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On Names MAG

August 31, 2009
By Jenny Black BRONZE, Atlanta, Georgia
Jenny Black BRONZE, Atlanta, Georgia
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The first thing I learned about you,
(besides the fact that you were smart and sexier than sliced bread)
was that you named people
(creative, methodological thing)
Clown Shoes
Frotch, though we called her that anyway
Action Commander, to get you action
(and let's admit, she did)
little things that made you so magnetizing
(and so far from reach I laughed at myself)
Silky Smokes
(softest, stupidest hair any of us had ever seen, three packs an hour)
I myself, Ice Cool
evolving into Captain Ice Cool because we're clever
evolving into Captain Lieutenant Ice Cool because when we're together we're unbearably clever
If I had to make yours:
Deliverance.
But that doesn't make for a very good nickname.


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Eilatan GOLD said...
on Apr. 15 2010 at 2:27 pm
Eilatan GOLD, Old Greenwich, Connecticut
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Favorite Quote:
"Nobody is normal. Everybody in the world is a weirdo freak. Except you, which makes you a weirdo freak."

THIS IS SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday BRONZE said...
on Sep. 14 2009 at 7:48 am
Tuesday BRONZE, Utica, Ohio
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wow. i loved this . refreshing and funny in part, even if i didn't understand it all

Bristow BRONZE said...
on Sep. 7 2009 at 3:07 pm
Bristow BRONZE, Chesapeake, Virginia
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very clever. Worth 5 star ratings. But you get a 5 anyway just because you said sexier than sliced bread.