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Raymond Figtree
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03-27-2008 23:47
Mildly racist comment? _____________________
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Rebecca Proudhon
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03-28-2008 00:56
Mildly racist comment? No thats called a joke and it's a compliment, if anything. |
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Swan Legend
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03-28-2008 01:17
No thats called a joke and it's a compliment, if anything. i dont see how its a compliment. any way you mean it someone's getting snubbed. |
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Rebecca Proudhon
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03-28-2008 01:34
i dont see how its a compliment. any way you mean it someone's getting snubbed. You are ridiculous hows that? "In 2007,Coldwell Banker lists Beverly Hills as the most expensive housing market (second year in a row) in the United States, with a median home price of $2.25 million dollars--Wikipedia |
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Swan Legend
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03-28-2008 02:23
Your are ridiculous hows that? "In 2007,Coldwell Banker lists Beverly Hills as the most expensive housing market (second year in a row) in the United States, with a median home price of $2.25 million dollars--Wikipedia yah and im saying why is that a compliment? of course you dont get it. |
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Stephen Wisent
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03-28-2008 02:33
Who'd have thought that a thread with this title would end up being tainted by accusations of anti-semitism ?
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Rebecca Proudhon
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03-28-2008 04:19
Who'd have thought that a thread with this title would end up being tainted by accusations of anti-semitism ? Who wud a thunk it? |
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Brenda Connolly
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03-28-2008 04:24
It's Friday. Cheer up. I'm going to call Katz's Deli and have them send Pastrami and Corned Beef Sandwiches for everyone. Ans some Knishes. And Dr Brown's Sodas. And pickles.
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Kelli May
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03-28-2008 06:12
The last batch of names (I think they might be still available) had plenty of variety. Some odd choices, though... who'd have thought a West Coast US company would put so many rugby union players names on the list? Troncon, Wrigglesworth, Castaignede, Contepomi, Lynagh, Pienarr and a few more I've seen around the grid.
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03-28-2008 11:03
I never saw it mentioned but the batch before this one had a lot of baseball players names on it. Baseball season is . . . well started, since they played in Japan those real season games. Dang. Baseball season started and I didn't . . ok I did notice, I just haven't looked to see who won. Or if the games were actually played.
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Alyx Sands
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03-28-2008 11:19
But are you a cunning linguist?  You can't imagine how often I've heard that one already..... @Suezanne: That's interesting-just copying this list explains all the spelling variants, but why would someone/LL DO that??? The rugby union names were clearly for the Wolrd Cup, I got my alt's name back then (Jenkins) _____________________
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Raymond Figtree
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03-28-2008 11:24
@Suezanne: That's interesting-just copying this list explains all the spelling variants, but why would someone/LL DO that??? _____________________
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Rebecca Proudhon
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03-28-2008 13:11
Why would they name a sim Trollsweat? I doubt a lot of thought went into it. They probably just tapped a book on names and this batch happens to be what it is. Troll sweat is a drop in World of Warcraft. |
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Ordinal Malaprop
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03-28-2008 13:16
Why would they name a sim Trollsweat? I doubt a lot of thought went into it. They probably just tapped a book on names and this batch happens to be what it is. It is better than the "look around the room, say what you see" approach which they were taking a while back; Television, Toaster, Washingmachine, Forexternaluseonly etc etc. _____________________
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Alyx Sands
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03-28-2008 16:29
It is better than the "look around the room, say what you see" approach which they were taking a while back; Television, Toaster, Washingmachine, Forexternaluseonly etc etc. Idontseeathingiforgottoputmyglasseson? THAT would be fun. _____________________
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Brenda Connolly
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03-28-2008 16:36
Troll sweat is a drop in World of Warcraft. Yuck. I am so glad I never got involved in that place. _____________________
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Sommerland Starostin
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03-28-2008 16:39
The name choices suck. They're horrid.
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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03-28-2008 16:48
copying this list explains all the spelling variants, The list I found is on JewishGen.org, "The Home of Jewish Genealogy". An easy explanation of how a person assigned to produce names for new SL users would come up with that list is that they were checking the family history of a Jewish person or searching for the history of a name or for other reasons had that list of names already on the screen or fresh in their memory when thy got the Noob-name assignment . Easy explanations aren't necessarily true explanations, of course, but at least they aren't hard to come by. _____________________
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03-28-2008 17:10
Who'd have thought that a thread with this title would end up being tainted by accusations of anti-semitism ? _____________________
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Hmm, there's nothing really helpful there, but thanks for pasting. |
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Kaimi Kyomoon
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03-28-2008 20:03
I put in a few of the names mentioned in this thread, and this list was the only entry Google that had all of the 4 or 5 names I searched for. The list I found is on JewishGen.org, "The Home of Jewish Genealogy". An easy explanation of how a person assigned to produce names for new SL users would come up with that list is that they were checking the family history of a Jewish person or searching for the history of a name or for other reasons had that list of names already on the screen or fresh in their memory when thy got the Noob-name assignment . Easy explanations aren't necessarily true explanations, of course, but at least they aren't hard to come by. Maybe they got the names from that site...It's as good a list of names as any. _____________________
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Jules Sondergaard
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03-28-2008 20:05
That's what I thought. Then I found out you get different lists on different servers....but still, there are a LOT of Jewish-sounding names. |
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Colette Meiji
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03-28-2008 21:54
the bigot in you is bothered by this? Alyx is a linguist, Its probably curiosity rather than bigotry. --------------------------------- I imagine myself the reason there might be more jewish names than usual is there weren't as many in the past? Thus they were a good source for new names? |
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Ceka Cianci
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03-28-2008 22:02
well i myself think it has to do with the second coming coming soon and this being secondlife.................but you didn't hear this from me!!!
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Jethro Stubbs
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03-28-2008 22:23
I've noticed some historic NASCAR and Indycar driver last names.
By the time I could find Yarbrough on the new sign-up pages, somebody had already taken Cale as a first name. And Johhny Rutherford just isn't as cool as Cale Yarbrough. _____________________
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Brenda Connolly
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03-29-2008 06:56
I've noticed some historic NASCAR and Indycar driver last names. By the time I could find Yarbrough on the new sign-up pages, somebody had already taken Cale as a first name. And Johhny Rutherford just isn't as cool as Cale Yarbrough. Is Dick Trickle available? _____________________
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