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Post by carlton43 on Oct 22, 2014 13:41:28 GMT
This is probably requiring a separate thread to its name... To help things along and show this isn't a modern phenomena my mother went to school with a girl called Isadora Bannister. Please tell me she had an elderly relative called Minnie.... And an aunt in Wales called Mrs Trellis?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2014 14:16:17 GMT
Not sure why we're talking about children's names here but here's my pennyworth: My mum was a teacher and she taught two sisters called Aurora and Psyche I've come across Chardonnay, Nike & Amethyst when i lived/worked in east Bristol I felt quite out of step as my 2 are Joe & Anne .......
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Post by neilm on Oct 22, 2014 15:43:46 GMT
My sister went to (an all girls) school with Isabel Bell and someone called Derek.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2014 16:48:51 GMT
It is problematical when the child is already a few months old when the parents turn up for baptism, the name is already set. The priest takes the view that saints' names only became such when those holding the names proved themselves worthy of sanctity, so who knows whether there'll be a Saint Storm one day. However, come Confirmation, saints names only allowed. I almost opted for Bede but chickened out at the last minute. Not a saint of course....can't remember if blesseds and venerables were allowed. Venerables and Blesseds allowed, but Bede has been formally recognised as a saint since 1899, the Venerable having just stuck as an honorific.
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Post by Andrew_S on Oct 22, 2014 17:03:09 GMT
"Mike Smithson @msmithsonpb
Rumours of new Rochester poll coming out. Judging by the betting it's good for the purples.
Rochester betting move very sharply to UKIP. Now an 80% chance on Betfair up from 70%. Somebody knows something."twitter.com/msmithsonpb
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Post by Andrew_S on Oct 22, 2014 19:25:23 GMT
ComRes constituency poll out at 10pm tonight...
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Post by Devonian on Oct 22, 2014 20:42:51 GMT
Tomorrow's Express front page
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Post by Devonian on Oct 22, 2014 20:59:55 GMT
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Post by Devonian on Oct 22, 2014 21:00:34 GMT
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Post by Andrew_S on Oct 22, 2014 21:04:39 GMT
Change compared to Survation poll:
UKIP +3% Con -1% Lab -4% LD +1%
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Post by john07 on Oct 22, 2014 21:15:48 GMT
Tomorrow's Express front page Nice bit of juxtapositioning!
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Post by Pimpernal on Oct 22, 2014 22:01:02 GMT
I'm feeling my position as someone who can feel the pulse on the ground is vanishing ...
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Post by Devonian on Oct 22, 2014 22:13:10 GMT
I'm feeling my position as someone who can feel the pulse on the ground is vanishing ... It seems Labour haven't really been trying so much Q7. And which party or parties have you been contacted by? Again, you can answer more than one ... Base: All who have been contacted by parties/ candidates for by-election Conservative 86% UKIP 71% Labour 30% Lib Dem 7%
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Post by neilm on Oct 23, 2014 1:13:16 GMT
Caramelina - was she a sweetie? She was mixed race, which is why her mother had chosen the name.
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Post by observer on Oct 23, 2014 9:32:53 GMT
Sorry to revert to children's names but (and no-one will believe this although it's true), my sister went to school with a boy called Ima Docker
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2014 9:42:37 GMT
The daughter of a lady who ran a half-way house in Rochdale was called Emma Louise Royds. I would guess she didn't keep her maiden name when she married.
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Post by Philip Davies on Oct 23, 2014 9:52:23 GMT
I was at primary school with a girl called Kellie Hocter which is nearly a spoonerism of Helicopter.
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Post by finsobruce on Oct 23, 2014 11:12:40 GMT
This is probably requiring a separate thread to its name... To help things along and show this isn't a modern phenomena my mother went to school with a girl called Isadora Bannister. A much-forgotten name from a much-forgotten celebrity! I'm of the age where there are an awful lot of Charlenes and Kylies about a year or two younger than me, I'd bet there are not many younger than that (or older than that for that matter). And wasn't there a slew of Jasons after Jason King? and Jason and the argonauts film too I suspect
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Oct 23, 2014 11:34:13 GMT
The daughter of a lady who ran a half-way house in Rochdale was called Emma Louise Royds. I would guess she didn't keep her maiden name when she married. That reminds me that Emlyn Hughes named his daughter Emma-Lynne Hughes.
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Post by The Bishop on Oct 23, 2014 11:34:42 GMT
Jason and the Argonauts of course starred the late thespian, then MP, Andrew Faulds.
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