Fw: Fw:Re: Mommy, what's an intellectual?

Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema crdbronx at erols.com
Wed Jul 11 18:26:28 PDT 2001


Actually the OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH CHRISTIAN NAMES says it means "gift of god." It also says "Douglas" comes from Gaelic "dub(h)glas" and means "dark blue." It is "a very common Celtic river name."

Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema

Doug Henwood wrote:


> Michael Pugliese wrote:
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Thomas Seay" <entheogens at yahoo.com>
> >To: "Michael Pugliese" <debsian at pacbell.net>
> >Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 4:53 PM
> >Subject: Re: Fw:Re: Mommy, what's an intellectual?
> >
> >
> >> Michael, sadly my wife (who you will remember is
> >> Chinese and was a member of the Young Communist League
> >> in China) reports that this is true. Just the other
> >> night, she was telling me about someone she knows
> >> whose parents named her the chinese equivalent of
> >> Love The Peoples Army! She wasn't joking! I mean you
> >> have to be on the level of fanaticism of well...Louis
> >> Proyect to name your own child something like that!!!!
>
> Well, "Dorothy" comes from love of god, no? We just don't know what
> our names mean.
>
> Doug



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