Anonymous wrote:Ian. We are not Irish but love the length and sound. It’s hrd to think of boy names.

You are professional Indian Americans from Bangalore, Karnataka. Your DC’s Indian name is Raj. You wanted him to have a similar name in NOVA so as to not face the same subtle discrimination that you and your husband faced when attending George Mason University law school. You were radicalized by a libertarian faction of the Republican Party when working on the student newspaper at GM. You desired to simulate Scottish roots of so many libertarians and enlightenment free thinkers and chose to change your DS’ name to Ian. You serve him black pudding for breakfast but he begs for the Dahl, samosas and roti chicken of his younger days.

Rhys
Marielle
Isabella

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Anonymous wrote:Joe

Just Joe

You are an African American family
Who love the theater and music as a way of bridging humanity’s foolish divisions. Your son Joe, just Joe, was actually born Josephine. He: they (then she) was named for Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald, naturalised French, lived 1906 1975). Your parents and grand parents greatly admired this American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent and civil rights activist. She was the first black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film Siren of the Tropics.

However your Joe, just Joe, born Josephine, started to feel that he was born in the wrong gendered body by the age of five. He refused to wear dresses and wanted to wrestle his cousins into submission rather than play dolls with them.

By Grade Five, the artist formerly known as Josephine told you that from now on, he was a “hard no” (pun intended) regarding being referred to, or identified as a girl. Since then, he has been known as Joe, just Joe.

He is 23 now. His journey took place just before the current social media infused gender identity maelstrom. It took many years for yo it extended family to accept them. But now, he is accepted as Joe, just Joe, not Josephine.

He has written to JK Rowling to let her know that as a big Harry Potter fan, he is disappointed to have to cancel her due to her views on trans youth being just a fad rooted in misogyny.

Beatles song Get Back playing in background …
Joe Joe was a man who thought he was a loner but he knew it couldn’t last …

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Anonymous wrote:Ooo I like this thread! I'll be super identifiable to those who know me (hi!!) but:

Sebastian
Amethyst

Anonymous wrote:
Ooo I like this thread! I'll be super identifiable to those who know me (hi!!) but:


One more time for the language police
Sebastian
Amethyst


Sebastian and Amethyst
Your mother was a Greek heiress to a shipping fortune. Your father was a drunk philanderer who is living in obscurity in the south of Spain with his fourth wife. He is still living off alimony payments from your mother. Your mother never remarried but devoted her life to raising you and your three siblings with as much love and stability as was not afforded to her when raised by a succession of nannies.

You and your siblings attended boarding schools in Switzerland but came home to your exclusive Greek island home for the holidays. Your mother allowed the Mama Mia the musical movies to be filmed there but was disappointed when her favorite actress Meryl Streep declined to join in the final sequel. You loved your mother but felt alone. You rarely saw your father after the age of ten.

You fell in love with an American traveling through Europe during a Gap Year from Ohio State University. His one stipulation was that any children you have must never attend University of Michigan or wear their colors during UM v OSU football matches. You settled in DMV/ DC area 20 years ago just before the real estate boom during the early millennia after it became clear that Y2K would not shut us all down after all.

Sebastian (“venerable” or "revered" in Latin), is named for your father Sebastianos. His ancestors came from Sebaste, the name of a town in Asia Minor that is now the city of Sivas in Turkey. Their family converted from Islam to orthodox Greek Christianity in the early nineteenth century but never properly assimilated or learned to handle drinking ouzo.

You only Told your husband about your wealth after you married and swore him to secrecy. Your husband is a lobbyist for mid western potato and dairy farmers, which is where everyone assumes your family income comes from.

Your daughter Amethyst (Purple Quartz Gemstone) from the Greek word "améthystos" meaning "not intoxicated." It was believed the stone prevented one from being drunk. You hoped the name would protect her subliminally from the alcohol abuse on her father’s side of the family.

You do not tell anyone, including your children, that they are actually Trust fund babies or that they own an island in Greece after your mother willed it to them when they were babies. They attend a surprisingly unpretentious private school in Potomac (St Andrews Episcopal) where emphasis is on happiness rather than on being a conveyor belt for the HYP factory.

Your husband and you still cheer for Ohio State and hike along Great Falls. You live quietly in Potomac and run a successful dog training company. You prefer the company of animals to human. Your children like each other and are very down to earth. You do not want wealth to mess with that.

😂 Go Blue !

