Just for the fun of it...- Page 2

[NYadgal]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 11:42pm

PalJoey, you find the best clips on YouTube!

I love all this fun stuff!

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 11:48pm

According to the book Who's Had Who? the biggest whore in Hollywood was....?

[NYadgal]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 11:54pm

oooh.... inquiring minds want to know!

(does the person post on BWW? )

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 11:56pm

Addy, who knows? He might!!!

(Big hint that it's a "He"!)

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 12:16am

Warren Beatty?

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 12:20am

Excellent guess, Phyllis! He was up there, but it turned out to be...


RYAN O'NEAL!

[Mamie]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 6:46am

NAIROBI (AFP) - A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa , officials said.

The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean, then forced back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him.

"After it was swept and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately , it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond. They swim, eat and sleep together," the ecologist added. "The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it follows its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother," Kahumbu added.

"The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a very tender age and by nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with their mothers for four years," he explained.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

This is a real story that shows that our differences don't matter much when we need the comfort of another. We could all learn a lesson from these two creatures of God, "Look beyond the differences and find a way to walk the path together.

[erikaamato]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 8:56am

The History of the Name "Wendy"
A lot of people will argue about whether or not the name Wendy was created by J.M. Barrie for the character "Wendy Darling" in his books about Peter Pan.

Is it true? Yes and no...

Wendy of Eons Past
Most of my life I thought the name Wendy is derivative of Gwendolyn or some variation of a way-way-back historical name you'd never want to assign to any young girl.

This is only partially true. A Doctor of Folklore (Leslie Ellen Jones, Ph.D.) told me some interesting stuff about the names Gwendolyn, Guinivere, and Wendy.

Gwendolyn and Guinevere are etymologically related in that they are both Welsh names beginning with the element "gwen-" which means "white/dazzling/holy" and is a *very* popular and productive name element for both female and male names. (The Welsh form of Guinevere is Gwenhwyfar, "white phantom/shadow", which is an exact cognate of the Irish name Finnabhair, the name of the daughter of Medb and Aillill of Connacht, in the Ulster cycle). Personally, if Wendy is derived from a Welsh name, my candidate would be Gwendydd (pronounced Gwen-deethe, "white day"), which was the name of Myrddin (Merlin)'s sister (as in the poem Ymddiddan Myrddin a Gwendydd ei Chwaer, the Conversation of Merlin and Gwendydd his Sister). Barrie's "Wendy" was invented at a time when ancient Welsh names were becoming popular again, as an expression of intellectual nationalism.

Mail from someone who does genealogical research shows that "Wendy" might have been in use before Peter Pan and might even have been a boy's name:

I must admit to being annoyed when I tell people my name. They always insist on mentioning Peter Pan. During my family reseach I have come across the name Wendy twice in the 1881 census of England, one born 1840, and one born in 1880. The magazine Family History also states that Wendy, along with the names Marian and Shirley were once boys names, and that in 1797 a boy named Wendy was apprenticed to some one in Glos.

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Interesting. I, too, always thought Wendy was just short for Gwendolyn. Thanks for piquing my curiosity, Addy!


History of the name Wendy

[nygrl23]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 9:07am

Wish I knew how to make the image attacher-enator work on this board.

Yes, he's very pretty, Scott. I like definition but not tons of muscle. A guy who spends that much time on himself probably doesn't have a lot of time for his S.O.

Lots of interesting facts on this thread. I heard that a 16th century poet invented the name "Pamela." (not CS Lewis as I thought)


Updated On: 2/16/08 at 09:07 AM

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 9:10am

I had always heard that Barrie "invented" the name for his play as well. Sounds like it's ALMOST true, if there are only two people EVER on record prior to "Peter Pan."

At the very least he popularized it, and introduced it to the masses.

Wendy Moira Angela Darling

I always liked the name Moira too.

An interesting tidbit from Wikipedia (aka, take it with a grain of salt):

"The first name Wendy was very uncommon in the Anglosphere until after the Peter Pan mythos became well known, and its subsequent popularity has led some to credit Barrie with "inventing" it. Although the name Wendy was used to a limited extent as a shortening of the Welsh name Gwendolyn, it is believed that Barrie took the name from a phrase used by Margaret Henley, a six-year-old girl whom Barrie befriended in the 1890s. She called Barrie her "friendy-wendy", which she pronounced as "fwendy-wendy"."

[erikaamato]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 9:14am

b12b: The "fwendy" thing is also mentioned (in greater detail) in the site I posted. Apparently the little girl who use to call Barrie that died at age 6. Sad.

Funny how I had never heard of this particular factoid before. :-P

[nmartin]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 9:33am

Cyd Charisse's real name is Tula Ellice Finklea.
(No marquee name there)

[singingwendy]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 10:04am

Wow...I open this thread and there's a whole bunch of posts talking about my name!

I've heard all those stories before...and if you look at any baby books or those "what does your name mean" cards, it always tells me I'm a "wanderer"....

However, I was not named after Peter Pan, but rather after the Beach Boys song "Wendy". You know...the one about the girl who leaves her boyfriend to date someone else??? Such a cheery thought!

[lovelyspotlight]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 11:30am

Mary Martin broke her arm while rehearsing for Peter Pan (she flew into a wall while flying). Because she was in The Sound of Music at the time and refused to skip out on the performances, the costume designer fashioned a fancy sling to go with her costumes. When she returned to rehearsals for Peter Pan, the stagehands had put a mattress over the spot were she slammed. The mattress said, "Mary Martin slapped here."

[Magical_Ms._Mistoffeles_72]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 12:12pm

I am writing a jukebox musical, and Im having SO much fun!



I am also addicted to facebook scrabble

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 12:19pm

Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard shared the same birthday! (December 1)

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 12:31pm

Ms._Mistoffeles, I have 17 active games right now!

I have not smoked a cigarette since before the end of last year.

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 12:33pm

Congrats, Phyllis!

Potatoes in stew don't freeze very well.

[Pippin]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 12:40pm

but, Jane- the slotted spoon CAN catch the potato.



and Mamie- I also am a huge fan of "In and Out"

"Does anybody here know how many times I've had to watch funny lady?!?"

"It was a sequal. She was under Contract!"

"F. Barbara Streisand! ...... and you!!!" *PUNCH*

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 12:44pm

Pippin watchutalkinboutwillis?

[Magical_Ms._Mistoffeles_72]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 12:45pm

phyllis,
I have three, and no one is online lol

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 1:08pm

TONY Martin, who has been married to Cyd Charisse for 60 years, was born Alvin Morris.

So they're not really "Cyd and Tony" but "Tula and Alvin"!

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 1:09pm

John Wayne's name was Marion.

[Magical_Ms._Mistoffeles_72]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 1:12pm

shooting blanks made lorne green deaf

Updated On: 2/16/08 at 01:12 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 1:18pm

You should host a table. Someone will join you.