I need a girl's name. Does anyone happen to have a nice name and can lend it to me, or knows someone with a name that doesn't mind?
It needs to be:
a) Not religious in any way (like 'Ruth' for example). b) Not ethnic sounding (like 'M'banii' or something). c) Not sci-fi or fantasy sounding (like 'Xaxalaana' or something). d) Not too commonplace (like, say, 'Jane'). e) Can be made up but must sound ok (don't have example).
All the examples are very nice names, but they don't suit my requirements. Just want something pleasant but with no particular associations and not completely bizarre. Does such a thing exist?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Knocked someone up? Soon to become a granddad?
Which is it, Dang?
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
Nah, nothing as exciting as that, sad to say. Just need a name for a story. I realised that the name I've been using so far sounds completely ridiculous, like a Dr Who character or something. So I've panicked and now every name I think of sounds more stupid than the last.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Clara
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Catherine Laura Penny
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
Hmm, 'Octavia'. That's a possibility.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
[ 02.07.2007, 10:38: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Jennifer? Alison? Phillipa? Sue? Deborah? Annabel2?
LOL - I had this on the CD player about two minutes ago.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
head in hands Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: head in hands
Well all I had left in the way of CDs was Apes, Pigs & Spacemen, Abba and Beautiful South.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Matilda Hermione Lucinda Penelope Susannah Patience Hope Charity Faith
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
camilla
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Dave Nige Stu Gaz Daz Baz Shaz Les Wes Des Fez Kes Bez Linda
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
Jeff.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by herbs: Matilda Hermione Lucinda Penelope Susannah Patience
Nope.
And now abideth...
quote:Originally posted by herbs: Hope Charity Faith
...these three.
If only I could decide which is the greatest.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Love, mate, the greatest of these is love. Isn't it? Am I getting my sermons wrong?
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
maureen doreen soreen
(does anybody eat malt- loaf nowadays? outside of the home- education community, i mean. when i am at kentwell, it seems like all the home- ed kids like malt loaf and all the normal people are like, eurgh, it mingeth, and then i leave kentwell and noone eats malt loaf at all. i bet noone on this forum eats or has recently bought malt loaf.)
eta 2.0 sorry im threadrotting really badly arent i.
[ 02.07.2007, 11:22: Message edited by: dance margarita ]
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: Love, mate, the greatest of these is love. Isn't it? Am I getting my sermons wrong?
Looks like it depends if it's Love or Charity that's included in the translation you're reading.
Confusingly, Peter Gabriel did a rather good track called Of These, Hope which I took to be from that quote but isn't. Unless he's found another translation altogether.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by dance margarita: soreen
(does anybody eat malt- loaf nowadays?
I have actually Soreened myself in half quite recently. It's very popular amongst cyclists, although I think it's really intended for cyclists that have just ridden 50 miles at an average 25mph, rather than ones who have just pootled 100yds to the malt loaf shop and back.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I bet Octavia's listening to a Peter Gabriel CD right now...
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Nah - I found a Beloved CD I hadn't heard for ages. Normally I can't listen to anything beginning with A or B because Thorn put them on the top shelf where I can't reach.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Hello?
I used to love that.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Yep. And Scarlet Beautiful.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
nudey Tess Daly in the Hello video, fact fans.
Posted by sabian (Member # 6) on :
Anastacia
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by youse: soreen
When I was younger so much younger than to day-ay-ay, I had a friend who use to beguile me with his tales of the legendary Robert Unsworth. Robert was the special kid at my friends boarding school, which, fittingly meant he was probably ok as he didn't have the mental capacity to be scarred about all the hearty bumming. Right, so anyway, Robert Unsworth was the special kid who was at my friends boarding school, but because he was a special, he went home every weekend. I don't know why people with a mental handicap are treated differently. Maybe in Lindisfarne they make all boarding-school toffos do stunt-kiting, wrestling bears or any of those other exciting rough house style shenannies, but Robert use to go home on the weekends and would return with two bottles of Coke, some Wine Gums and a malt loaf under his arms. There would be a scramble for his goods. All of the kids would, in their typical way, consume in about 50 seconds consume the 4 litres of Coke, the packet of Wine Gums and then boot the malt loaf down the hall like Brazillian children playing with a rag ball. Eventually, Robert would find ways to stash his cola and alcohol-free treats but the malt loaf would always end up the same way: in the urinal at the end of the corridor. This collective of spacker-bullies eventually gave up with their designs on his other food, but it became a ritual to try and get the Malt Loaf from his tightly clenched fingers while he was asleep. From time to time when arsing about on the school field, someone would eventually get a sticky, pissy malty loaf rammed down the back of their blazer.
