Doing some research this morning, and this found Survey by Richard Brown:
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First time retracing this guy's foot-steps...
A parent of one of t-baller's "Richard Powers"
A neighbor has a loud Mustang (the noise is faked, the cars are not naturally loud). He never uses the good neighbor switch which turns off the fake sound. The car doesn??t even have an appealing sound, it??s kind of like a giant coffee grinder grinding 5 foot diameter coffee beans. I??m not a fan of GM products but will say their Camero has an appealing exhaust note and it doesn??t rattle your windows.
Anyway whenever the Mustang is fired up I think, ??yep Little Richard Syndrome,? he??s compensating for a deficiency somewhere else).
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Little Richard Syndrome
@dougie those of us that don??t have trouble in that, AHEM, area don??t need stupid vehicles to try to make up for it.
Old photos of my Dad are labeled ??Buddy.? Met my Great Uncle for the first time, I was about 8, he said you look just like Buddy did! Buddy?, who??s Buddy? I only ever heard other adults call my Dad Charlie or Chuck before that.
Karoly is Charles in Hungarian.
Uncle Otto was my Grandma??s little brother. Otto Traber, named after his Grandfather, Otto Thielig.
@dougie those of us that don??t have trouble in that, AHEM, area don??t need stupid vehicles to try to make up for it.
I guess that's why I'm never worried about driving a Kia Soul.
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I'm still pissed it didn't come with the hamster costume.
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Dammit.
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Knew a fellow for several years whose name was Richard Long but went by Dick.?ÿ The listing for his number in the phone book was rather entertaining.
During that same time period, there was a listing in the same phone book for a husband and wife who had the same first names as my then wife and myself.?ÿ Their surname was Screws.
And then there was Sandy Fox, a girl in my senior class.
Does she?, we all wanted to know.
The Appalachian mountains have some interesting very old school names for folks.?ÿ My fiddle teacher and his wife grew up deep in the mountains across the hollow from each other and got married.?ÿ Their names were Jewel and Pearl.
Sandy Hastings married Ted Gum and became Sandy Gum.?ÿ That is disgusting.
Hogg Mansion
Boss Hogg's? WOW!
When I was quite young our church members included Jewel and Jewell.?ÿ Male and female, in that order.
We had some very uncommon names among the women in the community.?ÿ Dessie, Maudie, Ethel, Marcella, Bertha, Ima, Minnie, Eloise, Fleeta, Iva, Eva, Zulah, Zelma, Hazel, Flossie, Ferrol, Myrtle, Wilma, Rhoda, Dicey, Cleva, Cleo, Othel, Ula, Freda, Nita, Alma, Elma, Emma, Josie, Nettie, Alta, Alma, Nina, Mabel, Genevieve, Merle, Beulah, Violet, Ora Lee, Maxine, Elsie, Lillie, Gladys, Jesse, Earlene, Sybil, Sylvia, Naomi, Lucille (not Lucy).
No one was naming newborn girls with those names in the 1940's to 1980's.?ÿ Some young people have been rediscovering some of those names listed above as I know a Marcella who goes by Marcie and Josie, Genevieve and Lillie.
Saw an obituary the other day for the daughter of a fellow I know named Wayne.?ÿ Her name was Waynetta.
Over half of those names seem quite normal to me, as I've known of women named Maude, Ethel, Marcella, Bertha, Minnie, Eloise, Zelma, Hazel, Flossie, Myrtle, Wilma, Rhoda, Cleva, and Cleo.
Add other less common names that appear in my genealogy files: Adelaide, Artimisia, Berdene, Berlee, Blanche, Cora, Coy, sisters Elo and Ilo, Ermadene, Hallie, Hattie, Larissa, Leona, Lorena, Marietta, Marilee, Mildred, Orelia, Phebe, Philomela, Ressie, Sofronia, Theodocia, Vesta, Violet, Wretha, Wynema, and Zola
And then there are the recent generation names that get quite inventive with spelling.
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