Hindsight on Her Name
Uh...
Hmmm...
I love the name Margo. Steeped in family history, a nice flow to it, works well with her middle and family name. It even works well in English and French, though that was just a coincidence.
But when I posted the video from the last entry on YouTube, the first "match" that came back for "Margo" was Stompin' Tom Connors' Margo's Cargo. If you want to skip the video, the song is about a Newfoundland couple who figure that they'll make it rich by selling their cow's manure to a company in Toronto who makes clocks out of cow dung.
Certain names exude very specific stereotypical characteristics. Spalding Gray couldn't have been anything but a WASPish raconteur with a name like his. Charlie Brown, by virtue of his name, kind of condemned to being a loser. John Wayne had a perfect cowboy name, so perfect that he changed it from his original name, Marion Morrison. Oops.
So, given Stompin' Tom's view of the name Margo, did we choose a name that is bound to end up on the name label of a waitress on coffee row? Margo can end up doing whatever her heart desires, but I hope that we didn't limit that scope by giving her her name. If so, Margo, you're more than welcome to change your name to a more career-appropriate name, something like foreign-correspondent Evita Delgado. Or Saskatchewan premiere S.K. Halupski.
Or just Margo.
- Michel
Hmmm...
I love the name Margo. Steeped in family history, a nice flow to it, works well with her middle and family name. It even works well in English and French, though that was just a coincidence.
But when I posted the video from the last entry on YouTube, the first "match" that came back for "Margo" was Stompin' Tom Connors' Margo's Cargo. If you want to skip the video, the song is about a Newfoundland couple who figure that they'll make it rich by selling their cow's manure to a company in Toronto who makes clocks out of cow dung.
Certain names exude very specific stereotypical characteristics. Spalding Gray couldn't have been anything but a WASPish raconteur with a name like his. Charlie Brown, by virtue of his name, kind of condemned to being a loser. John Wayne had a perfect cowboy name, so perfect that he changed it from his original name, Marion Morrison. Oops.
So, given Stompin' Tom's view of the name Margo, did we choose a name that is bound to end up on the name label of a waitress on coffee row? Margo can end up doing whatever her heart desires, but I hope that we didn't limit that scope by giving her her name. If so, Margo, you're more than welcome to change your name to a more career-appropriate name, something like foreign-correspondent Evita Delgado. Or Saskatchewan premiere S.K. Halupski.
Or just Margo.
- Michel
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12:17 p.m.Margo is perfect. If you draw it out a little you can even inflect some PIRATE in there - Aaaaaarrrrrrr!
11:14 p.m.
Margo, is perfect, leave it as is.
We love it.I wonder if it will change with her friends.
Olivier is sometimes "Oliv"
Nanaiyu is "Nana"
Michel, is Michel, because he corrects people all the time.
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