Showing posts with label names. Show all posts
Showing posts with label names. Show all posts
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Social circles
Do most of your friends know each other? Or do you have separate groups of friends in different social settings?
Do you go by different names (or nicknames) among different groups of friends?
This week's theme is old friends.
Do you go by different names (or nicknames) among different groups of friends?
This week's theme is old friends.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Name Tag Day
Believe it or not, just forty years ago, there was no April Fool's Day. That tradition hadn't gotten started yet. But in some places there was a different April 1 tradition, now long forgotten, called Name Tag Day. People would pick a hero, or someone who inspired them, and introduce themselves by that person's name all day long. If you met someone on April 1, there was almost no point in asking their name, because they wouldn't tell you their own name; they'd give you the name the person who inspired them.
To speed things up, people got in the habit of wearing their hero's name on a name tag. "Hello, my name is John Glenn." "Hello, my name is Marie Curie" — and so on.
Just kidding! There never was a Name Tag Day tradition on April 1. But if there were such a tradition, and if you were in a place where this tradition was observed, whose name would you wear on your name tag? What person is an inspiring example of what you would like to be? Whom would you enjoy pretending to be, just for one day? (Please phrase your answer in the form of a name tag: "Hello, my name is _____.")
This week's theme is one generation ago.
To speed things up, people got in the habit of wearing their hero's name on a name tag. "Hello, my name is John Glenn." "Hello, my name is Marie Curie" — and so on.
Just kidding! There never was a Name Tag Day tradition on April 1. But if there were such a tradition, and if you were in a place where this tradition was observed, whose name would you wear on your name tag? What person is an inspiring example of what you would like to be? Whom would you enjoy pretending to be, just for one day? (Please phrase your answer in the form of a name tag: "Hello, my name is _____.")
This week's theme is one generation ago.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
The honor of naming
What have you named? Were you the person who came up with the names for your children or pets? Did you successfully suggest names for other people's children or pets? Have you given names to your cars, homes, computers, or other things? Did you ever provide a name for a club, a product, a rock band, or a street? What are some of the things in the world that were named by you?
Who named you? For whom were you named? If you don't know, or if you weren't named for anyone specific, for whom would you like to have been named?
Just for fun: NameVoyager is an interactive graph of the most popular first names in the US over the last 120 years. Was your name a trendy name in the decade when you were born?
Who named you? For whom were you named? If you don't know, or if you weren't named for anyone specific, for whom would you like to have been named?
Just for fun: NameVoyager is an interactive graph of the most popular first names in the US over the last 120 years. Was your name a trendy name in the decade when you were born?
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