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constanceI've always been a big fan of Puritan virtue names. No really! If I had a daughter, she'd be in real danger of being named Verity or Charity or Patience or Ruth (and since I'm not having kids any time soon, it's future pets who'll be saddled with names like this instead, and indeed there's a Catahoula Leopard Dog named Felicity in my past). I love the solid frivolity of them, and I love that they're fairly unusual but still traditional.
But I was thinking, today, as I was glancing through my email spam folder and noting the generated fake names from my favorite software company (todays offerings: Pulverize B. Seethed and Dubiety L. Tobogganing), that while virtue names are perennial, if somewhat underused, standbys, vice names have the potential to be just as wonderful. I mean, Dubiety! ♥♥♥! That's just about the best name I've ever heard. Unless you include Pulverize, and then I'm at a loss to decide which I love more.
Of course, there're the seven mortal sins (and already there's a Vanity! and let's of course not forget Cruella DeVil), if you want to go for the emphatic statement in your vice name, but there're so many lesser-but-still-worthy character-flaws to draw from! Things like Parsimony and Misanthropy and Apathy! Fatuity! Maleficence (or no, this one's taken)! Calamity (also sort of taken, but so very excellent)! You'd have the opportunity to screw your children from birth, without hardly trying, and who'd want to pass up that opportunity? I mean, God, what chance did Maleficent and Cruella ever have, when you think about it this way? Maleficent's parents obviously meant her to be an evil stepmother, and resisting that sort of preconditioning must take some kind of superhuman strength of will.
This post, it makes you want to think up a few of your own, doesn't it? Well, don't be shy--speak up! Let me know what your thoughts are on this matter, and offer up your own names so that I can mull them over and possibly steal them for my own.
And I was going to write more about this, but the torrential rain seems to have let up a little, and I'm going to sneak off to lunch while I can.
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P.S. I've been putting off doing the Christmas card meme because I'm not perfectly sure where I'll be over the next month or so, and in manner of fabled old wife have been afraid that any assumption on my part that I will be a homeowner by Christmas will mean that I will Ruin Everything and wind up having to start all over, but I do want to do this, so if you're thinking that you want a card from me or want to send a card, I hope you won't mind waiting until Wednesday for me to answer properly, because then I hope to know for absolutely-by-god certain. *crosses fingers furtively*
But I was thinking, today, as I was glancing through my email spam folder and noting the generated fake names from my favorite software company (todays offerings: Pulverize B. Seethed and Dubiety L. Tobogganing), that while virtue names are perennial, if somewhat underused, standbys, vice names have the potential to be just as wonderful. I mean, Dubiety! ♥♥♥! That's just about the best name I've ever heard. Unless you include Pulverize, and then I'm at a loss to decide which I love more.
Of course, there're the seven mortal sins (and already there's a Vanity! and let's of course not forget Cruella DeVil), if you want to go for the emphatic statement in your vice name, but there're so many lesser-but-still-worthy character-flaws to draw from! Things like Parsimony and Misanthropy and Apathy! Fatuity! Maleficence (or no, this one's taken)! Calamity (also sort of taken, but so very excellent)! You'd have the opportunity to screw your children from birth, without hardly trying, and who'd want to pass up that opportunity? I mean, God, what chance did Maleficent and Cruella ever have, when you think about it this way? Maleficent's parents obviously meant her to be an evil stepmother, and resisting that sort of preconditioning must take some kind of superhuman strength of will.
This post, it makes you want to think up a few of your own, doesn't it? Well, don't be shy--speak up! Let me know what your thoughts are on this matter, and offer up your own names so that I can mull them over and possibly steal them for my own.
And I was going to write more about this, but the torrential rain seems to have let up a little, and I'm going to sneak off to lunch while I can.
:::
P.S. I've been putting off doing the Christmas card meme because I'm not perfectly sure where I'll be over the next month or so, and in manner of fabled old wife have been afraid that any assumption on my part that I will be a homeowner by Christmas will mean that I will Ruin Everything and wind up having to start all over, but I do want to do this, so if you're thinking that you want a card from me or want to send a card, I hope you won't mind waiting until Wednesday for me to answer properly, because then I hope to know for absolutely-by-god certain. *crosses fingers furtively*
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Date: 2005-11-30 12:29 pm (UTC)And my *(#&%(*&(^ inspection has been )*(*&(*%# cancelled! The seller's mortgage company has to approve of everything, and they are taking their time about it, and so NO INSPECTION YET >:|
If I haven't heard anything by this afternoon, I'm going to go ahead and sign up using this address. And hold it against that mortgage company for the rest of my life!
And I'm so glad your mom likes the house! I showed my father and brother the pictures over Thanksgiving, and their faint praise (they like new houses and consider the the word "character" to be a euphemism for "about to implode") means that I am grateful for any extra validation.