What does your name mean?

[Nephythys]

C- You're wild and crazy
A- You like to drink.
S- Easy to fall in love with.
S- Easy to fall in love with.
A- You like to drink.
N- You are absolutely beautiful.
D- You have one of the best personalities ever.
R- Darn sexy.
A- You like to drink

N- You are absolutely beautiful
E- Damn good kisser
P- You are popular with all types of people
H- You have a very good personality and looks
Y- One of the best bfs/gfs anyone could ask for
T- You're loyal to those you love
H- You have a very good personality and looks
Y- One of the best bfs/gfs anyone could ask for
S- Easy to fall in love with


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Now you play!

A- You like to drink.
B- You like people.
C- You're wild and crazy.
D- You have one of the best personalities ever.
F- People adore you.
E- Damn good kisser.
G- You never let people tell you what to do.
H- You have a very good personality and looks.
I- You have a fine ***
J- Everyone loves you.
K- You are really silly.
L- You live to have fun.
M- Success comes easily to you.
N- You are absolutely beautiful.
O- You are one of the best in bed.
P- You are popular with all types of people.
Q- You are a hypocrite.
R- Darn sexy.
S- Easy to fall in love with.
T- You're loyal to those you love.
U- You really like to chill.
V- You are not judgemental.
W- You are very broad minded.
X- You never let people tell you what to do.
Y- One of the best bfs/gfs anyone could ask for.
Z- Always ready.

:D

[Alex]

Since none of those is particularly true about me, I'm guessing the outcome wouldn't be very accurate.

[Nephythys]

I dunno- isn't E a good thing? Isn't X true? ;)

[Alex]

E is a good thing but I don't think it is true of me (I'm sure I'm fine at it and have never had complaints but I doubt I fall into the "damn good" category). And no, X isn't true of me, not even when it was used for G.

I let people tell me what to do all the time. Just not when I have a strong opinion about what to do. But if I don't have a strong opinion and someone else does, then that just makes life easier for me.

[Nephythys]

not at all what I would have ever expected you to say-

[scaeagles]

L- You live to have fun.
E- Damn good kisser.
O- You are one of the best in bed.

Yeah....sounds a lot like me.:)

[Alex]

As I say to Lani all the time, "Don't ask me if I want to do dishes, just tell me to do dishes. If you tell me to do them I will without complaint but if you ask me if I want to do them the answer is obviously a big no."

[scaeagles]

My wife always asks me "Do you want to do (X) for me?" or some variation. No. Ask me if I will, though, and I'm pretty sure I will, but don't ask me if I want to.

[Andrew]

But if I don't have a strong opinion and someone else does, then that just makes life easier for me.
This is perhaps one of the wisest things I've ever read. It's how I handle things around the house as much as possible: if the outcome doesn't matter that much to me, I am not going to expend energy in trying for one or another alternative.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Yup, I'm the same way. If it's something of little importance, and you give me the option of not doing it by asking a question, then you'd better be ready for the consequences of the answer to that question being "no".

[tracilicious]

Since none of those is particularly true about me, I'm guessing the outcome wouldn't be very accurate.


I dunno, I thought K fit you. (Should I wink here, or not? I'm never sure in Alex replies.)

[tracilicious]

Yup, I'm the same way. If it's something of little importance, and you give me the option of not doing it by asking a question, then you'd better be ready for the consequences of the answer to that question being "no".


First of all, asking the question is just a courtesy. Like I'm making Michael feel like he has a choice on whether or not to do the dishes. Well, he does have a choice, either do the dishes when it's his turn or face my wrath. :p

Second, I don't want to feel bossy by giving an order, thus the question makes me feel better too.

Of course, if it's my turn to do the dishes and I just really don't want to, I'm known to say something like, "One of us needs to do the dishes tonight and one of us needs to go to the store." Michael hates going to the store, so I know he'll choose dishes 95% of the time. If he chooses store, I can always invent really complicated things that we need that he will have no clue where to find. :evil:

Wow. Women are evil.

