<head><style>body{font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;background-color: #ffffff;color: black;}</style></head><body id="compText">Interesting stories! I too am amazed and curious by names parents give their kids. Names are fascinating...<br><br>It intrigues me that someone like Julia Roberts named her daughter Hazel - seems so old-fashioned. And as I recall Carol Baker named her kids Herschel and Blanche, which seem like heavy loads to bear for small children!<br><br>The use of family names in the past is interesting as well, how there were almost formulas for how the names might be assigned in different cultures, like perhaps the first boy for a grandfather, the second for the other grandfather, the next for an uncle, eventually one for the father, etc.<br><br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px;">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: George Ross <ross1948@bendcable.com>
<br>Sent: Jun 24, 2009 6:17 PM
<br>To: or-roots mail list <or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
<br>Subject: Re: [or-roots] More unusual names
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Several years ago there were two girls in our town
Fragile and Crystal Glass.</font></div>
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<a title="dharguess@coastline.edu" href="mailto:dharguess@coastline.edu">Harguess, Dale</a> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"><b>To:</b> <a title="or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us" href="mailto:or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">or-roots mail list</a> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 24, 2009 2:11
PM</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I guess the conversation we had last week must have stirred
up my brain because today as I was driving to work a name from my childhood
popped into my head. From kindergarten to about the 4<sup>th</sup> grade
I had a classmate named Trigger Gunn. I never put the two together until
just this morning. As a kid I thought the name Trigger was odd but I was
too young and naïve I guess to put the two together and see the joke. I
think it is cruel to name children such names.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dale<o:p></o:p></p></div>
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