Once Again Canadian Problems

[commodorified]

benet: today I received an email blast from Nature Ganganbaigal, lead singer of Tengger Cavalry.
It's a stage-name.
benet: the #2 hypothesis was that Mr. and Mrs. Ganganbaigal, late of Beijing, were big hippies.
commodorified: "my parents named me Serenity MoonChild but I go by BloodEagle McCoy".
commodorified: I mean, bear in mind, I have a weird name and was born in 1969.
benet: right.
commodorified: I meet women my age called, like, Pippin and there's this LOOK we all have.
benet: In twenty-odd years there are going to be some very testy Khaleesis and Tyrions.
benet: I mean, sometimes these make some kind of phase transition and just become unexceptionable names, like Amber after _Forever Amber_.
commodorified: yeah.
benet: Madison post-_Splash_ is most of the way along the same trajectory.
commodorified: Madison is cute and all but I can't see "Wisconsin" as a middle name so.
benet: yeah, or "Avenue".
commodorified: that would be right out.
commodorified: If I'm naming a kid after a city it'll be, IDK, Toronto.
commodorified: Saskatoon.
commodorified: Medicine Ha - no.
benet: Flin Flon.
commodorified: Kapuskasing.
benet: I think Kapuskasing has a vaguely patrician New England feel to it.
benet: "Pleased to meet you, I'm Kapuskasing Routledge Lowell."
commodorified: True, true.
commodorified: And, of course, St John has a history.
benet: yeah.
commodorified: St John's less so.
benet: indeed.
commodorified: Halifax.
commodorified: Halifax Nightingale.
benet: it just sounds like a code-name for an invasion of something.
commodorified: Well, IT WOULD BE.
benet: "Vat can you tell me ... about _Halifax Nightingale_, Englischer Schweinhund?"
commodorified: ...
commodorified: Timmins
benet: Timmins Margaux

brownbetty: Winnipeg. White Horse. Gimli
commodorified: NOT GIMLI. Yellowknife?

fairestcat:we are not naming our child ¹ Halifax
commodorified: Okay
fairestcat: or Kapuskasing
commodorified: But

ETA1:
staranise: ... if I get another tortoiseshell or calico cat I'm naming it Nanaimo Bar.

ETA2: (Yelled across the hallway)
commodorified
Kelowna?
fairestcat: no.
commodorified: Kamloops?
fairestcat: NO.
commodorified: Penticton!
fairestcat: Penticton Meier?
commodorified Kelowna Nightingale?
fairestcat: That's not bad ...

ETA3:

staranise: Castlegar would make a very impressive WASPy middle name
Benjamin Castlegar Nightingale III

ETA4:

dira:*giggles*
Penticton could go by Pen.
Pen Meier
fairestcat: Pen Meier has some potential
Castlegar could be fit into the traditional CMM pattern
Castlegar M Meier

ETA5:

staranise: Camrose?
commodorified: hmmm
staranise: I know, right?

1) Nobody is pregnant, there is no cause for alarm at this time. Remain calm.

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[azurelunatic]

Deadhorse.
Chicken.
Tok. (Pronounced like "toke".)