[Ghoulish Delight]

First of all, asking the question is just a courtesy. Courtesy my ass. It's just a device to make sure we completely in the dark as to whether a question is actually a question or not. If I have a choice, give me a choice. If I don't have a choice, don't give me a choice.

[tracilicious]

But what if I only want you to feel like you have a choice when actually the option that I don't want you to choose is very unpleasant?

[Gn2Dlnd]

"Before you leave, would you mind putting away the things on the bathroom counter and wiping off the shaving cream?" seems to work just fine around here.

"I will do the dishes when I get home from the theatre," also seems to work.

I need to do the dishes.

[Ghoulish Delight]

But what if I only want you to feel like you have a choice when actually the option that I don't want you to choose is very unpleasant?
Do you seriously think we can't see through that? Give us some bleedin' credit here. "Do the dishes please." See how easy that is? (can you tell CP and I have had this conversation?)

[Not Afraid]

L- You live to have fun.
I- You have a fine ***
S- Easy to fall in love with.
A - You like to drink.

[Nephythys]

heh- I did not realize azz was edited- sorry :)

[mousepod]

oooh... I really want to participate in the derailed part of this thread, but as a married guy, I'll bet my feelings will be pretty predictable.

But on the OT... how come F comes before E in the alphabet?

Some adorable people might be incorrectly assuming they're good kissers...

[lizziebith]

L- You live to have fun
I- You have a fine ***
Z- Always ready


Not really accurate...

L- I'm really too earnest to be described that way
I- Well, if by "fine" you mean "generous" :D
Z- Always ready...for cheese!

[Capt Jack]

I kinda miss having someone 'ask' me to do things. left to my own devices, I seriously maintain the activity level of a boat anchor.

yeah yeah, Im workin on it. :p

[Alex]

First of all, asking the question is just a courtesy. Like I'm making Michael feel like he has a choice on whether or not to do the dishes.

I suppose it isn't fair, but it isn't uncommon for me to say something like "stop talking like a woman, just tell me what you want."

This also comes up when she wants to do something but rather than saying what she wants to do she asks me what I want to do in the hopes that I'll say what she wants to do. Because she doesn't want to sound bossy.

Just sound bossy. 95% of the time I'll be fine with it and the other 5% we'll talk about it and come to an amicable agreement.

There was a story on This American Life about a guy who's father was really weird and left the family when he was young and was looking for aliens and all that. Anyway, the father was shacked up with a new woman many years later and said they'd developed a way to avoid all arguments. Whenever they were debating options they'd each say "I feel X about that" where X was a number between 1 and 10. Whoever said the highest number got their way.

We've never really done it on anything important but since hearing that story we'll have a conversation like this:

"I want Japanese for dinner."
"Well, I'd prefer Mexican."
"I feel 4 about having Japanese for dinner."
"I feel 7."

And then we go have Mexican. It actually works pretty well but requires both sides to actually admit what they want and evaluate its relative importance.

[Nephythys]

oooh... I really want to participate in the derailed part of this thread, but as a married guy, I'll bet my feelings will be pretty predictable.

But on the OT... how come F comes before E in the alphabet?

Some adorable people might be incorrectly assuming they're good kissers...


heh- for the record I copied this from another site- so I claim no responsibility for the creative order LOL

[Not Afraid]

I have no idea what all of you people are discussing, but I have a fine ass, so who cares?

[Crystal]

C - you're wild and crazy
R - Darn Sexy
Y - One of the best gf(wives)anyone could ask for
S - Easy to fall in love with
T - You're loyal to those you love
A - You like to drink
L - Everyone loves you

Yeah, okay, works for me ;)

[tracilicious]

I suppose it isn't fair, but it isn't uncommon for me to say something like "stop talking like a woman, just tell me what you want."

