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What are your feelings on Algernon? When I was seven or eight, I read a Beverly Cleary book (forget which one) where Beatrice and Ramona were going to have a new brother. Their parents had decided on Algernon "Algie (Al-jee)," and I remember falling head over heels for it back then. I was an awesome namenerd as a little kid :P Anyway, they ended up having a girl and naming her Roberta, which made me greatly disappointed because I found Roberta to be ugly back then (and still do.) But Algernon has stuck with me, and it almost has a sort of childhood nostalgia attached to it now. I don't like the nn Algie though, because that's how we pronounce Algae in America and it's all I can think of.