when Queenie (nee Elizabeth) and Quentin Quinn first found out that Queenie was expecting boy quadruplets, they had a bit of a nominal puzzle on their hands
in the end they settled for calling their children Adam, Aidan, Alan and Alex on the basis that Queenie could order just the one set of name labels for their clothes: A Quinn (a label that eventually proved to serve various useful purposes - for example, when the sports teacher at the boys' secondary school found a discarded shirt on the changing room floor and put it into the lost property box, the school secretary always knew that it belonged to "a Quinn boy", and that was quite enough information to be going on with)
in the end they settled for calling their children Adam, Aidan, Alan and Alex on the basis that Queenie could order just the one set of name labels for their clothes: A Quinn (a label that eventually proved to serve various useful purposes - for example, when the sports teacher at the boys' secondary school found a discarded shirt on the changing room floor and put it into the lost property box, the school secretary always knew that it belonged to "a Quinn boy", and that was quite enough information to be going on with)
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Four?! At once?!
Omgosh......
But yes--rather handy, that choice.
Not the choice to have four at once....the names and monogram theory.
Omgosh....and can you imagine dealing with all four at once.
Or being one OF the four.
Or having to go through ADOLESCENCE with all four....at the same time......
k....
Where do I send this sympathy card to?
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I'm just having a little fun with a new "project". . . thinking about the people one could create, if one was a writer. . .
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I'm wondering in what formation they lined up.
(Please could we have a story about Matthew and Dorothy Guthrie-Booth and the French census taker?)
alphabetically, of course
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as for Matt and Dot, that chapter will appear shortly (I'm just waiting on a little research I've ordered into the Vendée to turn up) but I haven't decided exactly how they will fit into the overall book - which is based on the telephone directory
any pointers would be welcome and will be acknowledged
Ah. I thought they might have queued.
Maybe I was thinking of the Quod Quins.
You're writing!
I mean -- different than for here!
Okay........that's way cool......
Would that be Quoriander then? the herb?
Whoo! Four adolescent boys! That requires some serious thought! Or maybe some frivolous thought would be more useful.
*laughing* Ironic Mig was having a day with YELL and you're turnin' 'em into a novel.
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