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HelpRe: "Old-Lady names" ... Should they stay dead?
in reply to a message by Joiya
Ethel - I can't quite get with this one yet. It just seems so shrill and self-consciously ugly.
Freda - I don't hate it. Frida looks better to my eyes.
Maud - I've always kind of liked Maud and Maude. (I like it better with the 'e.') I think I like the way it looks written out more than I like its sound.
Irma - Is like the sound a cow would make whilst giving birth.
Gladys - Never.
Shirley - This is the mullet of names.
Edna - Haha, all I can picture is John Travolta in drag.
Helen - I like this.
Pearl - This is already kind of in, but I don't like it. I can hear it being shrieked from a tenement in NYC in 1910. "PEARL, come hang the washing!" (This sounds kind of yuck classist. I'm sorry)
Mable - young and able get your elbows off the table.
Muriel - it reminds me of Muriel's Wedding which is one of the most GRATING movies I've ever watched. I HATE IT.
Myrtle - Ugly school marm.
Claudia - I've always liked this. It's never seemed old lady to me.
Mildred - my beloved Grandma's name. I've thought about the combo Anna Mildred.
Norma - Yikes so ugly.
Hilda - I like this and Hildy. You can thank Trading Spaces for that. :)
Phyllis - hideous.
Thelma -
The only Thelma I can picture.
Arlene - hahahaha. No. My truck's name is Earlene. It's so redneck.
Frances - love it.
Alma - LOATHE IT. I picture a cross-eyed old lady in a greasy kitchen shrieking that supper's ready. I have a new cousin named Alma and I am not happy about it.
Harriet - already back in.
Eunice - too dorky.
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Freda - I don't hate it. Frida looks better to my eyes.
Maud - I've always kind of liked Maud and Maude. (I like it better with the 'e.') I think I like the way it looks written out more than I like its sound.
Irma - Is like the sound a cow would make whilst giving birth.
Gladys - Never.
Shirley - This is the mullet of names.
Edna - Haha, all I can picture is John Travolta in drag.
Helen - I like this.
Pearl - This is already kind of in, but I don't like it. I can hear it being shrieked from a tenement in NYC in 1910. "PEARL, come hang the washing!" (This sounds kind of yuck classist. I'm sorry)
Mable - young and able get your elbows off the table.
Muriel - it reminds me of Muriel's Wedding which is one of the most GRATING movies I've ever watched. I HATE IT.
Myrtle - Ugly school marm.
Claudia - I've always liked this. It's never seemed old lady to me.
Mildred - my beloved Grandma's name. I've thought about the combo Anna Mildred.
Norma - Yikes so ugly.
Hilda - I like this and Hildy. You can thank Trading Spaces for that. :)
Phyllis - hideous.
Thelma -
The only Thelma I can picture. Arlene - hahahaha. No. My truck's name is Earlene. It's so redneck.
Frances - love it.
Alma - LOATHE IT. I picture a cross-eyed old lady in a greasy kitchen shrieking that supper's ready. I have a new cousin named Alma and I am not happy about it.
Harriet - already back in.
Eunice - too dorky.
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