:19 PM ()

thanks for info about kelp being higher in iodide

I'm eating some seaweed right now I steamed it for a little bit in my pot of veggies..

comment by anacoana on Mar 15, 2011 10:30 AM ()

"...mockingbirds are singing from the lamp posts"
(I thought those were whistles from the ladies of the evening!)

comment by jondude on Mar 15, 2011 6:52 AM ()

Adding re. cat names, Ed calls Max Valdemort when he's vexed with him.

comment by tealstar on Mar 15, 2011 4:44 AM ()

What is frightening is that there are now definite indications that Japan has had previous problems with their nuclear plants that they have covered up. So what are they not saying now? I call my cat Brunswick, Brunzy and Chewy already has a y, and then there's Maxie. Am I hopeless?

comment by tealstar on Mar 14, 2011 8:35 PM ()

We like cat nicknames. Pig Pen is a favorite around here when he flings cat food out of his dish or there's litter tracked around.

reply by troutbend on Mar 14, 2011 10:54 PM ()

We have had little experience with radiation but it just might be good to
be mindful of it.

comment by elderjane on Mar 14, 2011 6:45 PM ()

I saw this one thing where people were saying radiation can't reach this far, because look at the nuclear weapons that ended WWII - the US Gov would never have endangered us by triggering those bombs if the radiation could reach us. I thought: are you kidding me? The US gov at that time had no clue about radiation and how far it could reach - look at the test bombs near Las Vegas and those military folks exposed in the name of testing.

reply by troutbend on Mar 14, 2011 6:49 PM ()

My father's name was William, and he and my Mom considered naming their first child, my oldest brother, William, too, but thought it would be too confusing to have two Bills in the house. So they named my brother Phillip. Of course, Phillip became Phil, and Bill and Phil sound virtually alike and they had the confusion anyway.

comment by marta on Mar 14, 2011 5:18 PM ()

I asked Mr. Tbend how his parents picked his name - Gary - and he said they didn't want something that could be shortened and have a -y tacked on the end like Mike-y or John-y. I guess it was a preemptive strike to have it already there.

reply by troutbend on Mar 14, 2011 5:44 PM ()

I can't imagine all the confusion rhyming names in a family would cause...

Spring is finally arriving here I think! YAY!

comment by kristilyn3 on Mar 14, 2011 4:19 PM ()

I can imagine the cadence when the mother would call in the kiddies - Johnny, Ronny, Donny! Get in the house! And you know how some parents will call their kids by the wrong name, this makes it easier to pretend they mis-spoke.

reply by troutbend on Mar 14, 2011 5:41 PM ()

I have some kelp powder, and I also have dried sea weed, I'll add both to my brown rice, hey it worked for the doctors and nurses in the hospital in Hiroshima, aftermath of the atomic bomb.
Thank you for sharing that photo.

comment by anacoana on Mar 14, 2011 3:38 PM ()

Mr. Tbend actually talked to someone at Whole Foods and they said kelp had more iodide than potassium iodide, so that's what he bought. Who knows about the threat, whether it's a risk to us or not. Like he said, though, it all blows this way.

reply by troutbend on Mar 14, 2011 5:40 PM ()

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