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OK, I've lifted this from elsewhere, but it's fun ... it's the one where you choose the name you would be known under were you to get a job acting in er, adult movies. According to urban myth, p0rnstars take their bynames from the name of their first pet + the name of the first street they lived on.
I come out as Biddy Mough (pron. muff) which would work were I of the opposite gender, but Claire's is really good ..... Bubbles Jiggins, which is what I'm going to call her from now on.
Working on current pet/address I'm Bob Southgate, which sounds more like an estate agent than a sex god.
So, fforumites ... what's yours?
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
Well. working from my very first pet, and the original name of the street I was born on, you get Humphrey Woodside. Which sounds far more like a character from 'Yes Minister'.
Using the name of the first pet I owned as an adult, and taking the current name of the road where I was born: Shiraz St David. Now that sounds much more glamourous.
There's a site somewhere with a list of names like 'Rainbow Star'. You have to guess which ones are porn stars and which are 'My Little Pony' names. Unless you are a particular fan of either, it's almost impossible to guess right.
Well, discounting many many pairs of fish with related names who died in less than a fortnight, I would be Smudge Deveron. Which is...just a bit random, really.
My first cat was female, so I guess my porn star name would be "Tasha Robbia". Yuck. Going off my first male pet (so I don't have to explain to the director the girl's name), I'm "Max Robbia". Still pretty awful.
At my current address, though not with current cats, I could be Amber Harcourt or Candy Harcourt. Those might do if I ever took up writing for Mills and Boon (which is frankly unlikely)(now *there's* a name !)
Hmmmm...don't know what street we lived on when I was very young (I'll have to ask mum), so for now I'll go with the earliest one I remember. That would make me:
Emerald Ann Arbor
(first pet was an iguana, and I lived on Ann Arbor Trail, in Plymouth, MI.)
Whereas if I went by current oldest pet and current street I'd be
Romana Lambkins
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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith
Hello to all the new people I haven't already said hello to - there's a lot of newbies at the moment so I keep forgetting (and jolly amusing they are too)
My name would be Harry Rogers, based on first house and pet. I think that's fairly likely, to be honest.
Tess Drakes isn't quite up to it, so I'll have to move...
PSD
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