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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 7:09 pm
Ok, I know this is a silly reason to start a new thread but I've noticed in my wanderings around the great halls of Clubhousezouma, that there seems to be a fair preponderance of Marys registered here. So, if you happen to be one, please step forward...when there are enough of us, we shall over throw the Admin...and there shall be free-flowing Bellinis for all! 
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 7:32 pm
Is a Mari(anne) close enough to be counted in the mix? Many's the time someone spelled my name Mary....
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Auntiemike
Member
09-17-2001
| Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 7:36 pm
How about "Marijke", which is little Mary in Dutch? I used to go by MaryAnn while growing up as Marijke is a tough one for people. (I've never had a Bellini!)

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Bandit
Member
07-29-2001
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 7:50 am
Mamie316 is a Mary. Bellinis....yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 8:06 am
I am a Mary (Betcha you could tell that!)
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 8:53 am
Oooh, this is a very good start! Yes... we take: Annes Fans Littles It's all good here ladies and even the occasional Bandit... turning in a known perp ;)
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 9:24 am
does "mary" have to be your first name? or can a version of mary (such as Maria or Marie) be included? and could it be a middle name?
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 9:44 am
Landi...we are taking first, middle...any variations...there's lots of us out there..we are like a fungus...lol lol lol 
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 9:55 am
well my third name is Mary (the priest told my mom, at my Baptism, that my two names were not saint's names so she would have to change them. Instead she just added Mary as a third name. Catholic priests were pretty strict 56 years ago!! We couldn't even eat meat on Fridays )
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 10:19 am
Yep, ya right Jan...one name had to be a saint's. So, ya got four, with the Confirmation name. I still eat fish on Friday...force of habit!
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 10:58 am
well that's how i ended up with all my names! Maria is one of my middle names!
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 11:04 am
Marie is my confirmation name....which gave me 3 saint names. 
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 11:14 am
Yep..would you believe I picked URSULA for my confirmation name (Ursuline nuns taught me, don't ya know  ) I also heard that the reason the catholic church made that rule re fish friday so many centuries ago was because most catholic countries were heavy into fish export so it was good for business  
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 11:49 am
Yes my name is Mary! My confirmation name is Therese. I just always loved her story. You really don't find too many Marys around anymore.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 12:13 pm
Mamie, my confirmation name is Therese also! There were so many Mary's with me in school that we had to use our first and middle names. Fortunately, we had no duplicates! It's easy to tell those people who have known me since early childhood because they still use both names. At age 12, I insisted that I be called by my first name only because I didn't like my middle name, and people often made of fun me because of it. It didn't help that about that time Ricky Nelson had a HUGE hit saying "Hello", and everyone took a great deal of pleasure in singing it to me! For a shy person, it was down right embarrassing I tell you! When I was in the 9th grade I had a civics teacher who insisted on calling me by both names even though I requested he stop, and call me Mary. Finally, one day after having enough of this, I stood my ground. I calmly said, I have asked you several times to please call me by my first name only...and yet you continue to call me by my first and middle names. Being that this is a civics class, I would like to request that you treat me equally as is my right. Either, you learn the first and middle names of everyone else in this class or you treat me the same as the others and use my first name only. Otherwise, I will have to report this to the principal. I never had a problem after that. I was shy...but I wasn't backing down from what I considered to be ridicule...and I think he knew that I was very serious.
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 1:33 pm
well done, Mary !!!! You might have been shy but you sound like you were also a little spitfire!
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Jed245
Member
11-01-2002
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 1:47 pm
I'm not a mary, but, I did stay at a holiday inn express lastnight. :o)
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Mware
Member
09-14-2001
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 1:52 pm
I'm not a Mary either, but I am married. Does that count?
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 2:03 pm
My family also did the two name thing. There were a lot of Marys in the family so I had my Aunt Mary and she had a daughter who was called Mary Ellen and I was Mary Helen. But only, my aunts and cousins would call me that and most still do. You could always tell when they were around and my friends would all tease me but to my immediate family it was just Mary.
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 2:14 pm
ROFLMAO!!!! I am having so much fun with this, you guys!!! My cousin is called Maria, Landi. She's two months older than I. If her Mum had picked Mary, I'd have been Maria. Marie...a nice French variation. Tess isn't short for Theresa is it? One of my grade school principal's was a nun called Sister Ursula, Jan. She was the sweetest person you'd ever met but had a stray eye like Marty Feldman and you never knew which eye to make contact with, when you were talking to her.Yep, I heard that too about the fish...too funny! Mamie and Marysafan...too, too much! My confirmation name is Theresa but we had just moved to Canada and I picked it cos that was the name of my best friend I'd left behind. Yes, back in the old days there were lots of Marys. Now, we're all babyboomers. Mary...how awesome. That took a lot of courage. Lmao...Jed...watchoo doin' in this here thread? Did ya take any soap or a shower cap? hee hee hee (hug) Rofl...yes, Mware...considering as how ya married, plus ya name begins with M...you're an honourary member.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 2:21 pm
Mary Beth when I was little Mary Elizabeth when my mother was mad at me (the full name call was a sure sign of trouble in our house!) And just Beth now that I am an adult
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 2:25 pm
Aha...a hidden Mary, wonderful Beachy. I notice a lot of moms call their daughters Mary Elizabeth or Mary Katherine...lots of Mary Ks around too. I think back in the old days people often named offspring after royalty and those are all queens names. My middle name is Eileen but people often said Ellen, which I found annoying.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 2:28 pm
actually from my great-grandmother to me, we all have "mary/maria" in our names. my great-grandmother was Maria diMilani (when she arrived at Ellis Island, they changed her name to Mary Milane), my grandmother was named Mary Theresa Angelina diMilani, my mother was Patrizia Maria Theresa Angelina diMilani, and i was named Landileigh Lee Maria Theresa Angelina DiMilani. my daughter has her own original name.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 2:30 pm
Well, being from a good Catholic family, my mom wanted to name me after the blessed mother and my dad wanted to name me Helen after my mother. My mom won. I had a hard time when I was naming my son Justin. My mom kept telling me that I needed a saint's name (his middle name is William after my deceased father) and I kept telling her that Justin was a saint's name. My dd is Elizabeth and her friends call her Liz which I hate!
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 2:35 pm
Wow, Landi...that's a whole passel of names girl. How'd ya remember them all??? (btw, I saw Holly's pic here somewhere at the site...my gosh you have a stunning looking daughter!) Mare, is the saint Justin or Justinian? (cool name btw). As for Elizabeth...yeah, unfortunately you run the risk of friends re-christening kids...lol.
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