If Dad had his way (an outside possibility) I'd have been named Kevin. Kind of trailer-trash, and I don't know how I would have avoided ending up as a bartender, but it would have at least been a tolerable name, as names go.
If Ma had her way, which was likely, I'd have been lumbered with the gawdawful names of Harold Dale. Both names have tenuous family associations, but that doesn't mean that they work, or work together.
But then she had her way and named me Joyce Lynn. Which I've never liked, and does not really fit me particularly well. Or at least I hope not. "Lynn" is only as common as dirt, but "Joyce" is a total looser of a name. Joscelyn might have been nice. But she didn't name me Jocelyn.
Although if you check out the names on "Baby's got a Bad, Bad Name" I think I should be grateful.
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Date: 2005-10-25 06:58 pm (UTC)If Dad had his way (an outside possibility) I'd have been named Kevin. Kind of trailer-trash, and I don't know how I would have avoided ending up as a bartender, but it would have at least been a tolerable name, as names go.
If Ma had her way, which was likely, I'd have been lumbered with the gawdawful names of Harold Dale. Both names have tenuous family associations, but that doesn't mean that they work, or work together.
But then she had her way and named me Joyce Lynn. Which I've never liked, and does not really fit me particularly well. Or at least I hope not. "Lynn" is only as common as dirt, but "Joyce" is a total looser of a name. Joscelyn might have been nice. But she didn't name me Jocelyn.
Although if you check out the names on "Baby's got a Bad, Bad Name" I think I should be grateful.