Marisa, Mallory and Marnie

Marisa: Latin meaning "of the sea".

Mallory: Anglo-Saxon tribes in Britain used name for a person who was known for bad luck and an unhappy disposition. Name derived from the Old French word malheure meaning unhappy or unlucky.

Marnie: Scottish origin meaning "of the sea" and ‘joy’.


You come from a large dysfunctional Irish Jewish American family. You learned to deal with expert guilt tripping from both sides of your family by losing yourself in comedy.

You have been learning to do improv at the DC Improv Comedy School for the past fifteen years. You do stand-up comedy, improv comedy and comedy writing. Since 2020, you started teaching online-only comedy classes. The combination of your family characters and living in DMV has been a bottomless pot of gold when mining for material.

You won a Moth story telling grand slam talking about how humor was your super power for dealing with surreal Irish American and Jewish American family dynamics and family tragedies.

You did years of stand-up performance at open mics at
Adams Morgan Comedy Nights, District Comedy Shows and Underground Comedy shows. You co-teach "The Science of Joke Writing" class on the fundamentals of stand-up comedy -- what makes people laugh, the skills required to be a comic, different interpretations of comedy, joke structure and joke-creation process.

Giving your daughters the same initials appeals to your sense of humor. M&Ms are your favorite candy.

You thought it would be funny to name two daughters for the sea (Marisa and Marnie) since you cannot swim. You are superstitious and believed that fate would shower your middle daughter with good fortune if you gave her a name that means unlucky (Mallory).

Mostly, you wanted your daughters to have friendly regular names that are neither too serious or too weird.

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Nora
Gideon & Elijah (twins)
Laura

New list 💨 🌬 💨
1. Marisa, Mallory and Marnie
2. Claire
3. Peter
4. Lincoln, Nolan, Savannah
5. Anya and Margo
6. Sagan, medium to well done
7. Lydia and Lyra
8. Xena and James
9. Mira, Mateo, and Olive

Working on #1
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Mira, Mateo, and Olive

Henry: derived from the French name Henri, which is derived from old German name Heimeric that means “house ruler.” “Heim,” means home and “Ric,” which means ruler.

Henry and its variants have been given to several kings and noblemen across Europe. The Normans introduced the name to England where it was given to eight kings. The most infamous royal Henry is King Henry VIII (1509-2547). He founded an entire new Christian denomination for England (English Reformation giving birth to Anglican Church although many services similar to Catholic liturgy) in order to be legally and morally justified in running through wives like mid life crises car leases. In just 38 years, he squeezed in six wives and beheaded two because they couldn’t have sons for him.

Helene: Greek origin, meaning "shining light". Helene is a variant of the Greek names Eleanor and Helen.

Helene reached a high of Number 228 in the US in 1916, when ene, ine and een names were all the rage, and stayed in the Top 500 until 1962, making a final exit in 1970. It still ranks well in its native France, and even more in Norway (#70).


You are a descendent of the French aristocrat and military officer Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, (1757-1834), known in the US as Lafayette. Lafayette fought in the American Revolutionary War, commanded American troops in several battles, including the siege of Yorktown. After returning to France, he was a key figure in the French Revolution of 1789 and the July Revolution of 1830. He is considered a national hero in both countries.

Lafayette worked with Thomas Jefferson to establish trade agreements between the United States and France which aimed to reduce America's debt to France. He joined the French abolitionist group Society of the Friends of the Blacks which advocated the end of the slave trade and equal rights for free blacks. He urged the emancipation of slaves and their establishment as tenant farmers in a 1783 letter to George Washington, who was a slave owner. Washington refused to free his slaves, but expressed interest in the young man's ideas.

Your family has borrowed the ironic and rhetorical La Fayette family Motto “CUR NON?”
(Latin for "Why not?" to justify saying yes to many unexpected opportunities in life.

You encourage Henry and Helene to take pride in their French heritage and lofty ideals. Of course, their first solid foods were croissants.

In DC, you regularly dine outside at quaint French cafés such as Le Diplomate with Francophone-inspired dishes and beverages (Bourbon Coffee, salade niçoise and Pain au chocolat) … lBon appétit!

Like all good French families, you have a thin ruler to whack your “enfants terrible” (children whose inopportune conduct or remarks cause embarrassment) discretely under the table when their public table manners are not up to par. Henry and Helene’s table manners are the envy of your friends at the Rochambeau French International School in Bethesda.

You are a regular patron of all DC Art Exhibits related to French culture such as Mon Cheri Gallery, which features Haitian fine art. Your family takes regular guided tours in French at the National Museum of African Art. Naturally, you are patrons of The National Gallery’s French impressionist and post-impressionist tableaux, the Philips Collection houses with works by Degas, Monet, Renoir, and Rodin, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ French portrait collection.

Henry and Helene have grown up attending concerts at the The Opera Lafayette, an instrumental ensemble, performs eighteenth-century French compositions, specifically operatic works.

