Names Names Names

catlady_de_los_angeles catlady at wicca.net
Fri Apr 12 03:05:40 UTC 2002


Angela wrote:

> My sister's name is Rhiannon (mom & dad were inspired by the 
> Fleetwood Mac song). It's a Welsh name meaning "witch," 

Rhiannon is the name of the goddess-lady whom Pwyll married in the 
first branch of the Mabinogion; she is the mother of Pryderi who 
appears in the other three branches. She rode a magical silver-grey 
horse and had three birds (one white, one red, one green) who 
fluttered around her and sang so beautifully that no one could feel 
any pain nor remember anything unpleasant while hearing them. She is 
thought to be copied from Epona the horse goddess and her name is 
supposed to be evolved from an earlier title, Rigantona, meaning 
'Great Queen'.

mystril wrote:

> Doctors also seem to lend themselves to wacky names, like Dr. Hurt 
> and Dr. Payne.  

I had friend who worked for a messenger service for a while. He 
collected interesting names to whom he delivered packages/documents 
as well as interesting bumper stickers and vanity plates he saw on 
the way. The only one I remember after all these years is a Dr. 
Harden Long.

Anna St. Bacchus wrote:

> "Oh, Zirconia! Can't you see that Stone doesn't love you, he loves
> Placenta!" -Frasier, making fun of soap opera names 

I think that the soap opera use names like that because no character 
can have a name that was already used for some other character, and 
they use up all the normal names in the first few years.

Pippin wrote:

> Car Talk's imaginary law firm: Dewey, Cheatham and Howe.

I think the Three Stooges were the first to publicize them.

Jenny from Ravenclaw wrote:

> When I was a child, one of my pediatricians was named Dr. Hyman 
> (she). As I got older, I thought it would have been much more 
> fitting if she was a gynecologist.  

My mother told me that the obstetrician who delivered me was named 
Dr. Virgin. She said her friends joked about a 'Virgin birth'.






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