Clark (ds)
Thora (dd)

Anonymous wrote:Ooo I like this thread! I'll be super identifiable to those who know me (hi!!) but:

Sebastian
Amethyst

Anonymous wrote:
Ooo I like this thread! I'll be super identifiable to those who know me (hi!!) but:


One more time for the language police
Sebastian
Amethyst


Sebastian and Amethyst
Your mother was a Greek heiress to a shipping fortune. Your father was a drunk philanderer who is living in obscurity in the south of Spain with his fourth wife. He is still living off alimony payments from your mother. Your mother never remarried but devoted her life to raising you and your three siblings with as much love and stability as was not afforded to her when raised by a succession of nannies.

You and your siblings attended boarding schools in Switzerland but came home to your exclusive Greek island home for the holidays. Your mother allowed the Mama Mia the musical movies to be filmed there but was disappointed when her favorite actress Meryl Streep declined to join in the final sequel. You loved your mother but felt alone. You rarely saw your father after the age of ten.

You fell in love with an American traveling through Europe during a Gap Year from Ohio State University. His one stipulation was that any children you have must never attend University of Michigan or wear their colors during UM v OSU football matches. You settled in DMV/ DC area 20 years ago just before the real estate boom during the early millennia after it became clear that Y2K would not shut us all down after all.

Sebastian (“venerable” or "revered" in Latin), is named for your father Sebastianos. His ancestors came from Sebaste, the name of a town in Asia Minor that is now the city of Sivas in Turkey. Their family converted from Islam to orthodox Greek Christianity in the early nineteenth century but never properly assimilated or learned to handle drinking ouzo.

You only Told your husband about your wealth after you married and swore him to secrecy. Your husband is a lobbyist for mid western potato and dairy farmers, which is where everyone assumes your family income comes from.

Your daughter Amethyst (Purple Quartz Gemstone) from the Greek word "améthystos" meaning "not intoxicated." It was believed the stone prevented one from being drunk. You hoped the name would protect her subliminally from the alcohol abuse on her father’s side of the family.

You do not tell anyone, including your children, that they are actually Trust fund babies or that they own an island in Greece after your mother willed it to them when they were babies. They attend a surprisingly unpretentious private school in Potomac (St Andrews Episcopal) where emphasis is on happiness rather than on being a conveyor belt for the HYP factory.

Your husband and you still cheer for Ohio State and hike along Great Falls. You live quietly in Potomac and run a successful dog training company. You prefer the company of animals to human. Your children like each other and are very down to earth. You do not want wealth to mess with that.

Anonymous wrote:Ooo I like this thread! I'll be super identifiable to those who know me (hi!!) but:

Sebastian
Amethyst

Sebastian and Amethyst
Your mother was a Greek heiress to a shipping fortune. Your father was a drunk philanderer who is living in obscurity in the south of Spain with his fourth wife living in the alimony payments from your mother. Your mother never remarried but devoted her life to raising you and your three siblings with as much love and stability as was afforded to her when raised by a succession of nannies.

You and your siblings attended boarding schools in Switzerland but came home to your exclusive Greek island home for the holidays. Your mother allowed the Mama Mia the musical sequels to be filmed there but was disappointed when her favorite actress Meryl Streep declined to join in the final movie of the three. You loved your mother but felt alone. You rarely saw your father after the age of ten.

You fell in love with an American traveling through Europe during a Gap Year from Ohio State University. His one stipulation was that any children you have must never attend University of Michigan or wear their colors during UM v OSU football matches. You settled in DMV/ DC area 20 years ago just before the real estate boom of the earth millennia after Y2K did not shut us all down after all.

Sebastian (“venerable” or "revered" in Latin), is named for your father Sebastianos. His ancestors came from Sebaste, the name of a town in Asia Minor that is now the city of Sivas in Turkey. Their family converted from Islam to orthodox Greek Christianity in the early nineteenth century but never properly assimilated or learned to handle drinking ouzo.

You only Told your husband about your wealth after you married and swore him to secrecy. Your husband is a lobbyist for mid western potato and dairy farmers, which is where everyone assumes your family income comes from.

Your daughter Amethyst (Purple Quartz Gemstone) from the Greek word "améthystos" meaning "not intoxicated." It was believed the stone prevented one from being drunk. You hoped the name would protect her subliminally from the alcohol abuse on her father’s side of the family.

You do not tell anyone, including your children, that they are actually Trust fund babies or that they own an island in Greece after your mother willed it to them when they were babies. They attend a surprisingly unpretentious private school in Potomac (St Andrews Episcopal) where emphasis is on happiness rather than on being a conveyor belt for the HYP factory.

Your husband and you still cheer for Ohio State and hike along Great Falls. You live quietly in Potomac and run a successful dog training company. You prefer the company of animals to human. Your children like each other and are very down to earth. You do not want wealth to mess with that.

