Creating a Custom Name List
Tigerlilley:
*Tigerlilley snorts because she is immature
Quote from: Khan of Wyrms on 2007 June 19, 16:23:04
Greatrakes
Rosenkreutz
Lovecraft
Ravenscroft
Moorcock
Heh heh morecock
Hegelian:
Trollope, Lovecraft, and some of the others (I'm not going to use Google!) . . . if you're going to use literary names, there are plenty of good ones. For some reason your list brought immediately to mind Strindberg and Swinburne; also Knut Hamsen, William Gass, Pynchon, Böll, and Grass; Cortázar, Calvino, and Eco; Beattie, Berryman, Borges, Bagehot, Bolingbroke, Bibesco, Bax, Bunyon. And so on. ;D
Hotchkiss had something to do with cannons. :P
Zazazu:
Quote from: mildlydisguised on 2007 June 19, 23:15:14
Quote from: Emma on 2007 June 19, 23:04:06
LOL poor Zaza :D
It depends how old Zaza is. 'Minger' has only really been about for the last 5 years or so, made famous by Jade Goody in the Big Brother house, when she had a verucca on her foot. Yes, I know. I'm sad. :P
This is true, I forgot how recently it entered the British consciousness.
And now I can't get rid of the image of Jade doing the drunken strip and showing us her 'kebab belly' among other things *shudders*
I'm American (German/British/Scottish/Irish/Cherokee), and the last name is German. But, my best friend's fiance spent several years in Britain. So that's how I first heard of it. Then I started seeing it online. And of course, I'm a Fat Boy Slim fan and it's in "It's a Wonderful Night" ("whether your girl looks like a minger or a supermodel"). And, while I've heard some others pronounce it ming - err, it's definitely pronouced ming- grr.
Sagana:
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I am getting tired of searching endlessly through census records full of tediously common names.
The US 1990 census has been arranged in order of name frequency so, although it's still full of tons of common names, all you hafta do to get to the rare ones is scroll down to the bottom. Those are the rarest ones:
http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/freqnames.html
It's divided into last names, male first, and female first names.
And now for something completely different.
The Land of Cockayne (or Cockaigne) is a mythological land of plenty - something like the land of milk and honey. There's a famous painting by Bruegel on this theme and a poem. I've read some good scholarly articles that believe there's an etymological (and behavioral) reference/connection to cocaine there. Something like the wicked witch's poppy fields in Oz, the witch's candy house in Hanzel and Gretel (nibble, nibble), Pinocchio's paradise or the Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Wikipedia article here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockaigne
Khan of Wyrms:
Quote from: Lana B on 2007 June 19, 23:13:57
There are some interesting names listed here.
Cholmondeley= 'chumly' That one's a keeper!
Quote from: Hegelian on 2007 June 20, 00:35:22
. . . if you're going to use literary names, there are plenty of good ones.
Literary names are definitely fair game, like Moorcock, though often they are more ordinary than I care to use for sims. If they are famous or renowned enough, and I like their work in general, they probably get a street named after them.
Quote from: Hegelian on 2007 June 20, 00:35:22
Hotchkiss had something to do with cannons. :P
I snatched this one from the media over the past year, there was a former NHL player named Harley Hotchkiss who died recently. The Hotchkiss you are thinking of was involved with machine guns, maybe? There is of course the Hotchkiss military jeep:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Jeep_Man/hotchkis.htm
That name is one of my favorites, it just has it all.
Quote from: sagana on 2007 June 20, 01:11:54
http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/freqnames.html
Thanks for that link. It could take lots of time to search through it, though, even starting from the bottom.
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