Tomorrow: The Unsworthian Helicopter.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
That's so sad. I don't know which is worse - the nasty bullies, or the wicked waste of malt loaf. I bloody love malt loaf, me, and wasn't home-educated or a special.
You can buy it in packs of two slices, pre-buttered.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Awww Malt loaf... I used to love that stuff. I wonder if the english shop here has some *hungers*
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
does that mean its okay for me to like malt loaf? i think so. herbs and waynster are respected members of this community. yeah, so im going to the shop right now to buy some MALT LOAF.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
Sometimes I wish TMO was real, so when dance margerita came back from the shop I could wrest the malt loaf from her hands and chuck it in the urinal at the end of the corridor.
Posted by Zygote (Member # 883) on :
quote:Originally posted by dance margarita: does that mean its okay for me to like malt loaf? i think so.
I like malt loaf too, but that's not really going aid its cause is it. I prefer it to be lightly toasted with a nice blob of margarine on it.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: Sometimes I wish TMO was real, so when dance margerita came back from the shop I could wrest the malt loaf from her hands and chuck it in the urinal at the end of the corridor.
dance margarita: 'no, nathan, pleeeeaaaase, not the malt loaf! my mum bought me that! its got to last the whole week!'
nathan bleak: 'LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOSER'
dance margarita: 'i hate you, nathan bleak'
[ 03.07.2007, 09:39: Message edited by: dance margarita ]
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
*sob*
Ro-land wasn't actually that fat, was he. Not compared to the bloated tubs of lard one sees eating crisps on the bus at 8 in the morning these days.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
i am full of cold and the shop didnt have any malt loaf- it is a rubbish shop which sells pre- bagged broken biscuits and polish versions of laughing cow cheese called 'spaszbye pyw!' and barbie pink taramasalata. i would have thought it was exactly the kind of place you might find soreen but no, apparently not. also, after a week of wearing wellies without full length socks all the skin is falling off my legs and im covered in sores. no maltloaf, full of cold, weeping, flaking legs, holiday over for another year: i feel as if life is mocking me, basically. it is therefore little wonder that i am looking at that photo of roland browning and feeling that not only is there a striking physical resemblance between us, but that also w are in some way spiritually akin.
[ 03.07.2007, 09:57: Message edited by: dance margarita ]
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Ro-land wasn't about being fat, though, was he. It was more a case of personality disorder - the inability not to be a bit crap.
He unfailingly failed to engage with whatshername - the one who called him Ro-land. Was it Faye? I forget.
I never really thought of him as fat. But he was, I suppose, yeah.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
JANET
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
and he must have been fat, because all Janet ever said to him was, in a monotone, "Ro-land Ro-land why are you so fat Ro-land" with no punctuation.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
dark mingeater's Grange Hill sketch has made me incredibly happy, just imagining it as a real event. People always say about bullies "Oh, well he was probably bullied himself", when the truth is the bully just knows how sweet it tastes when you take responsibility for the suffering of another human being.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Damn it. Janet.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
lol at the utter improbability of nathan bleak as Gripper Dobson. I remember the glorious day Gripper got got by the PE teacher (whose name I can't remember). My dad came into the room to watch that one.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: Damn it. Janet.
I love you....
As for a name, I'll suggest:
Ruby Magenta Fleur Anouk Amelie Pi (ϖ)
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: Gripper Dobson
Gripper Stebson (played by the excellently named Mark Savage)
quote:I remember the glorious day Gripper got got by the PE teacher (whose name I can't remember)
Baxter
[ 04.07.2007, 04:14: Message edited by: mart ]
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
quote:So who was this Gripper Stebson, and what made him so notorious? Well, basically a screwed-up individual never happy unless he was making someone else's life a misery. Initially he worked alone, but in series 5 gained two henchmen, Denny Rees and Georgie Smith. Gripper, played by Mark Savage, first appeared in episode 4 of Series 4, stealing a book from the local newsagents. Stewpot and Duane caught him in the act, and were warned off saying anything. Later in the series, Pogo was running a homework cash enterprise and Gripper forced Pogo to do his homework for free. A furious Pogo deliberately did the work wrong - and the pair rioted and smashed up the common room. Mrs McClusky suspended Gripper for the rest of the term.