Summer and Brooke

Flynn
Eli

Maya
Layla

Anonymous wrote:Joe

Just Joe

You are an African American family
Who love the theater and music as a way of bridging humanity’s foolish divisions. Your son Joe, just Joe, was actually born Josephine. He: they (then she) was named for Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald, naturalised French, lived 1906 1975). Your parents and grand parents greatly admired this American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent and civil rights activist. She was the first black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film Siren of the Tropics.

However your Joe, just Joe, born Josephine, started to feel that he was born in the wrong gendered body by the age of five. He refused to wear dresses and wanted to wrestle his cousins into submission rather than play dolls with them.

By Grade Five, the artist formerly known as Josephine told you that from now on, he was a “hard no” (pun intended) regarding being referred to, or identified as a girl. Since then, he has been known as Joe, just Joe.

He is 23 now. His journey took place just before the current social media infused gender identity maelstrom. It took many years for yo it extended family to accept them. But now, he is accepted as Joe, just Joe, not Josephine.

He has written to JK Rowling to let her know that as a big Harry Potter fan, he is disappointed to have to cancel her due to her views on trans youth being just a fad rooted in misogyny.

Ooo I like this thread! I'll be super identifiable to those who know me (hi!!) but:

Sebastian
Amethyst

Anonymous wrote:Nora and Henry

You are French married to an American who traces his lineage back to the Mayflower. Your hubby also fervently believes that he is part Cherokee but that is not showing up on ancestry.com DNA just yet.

Your family lives on the outskirts of Paris and are semi functional. They are very strict and traditional. You were hit under the table with a ruler growing up to enforce good public table manners. You worked very hard in school to be admitted to the top French Paris University of Sciences et lettres (PSL), which brought great pride to your parents. However, when they kept trying to run your life as a young adult, you applied to work as a trade economist at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC.

Your husband works in Human Resources at the World Bank as a local staff member. You have a combination of expat and local friends and feel like you are in a parallel universe that exists between different worlds. You also have family in Australia, Sweden, as well as the United States. You have been monitoring the crazy town polarization since 2016 and will consider emigrating if another Trump type authoritarian populist is elected to the highest office.

Nora is named for a favorite French aunt Eleanora, which means “light.”Aunty Eleanora is quite laid back and you hoped your Nora would some how evade the neurotic striving and perfectionism that hamstrings most of your immediate family.

Henry is named for various relatives and historic figures (not the British Henry VIII though). Henry is a very common French name for boys and is derived from the French name Henri, which in turn is thought to be derived from the name Heimeric, an old German name that means “house ruler.” Your Henry is a gentle polite soul who takes after Aunty Eleanora .

Ian. We are not Irish but love the length and sound. It’s hrd to think of boy names.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maura

Maura (Irish name that means star of The Sea).

You come for a large Irish American family where a minimum of three children is the norm, unless you are gay and the. 1-2 is acceptable.

Unfortunately, you were unable to have children during child bearing years due to chronic health issues. Maura was your much Wished-for child. You have scraped and saved to send her to the best possible schools, provide extra tutoring and dance lessons.

Sadly, Maura is turning out to be entitled, rebellious and bitter that you are older parents of modest means. Your extended family has little patience for her rude teen behavior but critique your parenting at every turn. Your mother say Ms she just needs a good snack behind the ears and to get off her bl$$dy phone.

You are developing migraine head aches trying to cope with Maura’s angry outbursts and reluctance to help around the home. Your husband loses himself in Washington Football Team and Nationals games, and is still upset that Maura is not a Michael.

Maura needs a hug and broom.

Just in case the language police are monitoring this thread:

Maura (Irish name that means Star of The Sea).
You come from a large Irish American family where a minimum of three children is the norm, unless you are gay and then one or two is acceptable.

Unfortunately, you were unable to have children during child bearing years due to chronic health issues. Maura was your much Wished-for child after long bouts with IVF treatments. You have scraped and saved to send Maura to the best possible schools, provide extra tutoring, orthodontics, and dance lessons.

Sadly, Maura is turning out to be entitled, rebellious and bitter that you are older parents of modest means. Your extended family has little patience for her rude teen behavior but critique your parenting at every turn. Your mother claims that Maura just needs a good snack behind the ears and to get off her bl$$dy phone.

You are developing migraine head aches trying to cope with Maura’s angry outbursts and reluctance to help around the home. Your husband loses himself in Washington Football Team and Nationals games, and is still upset that Maura is not a Michael.

Maura needs a hug and a broom.