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I have a fondness for Candy. I would never use it, but there is something about it that makes me smile. I know a lot of people consider it dumb or trashy, but what do you think? Does the Iggy Pop song save it? ;)
"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire." -Charles Bukowski
"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire." -Charles Bukowski
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It's not for me. I'm sorry to say that I am one of those people who thinks 'dumb' is the word for it.
It's kind of unfortunate because I do think Candace is quite pretty.
It's kind of unfortunate because I do think Candace is quite pretty.
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I feel like I have no good reason or disliking it. Yet I dislike it. It's a bit trashy, I guess, but that could be redeemed. It's juvenile, but I could get past that if it was used as a nickname - I like the sound of Candida, for what it's worth, even if it is a fungus. But I just don't like Candy. Lower case candy on the other hand.... I'm into gummy bears right now.
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It's fine. I mean, on certain people it sure can come across as trashy. And there are people who'd embrace that as a cool thing. But I think of it as a normal nickname for Candace, rather dated but not childish or sleazy. If I hear it as the name of an average woman to me it's like Randi for Miranda or Mindy for Melinda ... it's just a name. A perfectly ordinary, familiar form of a dignified name. For heavensake.
I hate that Iggy Pop song and I think the name seems trashy in the song, on purpose.
I hate that Iggy Pop song and I think the name seems trashy in the song, on purpose.
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Aw, I love it. :)
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I only like it as a nickname for Candace.
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I don't know the Iggy Pop song; Iggy Pop was never something I listened to or got much airplay.
I don't like Candy at all, it's dumb and trashy and also lame. I do really like Candice or Candace, but it seems that Candy is all but inevitable as a nn, more so than with just about any other name and its nickname.
I have known a couple Candaces and a Candisha, and they were all called Candy. Also one of my uncles had a three-legged dog named Candy.
I don't like Candy at all, it's dumb and trashy and also lame. I do really like Candice or Candace, but it seems that Candy is all but inevitable as a nn, more so than with just about any other name and its nickname.
I have known a couple Candaces and a Candisha, and they were all called Candy. Also one of my uncles had a three-legged dog named Candy.
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Not Tripod? I've known a couple of people with 3-legged dogs named Tripod.
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she was named before she lost her leg
I forget how she lost it, she was pretty old by the time I was old enough to remember her and to me she'd always had three legs. I think she was hit by a car, but it's possible she got in a bad fight; they lived in the western part of the state (Oklahoma) and there was talk of coyotes sometimes.
I forget how she lost it, she was pretty old by the time I was old enough to remember her and to me she'd always had three legs. I think she was hit by a car, but it's possible she got in a bad fight; they lived in the western part of the state (Oklahoma) and there was talk of coyotes sometimes.
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True, likely the Tripods I knew were born that way, or lost their leg(s) as puppies, and had their names changed.
My daughter's newish second dog is named Run, short for a long kennel name, and it surely fits her;she has what daughter calls "a strong prey drive", meaning she'll run off after anything wild-squirrel, deer, fox, moose.
They haven't had her long enough to feel she'll come back to them(and she's 8 years old), so daughter's S.O. puts a GPS thing on her collar, to find her if necessary.
My daughter's newish second dog is named Run, short for a long kennel name, and it surely fits her;she has what daughter calls "a strong prey drive", meaning she'll run off after anything wild-squirrel, deer, fox, moose.
They haven't had her long enough to feel she'll come back to them(and she's 8 years old), so daughter's S.O. puts a GPS thing on her collar, to find her if necessary.
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I knew a Candice who was never called Candy. For what it's worth. I don't see how Candy is any more inevitable as a nickname for Candice than any other nickname for any other name, since Candice is a two-syllable name that trips off the tongue quite easily. In fact, it's very similar to my name (which is the reason that I'd never use it), and I've never had a nickname.
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I think it's cute as hell. I don't know the Iggy Pop song, so that's not what saves it for me. I just think it's sweet and cute. However, I would use it only as a nickname for Candice, a name which I do like anyway, regardless of whether or not Candy is used as a nickname. That way, if a girl feels that Candy is too juvenile or silly or whatever when she'd older, she has a full name to fall back on. I think Candice looks better on a job application than Candy. I do worry that other people would inwardly roll their eyes at Candy. But as a nickname for Candice, on a little girl at least, it's adorable.
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I was at school with a Candy. Candy Mercia Anne, or perhaps Marcia. The teachers never recovered: at the start of every year she faced the same interrogation - was she sure, was it really on her birth certificate, had she checked with her mother?
She was quite bright, quite pleasant, quite pretty and a good swimmer. Every summer her blonde hair turned green from the pool chemicals. Nobody quite liked to suggest that they were interacting with hair chemicals!
I don't know from Iggy Pop songs, but I've known too many dogs named Honey, Candy,
Sweetie etc to take it seriously on a human. I'd use Candida, but only as a mn; Candace used to be on a list of possibles but I've gone off it since Candice and Candiss started emerging.
She was quite bright, quite pleasant, quite pretty and a good swimmer. Every summer her blonde hair turned green from the pool chemicals. Nobody quite liked to suggest that they were interacting with hair chemicals!
I don't know from Iggy Pop songs, but I've known too many dogs named Honey, Candy,
Sweetie etc to take it seriously on a human. I'd use Candida, but only as a mn; Candace used to be on a list of possibles but I've gone off it since Candice and Candiss started emerging.
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I hate it. So trashy, tacky, childish and ugly. Probably one of my least favourite names ever.
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It ' s a GP of mine. But I think it's too childish and nicknamey to be used as a full name.
In Italy it 's mainly associated with the old anime about the girl training to be a nurse.
In Italy it 's mainly associated with the old anime about the girl training to be a nurse.
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