Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Are there any names out there that, when you hear 'em, you automatically tense up and feel defensive, or wince from, or feel sick at, or just hate to hear? This is kinda related to Jim in Merced CA's letter thread...because the one name I really can't stand to hear due to personal reasons is "Pat" (ugh), a former boss of mine. I never did like her and knew from the moment I saw her she wasn't gonna be the sorta person I'd like. She was condescending in tone, acted like we were all "beneath" her and not intelligent, she once accused me of something I didn't do and when I PROVED it she didn't apologize (!), etc. So whenever I hear the name "Pat" I get all riled up and defensive inside and turn sour. Please please don't ever introduce me to a Pat or name your child that (Patrick and Patty would be okay though). So are there any names that make you cringe or grousey or shiver?
Originally Posted By Ursula Natalie. She was this awful person who I was friends with in school for years and in High School she went after the guy I liked and I learned what a woman of loose morals was like by knowing her. She just turned spiteful and mean and heartless and I didn't get it and still thought she was my friend and got burned as a result. Oooh, the sting of that awful name brings shame to the rest of the Natalie's I've known. It's a really nice name, too. The last time I saw her she was on MTV and she was hanging out with a rock band and was a total (insert word for loose-moral woman here). I can only hope that she's changed as she's grown older.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Oh Urs, I guess you won't be buyin' "The Facts of Life Seasons 1 and 2" on DVD come May 9th...sorry that name was marred for ya...
Originally Posted By gaydsnywitch I don't know...there's just something about the name Byron. Actually, there's at a teacher at the local community college that has now ruined the name James for me.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Ooo, I knew a guy at a place I used to work that also left a dingy coating on the name James. Sorry about that first name there, gdw...*gulp*...I sure hope you meet only GRRRRRRREAT ones in the future! 0:-D
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Originally Posted By Labuda Ruth. Forever ruined by a "friend" of mine from middle school and highschool. And if not for our very own Lisann22, I'd TOTALLY be off the name Lisa for life after the evil manager I had for two years.
Originally Posted By trailsend ^^^^So true about how some people can erase the mood/feeling/bad experience with a name. You then meet someone with the same "bad" name and it then becomes a good one!
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 Wow I've never been admined before, I'm sooo sorry. I don't get along with my aunt in law Pat. She's just not nice.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling ^^^ Your first Admin! Wow. Congrats. General Disclaimer: This is in no way to be construed as a general encouragement of adminnable posts. Adminnable posts are bad and annoying and (obviously) will not be tolerated (at least not for very long). But then again, the name *Pat* is also bad and annoying if you happen to have a bad association with it. For me it is "Jim". With the exception of Jim in MercedCA and very few others, I cringe at the name because of many, many years of a baaaaaaad "boyfriend".
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Disneymom, it happens to the best of us...don't worry, lol. <Adminnable posts are bad and annoying> From undesirables, yes, but in Disneymom's case sometimes it's just a matter of certain words or bleeped-out words or such, even if you try to disguise it yourself.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling (I was teasing, Tall) (Sorry. I have got to try to STOP that! lol.)
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy ahh, didn't get that---sorry, but there *are* actual troublemakers out there, lol.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling No problem. Gee - you are usually the ONE person who *gets* me...I think I am just really, really off my game. name: Terry - as a girls name (has to do with Jim. lol)