You see most contemporary French cinematic productions at the Avalon Theatre in Chevy Chase or the French Embassy.

Henry and Helene have toured the Library of Congress to see the rare editions of Jules Verne novels and original maps drawn by Samuel Champlain, and over one million works of printed French works. If it were possible to organize children’s parties in the European Reading Room at the Library of Congress (scavenger hunter to find French treasures), you would have done so

Your family celebrates Bastille Day at the Hillwood Museum’s annual French festival. Hillwood, the grand estate of Post Cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, sits on 25 acres overlooking Rock Creek Park in northwest Washington DC. Along with a world renowned collection of Russian and French decorative arts, Hillwood also features extensive gardens and special exhibitions.

Each French festival, Henry and Helene listen to traditional French music, decorate jewelry boxes, make French hats, and tour the fine art collection. This festival, timed to Bastille Day, celebrates Marjorie Post’s first collecting passion: eighteenth-century French decorative arts.

You look down on Francophiles who wear red berets and walk around with 26” baguettes in tote bags emblazoned with the French flag as if this represents the height of sophistication. However, you have a soft spot for friends who gift Henry and Helene with Eiffel Tower Lego sets.

SAHM 🇫🇷

Anonymous wrote:Merry Christmas, SAHM!

Merci bien!
😃🌲🎉

Merry Christmas, SAHM!

Xena
James

Anonymous wrote:Poindexter, Petunia, and Cactus Jack, whose chums fondly nicknamed him Sugar Britches

Poindexter, Petunia and Cactus Jack
You have a penchant for ambivalent and apathetic alliterations.

Poindexter
a boringly studious and socially inept person. Poindexter is a surname mostly found in North America, but it can be traced back to the Isle of Jersey in the form "Poingdestre." Urbandictionary.com says the current slang meaning of poindexter is: "One who looks and acts like a nerd but does not possess the super-natural intelligence of a nerd."

Petunia
Latin meaning Flower From Nightshade Family. ... From the French petun, relating to tobacco, to which the flower is related. Petunia is genus of 20 species of flowering plants of South American origin. The popular flower of the same name derived its epithet from the French, which took the word petun, meaning "tobacco," from a Tupi–Guarani language. An annual, most of the varieties seen in gardens are hybrids.

Petunia is a Fave stage name of antipodean drag queens.

Cactus Jack is Travis Scott's record label. The hip-hop artist's partnership with McDonald's is just the latest example of his ability to combine music, fashion, and well-known brands. Take a look inside how Scott made his $40 million fortune, from collaborating on clothing lines to hosting video game concert.

A top gaming company is suing Travis Scott and his Cactus Jack label in federal court for ripping off their games in virtual concerts for 12 million fans via the video game Fortnite in April. They allegedly plugged Cactus Jack-branded gaming merchandise as part of a tie-in.

Things only became worse for Travis Scott after avoidable crowd surging at his Nov 5 concert in Astroworld Houston resulted in at least eight fans dead and dozens more injured. After the show was officially declared a mass casualty incident, Scott continued to play on for a reported 37 minutes. However, sources close to the rapper have maintained that he only found out about the severity of the situation “hours and hours after the concert.”

In the weeks since the tragedy, Scott — who headlined and produced the annual event — has been named as a defendant in over 200 lawsuits. Many have cited “negligence” and the “encouragement of violence,” among other harms.

Give me a plodding but prudent Poindexter over a callous and careless Cactus Jack any day.

SAHM (sorry for letting troll post go before plausible submissions. Will restore order to the parallel name universe later. Merry 🎄 🎅

Poindexter, Petunia, and Cactus Jack, whose chums fondly nicknamed him Sugar Britches

Anonymous wrote: Lydia and Lyra

Lyer.

Lydia and Lyra

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sagan. Roast me?

1. Luke, Mara, Olivia
2. Henry and Helene
3. Marisa, Mallory and Marnie
4. Claire
5. Peter
6. Lincoln, Nolan, Savannah
7. Anya and Margo
8. Sagan, medium to well done.

SAHM 😃

Luke, Mara and Olivia

WOW! Lots of great nuggets here!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sagan. Roast me?

1. Luke, Mara, Olivia
2. Henry and Helene
3. Marisa, Mallory and Marnie
4. Claire
5. Peter
6. Lincoln, Nolan, Savannah
7. Anya and Margo
8. Sagan, medium to well done.

SAHM 😃

Luke, Mara and Olivia

Luke is an English form of the ancient Roman name Lucas, which is derived from the Latin word “lux” meaning “light.” It came into English by way of the New Testament of the Bible, where Luke is one of the four Gospel writers.

Luke is also thought to be the author of Acts of the apostles, and likely never met Jesus. Saint Luke was born a Greek and a Gentile in Antioch, Syria. He was a physician and it is believed that he may have also been a slave, as it was not uncommon in his day for slaves to be educated in medicine so the family would have a resident physician. Luke joined Saint Paul at Troas in the year 51, accompanying him from Macedonia to Philippi. It is very possible that Luke provided medical assistance to Paul when he had been beaten, stoned or nearly drowned while evangelizing to the Western Roman Empire.  Luke explains in the introduction to his gospel that his writings were inspired by close association with Paul and his companions.

