[Magdalen] Quintessential Texas Name

[Jay Weigel]

Even more so than Billie Jo or Bobbie Sue, which get heard all over the
deep south. Although we had downstairs neighbors when I was little who were
from somewhere down there--his name was Joe, hers was Billie, and their
daughters were Jimmye and Billye Jo. They had their names up on their
mailbox, all four of them, and my father used to threaten to add their
cat's name too...Dustye.

On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 6:48 PM, <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> That was Jim Anne Baker, who grew up in Cisco, TX (as did my father)and
> played college basketball for Texas Christian University (TCU)in Fort Worth
> (Cisco and Fort Worth are about 100 miles apart).
>
> I believe that she was also a runner, but maybe that was just in high
> school.
>
> And yes it is a quintessential Texas small town name IMO.
>
> dboyd
> ---- Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Jim and Ann? Well, I remember some years ago, not all THAT many, that one
> > of the Texas universities had a female basketball player with what I
> > considered a quintessential Texas name--Jim Ann Baker.
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Claudine Chionh
> > >
> > >  Many blessings to today’s twins.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Thank you!
> > >
> > > I had a co-worker one time who, when presented with a line like that
> would
> > > remark in a gravelly low voice, "Jim and Ann? Damned suspicious if you
> ask
> > > me."
> > >
> > > Sometimes it was very funny. But some others took real offense. And in
> > > some of
> > > the latter cases, did so because they were actually cheating on their
> > > spouses
> > > and were sensitive to the idea that anyone would find out.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Jim
> > >
>
>