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[ixchel55]

Oh lady of the obnoxiously loud voice in my store today, please tell me you didn't really name your daughter Echinacea. But you must have because that's what you called her and she responded to it. Maybe her true response was when she vomited all over the front of my counter. And what did you do? You asked for a paper towel, shoved it in her hand

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[mlyn]

Wow. I would have called the cops on the mother of Echinacea. That's freaking child abuse, or close to it.

And "dejeuner" means "luncheon," unless people have been mistranslating Manet's painting all these years. *smooches*

[delurker]

"Dejeuner" does mean "lunch"; the word for breakfast is "le petit dejeuner", lit. "the little lunch" - breakfast. :)

[mlyn]

Thanks. :)

[ixchel55]

You're right. I made an edit. Thanks.

[delurker]

I won't even go into the poor girl that I went to highschool with whose last name was Pigg and her parents named her Ima.
...wow. How could anyone be so cruel to their child?

While we're on the subject of questionable names: dear lady in Walgreens (awhile back), yeah, I'm sure that Dejeuner (day-shun-ay) sounded pretty and French and yeah, it is. That doesn't alter the fact that you named your daughter 'breakfast'.
Hee! (That poor child.)

How about the parents who called their child Temptress? Or Uneek? (Try saying it out loud.)

[ixchel55]

...wow. How could anyone be so cruel to their child?

I've often wondered that myself.

[dirty_diana]

Hee. Dejeuner actually does mean breakfast in Quebec French. So you can tell all those people you were right. :)

[ixchel55]

Yes! Vindication! Because we're a hell of a lot closer to Quebec than France. Hee! Thanks.