Mara: Hebrew origin meaning "bitter", and carries the implication "strength". Biblical: Naomi, mother-in-law of Ruth, claimed the name Mara as an expression of grief after the deaths of her husband and sons. Mara means joy in Arabic and can be a unisex name. In Scottish and Irish Gaelic, Mara means the sea.

Olivia: Latin name meaning "olive tree," and the feminine alternative to the boy name Oliver. The name was first popularised by William Shakespeare's character in the Twelfth Night, but in fact, the name occurs in England as early as the thirteenth century. The name has been very popular in the USA, Britain and Australia since the mid 1990s. Olivia was the second-most popular name in the United States in 2018. Since 2014, Olivia has been the most popular given name to girls in the United Kingdom for four consecutive years running.


Your family are huge movie buffs, and in particular, Star Wars fans. Luke is named for Luke Skywalker and Mara is named for Mara Jade.

Luke Skywalker, a Force-sensitive human male, was a legendary Jedi Master who fought in the Galactic Civil War during the reign of the Galactic Empire. Along with his companions, Princess Leia Organa and General Han Solo, Skywalker served as a revolutionary on the side of the Alliance to Restore the Republic—an organization committed to the downfall of the Galactic Empire and the restoration of democracy. Following the war, Skywalker became a living legend, and was remembered as one of the greatest Jedi in galactic history.

Mara Jade Skywalker was a Force-sensitive human female who was during different times in her life, an Emperor's Hand, a smuggler, and later a Jedi Master who sat upon the Jedi High Council. She was raised as a servant and assassin to Emperor Palpatine and became a high-level Force-using operative.

Olivia is named for the charming, unassuming but commanding British actress Olivia Colman (career highlights include British crime drama series Broadchurch (2013–2017), portraying Queen Elizabeth II in the Netflix period series The Crown (2019-2020), an Oscar winning turn as the debauched Queen Ann in The Favourite (2018), and leading alongside Anthony Hopkins in The Father (2020).

While other parents in DMV secure personal sports coaches and multiple tutors from early ages for their children, in hopes of pushing them onto an Ivy League conveyor belt, your children get to enjoy a lot of movies. Even before COVID, you built a home entertainment center with an 80 inch Sony Smart TV that takes up your entire basement and comfortably sits 20 people.

You have watched every film made in your hometown of Washington DC.
These include:
ABSOLUTE POWER
ADVISE AND CONSENT
AIR FORCE ONE
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN
ARMAGEDDON
ASSASSIN
BEING THERE
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
CONTACT
ELECTION
ENEMY OF THE STATE
THE EXORCIST
EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC
EXORCIST III
THE FIRM
FORREST GUMP
THE FRENCH CONNECTION
HANNIBAL
IN THE LINE OF FIRE
INDEPENDENCE DAY
JFK
JASON BOURNE
MANHUNTER
MINORITY REPORT
NATIONAL TREASURE
NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS
THE NET
NO WAY OUT
PHILOMENA
THE RECRUIT
RED DRAGON
ST ELMO’S FIRE
SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING
SPY GAME
TRAFFIC
TRANSFORMERS
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON
TRUE LIES
THE X FILES
X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST

Your favorite Smithsonian exhibit is at the Air and Space Museum: “Star Wars: The Magic of Myth” which explored the mythical message of Luke Skywalker's journey from his first call to adventure to his final victory. Showcasing models, costumes, props, and original artwork from the archives of Lucasfilm Ltd., the exhibition traced the Star Wars films-Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Return of the Jedi (1983), and Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace-and how it presents the young Luke and other characters as archetypes from stories and legends.

You hope that your three children will all become their own Jedi masters of the mystical power known as the Force (described in the original Star Wars film as "an energy field created by all living things ... [that] binds the galaxy together".) As long as this does not involve Civil War Re-enactments at Arlington House
Arlington National Cemetery/ President Lincoln’s Cottage at the Soldiers’ Home in NW DC/ Cedar Hill/Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in SE DC/ Clara Barton’s Missing Soldiers Office in NW DC or the Walt Whitman Inscription in DuPont Circle. You are not sure why but Civil War re-enactments feel a bit too naff for you while Jedi light saber parties are perfectly fine.

The Force will be with you...always." Obi-Wan Kenobi in "A New Hope."

❤️SAHM

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sagan. Roast me?

1. Luke, Mara, Olivia
2. Henry and Helene
3. Marisa, Mallory and Marnie
4. Claire
5. Peter
6. Lincoln, Nolan, Savannah
7. Anya and Margo
8. Sagan, medium to well done.

SAHM 😃

Lol, thanks SAHM, can’t wait to read! Especially Sagan roast, lol