[Magdalen] Named for saints.

James Oppenheimer-Crawford oppenheimerjw at gmail.com
Sun Nov 1 12:24:06 UTC 2015


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James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 11:39 PM, Georgia DuBose <gdubose at gmail.com> wrote:

> How about Artaxerxes...or Sanballat?
>
> Georgia+
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I think Sennacherib and Ashurbanipal would be great names for twin
> Borzois
> >
> > I still remember that my room number for several years in the Theology
> > House at Mundelein was 721 the year of the Assyrian Invasion of Israel,
> so
> > I have a soft spot for Sennacherib--Also a great name for an Iraqi or
> > Assyrian
> > beef entrée Sennacher Ribs with Northern Barbecue Sauce in yogurt
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > >From: Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> > >Sent: Oct 29, 2015 6:33 PM
> > >To: "Magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> > >Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Named for saints.
> > >
> > >On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >> Well, Emily, I suppose. Emma, despite its recent popularity for little
> > >> girls, is still impossibly stuffy and old fashioned to me. .
> > >
> > >Yes...Emma's one name you hear in Whole Foods when the posh young
> > >parents seem to be broadcasting their children's well-chosen names
> > >more to impress other shoppers than to communicate with their
> > >children: "Emma, Emma, they've got a lovely gooseberry-cinnamon
> > >yoghurt here. Would you like some gooseberry-cinnamon yoghurt, Emma?
> > >Conrad, don't push Portia so fast in her stroller, or I won't make the
> > >timpano for dinner tonight. Emma, look: asparagus water!"
> > >
> > >Makes me want to have a son and name him Ashurbanipal, sure to win the
> > >Whole Foods name derby. :)
> > >
> > >
> > >--
> > >Scott R. Knitter
> > >Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
> >
> >
> >
> >
>


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