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The Name Game | Started by: MiriamGoldstein on Mar 27, '10 01:40 |
Miriam sighed as she looked through the obituaries. So many lives had been lost, many good mafiosi. She set down the paper and sipped at her cup of chamomile tea, thinking about a few people she had known as she stared out into the street. Then she blinked in surprise. She looked back at the obituary. Yeah, there it was...but...gosh, who on earth was that walking down the street? They looked exactly alike. Timidly, she rose to her feet and called out the man's name. He turned in response, looking for who had called him. She hurried over to him, talking to him in a low voice. |
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I agree with you, to a limit. While it is surprising and quite annoying to try to strike a conversation with somebody who looks, talks and behaves like a friend of yours only they don't know you.You must also pay some attention to the other side as well. Some children grow up wanting to be exactly like their father, I for one, wanted to be a man like my grandfather after who I have been named but whatever said and done I have my own character and characteristics and I think that you saying that most bloodlines continuing the same characteristics is a bit of an overstatement. Anyway returning to the original question. It is my opinion that people name their children after themselves because they feel that they would carry their legacy better if armed with the same name. ~W~ |
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Reply by: William at Mar 27, '10 02:26 | |
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Listening to Miriam speaking, Tyrion started to recall all the names of his ancestors and this he had read in the many journals his father left him in that old wooden trunk in his study. |
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Reply by: Tyrion at Mar 27, '10 08:33 | |
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Chuck was astonished for someone stood up to this very annoying way of life that we lived in. The dreadful trend of same name that has been passed by the past, present and future generations of mafiosos. Add some Jr or the III or the 4th on it so that the people will not be confused!. Decorations in the name such as hypen and underscore is a bit confusing. |
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Reply by: Chuck at Mar 27, '10 09:01 | |
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Unfortunately this is just the way it is. Some children feel intimidated by the world around them, and rather than build up a name for themselves through their own actions, they walk in the footsteps of their parentage, namedropping any inherited clout they believe themselves to be entitled to. Occasionally, their upbringing during their formative years and early exposure to this way of life equips them well for dealing with the trials and tribulations that our line of business provides, and they conduct themselves and their dealings in the manner they believe it to be done so, mimmicking a parental figure. They may have become acquainted with business associates when accompanying their father to the casino for the first time, or met them when they arrived at the house to lay low for a while. |
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Reply by: Madejski at Mar 27, '10 09:59 | |
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The name a father gives his Son has no reflection on the man he will Become. |
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Reply by: -Beast- at Mar 27, '10 12:37 | |
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No one is a carbon copy of their father or mother, no matter how similar their names may be. I share the same name as my father, even though he went by a nickname of Quirinus during his lifetime, and I am quite different from him. The differences may be hard to spot in some people but I can assure you they are there. Experience is unique and once gained, transforms you from a blank slate into an individual. |
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Reply by: Robert_Guiscard at Mar 27, '10 20:09 | |
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While I fully acknowledge that a name is, in many ways, just a name, and the person would by any other name would still smell as sweet...or awful...independent of who has been in their bloodline, I would like to point out that my focus is really on those people who do pass on the exact same behavioral traits...heck, I've known a couple bloodlines that have a strange quirk that, as soon as the mother or father dies, the daughter or son assumes every single aspect of his or her parent's life, convinced that they are their mother or father...including the deceased's name (or a variant thereof) and sometimes even an incestuous relationship with their remaining parent! |
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Reply by: MiriamGoldstein at Mar 28, '10 01:36 | |
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To say that a bloodline remains static is the height of folly, Ms Goldstein. While it is true that with the people you have mentioned, those that continue just as their father or mother has done, are nearly identical in appearance or mannerism I would caution against sudden judgment. Not every change is visible to an outside observer after all.
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Reply by: Robert_Guiscard at Mar 28, '10 10:41 | |
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