In Series 5 (1982), Gripper found a new victim. He and Denny pursued Roland Browning, whom they cruelly called "Gutsy", extorting money from him and making Roland's life a misery when they discovered their victim was seeing an educational psychologist. So desperate to escape his torment was Roland that he constantly skipped school, and was later mown down by a car. But Gripper's evil interests extended beyond poor Roland. One night he sent henchmen to the school to steal the sports trophies. But Fay, Annette and Belinda were in the school overnight and disturbed the raiders. The girls trapped them in the basement and called the police!
Off-screen, Mark Savage found his on-screen persona a nightmare. Wherever Mark went, people challenged him to fights and at a football match supporters told him: "Oi Gripper, you're gonna get your 'ead kicked in!" To make matters worse, there was a wave of copycat bullying sweeping the nation. "It was open season on Gripper", Mark told Now magazine in 1998. "People really thought I was Gripper and pulled knives on me and all sorts."
Just when you thought Gripper couldn't get any worse, in Series 6 (1983) he excelled himself. Stebson turned to hardcore racism and picked fights with black and Asian pupils. In particular he'd delight in making life a misery for Randir Singh and made whites "swear allegience to the British People". Stewpot refused to comply. In Episode 12, Gripper incited a race riot which Messrs Hopwood, Baxter and Keating broke up. Gripper was suspended, but he would have one final fling which would become his downfall.
On his final day at Grange Hill, Gripper continued to harass Randir and attacked Claire Scott with a dirty mop, after she dared to speak her mind about him in an underground school magazine. At this point, Stewpot teamed up with Glenroy and ethnic pupils to "lynch" Gripper in the toilets at breaktime. However, Bullet Baxter got wind and stormed the toilets in time. "I'm sorry lads, I can't allow vigilantes," he proclaimed. "Doesn't matter how justified you may feel." With that, Gripper was told to "say goodbye to his friends" before being led away to Mrs McClusky to be formally expelled. The boys cheered as he walked off.
But was that the last of Gripper? Of course not. In 1984 he returned as a butcher's boy, on the day of the sponsored walk. Jimmy McClaren stole Gripper's bike so he could fix the outcome (he was running a book on it). For once, Gripper wasn't causing any trouble. But the following year, Gripper was exposed as the school thief after Gonch bugged the staffroom - recording Gripper and Denny as they stole equipment. Gripper's final stand came in the 1985 Christmas special, when he relished throwing a wet sponge at Mr Baxter.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
I wasn't allowed to watch Grange Hill as a kid. Reading all that makes it sound quite shocking.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
i remember the attack on claire with the dirty mop as being genuinely sinister. it was a little as if she had been tarred and feathered. dark stuff.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
It sounds horrifying.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Why weren't you allowed to watch it, Thorn?
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
My parents were worried that if I watched it, I'd turn out twisted. They were quite strict on stuff like that - no 15-rated films until I was, like, 13, that kind of thing.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Hmmm.
Posted by Samuelnorton (Member # 48) on :
Isolde Freya Kirstin
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Alright Rick? I asked you, a while ago, how your school reunion went. I even did it in rhyme. Can't remember what thread it was. Anyway you never replied. So how did it go?
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: My parents were worried that if I watched it, I'd turn out twisted. They were quite strict on stuff like that - no 15-rated films until I was, like, 13, that kind of thing.
Without Grange Hill we would never have thought of annoying our teachers by all humming at the same time.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
*Thighs like a deer and a neck like a conch shell.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Ears like cab-doors and a **** like a horsecollar.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
Posted by Samuelnorton (Member # 48) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: Alright Rick? I asked you, a while ago, how your school reunion went. I even did it in rhyme. Can't remember what thread it was. Anyway you never replied. So how did it go?
Ach, must have missed your post - could you post a link back to it? I must see the rhyme...
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Sorry mate, I can't remember what thread it was. You'll just have to tell us here.
Posted by Samuelnorton (Member # 48) on :
Erm, Ok... But when I get home. I now have the A40 to traverse - wish me luck! Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
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