The Radio 3 Boards Forum from myforum365.com
13:33:58, 01-12-2008 *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
News: Whilst we happily welcome all genuine applications to our forum, there may be times when we need to suspend registration temporarily, for example when suffering attacks of spam.
 If you want to join us but find that the temporary suspension has been activated, please try again later.
 
   Home   Help Search Login Register  

The Radio 3 Boards > General Chat > The Coffee Bar > The Grumpy Old Rant Room
Pages: 1 ... 517 518 [519] 520 521 ... 573
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: The Grumpy Old Rant Room  (Read 150226 times)
Don Basilio
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 2682


Era solo un mio sospetto
« Reply #7770 on: 12:53:18, 28-09-2008 »
Quote from: BobbyZ on 12:20:52, 28-09-2008
What's with calling girls Chelsea ? You don't come across many Fulhams do you ? Or Chiswicks.

I have often wondered about the possibilities of the Underground map in this respect.

Brondesbury sounds very manly.  A girl who could carry off a name like Cockfosters would have considerable hutzpah.  Would Harlesden be better for a man or woman?
Logged
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
brassbandmaestro
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 2216


The ties that bind
« Reply #7771 on: 13:01:46, 28-09-2008 »
OMG!!! Smiley Ive started something here Grin
Logged
Antheil
*****
Gender: Female
Posts: 3206
« Reply #7772 on: 13:04:58, 28-09-2008 »
My brothers and sister asked my Mother why she was not more imaginative with our names and she replied that they were good honest names that couldn't be messed about and there is a lot of sense in that I guess.

There is one youngest member of our tribe whose middle name we all dislike but as it's only a middle name no-one has said anything.

Apart from the Casey/Chelsea names I know a little girl called Liberty and another called Macey-Belle  Huh  Quite cute when they are little but not so cute when they are middle aged?
Logged
Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
Morticia
Admin/Moderator Group
*****
Posts: 5788
« Reply #7773 on: 13:10:00, 28-09-2008 »
Perivale would grow up to be a pale skinned, possibly effete young man given to frequent respiratory ailments. Harrow and Wealdstone - perfect for twins. Arsenal is not be considered under any circumstances.
Logged
Antheil
*****
Gender: Female
Posts: 3206
« Reply #7774 on: 13:10:58, 28-09-2008 »
Quote from: Don Basilio on 12:53:18, 28-09-2008
Quote from: BobbyZ on 12:20:52, 28-09-2008
What's with calling girls Chelsea ? You don't come across many Fulhams do you ? Or Chiswicks.

I have often wondered about the possibilities of the Underground map in this respect.

Brondesbury sounds very manly.  A girl who could carry off a name like Cockfosters would have considerable hutzpah.  Would Harlesden be better for a man or woman?

 Cheesy Cheesy Don Basilio

And Theydon Bois and his friend Arnos Grove would have to be a pair of extremely camp thespians!
Logged
Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
Mary Chambers
*****
Gender: Female
Posts: 2589
« Reply #7775 on: 13:22:13, 28-09-2008 »
Quote from: Antheil on 13:04:58, 28-09-2008
Apart from the Casey/Chelsea names I know a little girl called Liberty and another called Macey-Belle  Huh  Quite cute when they are little but not so cute when they are middle aged?

Can't say I think those are cute at any age, Ant, but I do agree that there are names that are better for children than adults. Apologies to anyone with these names (which I like, but still think are better for children), but I would put Lucy and Robin in that category.

The ballerina Merle Park always sounded like a tube station to me, and Britten named one of the children in Albert Herring, Harold Wood, after a station near/in Romford.

Talking of Merle Park, made me think of Antoinette Sibley. I rather fancied Antoinette for a girl, but I did take some notice of my father when he said that most people would think of Marie Antoinette rather than Antoinette Sibley, and also no-one would know whether to pronounce it in French or English. I ditched it, but since I never had a daughter it didn't arise in the end.
Logged
Antheil
*****
Gender: Female
Posts: 3206
« Reply #7776 on: 13:35:36, 28-09-2008 »
Mary, I know an Antonia, which I like better than Antoinette, but then both names get shortened to Toni don't they?  We have a current Lucy which is OK but agree Robin is a bit iffy as a grown up name.

On the London Underground:-

Snaresbrook would grow up to be a gamekeeper who lurked in the potting shed with MiLady, his fine linen shirt open to the waist and moleskin trousers clinging to his thighs, Dollis Hill would become a drag queen and Hainault is clearly a French fop!
Logged
Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
brassbandmaestro
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 2216


The ties that bind
« Reply #7777 on: 13:37:09, 28-09-2008 »
Victoria!! Smiley
Logged
Morticia
Admin/Moderator Group
*****
Posts: 5788
« Reply #7778 on: 13:48:38, 28-09-2008 »
bbm, the brother of your friend call his daughter Victoria after their house Huh Huh

 Meanwhile back on the Tube map ... Debden is a chap much given to tweeds and pipe smoking. Enjoys a decent malt at the end of the day. Leyton is an altogether louche sort of fellow. Smirks in an unsettling manner at males and females alike. Never pays his bar bill.
Logged
Milly Jones
*****
Gender: Female
Posts: 3580
« Reply #7779 on: 13:50:24, 28-09-2008 »
Mort (see there we go shortening it  Grin) we had five girls in our class with your real name when I was at school - but I was always the only one of mine.  I hate my name and it gets shortened as well.

Signed

***  Sad
Logged
We pass this way but once.  This is not a rehearsal!
Kittybriton
*****
Gender: Female
Posts: 2690


Thank you for the music ...


WWW
« Reply #7780 on: 13:51:40, 28-09-2008 »
Quote from: brassbandmaestro on 13:37:09, 28-09-2008
Victoria!! Smiley
Mornington Crescent!
Logged
Click me ->About me
or me ->my handmade store
No, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish.
trained-pianist
*****
Posts: 5455
« Reply #7781 on: 13:54:25, 28-09-2008 »
Hello, Kitty,


will anyone want the name Arsenia?
Logged
martle
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 6685
« Reply #7782 on: 13:59:39, 28-09-2008 »
Mudchute. A very Dickensian fellow, much given to hanging around on street corners and unctuously rubbing his hands together.
Logged
Green. Always green.
Antheil
*****
Gender: Female
Posts: 3206
« Reply #7783 on: 14:00:10, 28-09-2008 »
Back on the tube map, children christened Canonbury, Parsons Green and Southwark will all grow up to be CoE Clergy.

Meanwhile Park Royal is to star in the new James Bond film.

I was going to mention Wapping but thought it may not be Poplar!  Cheesy
Logged
Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
Antheil
*****
Gender: Female
Posts: 3206
« Reply #7784 on: 14:15:57, 28-09-2008 »
Shadwell is another Dickensian character, much taken to rubbing his hands down his stained velvet waistcoat and muttering "I am ever so 'umble Young Sir"

Pimlico - it is the on-dit that this Italian interior designer is the must have this Season for your Salon.

Bounds Green is a retired major living in an hotel in Sussex constantly enquiring "Is the sun over the yard arm yet?"
Logged
Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
Pages: 1 ... 517 518 [519] 520 521 ... 573
  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to: