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TAPS
LOL, TAPS. I can imagine 10 children going 'What, mum?" You've got me going here trying to think of 20 names beginning with 'T'.......oops, I just remembered that you said she made them up herself, so it would be a pointless exercise.
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johnmacnab
on February 10, 2007 at 4:37 PM
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Johnmacnab
I worked with a lady once who had ten children and she named them names all starting with the letter "T" (even the middle names). I was not a bit surprised when she told me she had made up all the names herself (I had never heard anything like them). I asked her how she kept them all straight and called them the right names. She laughed and said, "I call them all 'T' and point.
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TAPS.
on February 10, 2007 at 1:32 PM
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Pat
What a damned shame for the Mad Bull girl. Do you think perhaps her parents don't have an imagination?
posted by
johnmacnab
on February 10, 2007 at 1:11 PM
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FactorFiction
I've got a quirky mind, FactorFiction, and as for leaving comments, I had one left by a certain FactorFiction at 6.13am. It gets curiouser and curiouser.
posted by
johnmacnab
on February 10, 2007 at 1:05 PM
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Well, don't ya know, I posted my name thing on the wrong post...
So I'll put one here, too. Odd names have been a hobby of mine since childhood. We had a second grader on the school bus named Harry Legg. Sister's name was Lola. Neighbor down the street - Candy Kane. I know a couple with a new baby girl whose name is Madelyn. Their last name is Bull. Her school days will be "interesting" as the kids are sure to call her Mad Bull. Sheesh! :)
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Pat_B
on February 10, 2007 at 9:37 AM
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Now there is a connection I would never have made
when considering names! 
My son has a girl named Star in his class... 
(And what were you doing leaving comments at 4:40 AM??)
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FactorFiction
on February 10, 2007 at 6:13 AM
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ariel70
even if boy with no willie rite name in snow, it will not be accurate, Confucius he say.
posted by
johnmacnab
on February 9, 2007 at 10:21 AM
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mneme
When I told her about it, she laughed her head off and wondered what could possibly have attracted them - cheeky so-and-so.
posted by
johnmacnab
on February 9, 2007 at 10:19 AM
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jollyjeff
I don't suppose there is anything to stop women from peeing while standing up, jollyjeff, and it would certainly stop them complaining about men dribbling.
posted by
johnmacnab
on February 9, 2007 at 10:17 AM
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johnmac
Ah, so! Boy with no willy cannot write name in snow. Confucius say dat prenty year ago. Number one crever guy, yeah?
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ariel70
on February 8, 2007 at 4:55 AM
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johnmacnab
I bet you didn't see that one coming - you should have set Ell on to them :)
posted by
mneme
on February 8, 2007 at 4:49 AM
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I have heard that women can learn to pee standing
can't say I have any first hand experience though:)
posted by
jollyjeff
on February 7, 2007 at 4:57 PM
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mneme
LOL. Someone should have taken a photograph of him having a pee and shown him it when he was a teenager and scarred him for life.
I was on a coach trip recently and when it stopped for a 'rest stop' and I was having a pee, a group of women came rushing in to use the stalls, 'cos there was too big a lineup in their toilet.
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johnmacnab
on February 7, 2007 at 6:23 AM
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johnmacnab
This takes me back to nursery school, and all the odd names everyone else's children seemed to have. Looking back, I can think of quite a few little boys who ought to have been named Tyrant - not my little angel of course. He just reserved his tantrums for me LOL. I don't have first hand experience of small-boy (or bigger boy) antics in the snow, but I was on a bus once and we stopped in a country lane to pick up a mother and child. We all had to wait a minute while the three-year-old pee'd in the hedgerow, to everyone's amusement ... well, what's a boy to do?
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mneme
on February 6, 2007 at 2:38 PM
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jollyjeff
A close female friend of ours says that what really irritates her about being a woman is that she has to sit down to pee - she can't pee against a tree, and she thinks men are so fortunate - Go figure, jollyjeff.
posted by
johnmacnab
on February 4, 2007 at 3:45 PM
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Hmmm
I never thought the ability to write my name in the snow as an advantage to being male but I guess it is.
posted by
jollyjeff
on February 4, 2007 at 1:42 PM
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