This also comes up when she wants to do something but rather than saying what she wants to do she asks me what I want to do in the hopes that I'll say what she wants to do. Because she doesn't want to sound bossy.

Just sound bossy. 95% of the time I'll be fine with it and the other 5% we'll talk about it and come to an amicable agreement.


The sounding bossy thing is really hard to get over though. Especially when I have a really strong personality and Michael has a very easy going personality. I feel obligated to at least phrase my sentences in a way that gives him some sort of an out.

I'm sure that's no consolation to him in the exact situation you described above. Here's a typical conversation:

Me: What do you want to watch tonight?
Him: I don't care, anything you want to watch is fine.
Me: I could watch either Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, or Star Wars.
Him: Ok, lets watch Harry Potter.
Me (in a disappointed tone): oh, ok.
Him: Well what did you want to watch?
Me: Star Wars
Him: If you knew what movie you wanted to watch why didn't you just say that in the beginning?!!!
Me: I wanted you to be happy too.
Him: I said I didn't care! Just tell me what you want to watch! I. don't. care.

I suppose the puzzling part to me is that he really doesn't care. When I say I don't care, what I usually mean is tell me what you want to watch and then I'll tell you what I want to watch and hopefully you'll agree.

I don't know why word choice is so important. It drives me nuts when he comes up and asks my permission to buy something. What am I? Your mom? He does it because he generally has no clue how much money we have or where it all goes. Yet somehow, "Can I buy this book?" is remarkably different from, "Is there money in the budget for me to buy this book?" Even though, essentially, they are the same question.

Go figure.

[€uroMeinke]

My first name is Christian, I think it's meaning is obvious enough to skip the explanation. Considering my current relgius leanings, I've learned to love the irony in my appelation. However, my parents also were not terrribly religious, so really the intended meaning of my name was to be in honor of my Grandfather, whose Memonite origins made Chrisitan a typical moniker in the family.

My current screen name is a play on my last screen name cemeinke and the desire to make things comples by using a symbol, namely the € symbol. The homage to my Europhilia is actually secondary, and a cause for some embarrasment with me when I do encounter true Eurpoeans - after w hat would youthink of someone who went by $teve?

[Matterhorn Fan]

I suppose the puzzling part to me is that he really doesn't care. When I say I don't care, what I usually mean is tell me what you want to watch and then I'll tell you what I want to watch and hopefully you'll agree.

I don't know why word choice is so important.This is why word choice is so important. If you care, why say you don't care? "I don't care" really ought to mean "I don't care."

[lashbear]

Robert means "Bright and shining with fame"

...but the other things listed above are true too ! :D

[RStar]

Robert means "Bright and shining with fame"
I just go by "Bob".

It's what I do when I'm in water. Fits nicely, don't you think?:D

[lashbear]

.....It's what I do when I'm in water.......

So you're not going to call yourself Pee, then ?

:D

[belleh5]

N- You are absolutely beautiful
I- You have a fine ***
C- You're wild and crazy
K- You are really silly
I- You have a fine ***

[Isaac]

I- You have a fine ***
S- Easy to fall in love with.
A- You like to drink.
A- You like to drink.
C- You're wild and crazy.

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Z- Always ready.
A- You like to drink.
P- You are popular with all types of people
P- You are popular with all types of people
P- You are popular with all types of people
O- You are one of the best in bed.
P- You are popular with all types of people


I'm not so sure about the "I". :blush:

[Nephythys]

But you're popular! ;)

[Jughead P. Jones]

All right...I love a good game. I'll play along.

M = Success comes easily to you. (We'll see)
A = You like to drink. (Pepsi, perhaps...)
T = You're loyal to those you love. (Awwwwwww)
T = You're loyal to those you love. (Awwwwwww...again)
H = You have a very good personality and looks. (Personality, at least)
E = Damn good kisser. :blush:
W = You are very broad minded.

(Huh...fairly accurate...and it's only a game too! Scary...)