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Re: Does Genevieve REALLY sound like a stripper's name?
Did you feel honoured??This makes me wonder what stripper name I would choose to honour someone...my inner brat wants to pick my Grandma's name, but Shirley isn't really a sexy name. Maybe Shirleen. Yeeeaaaah, sexy Shirleen.
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Haha, no not really. I thought it was kind of funny, such a prudish, preppy name for a stripper!
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I'm beginning to get the feeling ...That in Ye Olden Days, Caroline wasn't considered a prim or prudish name in certain circles.
Ever read "The Crimson Petal and the White?" It's about a prostitue in London in the 1880's named Sugar who hooks a rich benefactor. She has a friend who is described this way: "Like many common women, especially prostitutes, her name is Caroline."And I just recently read "Bowery Girls" about two street girls in NYC in the same time frame. Molly is a skilled pickpocket and Annabelle is a prostitute. They start working in a settlement and the lady who runs it uses the name, I forget, Elizabeth? Anyway, she reveals to them that she was once a street child and her name was Caroline, a name she changed when she set out to become respectable.
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Ha! Well that spices it up a bit!
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I thinkI have a thing for old prostitute names! Annie
Sally
Polly
etc.
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"Vintage Prostitute" is the most amazing style description ever.How about Moll?
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None of them seem like old prostitute names to me, except just possibly Annie, if an adjective is attached to it like Red Annie or Big Annie. Sally sounds like somebody's favorite elementary school teacher thirty years ago, and Polly just sounds like a maid/servant to me.
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Ha well i guess my definition of "old prostitute names" comes from that Jack the Ripper movie that came out like 15 years ago.
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That's interesting. I hadn't heard that about the name Caroline. I haven't read The Crimson Petal And The White but I did see the TV adaptation of it which was good.
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Shirley is kind of cute, though I'd never say I wanted to use it or have it myself.
Shirleen maybe has a sexy vibe, if you're trying for a 1950's persona.
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