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Help[Opinions] Re: Newly minted Tony winner Darren Criss's kids' names
in reply to a message by Wordsmith
Hah, I actually knew someone named Brother. He was a gay man who had previously been a monk and left when he married an Anglo-Catholic priest. Bizarrely it worked on him.
But yeah, names are dreadful. Bluesy Belle genuinely sounds like something someone might name a milk cow, or perhaps an alcoholic beverage.
Andrew
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But yeah, names are dreadful. Bluesy Belle genuinely sounds like something someone might name a milk cow, or perhaps an alcoholic beverage.
put a smile on your face - make the world a better place (:
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His name was Brother and he went on to become a brother? Were they calling him Brother Brother when he was a monk? I hope so, I'm really hoping he didn't choose a new name when joining the monastery.
I think this is why this name makes me laugh so much because "brother" is such an impersonal non-specific way to refer to someone. It makes me think of monasteries and old-timey wild west and using "brother" when you neither know nor care what someone is named. Then to turn around and use it as a personal name is bananas. Like naming someone Person.
I think this is why this name makes me laugh so much because "brother" is such an impersonal non-specific way to refer to someone. It makes me think of monasteries and old-timey wild west and using "brother" when you neither know nor care what someone is named. Then to turn around and use it as a personal name is bananas. Like naming someone Person.
"Like naming someone Person."
Or Guy. Haha.
Or Guy. Haha.
Honestly, I never knew the couple well enough to know the details of how he got that name, I just knew him as Brother.