Re: Names You Have Soured On
in reply to a message by queenv
Besides which, it's an ugly name. Hairy-et.
Harriet the spy wasn't an ass-kisser, but she was very obnoxious in her own way, and I think she was well-named. The shrinking-violet Beth Ellen of the same book was also well-named.
"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall
Harriet the spy wasn't an ass-kisser, but she was very obnoxious in her own way, and I think she was well-named. The shrinking-violet Beth Ellen of the same book was also well-named.
"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall